Stuart E Brown, Author at The HighWay

Witness and Dialogue Part 5 of 5 — Scholarship

Stuart E Brown — Fri, 31 May 2024 08:30:48 +0000

Finally, we must ask what kind of a relationship is possible between this dialogical witness and academic study. Can believers be fair and accurate observers, of their own faith groups or of their neighbours of other faiths? Can individuals engage in practical intercommunal activities validly claim to analyze these or similar efforts with any degree […]

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Witness and Dialogue Part 4 of 5 — Synthesis

Stuart E Brown — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:29:59 +0000

Jesus calls us to carry his good news to the farthest comers of the world, making disciples, “among all nations.” In every age, his people have responded to this commission by sending messengers to previously uneducated peoples, with the intent of founding new communities of Christian believers in every part of the inhabited earth. This […]

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Partnerships as Mission — Book Review

Stuart E Brown — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 08:15:26 +0000

Essays in Memory of Ellie Johnson Edited by Kenneth Gray and Maylanne Maybee Dr Eleanor Johnson, universally known as Ellie, became the mission education coordinator of the Anglican Church of Canada in 1987, and from 1994 until 2005 she was the Director of Partnerships, before crowning her career with three years as the Church’s acting […]

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Witness and Dialogue: Essential Elements in Christian Ministry Part 3 of 5 — Dialogue

Stuart E Brown — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 08:14:45 +0000

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Witness and Dialogue: Essential Elements in Christian Ministry Part 2 of 5 — Witnessing

Stuart E Brown — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:10:39 +0000

The primary meaning of the English word “witness” indicates a person with first-hand knowledge of a fact or event. Witnesses testify in a court of law about discernible truth pertaining to a particular case, and their observations are taken as “testimony” or solemn affirmation. In matters of religion, persons witness, by declaring what they “know” […]

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Witness and Dialogue: Essential Elements in Christian Ministry Part 1 of 5 — Introduction

Stuart E Brown — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:31:15 +0000

For more than fifty years, the worldwide Christian community has been discussing relationships with other faith groups. Sometimes the debates consider formal contacts between institutional churches or ecumenical bodies and parallel organizations within the other populations or, when the Christians are a minority, between the churches and the various political authorities. At other times, the […]

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Courses for Ministry: Is God Calling You?

Stuart E Brown — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 08:26:17 +0000

This is a note of encouragement to anyone who may have felt a nudge from the Holy Spirit to take a more active role in service, either ordination as a locally trained priest or as a deacon, or as a trained lay leader. The development of Zoom technology has made it easier than ever to […]

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