A powerful case for reclaiming Christian community as a powerful act of resistance in a chaotic and disconnected age.
In a world marked by social fragmentation, spiritual disorientation, and ecological strain, what does it mean for the church to exist, much less to matter? Zink calls readers to reimagine the church's vocation as a people bearing faithful witness in a time of unraveling. At its core is a striking claim: ours is an apocalyptic age--not only catastrophic but revealing. The crises surrounding us expose the powers shaping everyday life, laying bare the illusions we inhabit and the limits of the church in its familiar forms.
Drawing on Scripture, theology, and popular cultural insight, Zink describes this moment with clarity while pushing toward transformation. He envisions the church not as an institution clinging to survival, but as a community of resistance: a group of people woven together in interdependent relationships by God who embody an alternative way of life that resists the values, pressures, and powers of the world simply by faithfully living as God's people.
Praise for Faithful, Creative, Hopeful: 15 Theses for Christians in a Crisis-Shaped World:
"In Faithful, Creative, Hopeful, [Zink] demonstrates how what we believe and how we witness to it can renew the Church and contribute to the flourishing of human societies. Following Luther's example, he offers 15 theses, bringing together scripture, liturgy, and the lived experience of the Church in varied contexts, to show an alternative to a world based on neoliberal capitalism. Much of this is rooted in the life of the local congregation and the relationship with their given community, which will please those working 'to save the parish.'" --Church Times
