 JUST PUBLISHED An Ambiguous Inheritance: Church in Saskatchewan By Christopher Lind At the turn of the nineteenth century, Saskatchewan was one of the fastest growing provinces in Canada. In the early 1900s, it revolutionized the Canadian political landscape and gave rise to socialist governments that continue to influence Canadian politics today. It was the birthplace of Canada's publicly funded health care system, and home to a thriving arts and literary community that helped define western Canadian culture. In Perspectives of Saskatchewan, eighteen noted scholars present an in-depth look at some of the major developments in the province's history, including art, literature, demographics, politics, First Nations history, northern development, and religion. It lays the foundations for a greater understanding of Saskatchewan’s unique history, identity, and place in Canada. ...  ECOJUSTICE: Past and PresentBy Christopher Lind Ecojustice is a relatively new term in our lexicon, having emerged only in the last 40 years. Sometimes it is spelled with a hyphen (eco-justice) and sometimes without. It is widely used in environmental studies, education and religion. It is increasingly used in philosophy and law. In this article I trace the emergence of the term in ecumenical struggles among social and environmental activists. The struggles between these two justice oriented groups had a dialectical character and the term ecojustice emerged as a synthesis of their competing claims. The article goes on to show how the ecojustice principles of solidarity, sustainability, sufficiency and socially just participation have found expression in the reports of the World Council of Churches, the Earth Charter and the scholarly work of the Earth Bible Project. ... By Christopher Lind What are the special ethical issues faced by women in ministry? In this essay conventional assumptions about ethics in ministry, taken from the work of Gaylord Noyce, are compared with the experiences, attitudes and expectations of ordered and lay members of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada in two Canadian regions. The similarities and differences are then interrogated using more contemporary theories. Conventional approaches to pastoral ethics, as evidenced by Noyce, limit concerns to issues of discrimination in wages, employment and advancement. This essay concludes that while such discrimination exists, it is not nearly as great a concern for women as the fear of sexual harassment. This fear is not only great but well founded. The research supports the claim that for a woman to be engaged in good ministry, she is required to do it differently from men. Read "What Makes Ministry Good?  FRIENDSHIP: as a Moral Norm and the Problem of Boundaries in Clergy EthicsBy Christopher Lind PhD A revised version of this paper was published in John Macmurray: Critical Perspectives, D. Fergusson & N. Dower (eds.), New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2002 I have been trying to establish what clergy ethics are in practice, as opposed to what they ought to be. Part of the research involved interviewing clergy and asking them questions like what they understand clergy ethics to be, what principles they follow, and what problems they encounter. For many, friendship is a significant moral concern... .Read this article here » |
 KEEPING AND SHARING:Confidentiality in Ministry By Christopher Lind What ethical norms regarding confidentiality are applied by ministers in their professional practice? In this essay conventional ethical assumptions about confidentiality in ministry, taken from the work of Gaylord Noyce, are compared with the experiences, attitudes and expectations of ordered and lay members of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada in two Canadian regions. The similarities and differences are then interrogated using more contemporary theories. The study concludes that most people in the two denominations studied borrowed their ethical norms from the counseling context. Most subjects thought of confidentiality in terms of the beneficial therapeutic effects of keeping the secrets but they also articulated alternative theological grounds for maintaining confidences. Different expectations about how information is to be handled also reveal deeper theological and ecclesiological conflicts over the appropriateness of debriefing with members of the congregation. Differences between rural and urban congregations were revealed in the example of public prayer as an occasion for the breaking of a confidence. Read this article here »  ETHICS OF LEADERSHIP IN FAMILIESor Leadership in Ethical Families By Christopher Lind Published in Responsible Leadership: Global and Contextual Ethical Perspectives (Paperback) by Christoph Stuckelberger (Author, Editor), Jesse N.K. Mugambi (Editor). Available at Amazon.co.uk here » A paper presented to the second Globethics.net Leadership Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2005.
By Christopher Lind, PhD This article builds on the analysis offered by ATS Executive Director, Daniel Aleshire, who argued that for most of the twentieth century, in the mainline denominations throughout North America, there existed a social contract between theological schools and denominations. This social contract has now ended because the five assumptions upon which it was based no longer hold true, in whole or in part. Seven new assumptions are offered as the basis of a new social contract. The shift from the old to the new social contract is illustrated by examples from the Toronto School of Theology.
By Christopher Lind, PhD On May 25, 1981, our first child was born to us – a girl, Emily Ruth Musgrove Lind. Her birth was a wonderful, incredible, ecstatic experience. It was also an intensely religious experience for us and we were moved to celebrate. But the event was also a crisis... Read this article here » |
Ecojustice: Its Past and Present text »
THE ECUMENIST, Summer 2008.
An Ambiguous Inheritance: Church in Saskatchewan new! » in J. Porter (ed.) Perspectives on Saskatchewan 1905 – 2005, University of Manitoba Press, 2009; Co-authored with Lynn Caldwell
Leadership in Ethical Families: A North American Perspective text »
in Christoph Stuckelberger and J.N.K. Mugambi (eds.) Responsible Leadership: Global and Contextual Perspectives, Geneva, Switzerland: WCC Publications 2007
Afterword
in Wesley J. Bergen and Armin Siedlicki (eds.) Voyages in Uncharted Waters: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Biblical Interpretation in Honor of David Jobling, Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2006
Keeping and Sharing: Confidentiality in Ministry
JOURNAL OF PASTORAL CARE & COUNSELING, Volume 60:1-2, Spring-Summer 2006 text »
From Contract to Context to Partnership: The Changing Shape of Theological Education in Canada text »
JOURNAL OF ADULT THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, Volume 2.1, April 2005
What Makes Good Ministry Good? Women in Ministry text »
THEOLOGY & SEXUALITY, 11 (3) 2005 pp.65-88
Theological Reflections on Nettie Wiebe’s ‘The Via Campesino and Solidarity through Diversity’
in Intersecting Voices: Critical Theologies in a Land of Diversity, D. Schweitzer & D. Simon (eds.), Ottawa: Novalis, 2004
Friendship as a Moral Norm and the Problem of Boundaries in Clergy Ethics - text »
in John Macmurray: Critical Perspectives, D. Fergusson & N. Dower (eds.), New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2002
Are Clergy Ethics a Matter of Common Sense?
in Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World: Essays in Honour of Roger C. Hutchinson, P. Airhart, M. Legge, G. Redcliffe, (eds.), Waterloo: WLU Press, 2002.
Book Review: Karl Polanyi on Ethics and Economics
by Gregory Baum, University of Toronto Quarterly, Fall, 1997
Challenging the Ethics of Globalization
The World We Want, Ten Days for Global Justice, 1997 Education and Action Guide, Primate's World Relief and Development Fund
How Karl Polanyi’s Moral Economy Can Help Religious and Other Social Critics
in “Humanity, Society and Commitment On Karl Polanyi”, edited by Kenneth McRobbie, Montreal: Black Rose, 1994
When the System Farms the Farmers
in “Who Is This We? The Absence of Community” edited by G. Finn & E. Godway, Montreal: Black Rose, 1994
The Moral Economy of the Farm Crisis in Saskatchewan
a paper presented to a conference on Agricultural Law, Saskatoon, 1992
Book Review: The Church in Quebec by Gregory Baum
PMC: The Practice of Ministry in Canada, January 1992, p. 27
John Macmurray and Contextual Theology
PHILOSOPHY & THEOLOGY, Vol. VI #4, Summer 1992, pp. 383-400
Coalitions: They served us in the past, do we need them in the future?
COMPASS, November, 1991
The Idea of Capitalism or the Capitalism of Ideas: A Moral Critique of The Copyright Act
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY JOURNAL, Vol. 7, December 1991
Catholic Social Teaching and Canadian Theology: a Review of Michael Ryan’s Solidarity
COMPASS, November, 1987
Christian Ethics for Christian Economists: An Annotated Bibliography
Bulletin of the Association of Christian Economists, No. 8 Fall, 1986
Emily’s Baptism: A Case Study of Sexism and Authority text »
in Justice as Mission: An Agenda for the Church, C. Lind and T. Brown (eds.), Trinity Press, Burlington, 1985
Ethics, Economics and Canada’s Catholic Bishops
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THEORY, Vol. VII, No. 3, Fall 1983
An Invitation to Canadian Theology
TORONTO JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan. 1985
China’s Churches and the West
THE ECUMENIST, March/April, 1982
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