Abstract
Adult religious education of the laity is in part about adult theological education for social ministry in the world. This article makes some adult education proposals for such social ministry. It summarizes the results of a narrative inquiry in which four Christian social activists shared the contexts, relationships, and education that they considered spiritually formative for their vocational commitments to social ministry. The author reflects theologically on the findings noting the importance of affirmation, connecting with difference, proximity to justice issues and risk, creative spirituality, and the interdependence of the findings in forming the participants' commitment to social ministry. Based on an implicit "curriculum" that was found within the research participants' narrative histories, the author suggests areas of programmatic focus for educating laity for social ministry and notes briefly the usefulness of narrative inquiry for developing approaches to adult theological education.
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