Category Archives: Resident Aliens

We’re working our way through Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Williamson, published in 1989. Christian ethics, as a cultivation of those virtues needed to keep us on the journey, are the ethics … Continue reading →

We’re working our way through Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Williamson, published in 1989. The church exists today as resident aliens, an adventurous colony in a society of unbelief. As a society … Continue reading →

We’re working our way through Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Williamson, published in 1989. In the last post of this series, we consider John Howard Yoder’s description of a “confessing” church – … Continue reading →

We’re working our way through Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Williamson, published in 1989. Yoder distinguishes between the activist church, the conversionist church, and the confessing church. The activist church is more … Continue reading →

We’re working our way through Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Williamson, published in 1989. American church was said, by commentators like Martin Marty, to consist of two types—the “public” church and the … Continue reading →

We’re working our way through Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Williamson, published in 1989. You know, it occurred to me the other day that most of the really good books weren’t published … Continue reading →

We’re working our way through Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Stanly Hauerwas and William H. Williamson, published in 1989. You know, it occurred to me the other day that most of the really good books weren’t published yesterday. … Continue reading →