Christians in every walk of life face challenges every day at work.  Some of these challenges relate to embodying a worldview in a world that views things different from a faith-based, biblical perspective–sometimes radically so, other times in a more nuanced way.

These challenges are nowhere more evident than in the efforts by God’s people to integrate the demands and opportunities brought about by modern Science with a thorough-going biblical worldview.  Our research scientists and health care practitioners live this tension every day.

In their world, critical and sometimes life-changing decisions must be made on the spot, and some of these decisions do not always allow for adequate reflection—or even serious dialogue with other thoughtful Christians.

In an effort to address this need for reflection and ongoing dialogue—as well as providing a follow up to our October 09 discussion on Bioethics and the Practice of Faithful Medicine—New City is prepared to host a quarterly gathering in 2010.

Our hope here is to cultivate a learning community of thoughtful Christians who will listen well to one another and equip each other for the art and science of living faithfully as God’s missional witnesses in the world.  To help us get there, we will share articles in advance, swap essays and ruminations, and lovingly push one another to clear thinking and courageous living.

It’s not quite the Fellowship of The Ring, but here is an opportunity to carve out some time and create a little space in which we might rather seriously “spur one another on,” as the writer of Hebrews says, “toward love and good deeds” within the crucible, that is, the cross-shaped reality of our vocational callings.

If you are interested in participating, please reply here and I’ll forward you an initial reading with some prompting questions for our first meeting in January—now scheduled for Monday night January 25, 7-9pm, at Lauren Clevenger’s house (716 Noragate Drive, Knoxville 37919).   Coffee and dessert will be served.  RSVP.