Latest Read: The Next Christians

The Book: 
In The Next Christians: The Good News About the End of Christian America, Gabe Lyons offers a compelling vision (visionary in the best sense, I think, not a cheap one) of what life could be like for Christians living in a postmodern, pluralistic, post-Christian America.  He pictures everyday people who bring restoration to all areas of life, who are "provoked, not offended; creators, not critics; called, not employed; grounded, not distracted; in community, not alone; countercultural, not relevant."

Why I liked it:
It's straightforward and rich with examples of people who are really changing things around them for the better.  It's honest about America being no longer a Christian nation, and instead of bemoaning this fact, it gives a plausible, optimistic roadmap of what we can actually do.  It manages to be both realistic and hopeful, and it gives me hope.

More like this:
The Restorers, real people described in the book who are "creating culture that confronts the brokenness of our world."
unChristian, Lyons's first book, a study of American Christianity's image problem.