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God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams is unavailable, but you can change that!

Here is the much-anticipated sequel to David F. Wells’ widely praised book No Place for Truth, which garnered multiple “Book of the Year” awards from Christianity Today. Building on the trenchant cultural and religious analyses of evangelical Protestantism set forth in his first volume, Wells argues in God in the Wasteland that the church is now enfeebled because it has lost its sense of God’s...

faith is faltering because it is not efficient enough, for example, or because it is not appealing enough, because it has not adapted itself adequately to the inner needs of those in the modern world. It is thus that many are stepping forward as managers or psychologists in Christ’s name, and for the good of the church, to address the world. It is one of the remarkable features of contemporary church life that so many are attempting to heal the church by tinkering with its structures, its services,
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