Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith beyond the Baggage of Western Culture
Western culture is in a tailspin and our Christian faith is entangled in it: we do Kingdom things in Empire ways. Our Western approaches to faith leave us feeling depressed, doubting, anxious, and burned out. We know something is wrong with the way we do faith and church in the West but we’re so steeped in it, we don’t know where to begin to break old habits.
We need detox from the deeply ingrained habits of Western culture so we can do Kingdom things in Kingdom ways again. We can be transformed by new postures and habits that help us see God already at work in and around us. The way forward isn’t more ideas, programs, and problem solving but in Jesus’s surprising invitation to the kingdom through childlikeness. Ultimately, rediscovering childlike habits is a way to remember how to be human.
Unfettered helps us reimagine how to follow God with our whole selves again and join with God’s mission in the world.
More conversations about childlikeness & the western church here.
Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith beyond the Baggage of Western Culture
Western culture is in a tailspin and our Christian faith is entangled in it: we do Kingdom things in Empire ways. Our Western approaches to faith leave us feeling depressed, doubting, anxious, and burned out. We know something is wrong with the way we do faith and church in the West but we’re so steeped in it, we don’t know where to begin to break old habits.
We need detox from the deeply ingrained habits of Western culture so we can do Kingdom things in Kingdom ways again. We can be transformed by new postures and habits that help us see God already at work in and around us. The way forward isn’t more ideas, programs, and problem solving but in Jesus’s surprising invitation to the kingdom through childlikeness. Ultimately, rediscovering childlike habits is a way to remember how to be human.
Unfettered helps us reimagine how to follow God with our whole selves again and join with God’s mission in the world.
More conversations about childlikeness & the western church here.
“Do not, dear reader, take up this book unless you intend to be changed, because this book concerns emancipatory transformation. In poetic idiom Mandy Smith has written a narrative account of her wondrous awakening to the gifts of freedom and grace in her life that have taken her by surprise. Her quite personal account is intended as an invitation and a summons to her readers that they, like the author, might come to live differently in the world….This book is a powerfully compelling good word to the church in our society–evangelical and liberal—that has largely exhausted its old endowments.”
– Walter Brueggemann