The next chapter of The Public Theology Project
An important update
On October 20, 2024, The Public Theology Project and Ministry to State amicably agreed to dissolve our formal partnership. We are thankful for Ministry to State and their help getting this project off the ground and wish them great success as they follow the Lord’s call to disciple those working in government. We encourage our readers to pray for the Lord’s blessing on their efforts.
As one chapter ends, another begins.
Though The Public Theology Project’s independence is new, we remain committed to the same beliefs and mission as articulated in our inaugural essay: “that the Christian faith does have something to say about engaging society; that society ought to heed the Christian witness as a normative claim to truth; and that public theology is the enterprise of relating the two together faithfully.”
As we also stated from the beginning, we do not claim to have all the answers; only an eager desire to learn. Our hope is that The Public Theology Project will remain a communal learning space where the inquisitive reader will be challenged by a wide array of opinions.
As some of our subscribers may have noticed, it has been a long time since our last piece. The delay was unfortunate but necessary to discern what our future as an independent ministry would look like. That delay is now over. Expect more regular pieces moving forward including a post-election essay by our project leader later this week.
Much has changed, and continues to change, even in the short lifetime of this project. Still, the “many-sided debate about the relations of Christianity and civilization” rages on.1 There remains much to do.
H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ & Culture: Expanded 50th Anniversary Edition (New York, NY: HarperOne, 2001), 1.