The premise of this blog is that theology, understood broadly as the intellectual underpinnings of the Christian Church, should more identify more with the praxis on the streets and less with reified and sheltered academic settings.  Furthermore it contends that parishes and individual Christians ought to engage the world ‘as it is,’ in all its pain and brokenness, rather than as they safely construct it to be for themselves.  The author seeks to engage theology and theologians from that missional perspective.

The author is Guy Williams, a Christian in the Reformed evangelical catholic (’high church Calvinist’) tradition, a student in care of the Northwest Wisconsin Association of the United Church of Christ, and a seminarian (Class of 2011) at The General Theological Seminary.  He lives with fiftysome-odd people in a living-experiment-cum-intentional community in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City.