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Book Review: The Parish Development Process

The author is professor of sociology of religion at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Since 1957 he has been writing and conducting workshops on the larger parish involving the close cooperation of two or more churches in an area often across denominational lines. In this book he deals with the why, where. what, and how of establishing and operating what he calls the "cooperative parish."