Rewilding the Way: Break Free to Follow an Untamed God

by Todd Wynward

Overview

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When did we become so tame? How has “the good life” come to mean addiction to screens and status, fossil fuels and financial fitness? Can we break free to become the joyful and prophetic people God calls us to be? Trek along with wilderness guide Todd Wynward as he “rewilds” the Jesus Way. Seek the feral foundations of Scripture and the lessons that the prophets and disciples gleaned from wilderness testing.

Packed with inspiring stories of how contemporary people and groups are caring for the land and each other, Rewilding the Way issues a call to action. Read about how reskilling and local food covenants are transforming churches, and how place-based activism and creative housing are nurturing communities. Learn from those who are recovering from affluenza, replacing visions of personal wealth with the commonwealth of the earth and restoring their humble place in the community of creation. Do you despair about life on our changing planet? Join the hopeful band of seekers of God and makers of change who are rewilding the Way.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780836199482
Publisher:	MennoMedia
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	881,039
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 12.30(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Wilderness guide, author, and educator Todd Wynward has spent more than one thousand nights outdoors. The founder of a wilderness-based public charter school, Wynward lives with his wife and son in an intentional community in New Mexico. Richard Rohr calls Wynward's novel, The Secrets of Leaven, a spiritual roller-coaster that skewers everything we think we know about organized religion, social change, and human potential.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Prologue

PART I: OUR PREDICAMENT, OUR POTENTIAL

1. Tame Christianity

2. We’re the People God’s Been Waiting For

3. You’ve Been Occupied

PART II: BETTER LIVING THROUGH TESTING

4. Going Cimarron

5. The Deal with the Desert

6. Staying Awake

7. Living on the Loose

8. Rewilding Education

9. Job Qualifications

PART III: SEVEN PATHS TO WILD YOUR WAY

10. Steer by Inner Authority

11. Rely Upon Radical Grace

12. Embody Enoughness

13. Lead Through Meekness

14. Encourage Holy Insecurity

15. Embrace the Unraveling

16. Trust in the Spirit

PART IV: OUR WORK AHEAD

17. Take Part in the Great Turning

18. Live More With Less

19. Get in Relation with Creation

20. Redefine the Good Life

21. Practice Watershed Discipleship

22. Reimagine Our Churches

23. Re-envision Our Communities

24. Restore Our Home

Epilogue: Stumbling Toward Bethlehem

Notes

About The Author

What People are Saying About This

Endorsement

“For those who think Christianity should run counter to the dominant culture, this book offers a wild and exhilarating idea about how lives might be lived!”—Bill McKibben, author and activist

“I read a lot of good books. But seldom have I read a book that inspired me as much as Rewilding the Way. It is important, meaningful—and so beautifully written.”—Brian D. McLaren, author and activist

“Any who want to consider a life with purpose, peace, and the rewilding call of God need to read this book!”—Tracey Bianchi, author of Green Mama

“Rewilding the Way calls us to be dangerously alive to the ultimate source of life and the critical challenges of our time. Todd Wynward is a voice crying out in the wilderness with surprising playfulness, practicality, and hope.”—Mark Scandrette, author of Free: Practicing the Way of Jesus and Soul Graffiti

“Rewilding the Way is a clarion call not to the ‘good life’ but to a better life, a life based on God’s dream rather than the American Dream, the Jesus Way rather than culture’s mores. Wynward invites us to make the leap from a mild faith to a wild faith based on the countercultural gospel message of less me and more we.”—Nancy Sleeth, cofounder of Blessed Earth and author of Almost Amish

“Here is a primer for a First World Christian faith seeking to respond to the interlocking social and ecological crises stalking our history with discipleship rather than denial. Wynward knows his way around wilderness—as landscape and religious tradition—and is a reliable guide for exploring both. I commend this readable, engaging introduction to following Jesus and de-domesticating our churches in this demanding and discouraging historical moment.”—Ched Myers, Mennonite activist theologian