WHAT   DOES  
 THE   ALETHIA   FOUNDATION
DO ?

Horace Pippin    "Holy Mountain III"    1945
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Our ultimate goal is on rather a grand scale.

It’s easier to talk about our mission in terms of its " macro" and " micro" components.

At the MICRO level are our individual projects. They are a means to the end.

The "end," the goal, is the MACRO picture:

• away from violence and adversarial relationships
• into creative peace and productive partnership
  
• away from ignorance, bigotry and prejudice
• into human maturity, spiritual growth, and learning
  
• away from fear of differences
• into delight in diversity
  
• away from mindless legalism and oppression
• into freedom, power and responsibility through the love of Christ
  
• away from fragmented lives, hollow at the center
• into a richly ordered universe, radiant from its Source
  

This MACRO mission is served through individual projects in  three divisions: 

Research
Education
Spirituality

Each project is directed toward the larger vision of the MACRO element of our mission: to weave a new Christian synthesis that will lift before all eyes the Christian faith in a new and compelling light. As changes overtake our human conception of just about everything, we want to show how, in light of the love, grace and healing of Jesus Christ, we are set free, empowered, transformed. Our mission is to show that in Christ all things hold together.

He is the image of the invisible God...He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together...For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things...

Our mission is for the sake of generations to come, that they may

have the knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

It is the purpose of The Alethia Foundation to continue in the spirit of this effort.

The Alethia Foundation programs bridge gaps between faith and critical study, between church and community, church and campus, and between Christian ideals and living practice.

However, our real goal lies well beyond the present.   Our "MACRO" mission is to shape a distant future, not to provide short-term palliatives. 

The Alethia Foundation is dedicated to the recovery of Christian faith by a return to its roots:

•  to its core doctrines of the Trinity, the Incarnation, Salvation and Resurrection
  
•  to its moral requirements of humility, love, and spiritual and intellectual maturation
  
•  to its call to faith and to fidelity, to service, sacrifice, empowerment, creativity, to replace domination, egocentrism, gamesmanship, exploitation, ignorance and prejudice

One of our staff members likes to talk about how wonderful it would be to live an "Alethia world. " What will it be like when the work of Alethia takes hold, when a new Christian synthesis seizes the popular imagination? In such a world, it can be taken for granted that

• racism, sexism and other forms of bigotry are self-destructive and irrational
  
• hatemongers, rather than who or what they hate, are the real danger
  
• violence expresses not power but impotence
  
• the real achievements, as well as real excitement, lie not in some kind of conquest  and domination but rather in discovery, in creativity, in fulfillment of human potential
  
• peace, freedom, justice, faith, hope, and love flow from an authentic encounter with Jesus Christ
  
• Christian faith requires and is strengthened by critical thinking, questioning, searching
  
• scientific and spiritual arts are distinct, but deeply kindred techniques of learning
  

We live in a unique time that offers unusual risks, along with a very rare opportunity, to the Christian faith. Christian theology needs to do its duty now, in this moment: to interpret the gospel faithfully and viably for a new age, using fully every new resource available. The Alethia Foundation is dedicated to this task. 

The Gospel has the same urgency today as at its earliest proclamation.

It holds out to us now as then joy, abundance, reconciliation, transforming power, solutions, redemption, wholeness, hope.  The voice of the gospel speaks directly to the questions and needs of our time.   

The mission of The Alethia Foundation is

 to let that voice be heard and received.