The long and short of Chapter 5 is that God takes special concern for the foreigner and stranger because of their unique vulnerability.Read more…
Reflection: Congregations, Neighborhoods, Places
Congregations, Neighborhoods, Places is “an attempt to think with congregations, particularly congregations in cities, about how social science can both help churches become more aware of themselves and of those who live around them” (19).Read more…
Science Reader Question: My Martian Neighbor
We should never stop looking for new ways to expand our sense of neighborhood; we should never be satisfied that we have found all our neighbors.Read more…
Science Corner: The Bottom-up Route to your Community (Pt 2)
Children can help you connect to your local community.Read more…
Science Corner: The Bottom-up Route to your Community (Pt 1)
How can those in the hectic years of research . . . not lose touch with the problems within their own local community?Read more…
Science Corner: The Top-Down Route to your Community
Question: What I am seeing is that the understandably busy lives of even highly motivated Christian professionals often lead them to become more and more isolated from those parts of society most in need of outreach, friendship, and fellowship from Christians. So…how can those in the hectic years of research, working on getting those final papers done for the PhD, etc., not lose touch with the problems within their own local community?Read more…
Selection Bias: Statistical Integrity in Christian Community
One day a number of concerned mothers met with the minister to express their frustration and anger over the unseemly conduct of a particular boy in Sunday School. They did not want their children exposed to this child and fearedRead more…