Christian faith and the task of world-changing -- Culture: the common view -- The failure of the common view -- An alternative view of culture and cultural change in eleven propositions -- Evidence in history -- The cultural economy of American Christianity -- For and against the mandate of creation -- The problem of power -- Power and politics in American culture -- The Christian Right -- The Christian Left -- The neo-Anabaptists -- Illusion, irony, and tragedy -- Rethinking power: theological reflections -- The challenge of faithfulness -- Old cultural wineskins -- The groundwork for an alternative way -- Toward a theology of faithful presence -- The burden of leadership: a theology of faithful presence in practice -- Toward a new city commons.