Faithful, Creative, Hopeful

Jesse Zink is the principal of Montreal Dio, an ecumenical theological college affiliated with McGill University, and canon theologian in the Anglican Diocese of Montreal. He was born in Canada and raised and ordained in The Episcopal Church. His previous books include Backpacking through the Anglican Communion and A Faith for the Future. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

• Introduction Polycrisis and Christian WitnessApocalyptic Clarity1. A crisis-shaped world requires apocalyptic clarity2. Economic structures are the greatest obstacle to Christian witness 3. Christian formation is not failing. It’s being defeated Resistant Ethos4. Christians offer attentiveness to a distracted people 5. Enough is a response to a world of more 6. The catholicity of the Christian community is its response to a globally-connected world 7. In an angry world, the Christian answer is mercy 8. Christian witness is rooted in hope—even if we don’t want it to beResistant Practice9. Place matters: Christian witness begins in particular and specific locales10. In a time of widespread migration, Christians must embrace their identity as wanderers as well 11. Public, shared places resist the dominance of the market.Building them up is part of Christian ministry12. Food is at the center of the church and must be at the center of Christian witness Renewed Church13. In a mistrusting world, the church is called to be a community of responsibility and solidarity 14. The church’s future is an ecumenical one—but a very specific kind of ecumenism 15. The Eucharist sets the agenda for the church Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes

"In clear, direct, and vigorous prose, Jesse Zink situates the crisis of the church in the context of the global crises of climate, economics, and migration, and gives a clear-eyed response.  Facing squarely our objective uncertainty regarding the world’s future, his fifteen theses outline concrete acts of Christian witness shaped by the certainty of God’s enduring faithfulness."