Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age

Short review: The old illustration about two fish being asked how is the water, and then one asking the other, ‘what is water?' is my best description of Disruptive Witness. We are part of a culture, but we need tools, and language, to help us understand, and describe, the culture around us.

Part One of Disruptive Witness uses Charles Taylor and others to describe and understand our culture from the perspective of Christianity that is always within a particular culture. I have read a number of books about Taylor's ideas, and I think that Disruptive Witness is one of the most understandable presentations of Taylor's ideas.

Part Two of Disruptive Witness is focused on what we should do now that we understand some of the benefits and problems of culture. These are largely spiritual practices of the historic church that can help disrupt the effects of culture. Because I read a lot within the areas of spiritual formation, part two was not a new, but it was well connected to part one and I completely agree the importance of part two.

But it was part one that was most important for me. I read an advance copy and then bought my own copy and went back and re-read part one. I certainly recommend Disruptive Witness.

My fuller review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/disruptive-witness-speaking-truth-in-a-distracted-age-by-alan-noble/