Jonathan Storment: 3 books

What is left of the Gospel if you take away the cross? This central question, asked by C. L. Loos but tucked away in a nineteenth-century journal, launched The Cruciform Church twenty-five years ago. Read by a generation of ministers and church leaders, The Cruciform Church began a reimagination...

You Can Help Bring Heaven to Earth God so loved the world, and he still does. He values his creation too much to destroy it. If you know where to look, you can see that the coming of a new heaven and a new earth already has begun. Life on earth is renewed every time you live out Jesus’s prayer...

A story about shipwrecks, snakebites, beatings, meetings, and other church events. When was the last time you saw crowd control at a church? If you ask most people--at least Western people--what they think about Christianity, they will probably give you a pretty domesticated vision of church. Almost...