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2014 Viewers' Choice Honor Winner 2014 Best Catalogs About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore Fast food. Fast cars. Fast and furious. Fast ahead. Fast...church? The church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of an bygone time, dragging our foot as we're taken into new moralities and new spiritualities. We officer our doctrine and our piety with great vigilance. But we often fail to notice how quickly we're capitulating, in the buildings and practices of our own churches, to a culture of unreflective speed, dehumanizing efficiency, and disintegrating isolationism. In the beginning the church ate together, traveled together, and shared in all facets of life. Focused as they were on Jesus, these seemingly mundane activities had taken on their own value in the quest of God. In Slow Church, Chris Smith and John Pattison request us to leave franchise faith behind and enter the ecology, economy, and ethics of the kingdom of God, where people know one another well and love each other as Christ loved the church.
