Dear Church Book Club
Wednesdays at 5 PM MST from 8/19-9/30.
|Our Virtual Lounge
This Fall we will be reading Dear Church by Lenny Duncan, a Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the United States. We meet every Wednesday at 5 PM MST from August 19 through September 30.
Date and Time
Wednesdays at 5 PM MST from 8/19-9/30.
Our Virtual Lounge
About the Event
Katie Martin will be leading us in a journey through the book Dear Church by Lenny Duncan.
Dear Church is a Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the United States.
"Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Shifting demographics and shrinking congregations make all the headlines, but Duncan sees something else at work--drawing a direct line between the church's lack of diversity and the church's lack of vitality. The problems the ELCA faces are theological, not sociological. But so are the answers.
Part manifesto, part confession, and all love letter, Dear Church offers a bold new vision for the future of Duncan's denomination and the broader mainline Christian community of faith. Dear Church rejects the narrative of church decline and calls everyone--leaders…