Sacred Signposts

Words, Water, and Other Acts of Resistance

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Pub Date 10 Jul 2018 | Archive Date 10 Jul 2018

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Description

The church isn’t a building or an institution. The church is what it does. At the very heart of Christianity are its central, sacred, subversive practices—the sacred signposts that have always shown the way to practice Christian faith, even when the terrain around it changes.

“These Christian practices,” writes Benjamin Dueholm, “represent and enact a different vision of what it means to be good, or even to be human, from the ones offered by our prominent political and economic ideologies. Christians have names for this different vision. We call it ‘the Kingdom of God’ or ‘the beloved community.’ And it is realized, in ways that are small and fleeting but also urgent and poignant, every time we gather around our holy possessions.”

In this book Dueholm unpacks Christianity’s seven “holy possessions,” which function as signposts—words, water, bread and wine, confession and forgiveness, ministry, worship, and suffer­ing—and he offers a visionary account of the critical, radical, life-affirming role that faith can play in a secular, post-Christian world. 

The church isn’t a building or an institution. The church is what it does. At the very heart of Christianity are its central, sacred, subversive practices—the sacred signposts that have always shown...


Advance Praise

“Why do we believe what we believe, and even more urgently for Christians today, what do we do with our belief? In Sacred Signposts, Benjamin Dueholm elegantly and thoughtfully moves us through a Christianity of resistance to our own torpor and into a Christianity of embodiment. Bold and necessary, Dueholm’s sacred signposts are the signs of our time.”

Kaya Oakes – Lecturer, UC Berkeley


“Benjamin Dueholm is more than a writer of breathtakingly beautiful prose, more than a wunderkind possessed of a rare - yet never rarified - theological genius. In Sacred Signposts, Dueholm is the consummate pastor, interpreting text and context with humility and empathy. One senses, in these pages, that Benjamin Dueholm is both heartbroken by a relentlessly falling world, and restored to hope by a relentlessly gracious Word. Sacred Signposts invites readers to take up their own hope and heartbreak as they follow Christ in these strange days.”

Rev. Katherine Willis Pershey

Author, Any Day a Beautiful Change: A Story of Faith and Family and Very Married: Field Notes on Love & Fidelity

“Why do we believe what we believe, and even more urgently for Christians today, what do we do with our belief? In Sacred Signposts, Benjamin Dueholm elegantly and thoughtfully moves us through a...


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