Introduction

Abstract

I am pleased that the guys enrolled in the class know what to do. By now I have made more than a few official work orders and verbal requests that our Sunday night, adult-education classroom in the church basement be set up in seminar style, but they seem to have gone unheard. Facing all the chairs forward toward a podium from which I, the teacher, am expected to pronounce theological wisdom simply cannot foster the types of vibrant theological conversations we enjoy engaging together. So a subgroup from our small group of church insurgents has arrived early to undo and remake our space together. As I shut off the lights at the end of each night, I wonder who comes in and puts our room back to the lecture style we are—for various reasons—resisting.