Staying in Church in the 21st Century

Despite the fact that mainline churches have been on a membership decline for the last generation, there are still active and healthy congregations where bright, able, thinking people have decided to stay and serve. In this book, Gary Charles studies...

Thoughts, Stories, and Wisdom for a Faith of Transformation

The face of Christianity is changing. In recent years, and in rapidly increasing numbers, people have begun to understand the core message and purpose of Christianity differently. They have returned to its ancient roots and found a wisdom that speaks...

A Model for Change and a Map for Renewal

Realizing the importance of creating a practical guide for both ministers and congregations seeking to shift their congregational culture towards a progressive form of Christianity, Bruce Sanguin grounds The Emerging Church in the experience of his o...

Reflections on the Future of Christianity

In this classic reissue, scholar, pastor, and author J. Philip Wogaman addresses "people who wonder whether Christian Faith makes sense in light of the sweeping changes of our age," changes that have created at the same time a pluralistic world, a te...

Reconnecting with the Power of the Gospel for the 21st Century

How can a church survive into the next millenium? That is the question Don Posterski and Gary Nelson asked themselves while researching and writing Future Faith Churches. This book shows the way through to the twenty-first century by examining fourte...

Legendary Harvard religion scholar Harvey Cox offers up a new interpretation of the history and future of religion. He explains why Christian beliefs and dogma are giving way to new grassroots movements rooted in social justice and spiritual experien...

How Christianity is Changing and Why

Rooted in the observation that massive transitions in the church happen about every five hundred years, Phyllis Tickle combines history, a look at the causes of social upheaval, and current events to illustrate the exciting future that lies ahead for...

When Church and Cool Collide

Self-avowed twentysomething Brett McCracken has grown up in the evangelical Christian subculture and observed the recent shift away from the "stained glass and steeples" of traditional Christianity to a more unorthodox, stylized twenty-first-century ...

Congregations for the 21st Century

While others lament the declining attendance of mainline churches and blame it on an out-of-date tradition, Jackson Carroll offers a more hopeful perspective, arguing that they key to future vitality can be found in the same tradition. According to C...

The Rise of the Post-Congregational Church

The third book in the trilogy that explores the popular missional movement.From Reggie McNeal, the bestselling author of The Present Future and Missional Renaissance, comes the third book in the series that helps to define and illuminate the popular ...

Changing the Scorecard for the Church

Reggie McNeal's bestseller The Present Future is the definitive work on the "missional movement," i.e., the widespread movement among Protestant churches to be less inwardly focused and more oriented toward the culture and community around them. In t...

Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier

What is the emergent church movement all about and why does it matter to the future of Christianity? Following on the questions raised by Brian McLaren and others about faith in a postmodern age, Tony Jones has written an engaging exploration of the ...

Seven Ways You Can Live the Gospel and Restore the World

"What Lyons gives us here, in spades and with proof texts, is the good news about the state of the Good News in tomorrow's America. Those who have despaired that even the label `Christian' might be tarnished beyond credibility, much less affection an...

How to Live the Gospel and Restore the World

"What Lyons gives us here, in spades and with proof texts, is the good news about the state of the Good News in tomorrow's America. Those who have despaired that even the label `Christian' might be tarnished beyond credibility, much less affection an...

How to Live the Gospel and Restore the World

"What Lyons gives us here, in spades and with proof texts, is the good news about the state of the Good News in tomorrow's America. Those who have despaired that even the label `Christian' might be tarnished beyond credibility, much less affection an...