As the church grapples with unsettling transformations—both within and without—how are we to faithfully follow the Spirit into the future? Drawing on fresh research as well as his experience guiding cohorts of missional leaders, Dr. James will unpack the promise of local ecumenical kinship, discernment and collaboration as a praxis through which God fosters the imagination and hope that open good futures.
About Rev. Dr. Chris James
Rev. Dr. Christopher B. James is Professor of Evangelism and Missional Christianity at University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, where he also directs the Master of Arts in Mission and Discipleship. A practical theologian, missiologist and pastor, Dr. James brings deep insight into the life of the church in today’s rapidly changing cultural landscape. He holds a PhD in Practical Theology from Boston University School of Theology, with a dual concentration in Church & Society and Evangelism, as well as degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary (M.Div) and Wheaton College (B.A.). He also holds a certificate in Christian Spiritual Formation from the Renovaré Institute and a certificate in International Mission and Ecumenism from the Boston Theological Institute.
Rev. Dr. James also leads Missio Cohorts and Madison Learning Community, grant-funded initiatives through which he cultivates diverse communities of missional leaders as they develop local, ecumenical kinship, discernment and collaboration.
Rev. Dr. James is the author of Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil: Theology and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2017), an award-winning exploration of emerging forms of Christian community in North America. He is currently writing Reseeding Church, a call for the church in the West to abandon false hopes rooted in human ingenuity and instead cooperate with the God who is already seeding a new future for the church in the West.
Through his teaching, writing, and project leadership, Dr. James seeks to equip God’s people in the West to faithfully follow the Spirit’s lead through our ongoing change of epoch.
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