A Conspiracy of Love: Following Jesus in a Postmodern World

Before there were worshippers of Jesus there were followers of Jesus. Before there were organized churches with creeds and doctrines there were small communities of love equality and sharing dedicated to the practice of Jesus teachings and committed to a wholly new way of living. Today the churches of the Global North are in decline and younger generations no longer seek meaning there. Traditional church Christianity is gradually giving way to some new way of faithful living. From a Nazi prison cell German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer imagined a future religionless Christianity consisting of contemplative prayer and righteous action in the secular world. A Conspiracy of Love presents the contours of such a faith based on the way of Jesus. It calls us to become troublemakers revolutionaries seekers of change and agents of transformation engaged in conspiracies of love to establish justice and peace in a postmodern world. It offers many different people--those who remain in the church those who have left and those who have never ventured near--with a life of faith that is meaningful intelligent and passionate. Kurt Struckmeyer is a writer theologian and founder of the Mustard Seed School of Theology.