Engebretson Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. Soong-Chan Rah (ThD, Duke Divinity School) is Milton B. Come, discover the vitality of the next evangelicalism.

Spiritual renewal is happening within the North American church, from corners and margins not always noticed by those in the center. This prophetic report casts a vision for a dynamic evangelicalism that fully embodies the cultural realities of the twenty-first century. Many white churches are in crisis and ill-equipped to minister to new cultural realities, but immigrant, ethnic and multiethnic churches are succeeding and flourishing. Rah brings keen analysis to the limitations of American Christianity and shows how captivity to Western individualism and materialism has played itself out in megachurches and emergent churches alike. In this book professor and pastor Soong-Chan Rah calls the North American church to escape its captivity to Western cultural trappings and to embrace a new evangelicalism that is diverse and multiethnic. But evangelicalism has long been held captive by its predominantly white cultural identity and history. Likewise, changing demographics mean that North American society will accelerate its diversity in terms of race, ethnicity and culture. Philip Jenkins has chronicled how the next Christendom has shifted away from the Western church toward the global South and East.

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