William R. Russell

Outgrowing Church, Second Edition

“With a pastor’s heart and a theologian’s mind, John Killinger voices the disappointment of many of his generation of retired clergy who feel they can no longer find a spiritually satisfying church home. His self-diagnosis: we haven’t just left the church, we have actually outgrown it! And his remedies: ‘some hard reconsiderations of the nature of God . . . inventing a whole new language with which to talk about this God and a brand new way of worshiping God . . . confronting transcendence and having our lives renewed and reoffered to God and to others.’”