Recommended Reading
Faith as a Way of Life: A Vision for Pastoral Leadership, by Christian Scharen, is scheduled for release this month from Wm. B. Eerdman's Publishing.
The book was written as part of Faith as a Way of Life, a Sustaining Pastoral Excellence project at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale Divinity School. Scharen served as the project’s director and will join the faculty of Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., this summer.
With a foreword by Miroslav Volf, the book explores the failure of Christian ministry to effectively proclaim the transforming power of God’s gift of faith in the daily lives of disciples.
“Scharen articulates a vision of pastoral leadership grounded in substantive faith language,” reads the book description. “He examines other powerful languages in our culture — emotion-driven therapeutic and results-driven managerial models of leadership — and shows how their domination leads to faith becoming a weak sibling. Highlighting concrete examples of excellent pastoral leadership in action, Scharen offers creative, practical theological reflection on how faith can truly inform our family life, our work, our politics, our leisure — literally all of life — and how pastoral leaders of all kinds can foster faith as a way of life.”
The book is scheduled to ship June 16.
Order it online at Eerdman’s or Amazon.
