Part 1. Depressed congregations. The church and the depressing speed of change
Speeding to the good life, crashing into guilt: why $1.6 billion isńђةt as good as you think
Fullness as busyness: why busy churches attract and then lose busy people
The strip show: when sacred time is no longer the time we keep
Part 2. Examining congregational despondency: our issue is time. When time isńђةt what it used to be: what́ђةs speeding up time?
When brains explode: dimension one: technological acceleration
Minding the time: why the church feels socially behind: dimension two: acceleration of social life (part one)
Why The office cańђةt be rebooted: the decay rate of social change: dimension two: acceleration of social life (part two)
When sex and work are in a fast present: the church and the decay rate of our social structures: dimension two: acceleration of social life (part three)
Why email sucks, and social media even more: reach and acceleration: dimension three: acceleration of the pace of life (part one)
Reach and the seculars: dimension three: acceleration of the face of life (part two)
Part 3. Moving from relevance to resonance. Time-famine and resource obsession: another step into alienation
Why the slow church cańђةt work: stabilization, alienation, and loss of the congregational will to be
Alienatiońђةs other: resonance
When Bonhoeffer time travels: resonance as carrying the child
To become a child: Matthew 18 and the congregation that is carried
Ending with a little erotic ecstasy.
