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Otherwise Christian

The future of progressive forms of Christianity depends on reclaiming mission as the adaptive, translational, and transformative process by which the faith continually becomes otherwise across cultures, histories, and human experience.

The Ghost of Christendom’s Past
Jason Coker Jason Coker

The Ghost of Christendom’s Past

Because I’ve been writing quite a bit for my PhD program, I’ve decided to start blogging again. Hence, “Otherwise Christian.” I know everyone’s doing substacks these days but that seems like a bad idea for so verymany reasons. Consequently, I’ve been revisiting some of the posts from my old blog Pastoralia (initially on Blogger, then Wordpress, then a dedicated domain) where I wrote about church ministry, leadership, and theology in one form or another from 2006 to 2016.

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