{"id":35914,"date":"2018-11-12T15:09:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T20:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=35914"},"modified":"2019-12-04T20:53:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T01:53:54","slug":"bryan-stone-publishes-finding-faith-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/bryan-stone-publishes-finding-faith-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Stone Publishes Finding Faith Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07K6XPD9Y\/ref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=x_gr_w_bb-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B07K6XPD9Y&amp;SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Finding Faith Today<\/em><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span>presents the findings of a multi-year study on how people come to faith in the US context.\u00a0The book sheds new light on how people come to faith and what sort of spiritual, practical, and social changes accompany that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07K6XPD9Y\/ref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=x_gr_w_bb-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B07K6XPD9Y&amp;SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sth\/files\/2019\/09\/Finding-Faith-Today-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35915\" \/><\/a>Mark R. Teasdale, Associate Professor of Evangelism, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, says: &#8220;This book offers a paradigm shift! In a culture awash with statistical trends about religious adherence and programming meant to attract people to faith, Stone&#8217;s wide-ranging, thoughtful, and careful research provides a human face to the statistics. He shows us that most people find God in authentic relationships and communities. As people of faith we are freed from the business and celebrity often connected with faith-recruitment to welcome, befriend, and share our lives with others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/bryan-p-stone\/\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Bryan Stone<\/a><\/span> is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Boston University School of Theology. Among his published titles are: <em>Evangelism After Pluralism<\/em> (2018), <em>A Reader in Ecclesiology<\/em> (2012), <em>Evangelism After Christendom<\/em> (2006), and <em>Faith and Film<\/em> (2000).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding Faith Today\u00a0presents the findings of a multi-year study on how people come to faith in the US context.\u00a0The book sheds new light on how people come to faith and what sort of spiritual, practical, and social changes accompany that.\u00a0 Mark R. Teasdale, Associate Professor of Evangelism, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, says: &#8220;This book offers a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[201],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41343,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35914\/revisions\/41343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}