Sick Religion or Healthy Faith?: Beliefs and Practices for Healing Christian Communities

By Ryan Ahlgrim

Book Overview

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: to embrace a community of love that trusts in God.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498280811
• ISBN13: 9781498280815
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"