The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity

Culture Making, Andy Crouch

Culture Making argues that to actually make a difference in the world, we need to shift from just critiquing or copying culture to creating it. This book will help you learn how to keep and make culture, maintaining what’s good and introducing something new, as part of your particular calling and in service of God’s vision for the world.

The Common Rule, Justin Whitmel Earley

The modern world is constantly forming us in its high-speed, self-centred image, one notification or distraction at a time. The Common Rule shows how habits that change our routine and the way we use technology can instead form us into God’s image and help us live for his kingdom.

Divine Sex, Jonathan Grant

Sexual identity is front and centre in our culture, moving from the bedroom to the boardroom as it’s taken on ideological significance. Divine Sex asks what it looks like to be faithful disciples in the midst of this sex-obsessed age, and how to reorient our identity around Jesus rather than our sexuality.

A Public Faith, Miroslav Volf

In the 21st Century, the Christian faith is as distinctive as ever, but religious challenges to the status quo are often seen as unwelcome and intolerant. A Public Faith explores how followers of Jesus can serve the common good in their particular contexts, creating conditions where people of every faith and none can flourish together.

Changing Shape, Ruth Perrin

Whilst some young Christians grow in their faith, up to three quarters of young people are walking away from the church. Based on extensive qualitative research, Changing Shape looks at why this is happening, and sets out a bold vision for why the gospel is still good news and discipleship is still possible for the so-called ‘lost generation’.

Becoming Friends of Time, John Swinton

Do you ever feel like you’re living on a treadmill, gradually increasing in pace to the point where you’re struggling to keep up? By listening to the experience of people with profound neurological disability, Becoming Friends of Time reminds us that our limitations can actually help us live well, slow down, and see the gift it is to live in the time God gives us.

Whole-Life Mission for the Whole Church, edited by Mark Greene and Ian Shaw

This book helps anyone working in education – particularly theological educators – to integrate their faith and their teaching. It breaks down false beliefs that some areas of life are less important to God than others and equips you to point your students towards the kingdom of God in a coherent and compelling way.