Find Your way back to the good news
The word “religion” has a lot of baggage. We emphasize our relationship with Jesus because we don’t want to be associated with bad religion. But the answer to pursuing Christ fully isn’t no religion, it’s resurrecting true religion. It puts flesh on the bones of our faith so we can actually transform the world for God’s kingdom. Greg Paul unpacks what true religion looks like for you and the communities you care about.
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Enjoy the intro and entire first chapter for free right now. But be warned, Resurrecting Religion will move you. In your heart, your mind, and then your feet. To get up and start living out your faith so it becomes a visceral and tangible part of you everywhere you go.

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Many people practice their faith in extremes—either publicly, with a legalistic, combative tone that creates division, or personally and privately, to the point that their faith becomes functionally irrelevant. Using the book of James as a guide, and the streets of Toronto as a proving ground, Greg Paul demonstrates how we find our way back to living out the gospel. Resurrecting Religion is a convicting and inspiring vision for a world-changing faith.
Meet Greg
Greg Paul is a member and the founding pastor of Sanctuary Toronto, a ministry and faith community that holds at its center people who are poor and excluded in Canada’s largest city. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning titles The Twenty-Piece Shuffle and God in the Alley.

Why Read Resurrecting Religion?
Sanctuary Toronto
Sanctuary (the building) is just a stone’s throw from Yonge Street, Toronto’s historic “main” street, at the upper end of the downtown core. We’re surrounded now by soaring condos – there’s one just being finished now, a block away, that rises 80 stories; the building next door is a mere 44. Walk for about ten minutes and you’ll find yourself in the heart of the financial district that controls the country’s wealth.
But Sanctuary (the community) mostly lives in the cracks and holes that fracture the glossy surface of Canada’s largest, richest city. Many of us struggle with addictions, homelessness, mental illness or severe post-trauma issues. Violence is an almost daily reality; untimely death cruises our streets and the pickings are far too easy. Toronto is often touted as the most multi-cultural city in the world, and we reflect that ethnic rainbow. A high percentage of us are also the other kind of rainbow people: lesbian, gay, bi, trans, two-spirited, queer… Put a label on it, and we probably include it. A few of us are rich; most of us are poor. Politically and theologically, we run the gamut. We’re a beautiful and profoundly damaged people. Our wounds are too deep to ever fully heal in this wounded world, but the image of the Creator in us is deeper still, too powerful to ever be eradicated. We curse and fight; when we are more truly ourselves, we also worship and love.
“Love one another” was Jesus great command. This is really all we have – our only means of finding unity in the midst of such conflicted difference, our only hope of healing souls and systems ravaged by sin. And it’s working.