Traditioned Innovation
A way of thinking and being that holds the past and future in tension, not in opposition, is crucial to the growth and vitality of Christian institutions. Traditioned innovation is an inner-biblical way of thinking theologically about the texture of human life in the context of God’s gracious and redemptive self-disclosure.
Features
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Article
April 10, 2012 | With demanding academics and an innovative work-study program, Cristo Rey Catholic schools have thrived, sending thousands of disadvantaged students to college and creating a new and sustainable model of Catholic education. Read more »
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Reflection
February 28, 2012 | Innovation research and practicing artists show that creative talent is not primarily an innate gift but a capacity developed over time through disciplined practice. Read more »
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Q&A
January 31, 2012 | Networked, relational and incarnational, digital ministry is a good fit for the mainline, a chance to make the privatized practice of faith public and visible in the world again, says the author and scholar. Read more »
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Q&A
August 30, 2011 | You have to be really deeply rooted in tradition in order to innovate with integrity, says the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints. Read more »
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Reflection
July 5, 2011 | What was missing at the Wild Goose Festival -- besides Jesus -- was the edgy sense of relationship, risk and danger of a truly religious experience, the sense that anything can happen because God is present and in charge. Read more »
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Multimedia
June 21, 2011 | Business is called first not to profit but to participate in the work of redemption, providing meaningful work and helping communities flourish, says the business school dean at Seattle Pacific University. Watch video »
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Q&A
June 21, 2011 | The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism project PolitiFact talks about how he created an innovative way to pursue his newspaper’s traditional institutional mission. Read more »
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Reflection
May 24, 2011 | An interdenominational seminary at a Baptist university, Beeson Divinity School is built upon a founder’s vision, a dean’s strengths and a unique catholicity. Read more »
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Article
May 24, 2011 | Baptist University of the Américas has undergone painful changes to transform itself from a dying Bible institute to a high-quality, affordable institution of higher education for Latino Christian leaders in Texas. Read more »
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April 19, 2011 | St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church in Oxford, N.C., illustrates a new model for underserved churches: active laity and retired pastors. Read more »
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