Ryan Ahlgrim

Sick Religion or Healthy Faith?

Beliefs and Practices for Healing Christian Communities

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Is it time to get rid of religion? Not so fast, says Ryan Ahlgrim. It's time for us to define and demand healthy faith. Despite the dysfunction and divisiveness seen too often in religion, we continue to need a community of love, and we yearn for a transcendent encounter that can heal us. So instead of abandoning religion, Ahlgrim outlines twelve characteristics of a healthy religious community, and describes what a healthy Christian community of faith believes and practices. Along the way he reveals the power of story, the genius of Jesus, and the path to wholeness. In the end we are faced with the most daring and fulfilling choice of all: t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4982-8080-8
EAN: 9781498280808
Produktnummer: 30240294
Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 168 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 394 KB

Über den Autor

Ryan Ahlgrim is pastor of First Mennonite Church of Richmond (Virginia). With over thirty years of pastoral experience, he has served as a youth pastor, assistant pastor, church planter, and lead pastor of a multi-staff church. A graduate of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (MDiv) and McCormick Theological Seminary (DMin), he has written dozens of articles, authored a book on preaching, Not as the Scribes: Jesus as a Model for Prophetic Preaching, and taught college and seminary courses and webinars. A history buff, movie critic, and hiker, he enjoys museums, theaters, and waterfalls. He and his wife, Laurie, have two grown children.