Thoughts and Writing by Jonathan Shively

Anabaptist and Pietist Foundations for Urban Multicultural Leadership

• Introduction
• Part One: Confession:Where We Are
  • 1. The Church Context
  • 2. The Emerging United States Context
• Part Two: Recovery of Memory:Where We Have Been
  • 3. Anabaptism and Pietism in Outline
  • 4. Anabaptism and Pietism at the Table
• Part Three: Exercise of Hope:Leading Into a Preferred Future
  • 5. The Table as a Leading Metaphor for the Future Church
  • 6. Ministerial Leadership for the Table Gathering
• Conclusion
• Incidentals (Abstract, Table of Contents, etc)
• Bibliography

Becoming a Spirit-Risen Church in a Postmodern Age

This collection of thoughts was first offered at the Southern Ohio District Conference in 2005. The paper critiques both modernity and postmodernity from a Christian perspective, while maintaining that the time is ripe for Brethren ways of being Spirit-led in the world.

• Spirit Risen Church

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