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The Pocket Contemplative

Finding Faith in a Secular Age (with Andrew Root)

As Dave Schmelzer and Vince Brackett talked about in a recent episode, faith looks very different than it did a few hundred years back–and even than it did sixty years back. Professor Andrew Root–who was Vince’s enthusiastic teacher on the subject–walks us into some of the ins and outs of what this looks and feels like.

Faith Formation in a Secular Age: Responding to the Church’s Obsession with Youthfulness, by Andrew Root, the first in a series of books about living in a secular age as seen through the eyes of Charles Taylor and Hartmut Rosa.

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Shifting Culture

Episode 128: Andrew Root

Andy joins us for the third time! The first two conversations were great and you can go back and listen to those after you listen to this one.

Andrew Root and I have a great discussion around his new book The Church in the Age of Secular Mysticisms. Because we live with an utter buffet of spiritualities and we have our choice of what we use to transform us and because we live in the age of the self in which everything has to go through the self, we are caught in tension and we have become guilt saturated. Not because we live under the should have God’s commands, but because we could have been better. We have let ourselves down. This leads to more depression and anxiety. So, we try and fix ourselves. Andy argues a couple of things here that we get into: Memoirists are the new mystics and they point the way to transformation, and all of our conflicts are not polarized in two directions, but they are triangulated. There are three points of conflict. What are they? You have to listen to find out.

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8.3.23 Beardcast with Andrew Root

This week on the Beardcast we sat down with Andrew Root to talk about his latest 

When Church Stops Working: A Future for Your Congregation beyond More Money, Programs, and Innovation

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New Creation Conversations

NEW CREATION CONVERSATIONS 093 – DR. ANDREW ROOT ON WHEN CHURCH STOPS WORKING

Welcome to episode ninety-three of New Creation Conversations. It is fun for me to bring you a third conversation with one of my favorite authors and scholars, Dr. Andrew Root. Andy is Professor and Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary. Andy has written several books on ministry and spiritual formation. I’ve had him on the podcast twice to talk about his incredible series on ministry and formation in the secular age.

Our conversation today centers on his most recent book in that series When the Church Stops Working: A Future for Your Congregation beyond More Money, Programs, and Innovation (published by Brazos Press and co-authored with Blair Bertrand). For those of you who are unfamiliar with the secular series, you will love the book because it is a wonderful summary of the key insights of the entire series. For those of you who have read all or parts of the series, you will love this book because it not only summarizes the series but also gives some very practical responses to the work Andy has done in the other books. It also is a great book for you to give to those friends you’ve tried to describe the series to, but never could find quite the right words. I am a big fan of Andy’s work and love getting to talk with him about it. And I love that I have this format to share the conversation with you. 

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Ep. 113 Andrew Root-When CHurch Stops Working

In this episode, Andrew Root talks about his latest book When Church Stops Working, and he answers the question why isn’t innovation the answer? He talks through waiting for the Spirit’s leading, paying attention to our stories, being witnesses to the acts of God, and sitting with the sorrows of our neighbors.

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Shifting Culture podcast

In this episode, Andrew Root talks about his latest book When Church Stops Working, and he answers the question why isn’t innovation the answer? He talks through waiting for the Spirit’s leading, paying attention to our stories, being witnesses to the acts of God, and sitting with the sorrows of our neighbors.

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The Honest Theology Podcast

Season 3, Episode 3

I’ve been keeping tabs on Andy’s work for long time and when I was deciding on the theme for this season, he was the FIRST person I thought of to have on the show! Andrew (Andy) is the Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He’s written a plethora of books regarding ministry (youth and all around) in the current climate, post-modernity and post-Christendom and we talk a lot about what it means that churches are “in decline” and what the mission of The Church is.

Fuller Studio

Time, Teaching, and Theology

Andrew Root explores historical and modern understandings of the relationship between the passing of time and embodiment, reflecting on the ways in which these views impact present-day education and congregational life. Andrew Root is the Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary.

Church and Main

Episode 142: Church and the Crisis of Decline with Andrew RootWhat if the crisis is not about decline but about something deeper?

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Future Christian

Andrew Root on the Dangers of Self-Expression and Innovation Obsession

Are you feeling the pressure to constantly innovate and be competitive in both work and daily life? Do you ever wonder if this focus on innovation is truly necessary for good ministry, or if it is simply a response to the fear of decline? In this episode of the Future Christian Podcast, we talk with Andrew Root about innovation in the church, the limits of creativity and singularity, and the dangers of making the church the start of it’s own story. More, we also talk about how the constant demand for pastors to be creative and innovative pushes them toward behaving more as a manager and less as a pastor.