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A Letter to My Congregation (Paperback)
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"This is a breakthrough work coming from the heart of evangelical
Christianity and offered into the heart of evangelical
Christianity," writes David P. Gushee, the prolific Christian
author and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at
Mercer University. In describing this book, Gushee continues: "It
is unlike other books that demand revision of traditional Christian
sexual ethics but do so primarily by rejecting the authority of the
Bible. That is not how evangelicals think, and it is not what Ken
Wilson does here. Instead Wilson shows how God has led him on a
journey toward a rethinking of what the fully authoritative and
inspired Bible ought to be taken to mean in the life of the church
today." "This is a remarkable and timely book," writes Tanya
Luhrmann, an author about contemporary religious life and the
Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology
Department. "It is clear to an observer like me that evangelical
Christianity is at a crossroad. ... That problem is the broad and
widening gap between evangelical Christianity and its young. ...
The book you hold is a passionate and courageous argument. Many
people will not like it. But they should read it and weigh whether
it is true, because more hangs on the argument than the fate of gay
marriage within evangelical Christianity. At its heart, this book
asks Christians to rethink what God and scripture may be saying
about what it means to be a good and decent person. The answer to
that question will shape what the church becomes in twenty years."
Best-selling author and journalist Phyllis Tickle, an expert on
religion widely quoted in news media, says of this book: "We
Christians ...rarely think of our clergy as men and women who
routinely spend agonizing hours and days and weeks pouring
studiously over sacred texts in relentless, on-going attempts to
penetrate the mysteries contained there, to discover their wisdom,
their instruction, their relevance, and to consider the means and
repercussions of their implementation within our here and now. ...
This is midrash. ... And in the pages that follow, we have before
us one of the most exquisite, painful, candid, brilliant pieces of
contemporary Christian midrash that I have ever seen."
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