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Next Wave Web Magazine is a fan of Dr. Leonard
I. Sweet. If you haven't met Dr. Sweet, peruse his biographical information
(reprinted from his web site, www.leonardsweet
.com)
It has been said that there is no church leader
who understands better how to navigate the seas of the 21st century than Dr.
Leonard I. Sweet. Len is widely known and celebrated on three fronts: as a
historian of American culture; as a futurist/semiotician who "sees things
the rest of us do not see, and dreams possibilities that are beyond most of our
imagining;" and as a preacher who communicates the gospel powerfully to a
postmodern age by bridging the worlds of academe and popular culture.
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Currently Vice President and Professor
of Postmodern Christianity at Drew University, Madison, NJ where he is also Dean
of the Theological School, Len previously served for eleven years as
President (CEO) and Professor of Church History at United Theological Seminary,
Dayton, Ohio. Prior to 1985, Len was Provost of Colgate Rochester/Bexley Hall/Crozer
Divinity Schools in Rochester, New York. Involved in leadership positions in the
United Methodist Church, Len has been chosen to speak at various Jurisdictional
and General Conferences as well as the 1996 World Methodist Congress in Rio de
Janeiro. He also serves as a consultant to many of America's denominational
leaders and agencies. He is a member of the West Virginia
Annual Conference.
Author of more than one hundred articles, over four hundred published sermons,
and fifteen books, Len was the writer (along with his wife Karen Elizabeth
Rennie) for nine years of Homiletics, which became under his watch the
premier preaching resource in North America. His best-selling book FaithQuakes
(1994), selected that year as one of the "10 best religion books"
and "10 must-read books" was followed by Health and Medicine in
the Evangelical Tradition (1994), Communication & Change in
American Religious History (1994), Strong in the Broken Places
(1995), an audio seminar with Rick Warren called The Tides of Change
(1995) and The Jesus Prescription for a Healthy Life (1996). Len's
newest books are Eleven Genetic Gateways to Spiritual Awakening (1998),
A Cup of Coffee at the SoulCafe (1998), and his successor book to FaithQuakes,
SoulTsunami: Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture (1999), which is
already in its fourth printing.
SoulTsunami is the
first in a 1999 trilogy of resources for leaders struggling to come to terms
with postmodern culture. The second installment, which was published in June, is
called AquaChurch: Essential
Leadership Arts for Piloting Your Church in Today's Fluid Culture. Where SoulTsunami
covers the waterfront and scans the 21st century horizon, AquaChurch
is designed specifically to help churches sail these new seas. The third volume
in the trilogy, SoulSalsa: The Art of Living Soulfully is due out late
in 1999, and is focused on issues of personal spirituality. Each book in the
trilogy has its own website and multi-medial components.
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