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A hard reality we’ll need to face is that some churches can pivot and reorganize to embody belief, belonging, and behavior as we were designed to, but others cannot.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
community. The church is the only collective in society that exists solely for personhood itself (theologically, it has no other purpose).6
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Anxieties around Survival Remain
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God in the Great Unraveling
Challenging Nominal Christianity
Owen Strachan • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)
It is a narrative of how some of America’s core values and assumptions and its reliance on market principles contradict and work against other esteemed values.
Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith • Divided by Faith
What will be left when the walls of constructed identity come down?
Alan Lew • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
This community is living a good life (it is a life-community), not because it has a storehouse of resources through speed and innovation but because it has the resonance of shared personhood.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
“What is playing out is an institutional trust story—not an individual belief story,” he said.