Are we post-community? Challenges to Christian faith and mission in a rapidly urbanising world
In: Issue 3 Fall 2013 By Ash Barker in Share 1 SocButtons v1.4 'Jane' was having a coffee in our small home in Klong Toey slum, Bangkok. Twenty four years old and an aspiring Christian musician, she explained, 'I want to be just like Mother Teresa. I want to kick the darkness here till it bleeds daylight.... I can give you two months over my summer break.' 'Jane' was seriously earnest and didn't appreciate my reflex grimace. I tried to explain, 'That's a great dream. Mother Teresa is actually one of my pin-up girls for mission, but it might take a fair bit longer than two months. You do know, don't you, that Mother Teresa wasn't the Mother Teresa we know at our age? She did her formation with Loreto Nuns, then twenty years of service, and didn’t start the Missionaries of Charity until she was forty.We do offer a three year community formation experience that could give you a start, in Australia or...