Finding our Voice

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Beneath all the anxieties about church decline and strategies and restructures to reverse that this book speaks to a problem that has not been addressed - the widespread disinterest in the church and the church's inability to capture the public imagination or to be relevant. It argues that the church needs to recover a sense of authenticity - in the gospel it believes in the vision of human flourishing it promotes in its place within a multicultural society in its primary vocation to serve society and not be its moral guardian. It calls on all kinds of resources that can help refresh the church's self-expression - in engagement with art music and poetry in searching for better language (drawing on people like Barbara Brown Taylor Padraig O Tuama and George MacLeod) through biblical stories that resonate with the Scottish experience through meaningful engagement with communities and with the landscape and more.</span></p>