Parenting is a pilgrimage. So is pastoring. Both are full of beauty, conflict, joy, and the ache of letting go.
@aroot and @karakroot joined me on the @shiftingculturepodcast to share from their new book, A Pilgrimage Into Letting Go. It’s a story born on the trail - walking St. Cuthbert’s Way with their kids through the Scottish Highlands. Every step carried its own prayer: God, help me let them go.
This is a conversation about release, about discovering God in the uncontrollable, and about walking together with open hands.
Listen now on Shifting Culture anywhere you get podcasts.
🌟NEW RELEASE🌟 A Pilgrimage Into Letting Go: Helping Parents and Pastors Embrace the Uncontrollable by @aroot and @karakroot
What do parents and pastors have in common? They often feel pressure to be in control.
If you’re an anxious parent watching your kids grow up, or a ministry leader overwhelmed by the pressure to “save” the church in today’s landscape—Andrew and Kara Root have a message for you.
It starts with letting go of control. Because you never had control to begin with.
Learn how to embrace uncertainty, lead with faith-based guidance, and embody wise leadership in your home, church, and beyond.
Comment “link” and we will send you a link to learn more about this new book!
This was a rich conversation on ministry and Luther's theology of the cross. Take a listen: /episode/14b9e5ab/evangelism-and-the-theology-of-consolation
"Oddly--and predictably--we've responded to the church's well-documented misuses of power by taking control.
This leads us to think that even decline can be beaten by using the tools of capitalist control--innovation, optimization, political-ideological pursuits, and more.
Out of our anxiety, we former youth-group-star types have worked hard to *control* the church to medicate our own anxiety *about* the church."
@aroot@karakroot
A Pilgrimage Into Letting Go
Coming September 9, 2025
It is here. I know you’ve all been waiting. The Italian translation of Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker. Right on the eve of returning to Berlin. This time with Tripp and Homebrewed Christianity. We won’t have Italians in our class but will eat Italian food.
Very happy to be holding the Dutch translation of When Church Stops Working. Hoping to be in the Netherlands in November to talk about it. Will be in Germany next week and Bergen in August for some public lectures. @bertrand_blair@BrazosPress
This arrived today. Officially releases in 4 weeks. I hope you’ll check it out. It’s volume 5 of the Ministry in a Secular Age series and hopefully it doesn’t get me in too much trouble.
