Young-IL. Kim and each of the contributors offer compelling insights to awaken people to the cross-cultural situation all around us. Their unique premises and perspectives will help people open their eyes and minds to see the deeper and wider dimensions of cultures different from their own.

This collection of articles can be used in a variety of settings: for seminary courses dealing with cross-cultural issues in ministry, for parish ministers, educators, and laypersons who seek a tool to equip the local church for more effective ministry, and for the general reader who will find in these pages a stimulus to develop changing attitudes.

Articles and contributors include:

"Competing in the Creedal Olympics: Pauline Resources for Cross-Cultural Ministry," by Robert Jewett

"Feminist Theology in Global Context," by Rosemary Radford Ruether

"Recent Religious Developments: A New Testament Theological Perspective," by W. Richard Stegner

"Strangers and Foreigners," by James B. Ashbrook

"God's Dream for a Technicolor Society," by Young-IL. Kim

"A Narrative Approach to Pastoral Care in an Intercultural Setrine," by Edward Wimberly

"The African Principle of Existence-in-Relation as a Model for Cross Cultural Ministry," by Nolbert Kunonga

"The Ministry as Cross-Cultural Communication," by Dot E Wingeier

"Learning About Ministry from the Two-Thirds World, b E. Wingeier