A More Perfect Communion: Panel Discussion
Feeling conflicted about what it means to be Christian? Until recently, calling yourself a “Christian” has meant that we share a short list of beliefs about God, Jesus, and the Bible with many, many other Americans. Now the same short list of beliefs no longer has the same unifying effect. What could it mean to be the Church in this moment?
Hosted by InterVarsity's Theological Foundations Department and InterVarsity Greater Boston, this panel discussion will feature pastor-theologians who will take us beyond that short list into deeper convictions about who we are as human beings, and what the Church is meant to be and do in our world fractured by race, politics, and more. Join us to seek a way for the “communion of saints” to take meaningful shape in our communities and beyond.
Date: November 21st, 2025
Time: 7 pm
Location: Central Square Church
5 Magazine St, Cambridge, MA 02139
Panelists will include:
Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah, Robert B. Munger Professor of Evangelism and Church Renewal at Fuller Theological Seminary and the author of The Next Evangelicalism (IVP Books, 2009); Many Colors (Moody, 2010); Prophetic Lament (IVP Books, 2015); co-author of Forgive Us (Zondervan, 2014); Return to Justice (Brazos, 2016); and Unsettling Truths (IVP Books, 2019). Rev. Dr. Rah is also the founding Senior Pastor of Cambridge Community Fellowship Church, and has previously served on the boards of World Vision, Sojourners and the Christian Community Development Association
Rev. Dr. Joy Jittaun Moore, MDiv., PH.D., President and Professor of Homiletics at Northern Seminary and an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church. As an “Ecclesial Storyteller”, she seeks to encourage theologically framed, biblically attentive, and socially compelling interpretations of Christian Scripture in order to understand the critical issues influencing community formation in contemporary culture.
Dr. Marc Cortez is the Dean of the Litfin Divinity School at Wheaton College and a leading expert in theological anthropology, an area of theology that focuses on what Christians believe about human persons. He has written multiple books on the subject, including Theological Anthropology: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2010), ReSourcing Theological Anthropology (Zondervan, 2018), and Christological Anthropology in Historical Perspective (Zondervan, 2016).
This discussion will be moderated by Rev. Dr. Jeff Liou, PhD, the National Director of Theological Formation for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Jeff has been ministering among college students and young adults since 2001. His scholarly interest and work are at the intersection of race, identity, and ministry.
This discussion is free and open to the public, with a special welcome to InterVarsity Alumni! A reception with refreshments and an opportunity to connect more with InterVarsity Greater Boston will follow the discussion. We hope that this event and the discussion that follows will serve as an opportunity to explore how these questions intersect with the college campus and influence the work InterVarsity is doing to disciple the next generation. RSVP is encouraged. Contact [email protected] with questions.