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  • Reciprocal Church: Becoming a Community Where Faith Flourishes Beyond High School, By Sharon Galgay Ketcham
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    Reciprocal Church

    Becoming a Community Where Faith Flourishes Beyond High School

    by Sharon Galgay Ketcham

    The church faces an unprecedented loss of rising generations. Young adults who were active and engaged in the local church are leaving the community behind after high school. What can we do? Sharon Galgay Ketcham reflects theologically on the church community and its role in forming faith, offering values and practices that can shape a community into a place where faith will flourish in those both young and old.

  • Happy Church: Pursuing Radical Joy as the People of God, By Tim McConnell
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    Happy Church

    Pursuing Radical Joy as the People of God

    by Tim McConnell
    Foreword by John Ortberg

    Has your church lost its sense of gladness? Most Christians resist the idea of pursuing happiness. We're comfortable with finding joy or being blessed, but seeking happiness seems too superficial. Offering a radical call to reclaim happiness, Tim McConnell shares his countercultural vision for radiating a deep sense of joy in a world that desperately needs it.

  • The Good and Beautiful Community: Following the Spirit, Extending Grace, Demonstrating Love, By James Bryan Smith The Good and Beautiful Community: Following the Spirit, Extending Grace, Demonstrating Love, By James Bryan Smith
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    The Good and Beautiful Community

    Following the Spirit, Extending Grace, Demonstrating Love

    The Good and Beautiful Series

    by James Bryan Smith

    In this Good and Beautiful Series book, James Bryan Smith helps you to live in relationship with others as apprentices of Jesus. He shows how to bring spiritual formation and community engagement together, and he offers spiritual practices that root new, true narratives about God and the world in your soul.

  • Finding Freedom in Constraint: Reimagining Spiritual Disciplines as a Communal Way of Life, By Jared Patrick Boyd
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    Finding Freedom in Constraint

    Reimagining Spiritual Disciplines as a Communal Way of Life

    by Jared Patrick Boyd
    Foreword by Todd Hunter

    The constraints of the spiritual life, practiced in community, are what set us free and shape us into the way of Christ. Re-anchoring spiritual practices within monasticism, religious orders, and the early church fathers, these six core practices from Jared Patrick Boyd form in us greater freedom to become people who love as God loves.

  • Blessed Are the Nones: Mixed-Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community, By Stina Kielsmeier-Cook
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    Blessed Are the Nones

    Mixed-Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community

    by Stina Kielsmeier-Cook

    When her husband left Christianity several years into their marriage, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook was left struggling to live the Christian life on her own. In this memoir, she tells the story of her mixed-faith marriage and how she found unexpected community with an order of Catholic nuns, discovering that she was not "spiritually single" after all—and that no one really is.

  • Pursuing God's Will Together: A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups, By Ruth Haley Barton
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    Pursuing God's Will Together

    A Discernment Practice for Leadership Groups

    Transforming Resources

    by Ruth Haley Barton

    Church boards and other Christian leadership teams have long relied on secular models for leadership practice. Ruth Haley Barton, president of the Transforming Center, helps teams transition to a much more fitting model—the spiritual community that practices discernment together.

  • Breaking the Huddle: How Your Community Can Grow Its Witness, By Don Everts and Doug Schaupp and Val Gordon
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    Breaking the Huddle

    How Your Community Can Grow Its Witness

    by Don Everts, Doug Schaupp, and Val Gordon

    Most Christians are stuck in the huddle, focusing on our own needs and limiting our relationships with outsiders. Don Everts, Doug Schaupp and Val Gordon explain how our churches can become conversion communities, where evangelistic growth becomes the new normal and the whole community itself becomes a winsome, thriving witness to those around it.

  • Enhancing Christian Life: How Extended Cognition Augments Religious Community, By Brad D. Strawn and Warren S. Brown
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    Enhancing Christian Life

    How Extended Cognition Augments Religious Community

    by Brad D. Strawn and Warren S. Brown

    It's time to rethink the Christian life in light of current research on the human mind, particularly with a deeper understanding of "extended cognition." Using insights from neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, Brad Strawn and Warren Brown argue for a vision of the Christian life as extended into interactions with a local network of believers.