For many of us, for too long, Christianity has been unhelpfully entangled with Western culture. Pastor and author Mandy Smith teaches us that the way forward is to embrace childlike faith again. In her new book Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith Beyond the Baggage of Western Culture, she lays out a model of learning that helps us disentangle our faith from its imaginative captivity to Western culture: Rest, Receive, and Respond.
Originally from Australia, Mandy Smith is a pastor, author and speaker. Mandy loves the opportunity to engage Christian thinkers and leaders through her speaking and writing. She is a regular contributor to Christianity Today and Missio Alliance and the author of The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry(IVP) and Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith Beyond the Baggage of Western Culture (Brazos). Mandy and her husband, a New Testament professor, live with their family in a little house where the teapot is always warm.
You can connect with Mandy on her website, Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.
Show notes:
- Mandy’s blog post about her crazy move (includes the link to the full “cheese chasing” show on Netflix).
- A shorter version of the “cheese chasing” on Youtube
- A short version of the emptying prayer Mandy mentioned
- A longer version of the emptying prayer
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