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in
this issue:
"Evil
is Mighty (but it can't stand up to our stories)"
Doing theology through
personal narrative
by Ina Hughes
The stories of our lives, says newspaper columnist Ina Hughes, "is the mother
tongue
of faith." Everyone is called to be a storyteller, because that is how we do
theology.
Embodying the 'Great Story'-- an interview with James
W. McClendon
by Ched Myers
James McClendon's pioneering embrace of a narrative way of doing theology, history
and ethics has challenged scientific, historical and critical approaches to
the Bible and helped make a distinction between what he calls "primary" and
"secondary" theology.
Breakdown transfigured into breakthrough -- New Beat
Poetry
as theological discourse
by Jim Perkinson
"In a society dominated by advertising, capable of instantly commodifying every
new
impulse of creativity and selling political resistance like an 'X' on a T-shirt,"
writes
performance poet Perkinson, "poetry is prayer" -- and prophecy.
Lo Cotidiano -- finding
God in the spaces of the everyday
by Loida I. Martell-Otero
In the Latina/o worldview, los del pueblo (the people) are considered to be
the true theologians. U.S. feministas/mujeristas have developed the concept
of lo cotidiano as
a theological category of knowing that embraces the "whole of doing and thinking"
of los del pueblo in their mundane, routinized -- and often oppressed -- daily
lives.
And God grinned
-- First Adventist Church of Washougal
by David James Duncan
An excerpt from Brothers K (Doubleday, 1992) offers a memorable glimpse into
the lively theological imagination of Everett, a distressed POW (Prisoner of
Worship).
Index
2000
An index of The Witness for the year
2000
