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Wisdom from Babylon: Leadership for the Church in a Secular Age is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does it mean to provide leadership for the church in an increasingly secular context? When religion is privatized and secularism reigns in the public square, Christians are often drawn toward either individualist escapism or constant cultural warfare. But might this context instead offer a fresh invitation for the church to adapt and thrive? Gordon Smith is passionate about the need for...

that the faith is being lived. And it is in this context that Smith, in response to Taylor, is asking the necessary questions: What does belief look like now? How is the faith communicated and taught? And, How does faith formation happen—for this generation?25 In the remainder of this section, I will highlight two things that emerge from Taylor and Smith. More could be said, but at the very least these two realities need to be identified. . Taylor notes that we now live in a world that
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