The challenges of “innovation”

Andrew Root is the Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, USA. He writes and researches in areas of theology, ministry, culture and younger generations. His most recent books are Churches and the Crisis of Decline and The Congregation in a Secular Age.

Kenda Creasy Dean is an ordained United Methodist pastor and the Mary D. Synnott Professor of Youth, Church and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she works closely with the Institute for Youth Ministry and the Farminary. Kenda’s publications include Innovating for Love: Joining God’s Expedition through Christian Social Innovation and Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church.