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Dynamic Diversity: Bridging Class, Age, Race and Gender in the Church

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Bruce Milne's "Dynamic Diversity" is a thoughtful challenge to the homogeneous congregations that dominate North American Protestant Christianity. From years of experience working with a diverse church in Vancouver, Canada, Milne provides solid biblical, theological, and practical support for his "new-humanity church" which cherishes and pursues diversity in our increasingly multicultural existence. In spite of these strengths, the book lacks in one essential area: for a book on diversity, his perspective is exclusively white, middle-class evangelical Christian. He also tends to universalize his evangelical perspective on the Church, Scripture, worship, mission, etc. As a evangelical student at a seminary with a majority of mainline Protestant students, I do not think his arguments would be very convincing to many of my Methodist, Presbyterian, Disciples of Christ, or Lutheran colleagues. In this, his challenge is only really going to be relevant and received by the evangelical community. To be honest, the subtitle of the book should be: Bridging Class, Age, Race and Gender in the evangelical Church. Again, Milne's book is helpful, but only for a specific audience.