Last fall, Jason Byassee, editor of the Call & Response blog on Faith & Leadership and a contributing editor for The Christian Century, joined us for one of Thriving Rural Communities’ Rural Ministry Colloquia. 

During that talk, he shared from his book manuscript, “The Gifts of the Small Church.” A recording of the discussion is available for download on iTunes U.

Byassee’s book is now available from Abingdon Press.  If you’re interested in an entertaining read and insightful commentary on why small-sized churches have been God’s primary way of saving people from biblical times to the present, consider checking it out.