Contents
Letter from Editors
SECTION I: INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP AND THE SCRIPTURES
Cultivating Oaks of Righteousness: Restoration and Mission in Isaiah 61
Daniel R. Carroll
Now is the Time: Reflections on Isaiah 61:1-4
Marshall Hatch
Jesus’s Model for Us in Luke 4:15-30 and Luke’s Gospel
Craig Keener
Isaiah, Luke, and Jesus on the Corner
Patty Prasada-Rao
SECTION II: CROSS-CULTURAL LEADERSHIP
Rethinking Incarnational Ministry
Soong-Chan Rah
On Preparing Leadership for a Rapidly Changing Inter-Cultural Urban World
Juan Francisco Martinez
Cultivating Autochthonous Leadership: Why Ministry in Under-Resourced
Communities Should be Led from Within
Vince Bantu
SECTION III: HISTORICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL AND THEOLOGICAL ANALYSYS
The Cultivation of Racial Hierarchy in Early New Orleans during French, Spanish, and British Colonial Rule
Mae Elise Cannon
A People’s History: A Liturgical Call to Remembrance
Dominque Gilliard
TRIBUTE
Tribute to Richard Twiss
Noel Castellenos
Mark Charles
Andrea Smith
BOOK REVIEWS
Linking Arms, Linking Lives: How Urban-Suburban Partnership Can Transform Communities by Ronald J. Sider, John M. Perkins, Wayne L. Gordon, and F. Albert Tizon
Reviewed by Gary Vander Pol
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
Reviewed by Michael Mc Bride
Circa l’autore
Chris Jehle is the founder of The Hope Center, a Christian community development organization in Kansas City, MO.
Soong-Chan Rah is the Milton B. Engebretson Associate Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary.
Brandon Wrencher is a Master of Divinity student at North Park Theological Seminary, and is a resident of The Blackburn House, a Christian intentional community which serves Blackburn’s Chapel United Methodist Church and the community of Todd, North Carolina.
