Road rage, cyberporn, crystal healing, doctor-assisted suicide -- everywhere we look, the signs all tell us we're living in a post-Christian culture.

Or are we?

Leonard Sweet -- cultural historian, preacher, futurist, creatologist, and preeminent thinker -- firmly believes we live today in a pre-Christian society, fraught with challenges, dangers, critical choices, and above all, tremendous potential for the church. The outcome will depend on Christendom's response to the flood of change that threatens to sweep it away. What will the church do? Deny the reality of the incoming surge? "Hunker in the bunker," hermetically sealing itself in an increasingly out-of-touch counterculture?

Or will it boldly hoist its sails, and-looking to God for guidance and strength-move with confidence and purpose over the waves?

In his latest book, SoulTsunami (pronounced: sohl-tsoo-NAH-mee), Sweet looks at the implications of our changing world for the church in the 21st century. With uncanny wisdom and trademark wit, he explores ten "life rings," expanding on and relating topics ranging from the reentry of theism and spiritual longing in contemporary society, to the impact of modern technology, to the global renaissance, to models for the church to reach people caught in the cultural maelstrom. Here are eye-opening perspectives on the church from within and from without-from its surrounding society.

With SoulTsunami, Sweet is sending out a clarion call for Christians to remove their tunnel-vision glasses and take a good look at the swelling postmodern flood. He's also providing encouragement, affirming the church in its role as God's lifeboat, and acting as a passionate, prophetic guide, pointing the way to reach a world swept out to sea.

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Wading in written words will only wet your feet. If you really want to understand ministry in the new millennium culture, then dive into the HOT (Hands-On-Truth) water!

AudioPages turns "SoulTsunami the book" into "SoulTsunami the postmodern multi-layered sonic experience" using the author's own voice, a "new wave" musical score, and sound effects in Sweet-o-phonic stereo. You'll hear Sweet:

Don't worry, you won't drown in this 120-minute sound voyage -- and neither will your church in the postmodern sea -- when Sweet throws you his 10 Life Rings for future-able 21st century ministry!

MEDIA: OPTIONAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

• What is a tsunami, and how does it work as a metaphor for what the church faces?
• What is postmodernism?
• What makes the change to a postmodern culture so revolutionary?
• Shouldn't Christians be fighting to keep our culture from going postmodern?
• Explain the statement: "The postmodernist always rings twice."
• How will the "Postmodern Reformation Church" compare to the church of the Protestant Reformation?
• Where will the people the church needs to reach be living in the 21st Century?
• How has society's increasing dependence on technology affected its spiritual life?
• What do television shows like The X-Files and StarTrek Voyager tell us about postmodern culture?
• How will the "Bionomic revolution" affect the church?
• What does it mean for a church to "Get EPIC"?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Leonard Sweet is founder and president of SpiritVenture Ministries and professor of the E. Stanley Jones Chair of Evangelism at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. An honors and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Richmond, he earned his Master of Divinity degree from Colgate Rochester Divinity School and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. From 1990-1999 the chief author of the journal Homiletics, Sweet has written over a dozen books, including the critically acclaimed FaithQuakes, called one of the "10 best religion books" and "10 must-read books." Other books include Eleven Genetic Gateways to a Spiritual Awakening, A Cup of Coffee at the Soul Cafe, and The Jesus Prescription for a Healthy Life. In 1995 he launched Sweet's SoulCafe, a popular-magazine-format spirituality newsletter for today's Christians.