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First Wednesday of the Month: 10:30 AM - Noon
May 5: 10:30 AM
Do you feel pressured by the speed of change in modern life? Living in late modernity means our lives are constantly accelerated, and calls for change in the church often support this call to speed up. Many congregations are simply unable to keep up, which leads to burnout and depression. Author and professor Andrew Root joins our ministerium this month to explore whether the recent push toward innovation in churches has led to an acceleration of congregational life that strips the sacred out of time.
Andrew Root, PhD is the Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary. He is most recently the author of three volume Ministry in a Secular Age series (The Congregation in a Secular Age, The Pastor in a Secular Age, and Faith Formation in a Secular Age), and The End of Youth Ministry?. He has also authored Christopraxis: A Practical Theology of the Cross (Fortress, 2014) and Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker (Baker, 2014).