This Sunday @ Joseph-Beth: You're Invited

Creation and Kingdom:
A Discussion on Everyday Christian Ethics

Joseph-Beth Booksellers
Sunday, March 9th at 4pm

Does living in the suburbs make it harder to follow Christ? How is care for the Creation related to the right worship of God? How can believers offer the blessings of God’s reign to their neighbors? How can the lessons of Christian history teach us to care for others? Join us for a panel discussion with noted local authors on diverse ways of following Jesus and serving others in contemporary life. Topics will include

• Care for creation
• Sabbath keeping
• Christian hospitality
• Poverty and Christian Mission
• Urban ministry
• Suburban spirituality

Participants will include

Dr. Christine Pohl is Professor of Church in Society at Asbury Theological Seminary. She is the author of Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition and co-author of Living on the Boundaries: Evangelical Women, Feminism, and the Theological Academy. Dr. Pohl has extensive experience in urban ministry, and specializes in Christian Social Ethics.

Lisa Samson is an author of “grown up” inspirational fiction. Her newest book is Embrace Me, and her 2007 Quaker Summer was named one of Publishers Weekly’s “Best Books of the Year.” Her other recent titles include Hollywood Nobody, Straight Up, Club Sandwich, and The Living End. She wrote Justice in the Burbs: Being the Hands and Feet of Jesus Wherever You Live with her husband Will.

Will Samson is a doctoral student of sociology at UK, and recently the co-author of Justice in the Burbs with his wife, Lisa. Will’s particular interests include social justice and ethics, mountaintop removal, and local food production.

Dr. Norman Wirzba is presently Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown College. A Christian theologian focusing on the doctrine of Creation and agrarian philosophy, Dr. Wirzba is most recently the author of Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight and The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age. He has written several articles for the Christian Century, and is the editor of Art of the Commonplace and co-editor of the Essential Agrarian Reader.

Kyle Potter will moderate the discussion. He oversees the Religion section at Joseph-Beth and holds an M.Th. in Applied Theology. Kyle’s research interests include Christian mission, hospitality, and monasticism.