10 July 2025
Palestinian Erasure since the Nineteenth Century
My last blog post dates back to February 2024—over 16 months ago. I had put off long enough serious work on my latest book project, The City Where All May Flourish: The Holy Spirit in Mission and Global Governance. That manuscript was accepted for inclusion in a Brill Publishing series, “Theology and Mission in Global Christianity,” and the review process…
14 February 2024
Bruce Crowther and the Fair Trade Triangle
The contemporary Fair Trade concept dates back to British Quakers networking with some social activists and Oxford University academics to found the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in 1942. The next year this group incorporated as Oxfam with a driving passion to eradicate poverty everywhere. After the war, the Mennonite Central Committee and the Church of the Brethren found ways…
16 September 2023
The Holy Spirit in Creation, Justice and Peace
![“A Rocha is a global family of [Christian] conservation organizations working together to live out God’s calling to care for creation and equip others to do likewise.”](/media/k2/items/cache/63ae8dd535459e6ddaa9950601158f8d_S.jpg)
One of the great German theologians of the twentieth century, Jürgen Moltmann (b. 1926), published a book in 2019 that neatly summarizes some key themes of his monumental work: The Spirit of Hope: Theology for a World in Peril. His 1965 (German edition) groundbreaking book had been on Christian hope: A Theology of Hope. Then among his numerous books, at…
04 September 2023
Learning from Indigenous Creation Theology (2)
In the first half of this post, I introduced Native American theologian George E. “Tink” Tinker and used some of the material in his book, American Indian Liberation, to offer us a double reality check: first, the horrors committed by the colonial masters in the Americas, starting with Columbus and stretching the United States’ genocide of the Native populations in…