Two Questions: Andrew Root
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An infected person with a glowing green hand touches others who then contract glowing green hands, and who each pass along the glowing green infection to another and then another. This is often how we believe suffering operates. We implicitly assume it’s passed on like an infection, like the green hand. Youth ministry has historically…
Love for Our Children in the Time of Covid-19 WHEN my latest book was published last month, my publisher and I thought that its title — The End of Youth Ministry? — would be provocative enough to draw attention. We never thought that it would be prophetic. Now, a few weeks into the pandemic, for most congregations…
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Faith Formation in a Secular Age On this week’s podcast, Madeleine Davies moderates a discussion between Andy Root and Nick Shepherd about faith and doubt in a secular age. In a wide-ranging discussion, they talk about issues such as attendance stats, the lack of children and young people in churches, what to make of religious…
Andrew Root: Life Together in Turmoil & Bonhoeffer’s Experiment in Community In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Andrew Root. We discuss Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his time in the experimental underground seminary at Finkenwalde. This community became a site for him to enact his broader theological and ethical intuitions in community. We unpack the significance…