Reading: Barker [Politics]

Tony Bennett's call for cultural studies to engage more productively in cultural policy formation and implementation is spot on when looking at practical ways a seminarian can apply her/his knowledge learning in cultural studies to an applicable theology in the real world. It continues the discussion of the praxis model of contextual theology that we have read in Bevans.

Jim Wallis visit to Fuller a few weeks ago again comes into the conversation [mentioned in the same blog post linked above]. His current platform discusses how the silent majority of religious Americans who don't feel represented by the religious right's agenda can first take comfort in their sheer numbers and then take action in their communities to fight poverty, clean up the environment and eradicate disease. Moving from theory into practice. I like where this discussion and textbooks are finally leading to. Some action instead of heady theory.