God is transforming creation

God is transforming creation. If we slow down and stay put long enough, we too will be changed into the likeness of Christ. The scope of our vision will also be changed. Instead of speaking in broad generalities about changing the world, we will find ourselves free to imagine in more specific ways the transformation of our own particular places. We can trust that God is orchestrating the renewal of all creation and that God will raise up people in other places who will care for those places as much as we care for ours.

C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison

Slow Church

Transformation

It is only possible to speak of the gospel as a source for a remedy of the planetary crisis that we face if we are talking about a gospel that makes possible, indeed requires and in fact produces, a radical and visible transformation in all dimensions of life. Only a gospel that produces holiness can transform the economy of death -- or rather, abolish it and give in its place something that can really be "good news to the poor."

Theodore Jennings, Jr.
Good News to the Poor

Transforming culture

Human culture will someday be transformed.  Does this mean, then, that we must begin that process of transformation here and now?  Are we as Christians called to transform culture in the present age?  Not, I think, in any grandiose or triumphalistic manner.  We are called to await the coming transformation.  But we should wait actively, not passively.  We must seek the City which is to come.

Richard Mouw
When the Kings Come Marching In

Holy Co-operation

We need to reclaim Jesus’s message of liberation and transformation in a way that the world can see.  We need to stop talking about love and start showing it in ways that go beyond individual acts of kindness.  Cooperation is not a substitute for spiritual growth or redemption; it is a way to nurture the behaviors that support them.

Andrew McLeod
Holy Cooperation! Building Graceful Economies

Welcoming....

My experience has shown that when we welcome people from this world of anguish, brokenness and depression, and when they gradually discover that they are wanted and loved as they are and that they have a place, then we witness a real transformation--I would even say 'resurrection.'

Jean Vanier
From Brokenness to Community