Doing Good: A future for Christianity

Dec 26, 2016 by

from Theos:

Today we’re publishing our ten year anniversary report. It’s a few months late – it should have appeared in early November – but what’s a month here or there when you’re talking about a decade?

Those blessed souls who have been following us since the dark days of 2006, when the New Atheism hurricane threatened to sweep all before it and faith was widely judged a virus, will recognise the title of our new report, Doing Good, is a deliberate echo of our inaugural essay, Doing God.

That publication set out a series of reasons why we would see more of “faith” in public discourse and life over coming years and, while I would like to claim the mantle of a prophet (crying in the post-modern wilderness), you didn’t need a crystal ball or personal access to the Spirit of God to get that one right. Faith is still here, banging on and on, as it does.

So as not to reinvent wheels, Doing Good is about Christianity, not “faith”.

[Editor’s note – this last sentence is an interesting reversal of the title, which implies that the future for Christianity in the West is ‘doing good’ with a bit of Jesus and worship thrown in, but privately, not in the workplace obviously! What does the author think? I look forward to reading the report!]

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