A worldly spirituality: The call to redeem life on earth

Granberg-Michaelson, Wesley

Religion & Spirituality

Harper&Row

From Billy Graham to a Trappist monastery, from Capitol Hill to the helm of the Reformed Church in America, Wesley Granberg-Michaelson’s personal pilgrimage has covered the length and breadth of Christianity in America. Now, drawing upon forty years of his own spiritual journals, this elder statesman of the church crystallizes his wide-ranging experiences into a sharp, lively memoir. Unexpected Destinations reveals a unique encounter with evangelical piety, Catholic contemplative spirituality, Reformed theology, Pentecostal practice, and ecumenical efforts ― an encounter that dares to envision unity between all these strands of Christianity. It provides fresh historical insights into the evangelical subculture of the 1970s, sheds new light on how denominations today grapple inwardly with such issues as homosexuality and missional renewal, and poignantly relates the joy and pain of one man’s spiritual life journey. Watch the trailer:

Unexpected Destinations: An Evangelical Pilgrimage to World Christianity

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Eerdmans

In the last century, amazingly, world Christianity's center of gravity has effectively moved from Europe to a point near Timbuktu in Africa. Never in the history of Christianity has there been such a rapid and dramatic shift in where Christians are located in the world. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson explores the consequences of this shift for congregations in North America, specifically for the efforts to build Christian unity in the face of new and challenging divisions. Centers of religious power, money, and theological capital remain entrenched in the global, secularized North while the Christian majority thrives and rapidly grows in the global South. World Christianity's most decisive twenty-first-century challenge, Granberg-Michaelson argues, is to build meaningful bridges between faithful churches in the global North and the spiritually exuberant churches of the global South. Watch the trailer:

From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church

History

World

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Innovative spiritual practices that establish the foundation for durable, missional change
Many congregations recognize their need to bring about change in order to become or remain vital, both spiritually and organizationally. They have a sense of what they need, and what might keep them from changing. But they don’t know how to change.
How Change Comes to Your Church draws on the practical experience, stories, and examples from two experienced church leaders. Patrick Keifert and Wesley Granberg-Michaelson have helped scores of congregations as well as larger denominational organizations identify key elements that are a necessary part of transformational change.
Rather than a superficial approach with a simplistic formula, How Change Comes to Your Churchfocuses on the important work of changing church culture, with innovative spiritual practices that establish the foundation for durable, missional change.

How Change Comes to Your Church: A Guidebook for Church Innovations

Keifert, Patrick

Christian Books & Bibles

This book offers a series of 31 short and memorable reflections on Christian leadership by one of the premier churchman in the country. The author draws from his remarkable experience in government, private industry, and church life to show how Chrisitian values can inform the daily decisions everyone in business must make.

Leadership from Inside Out: Spirituality and Organizational Change

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Crossroad Publishing

Redeeming the Creation - The Rio Earth Summit -- Challenges for the Churches

Redeeming the Creation: The Rio Earth Summit: Challenges for the Churches-#55 (Risk Book Series)

World Council of Churches

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