RATING: 8/10 Summary: New parish is a call to churches and parishioners to return to an incarnational and missional lifestyle. It effectively highlights the problem that consumerism problem that many churches face and offers patterns of living that can restore much of what our culture has lost.
Spent Matches By Roy Moran
The Abundant Community By: John McKnight & Peter Block
RATING: 9/10 Summary: This is a powerful book that examines and challenges the foundations of our consumeristic culture. The authors keen insights probe into the tenets of capitalism and how that has shaped and continues to influence our community culture. I found myself resonating with most of what they wrote and yearning for something different...a return to a community of abundance and cooperation.