Reading for the common good : how books help our churches and neighborhoods flourish /
C. Christopher Smith ; foreword by Scot McKnight.
- 176 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
The local church as learning organization -- Slow reading in accelerating times -- Shaping the social imagination -- Reading and our congregational identity -- Discerning our call -- Reading with our neighbors -- Deepening our roots in our neighborhoods -- Hope for our interconnected creation -- Toward faithful engagement in economics and politics -- Becoming a reading congregation -- Revive us again.
9780830844494
2016010691
Church. Christian life. Christians--Books and reading. Christians--Learning and scholarship.