What is the shape of Christian witness in a changing and challenging world?
Mark your calendars and join us online! Wednesday, November 20th, 2024, at 19:30 ET
From the nature of Christian hope to the challenges of modern society, Dio Principal Jesse Zink’s new book, Faithful, Creative, Hopeful skillfully weaves together theology, scripture, and on-the-ground- experience to offer a vision for a renewed faith and a renewed church.
Join this panel for a discussion of this urgent and important call to Christians to face a changing world with confidence and hope.
Rev. Canon Jesse Zink, Author and Principal of Montreal Diocesan Theological College.
Most Rev. Anne Germond, Acting Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Rev. Michael Blair Moderator of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches and General Secretary of the United Church of Canada.
Endorsements:
“In clear, direct, and vigorous prose, Jesse Zink situates the crisis of the church
in the context of the global crises of climate, economics, and migration, and
gives a clear-eyed response. Facing squarely our objective uncertainty regarding
the world’s future, his fifteen theses outline concrete acts of Christian witness
shaped by the certainty of God’s enduring faithfulness.”
—Ian McFarland, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Theology,
Candler School of Theology, Emory University
“Jesse Zink describes the crises of our time, inside and outside the church, with
the particularity of local stories that are filled with authenticity and immediacy.
Despite these challenges, named with sometimes blunt clarity, he maintains
an encouraging focus on what is hopeful and faithful, calling us to practices
that will ground the church for the future.”
—Linda Nicholls, former primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
“These theses present a way of finding God’s insistent vision for a church in
need of thinking—no, of living!—bigger and with more hope than we have
dared to in recent generations. An astute and resolutely clear-eyed student
of both church and society, Zink presents the world-saving eschatological
promise of the gospel of Jesus Christ while avoiding gimmick or game. Indeed,
we have little time for such distractions in these last days.”
—A. Robert Hirschfeld, Bishop of New Hampshire
Author
Jesse Zink is the principal of Montreal Dio, an ecumenical theological college affiliated with McGill University, and canon theologian in the Anglican Diocese of Montreal. His previous books include Backpacking through the Anglican Communion and Faith for the Future.
Details
When: Wednesday, November 20th, 2024, 7:30pm
Where: Zoom
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