Trinity Magazine, Spring 2005

Engaging Gay Advocates

by Graham Cole, ThD

During the 1990s Trinity Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology Dr. Graham Cole was the Archbishop of Melbourne’s spokesperson regarding issues of human sexuality and human relations. The role led him into dialogues with many gay and lesbian advocates, a controversial conversation not only for the Anglican Church but for Christians worldwide. Here he shares what his experience has taught him about engaging gay advocates meaningfully and with integrity.

Real Mercy

Last August, all Michelle Hamburger could think about was Florida. She watched on television as tornadoes wrenched roofs from homes, snapped telephone poles, and overturned cars. She wanted immediately to go and help, maybe spend a couple of months working for the American Red Cross, but plans were already set for the Trinity College social science major to begin her senior year at the end of the month. She didn’t stop thinking about it, though.

That September as Michelle sat in a missions chapel and listened to the Student Ministries staff give information about the forthcoming winter and spring break mission trips, she thought, Why not find out if we could do a trip to Florida?

Extreme Internships

Trinity College senior Danny Jensen was one of fifteen students nationwide selected to participate in an unorthodox business internship. Unlike his internship the previous summer, the setting wasn’t a quiet suburban Illinois office building. It was Afghanistan. Senior international business major Bethany Erickson grew up dreaming of political office. But after four months in Washington lobbying senators and congressmen on behalf of others in need, she saw herself with new eyes.

Disaster in Southeast Asia: Trinity Alumni and Students Respond

On New Year’s Eve, while many Americans watched the festivities in Times Square on television, Dr. Galen Carey (BA ’76, MDiv ’80) took an urgent phone call from World Relief in the upstairs bedroom of his home. As Carey’s wife and children listened, the relief and development organization asked Carey to initiate their response to the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia. He flew to Banda Aceh, Indonesia, the next day.

Evangelism and the Early Church

What do we know about the disciples as missionaries?

Professor of New Testament Dr. Eckhard Schnabel’s groundbreaking research on evangelism in the early church was recently published in his two-volume Early Christian Mission (InterVarsity, 2004). It is the first comprehensive study of mission in the early church since Adolf von Harnack’s work in 1902. What made early Christian missionaries so unique? In the first part of our “Sharing the Gospel” series, Dan Reid of InterVarsity Press discusses the book with Dr. Schnabel.

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