Journal for Case Teaching
Number 10
Fall 1999
CONTENTS AND ABSTRACTS
Page ix
Editor's Notes
Pastoral Care/Ministry
A BROKEN PASTOR
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by Diane Chandler, Director of Career and Alumni Services, Regent Divinity School,
1000 Regent University Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23464.
A pastor of a non-denominational church encounters a leadership crisis. Also a crisis
within his family only accentuates his leadership credibility. The case highlights the reality
of pastors in crises and the critical need for intervention and help during such situations
for pastors and churches.
IS "GOOD FAITH" GOOD ENOUGH?
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by Leland Elhard, Professor of Pastoral Theology, Trinity Lutheran Seminary,
2199 E. Main St., Columbus, OH 43209.
A first-year pastor assists a middle-aged couple to renew their wedding-marriage vows
without knowing that as leaders of the KKK they represent the opposite of her deep
Christian convictions, and she begins to learn from her pastoral "surprise."
IS THE HONEYMOON OVER?
by Richard N. Stewart, Assistant Professor of Church Administration, Lutheran
Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 7301 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, PA
19119.
After a successful first year and a recommendation for a raise, what should a pastor
do when no one will second the motion on his raise?
Biblical
A NIGHT DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER NIGHTS
by Sharon H. Ringe, Professor of New Testament, Wesley Theological Seminary,
4500 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016.
An examination of the assumed negative motives and univocal position of Jewish
leaders in Jerusalem of Jesus' day.
Ecological
HARBOR HEADACHE
A town planner deals with strong public opposition and support for a controversial
housing and high-tech business complex planned by the Hong Kong government on
land to be "reclaimed" from Hong Kong harbor.
Ethical
BABY BOY HERNANDEZ
by William P. Bristol and Alice Frazer Evans. Revised 1994. An extensive
commentary for this case is in Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach, Second
Edition, Robert L Stivers, et al, Orbis Books.
Medical personnel investigate some of the complexities involved in developing a just
health care system.
SEX AND THE SINGLE PERSON
by Christine E. Gudorf. From a book edited and copyrighted by Gudorf and Regina
Wentzel Wolfe, Ethics & World Religions: Cross-Cultural Case Studies (Maryknoll, NY:
Orbis Books, 1999), 42-47. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
by Lisa Hopkinson, Director of Writing and Research, Citizens Party, Room 429,
Central Government Offices, West Wing, 11 Ice House St., Central Hong Kong.
Missiological
A METRO STRATEGY
by Robert A. Evans, Executive Director, Plowshares Institute, P.O. Box 243,
Simsbury, CT 06070.
A Roman Catholic priest serving a congregation in a depressed urban area must decide
whether to support an innovative approach to training lay leaders for urban ministry.
VISION FATIGUE
by Russell W. West, Assistant Professor/D.Min Director, Regent Divinity School,
1000 Regent Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23464.
Messages, methods, and motives can get crossed in contemporary churches.
Inter-Faith
DOES HOSPITALITY BEGIN AT HOME?
by William W. Emilsen, United Theological College, 16 Masons Drive, North
Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 2151.
Chandra Das, a Protestant, experiences rejection at the Eucharist in a Catholic Church in
Calcutta. Later, as a theological student in Sydney, he visits a Hindu temple with his
lecturer in World Religions and experiences unexpected hospitality and acceptance. This
clash of experiences raises important questions about baptism, eucharist, and ministry.
MINI CASES
CHURCH CAMP: COUNSELOR OR ASSISTANT COOK?
An Indo-Canadian Experience
by David Daniel, Vanier College, Montreal; Chair, Multicultural and Race Relations
Committee, Diocese of Montreal.
PAPER-THIN CONCERN
by Russell W. West, Assistant Professor/D.Min Director, Regent Divinity School,
1000 Regent Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23464.
JOB SEARCH IN MONTREAL
by Dorothy Jean McNab, member of the Multicultural and Race Relations
Committee of the Diocese of Montreal.
PREJUDICE IN ACADEMIA?
by John McNab, Director of Pastoral Studies at Montreal Diocesan
Theological College.
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH—INCLUSIVE?
by Junia Wilson, member of the Multicultural and Race Relations Committee of the
Diocese of Mortal
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
by Dorothy Jean McNab, member of the Multicultural and Race Relations
Committee of the Diocese of Montreal.
WHY ME AND NOT HER?
by Ros Macgregor, St Cuthbert, St Hilda & St Luke and Mile End Community
Mission.
EDITOR'S COMMENTS
The Case Study Institute has been promoting the writing and use of case studies in the
teaching of theology in seminaries, divinity schools, and parishes for more than two decades.
This is the tenth volume of the Journal for Case Teaching.
Included this year is a wide range of cases dealing with issues in pastoral care and ministry,
ethics, Bible, ecology, missiology, and religious pluralism. One case, "Sex and the Single
Person," is from a recently published book of eighteen cases, Ethics and World Religions: Cross
Cultural Case Studies (Orbis, 1999) edited by Regina Wentzel Wolfe and Christine E. Gudorf,
and is included with their permission.
Often teachers would like to use cases in particular venues and for discussions that do not
allow for pre-preparation or time for reading and reflecting that longer cases require. Thus, for
the first time we are adding to the content of the Journal six short or "mini" cases. All these cases
deal with the issue of racism.
Readers should keep in mind that the cases are all descriptions of real events. They are not
fabrications or fiction. Though names and places are usually changed for obvious reasons, the
other aspects of the case are true.
The Case Study Institute offers a one-week summer workshop annually on the writing and
teaching of case studies. Also, a periodic newsletter is distributed to all members and institutions
that support this endeavor. For membership in the Institute or further information, contact the
editor (see address and phone below) or Alice Evans at Plowshares Institute, P.O. Box 243,
Simsbury, CT 06070, or call (860) 651-4304, FAX (860) 651-4305.
All cases in the Journal are copyrighted by the Case Study Institute, and they, along with
hundreds of previously written cases, can be obtained from the Yale University Divinity School
Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511.