Lockharts study of the changing spectrum of spirituality in Vancouver is both academically rich and beautifully written. Judy Paulsen, Wycliffe College This book is an innovative and exhaustive collection of congregational data in Canada in a domain where relatively little research currently exists. Joel Thiessen, Ambrose University In an increasingly post-Christian West, those tasked with imagining and leading the church toward good futures would do well to consider the insights Lockhart has gleaned from churches at home in Vancouver, BC one of Canadas most secular cities. With both affection and clarity, West Coast Mission reveals the persistence, puzzles, and prospects that characterize Christian communities navigating mission and ministry in their new minority status. Christopher B. James, author of Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil: Theology and Practice Lockharts West Coast Mission is a wellspring of hope amid the clamour of crisis. Methodologically rigorous, interdisciplinary, and hyperlocal in its approach, this book will be a guidebook for researchers, pastors, and faith communities. As the church and shape of Christian mission are changing, the living witnesses Lockhart identifies are a good place to discern the future of faith. Dustin D. Benac, author of Adaptive Church: Collaboration and Community in a Changing World Spanning urban missiology, ethnography, evangelism, and spirituality, West Coast Mission is an interdisciplinary tour de force! Lockhart provides a hope-filled, practical way forward into Gods mission for churches who acknowledge the city as a place of Gods revelation. Priscilla Pope-Levison, Southern Methodist University Ross Lockhart has done something extraordinary with energy and depth, hes explored a context as a way of helping each of us think missionally about our own world. A very able teacher, Lockhart uses Vancouver as a classroom to teach us how to witness to the work of Christ in our secular world. All pastors, missiologists, and practical theologians need this book. Andrew Root, author of The Church After Innovation
