I just finished reading Douglas John Hall’s brief book The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity for the class I am taking in June. It’s a quick read, and at the time it was written (1997) might have been a profound work. It’s a bit dated now but still contains a few gems:

If at the level of fundamental belief and lifestyle we disengage ourselves, as a Christian movement, from the dominant societies, classes, and institutions we have been for centuries trying to court, we may be able to serve those societies, classes, and institutions in ways far more faithful and more humanly needful than Christendom usually did. (51)