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The dedication to my varied and various teachers reflects the multiple contributions to this book. The more formal assistance includes a compact funding grant from Charles Sturt University to revise substantially my PhD dissertation. I have enjoyed the privilege of being supervised, then employed, by a friend and mentor, Professor Tom Frame, who read and edited the entire manuscript. Another friend and mentor—Ched Myers—urged me to write and opened the doors that might otherwise have remained shut. It was Ched who first spoke about the intersection of “the seminary, the sanctuary and the streets.” My life and vocation has taken shape at that intersection and this book is the result. The usual disclaimer stands—any remaining errors and deficiencies are mine alone. Less formal (but no less essential) contributions came from a number of people including the formational role of two inner-city Anglican churches in Sydney (St John’s East Sydney and St John’s Glebe). The streets in which these Christian communities are embedded taught me how to follow the restorative Christ. Each chapter begins and ends with a true story from one of those communities. Although the individual names have been changed for publication I am indebted to them for the role each played. In what follows, 4 scholars-practitioners, who exemplify the kind of theological reflection I aspire to, are major conversation partners. Collectively their teaching, writing and encouragement has prodded and provoked my convictions about Jesus and my commitment to justice. Families are inevitably drawn into writing a book as well. My father, Glenn Broughton, displayed confidence that what I was writing was worth reading, while close friends, the Reverend Andrew Hudson and Reverend Dr Simon Holt never faltered in their father-like belief in me. Roger Hiller, my father-in-law, kindly made his seaside “fishermen shack” available during writing leave. My two children, Nick and Anna, ground my commitment to the restorative Christ and justice. Jackie, my wife for more than twenty years, knows intimately my failures in discipleship and loves me still. This book is offered in the hope and prayer that I—and they—become capable of living what I have written about.