In Transforming the Mainline Church, Robert Chesnut provides valuable lessons for inner-city churches. He urges congregations to be more open to diversity, to emphasize the arts and music, to support entrepreneurial leadership, and to move beyond denominational concerns to an approach that responds to the religious hungers of a new generation.
Robert A. Chesnut is Dean of the Multicultural Church Institute at Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is Pastor Emeritus of East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh and a former member of the Presbyterian Multicultural Network steering committee.
