Wide Welcome: How the Unsettling Presence of Newcomers Can Save the Church

The disestablished congregations, she says, gains purpose and identity in the task of relating to the newcomer, and by doing so engages the world in powerful new ways. By intentionally extending the time of newcomer inquiry and allowing their questions, insights, and experiences to reverberate through the entire congregation both they and the church are changed.

Duckworth intentionally lays out possible designs for newcomer welcome that are local and particular.