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Interviews

Conversations with fascinating people within the church and in secular settings

Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: God's counterculture

Two young leaders talk about New Monasticism. God doesn’t just work through Lone Rangers, say Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. There always has to be a web of friendship.

Robert E. Cooley: The computer will never completely replace the professor

Theological schools must use both sophisticated communication technologies and in-person teaching to effectively train pastors in the 21st century, says the former president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Clyde Edgerton: Storytelling and story listening

Storytelling assumes uncertainty. The Southern writer talks about how teachers, preachers and leaders can use storytelling to engage their audiences -- and why he has returned to church.

Josephine Munyeli: After night comes the day

A survivor of the Rwandan genocide labors with World Vision International to bring healing to her country.

Sven Birkerts: Literary culture in the electronic age

Google vs Gutenberg. Author Sven Birkerts asks: What is lost in the rush to embrace digital culture?

Grant J. Hagiya: Systems theory and the gospel

UMC Bishop Grant Hagiya applies business structures to mission and outreach in leadership development.

Mark Gornik: I'm a believer in institutions

The founder of City Seminary came to New York to plant a church and ended up studying the city’s African churches. It gave him a new way of seeing Christianity.

Alton Pollard: There is no prophetic witness without confrontation

The dean of Howard University’s divinity school challenges church leadership to answer the theological mandate that we be in the world even as we are not of it.

Will Blythe: On the Duke/North Carolina basketball rivalry

The author of a book on the joys of the great sports rivalry talks about yelling at the TV, coaches’ parables and basketball games as morality plays.

Islam: The other who can teach us

If we are open and humble in our engagement with Islam, then God will teach us, says the Rev. David Marshall. And one of the lessons is how to be better Christians.