Explore books that tell the stories of Invested Faith Fellows and the genesis of Invested Faith.
Holy Disruption
By Amy Butler and Dawn Darwin Weaks
Is your faith community struggling to find its way? Holy Disruption will spark your church’s imagination in ways you may never have considered. Discover individuals and communities following Jesus’ example by embracing entrepreneurial approaches to healing the world, planting seeds of hope, and building healthy community in unconventional ways - and find ways to join them. Holy Disruption is filled with stories of Invested Faith Fellows who are working to change the world.
The traditional model of church is dying. Dwindling congregations and empty buildings, while sources of grief, offer unprecedented opportunities. Holy Disruption sees this unique opportunity to embrace creativity, building a roadmap for adaptation and meaningful mission today. Discover inspiring stories of holy disruptors finding the courage to break free from conventional ideas of faith community and embrace innovative approaches to living the gospel. Social enterprise plays a critical role in this work, building sustainable businesses that support a healing world. Holy Disruption shows that you are not alone in seeking the courage to discover how your community can lead the way to new expressions of God's love.
“Holy Disruption is a workbook for faith communities ready to ask the question, what’s next? and to say to the Spirit, we are listening.”
Beautiful and Terrible Things
By Amy Butler
From one of America’s most prominent ministers comes a deeply personal memoir about the nature of faith, the inevitability of doubt, and the importance of radical love in facing all the beautiful and terrible things that happen in our lives - and including a chapter about the genesis of Invested Faith.
“When I survey the state of institutional religion today, I find so many reasons to despair. But as Amy Butler reminds us, the church is not God. Informed by her deeply personal experiences, Beautiful and Terrible Things casts a vision for a wide-armed faith that is capable of making sense of these fractious and chaotic times. She fearlessly navigates white-hot cultural debates—from abortion to LGBTQ inclusion—with grace and humility, eschewing extremes and forging common ground. If you feel spiritually unmoored or religiously disillusioned, you’ll find more than a mustard seed of hope in the pages of this book. Amen and amen.”
—Jonathan Merritt, award-winning author and contributing writer for The Atlanticc