For the Sake of the Common Good: Essays in Honour of Lois Wilson 9780228011774

Table of contents :
Cover
For the Sake of the Common Good
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Editors’ Introduction
1 Witness to God’s Lament and Laughter: Personal Faith in Lois Wilson’s Life and Work
PART ONE ECUMENICAL AND INTERFAITH DEVELOPMENTS
2 Transformative Ecumenism: God’s Mission and the Whole Inhabited World
3 Peace and Reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula: An Interchurch Project
4 Women’s Voices, Pluralism, and the Common Good
5 The Common Good: Through the Lens of Canadian Muslim Women
6 Visio Divina
PART TWO FAITH AND PUBLIC POLICY
7 Faith and Public Policy
8 Public Witness in the Local Urban Congregation
9 The Whole People of God: Being the Church in the World
10 Borders: Barriers and Blessings
11 Last in the Queue: Refugees and Displaced Persons in a Time of Covid-19, Climate Change, Conflict, and Corruption
12 From Creation Chaos to Creaturely Solidarity: The Comingling of Faith and the Fate of the Earth
13 All My Relations: Living Respectfully on the Earth with All Creation
14 Fishing Communities in Decline: An Impediment to the Common Good
PART THREE HUMAN RIGHTS
15 A Not So Gay World: Confronting Religious-Based Discrimination
16 The Global Women’s Movement: Gently Holding Each Other Up
17 Human Rights: The Fallacy of “Cancel Culture” and the Power of Solidarity
18 Resurgent Global Authoritarianism, Democratic Backsliding, and the Assault on Media Freedom: Through the Looking Glass of Political Prisoners
Afterword
Contributors
Index

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