IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES ON COMMUNITY

The Trinity as a Clue to Community........David H.C. Read......Inside   
The fellowship of the spirit is trinitarian in nature.....Front Cover

A Single Community: God, Humans, Earth....Walter J. Burghardt, S.J..4
Salvation means healing both human beings and their environment

Community: Indispensable and Missing......Larry Rasmussen...........6
Community is much more than industry and economics

Community Reconsidered....................Craig B. Anderson.........8
Human beings do not create community but are created by it

Community at the Heart of the Universe....Jane Blewett.............10
We need to come home to the total Earth community

Some Thoughts on Community................William Sloane Coffin....12
In order to have community we need to love well

The Community of Saints...................David L. Bartlett........14
What unites us is God's sovereignty over death

What Kind of Community?...................Choan-Seng Song..........16
The reign of God is what human community should be

The Age of the Holy Spirit................Harold J. Berman.........18
A common faith is needed to support the law of the emerging world
community

Diverse Communities in the New Testament..E. Elizabeth Johnson.....20
Community was defined in many ways by the early church

Being God's Family........................William J. Winterrowd....22
Covenant theology is a principle for family living

Where the Many Can Be One.................Eugene C. Bay............24
Congregations need to appreciate diversity and develop tolerance for
moral ambiguity

America: A Mosaic Community...............Leonard S. Kravitz.......26
Our common life is enriched by our diversity

Community in Nature.......................Thomas Berry.............28
The universe is a communion of subjects not a collection of objects

QUOTATIONS ON COMMUNITY

In the Hebrew Scriptures [30]
In the New Testament Scriptures [31]
Poets and Writers [32]
Leaders and Commentators [33]
Theologians, Scholars and Philosophers [34]
Scientists, Sociologists and Psychologists [35]

BOOKS ON COMMUNITY

On Zion, History of an Idea by Martin Buber [36]
Love: The Foundation of Hope by Jurgen Moltmann [37]
A Guide to Preaching for Those Who Have to Listen by David. L. Schlafer [38]

IDEAS FOR PREACHING ON COMMUNITY

Dreaming a Community......................Elizabeth S. Tapia.......39
Listening to the Lectionary with..........Judith Hoch Wray.........40
Community Ears
The Dynamics of Building a Faith..........Mike Miller and..........42
Community.................................Marilyn Stranske...........
Who Are My Sisters and Brothers?..........Marjory Zoet Bankson.....44
A Stewpot Ministry........................Bruce A. Buchanan........46
James Joyce: The Community of the Living..Ginger Grab..............48
and the Dead                                                             

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