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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...

sections as I placed notes met some threshold of creativity for me, at least on this day, impacting my experience of time.) Ironically or not, the question that has driven all three of these volumes revolves around time. In the preface to volume 1, I started with a story about the change in time through the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar. Each of these volumes has asked, What time are we in? We’ve answered, following Charles Taylor, that our time is a secular one. But to call it secular is to
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