num_pages: 130
description: While others lament the declining attendance of mainline churches and blame it on an out-of-date tradition, Jackson Carroll offers a more hopeful perspective, arguing that they key to future vitality can be found in the same tradition. According to Carroll, the tension between tradition and change has always been part of the Protestant heritage, and he argues that now is a time when being faithful requires adaptation.
language: English
title: Mainline to the Future: Congregations for the 21st Century
titlecomplete: Mainline to the Future: Congregations for the 21st Century
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Westminster John Knox Press