Reframing Hope
Vital Ministry in a New Generation
1st Edition
Published on 23. August 2010
147 pages
978-1-56699-619-8 (ISBN)
Description
Much has been written about the changing landscape the church finds itself in, and even more about the church's waning influence in our culture. From her vantage point as an under-40 pastor, Carol Howard Merritt, author of Tribal Church, moves away from the handwringing toward a discovery of what ministry in, with, and by a new generation might look like. What does the substance of hope look like right now? What does hope look like when it is framed in a new generation? Motivated by these questions, Merritt writes Reframing Hope with the understanding that we are not creating from nothing the vital ministry of the next generation. Instead, we are working through what we have, sorting out the best parts, acknowledging and healing from the worst, and reframing it all.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-1-56699-619-8 (9781566996198)
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Book
08/2010
Alban Institute, Inc
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Person
Carol Howard Merritt is a pastor at Western Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. and the author of Tribal Church: Ministering to the Missing Generation. Her blog can be found at TribalChurch.org, and she co-hosts the Internet radio show, The God Complex.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- What Is the Substance of Our Hope?
- Redistributing Authority
- Re-forming Community
- Reexamining the Medium
- Retelling the Message
- Reinventing Activism
- Renewing Creation
- Retraditioning Spirituality
- Hope in the Desert
- Notes
