Christian ethics as informed prayer ; The gift of the church and the gifts God gives it ; Why Christian ethics was invented ; How the church managed before there was ethics / Stanley Hauerwas, Samuel Wells --- Part II. Meeting God and one another. Gathering : worship, imagination and formation / Philip Kenneson -- Greeting : beyond racial reconciliation / Emmanuel Katongole -- Naming the risen Lord : embodied discipleship and masculinity / Amy Laura Hall -- Being reconciled : penitence, punishment, and worship / John Berkman -- Praising in song : beauty and the arts / Kevin J. Vanhoozer -- Collecting praise : global culture industries / Michael L. Budde --- Part III. Re-encountering the story. Reading the scriptures : rehearsing identity, practicing character / Jim Fodor -- Listening : authority and obedience / Scott Bader-Saye -- Proclaiming : naming and describing / Charles Pinches -- Deliberating : justice and liberation / Daniel M. Bell, Jr. -- Discerning : politics and reconciliation / William T. Cavanaugh -- Confessing the faith : reasoning in tradition / Nicholas Adams --- Part IV. Being embodied. Praying : poverty / Kelly S. Johnson -- Interceding : giving grief to management / Michael Hanby -- Being baptized : bodies and abortion / Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt -- Becoming one body : health care and cloning / M. Therese Lysaught -- Becoming one flesh : marriage, remarriage and sex / David Matzko McCarthy -- Sharing peace : discipline and trust / Paul J. Wadell --- Part V. Re-enacting the story. Offering : treasuring the creation / Ben Quash -- Participating : working toward worship / R.R. Reno -- Remembering : offering our gifts / D. Stephen Long, Tripp York -- Invoking : globalization and power / Timothy Jarvis Gorringe -- Breaking bread : peace and war / Gerald W. Schlabach -- Receiving communion : euthanasia, suicide, and letting die / Carole Bailey Stoneking -- Sharing communion : hunger, food, and genetically modified foods / Robert Song -- Eating together : friendship and homosexuality / Joel James Shuman -- Being silent : time in the spirit / Michael S. Northcott -- Being thankful : parenting the mentally disabled / Hans S. Reinders -- Washing feet : preparation for service / Mark Thiessen Nation --- Part VI. Being commissioned. Being blessed : wealth, property and theft / Stephen Fowl -- Bearing fruit : conception, children, and the family / Joseph L. Mangina -- Being sent : witness / Michael G. Cartwright.