Losing our religion : an altar call for evangelical America
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[New York, New York] : Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023].
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256 pages ; 24 cm
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[New York, New York] : Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023].
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"Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repentance and renewal in American evangelicalism. American evangelical Christianity has lost its way. While the witness of the church before a watching world is diminished beyond recognition, congregations are torn apart over Donald Trump, Christian nationalism, racial injustice, sexual predation, disgraced leaders, and covered-up scandals. Left behind are millions of believers who counted on the church to be a place of belonging and hope. As greater and greater numbers of younger Americans bleed out from the church, even the most rooted evangelicals are wondering, "Can American Christianity survive?" In Losing Our Religion, Russell Moore calls his fellow evangelical Christians to conversion over culture wars, to truth over tribalism, to the gospel over politics, to integrity over influence, and to renewal over nostalgia. With both prophetic honesty and pastoral love, Moore offers a word of counsel for how a new generation of disillusioned and exhausted believers can find a path forward after the crisis and confusion of the last several years. Believing the gospel is too important to leave it to hucksters and grifters, he shows how a Christian can avoid both cynicism and complicity in order to imagine a different, hopeful vision for the church. The altar call of the old evangelical revivals was both a call to repentance and the offer of a new start. In the same way, this book invites unmoored and discouraged Christians to step out into an uncertain future, first by letting go of the kind of cultural, politicized, status quo Christianity that led us to this moment of reckoning. Only when we see how lost we are, we can find our way again. Only when we bury what's dead can we experience life again. Only when we lose our religion can we be amazed by grace again"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Moore, R. (2023). Losing our religion: an altar call for evangelical America . Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Moore, Russell, 1971-. 2023. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America. Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Moore, Russell, 1971-. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023.

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Moore, Russell. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023.

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