On this week’s podcast, Madeleine Davies moderates a discussion between Andy Root and Nick Shepherd about faith and doubt in a secular age.
In a wide-ranging discussion, they talk about issues such as attendance stats, the lack of children and young people in churches, what to make of religious experience, and how to minister in a secular age.
Dr Andy Root is Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, and the author of Faith Formation in a Secular Age, published by Baker at £13.99 (Church Times Bookshop £12.60).
Dr Nick Shepherd, the director of Setting God’s People Free, the Renewal and Reform programme that explores how the Church “helps the whole people of God serve God’s mission in God’s world”.
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