Are you there? : comedic interrogation in the life and witness of James E. Loder Jr. / Dana R. Wright, with John D. Kuentzel -- "Trampling down death by death" : double negation in developmental theory and baptismal theology / Rusell Haitch -- Biting and chomping our salvation : holy eucharist, radically understood / Marilyn McCord Adams -- The way of love : Loder, Levinas, and ethical transformation through preaching / John S. McClure -- Transforming encounter in the borderlands : a study of Matthew 15:21-28 / Daniel S. Schipani -- Leadership and serendipitous discipleship : a case study of congregational transformation / Robert K. Martin -- Youth, passion, and intimacy in the context of koinonia : James E. Loder's contributions to a practical theology of imitatio Christi for youth ministry / Dana R. Wright, with Kenda Creasy Dean -- Remembering the poor : transforming Christian practice / Susanne Johnson -- Paradigmatic madness and redemptive creativity in practical theology : a Biblical interpretation of the theological and methodological significance of James E. Loder's neo-Chalcedonian science for the postmodern context / Dana R. Wright -- George Lindbeck and Thomas F. Torrance on Christian language and the knowledge of God / Thomas John Hastings -- Transformational narrative in a non-transformational tradition / Margaret A. Krych -- A summary of James E. Loder's theory of Christian education / Russell Hatch -- The philosophical turn to relationality and the responsibility of practical theology / F. LeRon Shults -- The Heidegger in Loder (or, How the nothing became the void) : provoking wonder in education / John D. Kuentzel -- Loder and mystical spirituality : particularity, universality, and intelligence / Eolene Boyd-MacMillan -- The potential contribution of James E. Loader Jr. to practical theological science / Dana R. Wright.