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Red Skies: Cultural Discernment and the Future Church

Jesus rebuked the religious leaders of His day for being able to predict the weather by the sky while failing to discern the signs of the times (Matthew 16:2–3). In *Red Skies*, Smith gathers critical cultural conversations to help the church read the brewing storms of modern culture—secularization, technology, racial division, and institutional decline. A reader learns to shed panic and denial, practice prophetic lament, and cultivate an adaptive, hopeful imagination for the church's post-Christian future.