“I used to recommend the first edition to all the leaders, pastors, church planters, and students I could. I will now require the second edition for all I work with. This is a crucial read.”

- Cam Roxburgh, Senior Pastor of Southside Community Church, National Director of Forge Canada,

Christ’s followers were accused of turning the world upside down (Acts 17:6). Murray explores Church and mission in this second expanded edition. Christians in the Christendom years, he argues, failed in key ways to turn the world upside down: from Constantine’s befriending of the faith to the 1960s. Rather, they teamed up with the powers-that-be; focused too much on the Old Testament; neglected the Gospels, moved Jesus out from the centre; practised a coercive style of mission instead of learning from the language and culture of their ‘victims’; and were warlike and vicious to their ‘enemies’ within the faith. Christendom is dying but in Post-Christendom ‘a new and dynamic Christianity could arise from its ashes’. Our past shapes our present and may jeopardise our future unless we come to terms with it. Murray begs us to be humble and work willingly on the margins of society, with the poor and other minorities; to be countercultural, questioning the status quo; and truly radical and imaginative towards the majority in the western world who reject the faith. He has turned my understanding of church history upside down, and made me think again, especially about preaching and its current limitations.

- Jeremy Harvey, The Reader, Winter edition