Unfashionable

Another provocative book on culture is scheduled for release on April 21:

Tullian Tchividjian. Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different. Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2009. 205 pp.

Available in the following formats: hardcover, Kindle, audio CD

Excerpt: chapter 1

See endorsements by Chuck Colson, John Seel, J. I. Packer, Ravi Zacharias, Daniel L. Akin, Michael Horton, R. Kent Hughes, D. A. Carson, T. M. Moore, Ed Stetzer, Collin Hansen, Kevin DeYoung, Thabiti Anyabwile, and Dan Cruver (among others).

About Tullian

Tullian is the founding pastor of New City Church outside Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, which is now merging with Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. (Yesterday morning was their first combined service.) Tullian succeeds the church’s founding pastor, D. James Kennedy. Cf. interviews Tullian did with Justin Taylor (2007 and 2008) and Josh Harris (2007: parts 1, 2, 3).

About Unfashionable

Tullian’s thesis in Unfashionable is “that Christians make a difference in this world by being different from this world; they don’t make a difference by being the same” (p. 9, emphasis in original). Relatively few Christians readers will disagree with the thesis; disagreement will come, I suspect, in the nuts and bolts of application. (more…)