'Domination Christianity' explores Max Weber's understanding of bureaucracy as 'domination through knowledge' -in both Protestant religion and the capitalist culture that it birthed. Management and mission practices have also merged in the last 20 years in such a way as to distort the ongoing ability of mainline Churches to create genuine community. There are several streams of mission attempting to reverse Christianity's decline in the West. Mission Shaped Church is a stream within mainline Christianity that is attempting to do this through creating churches around the needs of the...

Einstein said 'We cannot solve our problems with the same kind of thinking that created them.' MISSIONAL MIRAGE highlights the way in which the Missional Movement contains the socially fragmenting seeds of modernity and Christian social dominance. Its goal is remaking a New Christian West. Alan Roxburgh quotes Wittgenstein; 'a picture held us captive and it lay in our language and our language repeated it to us inexorably.' Ironically the missional language of leadership, mapping, planning and of mission itself keep Christianity captive in a picture of its past. It is one mishaped by the...

There are several streams of mission attempting to reverse Christianity's decline in the United Kingdom, Europe and the USA. RECONCILIATION COMMUNITIES offers an alternative to the language and practices of the Mission Shaped Church and the Missional Movement. It is through the recovery of the central practices of conversation, reconciliation and empowerment in small communities. This is a Way of Life that follows Christ's practices of eternal dialogue, reciprocity, mutuality, partnership and companionship. Such practices rebirth our identity, meaning and purpose in the atomised neotribal...

Mainline Christianity in the West is dying. Addiction to hierarchical and bureaucratic power is killing it. A management-god and a mission-god have usurped the Way of Christ. In the midst of decline the missional movement is attempting to reboot the church. Its goal is to remake a New Christian West through mission, leadership, mapping, and planning. Yet it is trapped in the language and methods of modernity. Its final solution is a polarizing vision of cultural domination by one social group, the Christians. The Way of Life and Truth has been forgotten. Christ is not a conquering King, a...