Church Now Cafe is Coming! Andy Root Returns

Andy Root returns to Church Now Cafe on August 5-6 leading conversations focused on the insights of his new book The Church in an Age of Secular Mysticisms (see description from Amazon below). Last year Andy masterfully led the Cafe through our secular age and provoked great conversation and insights into church leadership. This summer promises to be more of the same—especially with Andy’s insights into what’s causing divisions in churches and ways to imagine a different future.

More information will be coming in the next couple of months—but for now, save the date for another critical time of conversation.

The Cafe will convene at Pillar Church in Holland. 

From Amazon:

Post-Christian life and society do not eliminate a desire for the transcendent; rather, they create an environment for new and divergent spiritual communities and practices to flourish. We are flooded with spiritualities that appeal to human desires for nonreligious personal transformation. But many fail to deliver because they fall into the trap of the self.

In the last book of the Ministry in a Secular Age series, leading practical theologian Andrew Root shows the differences between these spiritualities and authentic Christian transformation. He explores the dangers of following or adapting these reigning mysticisms and explains why the self has become so important yet is burdened with guilt—and how we should think about both. To help us understand our confusing cultural landscape, he maps spiritualities using twenty of the best memoirs from 2015 to 2020 in which "secular mystics" promote their mystical and transformational pathways. Root concludes with a more excellent way—even a mysticism—centered on the theology of the cross that pastors and leaders can use to form their own imaginations and practices.