Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus Leadership and Missions Includes Benjamin West

Includes Benjamin West

Because we are not an engine creating Love

lo moribundo que cría muerte — que hay que sanear para que dé frutos de salud y vida

January 1962

Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus Leadership and Missions Includes Benjamin WestThe church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our doctrine and our piety with great vigilance. But we often fail to notice how quickly we're capitulating, in the structures and practices of our churches, to a culture of unreflective speed, dehumanizing efficiency and dis integrating isolationism. In the beginning, the church ate