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The Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

Churches often realize they need to change. But if they’re not careful, the way they change can hurt more than help. In this culmination of his well-received Ministry in a Secular Age trilogy, leading practical theologian Andrew Root offers a new paradigm for understanding the congregation in contemporary ministry. He articulates why it is so hard for congregations to change and encourages an...

in 2016 under the title The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age. In this book, the sociologist argues that depression is an ailment of speed, the feeling of not being able to keep up. Like Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, Ehrenberg’s project is a genealogy. As we’ve seen in the first two volumes of this Ministry in a Secular Age series, Taylor’s genealogy traces modernity’s movement into unbelief. Exploring our cultural history, Taylor shows how it was
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