Building God's Beloved Community
Discipleship in The United Church of Canada
- Publisher
- United Church Publishing House, The United Church of Canada
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2022
- Category
- Spirituality, General, Devotional, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781551342672
- Publish Date
- Jun 2022
- List Price
- $11.99
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Description
Drawing on the expertise of United Church theologians and ministers from across the country, Building God’s Beloved Community outlines the church’s approach to some of the big questions, while offering insight into United Church worship, tradition, and history. An accessible and engaging primer designed to accompany those during their period of preparation—adult baptism, confirmation, or deeper study—Building God’s Beloved Community will draw you closer to God as it invites you into beloved community and encourages you to move out into the world to love and serve.
About the authors
Taylor Croissant is an ordained minister in The United Church of Canada, currently serving at Southminster United Church in Lethbridge, Alberta. He has previously served pastoral charges in Northern Spirit Regional Council, and as an ordained supply minister with the United Church’s global partner church, the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea.
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Susanne Abbuhl is a retired United Church minister, now living in British Columbia. She holds a Th.D. in the Old Testament from the University of Toronto, and previously served on the General Council’s Theology and Faith Committee for six years, helping compose A Song of Faith.
Phyllis D. Airhart is Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at Emmanuel College and cross-appointed to the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She is the author of A Church with the Soul of a Nation: Making and Remaking the United Church of Canada (winner of the 2016 book prize from the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion and shortlisted for the 2015 Canada Prize in the Humanities from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences) as well as a number of other books and articles on religion in Canada.
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Sandra Beardsall is Professor Emerita of Church History and Ecumenics at St. Andrew's College in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and an ordained minister in The United Church of Canada. She has served pastoral charges in Newfoundland, Labrador, and Ontario, works and researches in Canadian church history, and participates in local, national, and global ecumenical relations.
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Jordan Cantwell was the 42nd Moderator of The United Church of Canada. Grateful to live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on Treaty 6 territory and on the Homeland of the Métis, Jordan currently serves in team ministry at St. Martin’s United Church and is part of the Anti-Racism Common Table of The United Church of Canada.
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Susan Chisholm is a minister, educator, and lover of life who has lived and worked in the Arctic, East Africa, and the east coast of Canada. She is continually amazed by the abundance in self and community, and the many and diverse ways it comes to light.
Rob Fennell is Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax. He gets preoccupied with subjects like pilgrimage, biblical interpretation, Christology, the Trinity, C.S. Lewis, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He enjoys hiking, action movies, canoeing, and chopping wood. He is Founding Director of Camino Nova Scotia; chair of the editorial board of Touchstone, a Canadian theological journal; and an ordained minister of The United Church of Canada. Rob’s most recent book is The Rule of Faith and Biblical Interpretation: Reform, Resistance, and Renewal (Cascade, 2018), and he is a co-editor of The Theology of The United Church of Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019).
Adrian Jacobs is Keeper of the Circle (principal) at Sandy-Saulteaux Spiritual Centre, the national Indigenous ministry training centre of The United Church of Canada in Beausejour, Manitoba. He is Ganosono (deer lodge) of the Turtle Clan, Cayuga Nation, of the Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario. Adrian is also the father of three sons and two daughters, and grandfather of two grandsons and one granddaughter.
William S. Kervin is Associate Professor of Public Worship at Emmanuel College of Victoria University and the Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto. Ordained in the United Church, he has served congregations in the Maritimes and Ontario, and has been active in the production of its worship resources.
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YunJung Kim is a doctoral graduate of Emmanuel College in the area of postcolonial feminist theology and migration theology. She currently serves in ministry at Downsview United Church in Toronto.
Andrew Kinoti Lairenge serves in ministry at Chalmers-Wesley United Church in Quebec City, Quebec. He has a Bachelor of Divinity from St. Paul’s University Limuru Kenya and a Master of Theological Studies from Drew University in New Jersey. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in the New Testament and Early Christianity at McGill University. Andrew was ordained in the Methodist Church in Kenya before coming to The United Church of Canada.
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Andrew O’Neill has served in full-time ministry in The United Church of Canada since completing his Ph.D. in theology in Edinburgh, Scotland. Andrew currently serves at St. Paul's United Church in Riverview, New Brunswick. Andrew is also a sessional instructor for Atlantic School of Theology, teaching courses in theology, ethics, worship, and pastoral ministry. His book, Tillich: A Guide for the Perplexed, is available from Bloomsbury Publishing as part of its series on prominent theologians.
Bill Richards was Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at the College of Emmanuel & St. Chad, Saskatoon Theological Union, from 2000 to 2015. He has been a minister in the United Church since 1978 and a priest in the Anglican Church since 2007, serving congregations in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. His academic interests focus on the letters, hymns, and poetry of early Christianity, particularly those from the circle around Paul, and the socio-political circumstances that gave rise to such texts.
Don Schweitzer was ordained in The United Church of Canada in 1982 and settled at Turtle River Larger Parish in Saskatchewan Conference northwest of North Battleford, Saskatchewan. In 1987 he left to pursue doctoral studies in theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1991 he was settled along with Leslie Schweitzer (née Goodwin) at Wesley United Church in Prince Albert. He and Leslie have two sons, Simon and Ian. Since 2000 he has taught theology at St. Andrew’s College in Saskatoon. Don Schweitzer is a past president of the Canadian Theological Society. He is co-editor with Derek Simon of Intersecting Voices: Critical Theologies in a Land of Diversity (2004) and the author of Contemporary Christologies (2010).
The Rev. Dr. John H. Young is an ordained minister in The United Church of Canada. He served pastoral charges in Nova Scotia and Ontario prior to joining the faculty of the Queen’s University’s School of Religion (formerly Queen’s Theological College). He has taught in the areas of Ministry Studies, History of Christianity, and World Religions. John has served in leadership positions at all levels of the United Church, including as a Conference president and as the chairperson of a number of General Council committees.