Why Partnership Isn't Enough

Case del Migrante. Image courtesy Alexandra Travnik.

While the transition from paternalistic “helping” models to more mutual partnership models is in many ways a helpful and important move for the modern church, it is also misguided, theologically shaky, and ultimately incomplete. The church, especially amidst a religious and political climate that spews venomous rhetoric about “the other,” must offer a thoughtful and radical counter-narrative of what it means to live with and for one another.

And partnership simply does not go far enough.

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