Jonny Baker

Church in Life

Church Leadership & Ministry

“I love the framework for innovation that Mike uses here. It’s a really exciting way to come at mission and pioneering, and a welcome voice in a church that can so often be risk averse. There’s a lot of energy in an approach that is fuelled by imagination, possibility and hope rather than anxiety. As a result of seeing the material I invited Mike to teach pioneers at CMS and they found it energising for their pioneering practice.”

Live Like You Give a Damn!

Christian Living

“Above all this is a book about hope and imagination. Tom weaves together ideas, dreams and stories of people and communities who are changing the world one community at a time. And it's infectious. You find yourself wanting to meet with friends over a meal and start sparking ideas talking about what you can do together in your own locale to make a better world. It's refreshing that Tom resists collapsing life solely into a church sphere and focuses rather on change in the world through social enterprise and community endeavors. It's then that church begins to make sense reimagined as a community in mission participating with God and the community around towards its healing. And of course, given Tom's previous love of Jesus' parable, it's still one mustard seed at a time!”

Restless

Arts & Literature

“This is a terrific book. I love the way David scrapes theological residue off the surface of popular music songs. He brilliantly shows how liquid moderns use cultural texts to construct meaning. His explanation as to why the church has not really read this landscape well even though it is ostensibly a restless spiritual quest makes good sense, as do his imaginative suggestions for playful engagement.”