"If you have faith as small as a mustard seed," Jesus says in the Gospel ofMatthew, "nothing will be impossible for you."That sounds good, but does it work in a world where seeds are geneticallyaltered by an impatient few and hard to come by for countless others? In aworld where the gulf between the very rich and the profoundly poor isconstantly growing, can a mustard-seed faith make any difference? And cansuch a little bit of faith be sustained in a world whose future is so uncertainon so many fronts?Tom Sine says yes, and he has the audacity to try to prove it in his latestbook. In The New Conspirators Tom surveys the landscape ofcreative Christianity, where streams of renewal are flowing freely fromdiverse sources: The emerging church - Contemporary monastic movements - The missional church - The mosaic movement Individuals and communities of faith are coalescing in, and drawing energyfrom, these four streams to retrofit the church as it leads, serves and giveswitness to the kingdom of God in the turbulent times facing us. Read thebook and you'll want to-and be prepared to-join God's conspiracy tocreate a better future. "Sine's ideas about creative ways we might address our world's greatest needs, and the stories of those already participating in this work, left me with little excuse not to start dreaming of what a mustard seed would look like in my corner of the globe." -- C. Wess Daniels, Quaker Life, January/February 2011 "Sine offers a thoughtful analysis of emergent, monastic, missional, and mosaic churches. The folks involved in these movements offer refreshing strategies for welcoming our neighbors into the body of Christ. In a world marked by increasing isolation, heigtened security/suspicion, and globalization, our neighbors are calling out for something new." -- Rachel Parker, PRISM, November/December 2008 "This book is worthwhile. It contains anecdotal encouragement from the provisional kingdom on earth. I will have occasion to refer to this book again for stories of small outbreaks of active Christianity shining in the dark profanity of today's global culture." -- Kirk William McCullough, Congregations, Fall 2008 " The New Conspirators is not for the faint of heart. It will challenge you to consider transformation in your own life, as well as actively participate with a community to be boldly creative in discovering and expressing our mustard seeds. A must-read for those serious about a whole-life faith." -- Sonia Urban, Youth Worker Journal, September/October 2008 "It is an important read for those in the church and perhaps outside the church trying to get a grasp on not only the world we live in today, but the one which is being created now and into the future! Because of its thorough and wide ranging analysis of the many wonderful books written on this subject, this is the one-stop book I recommend for church study groups and leaders." -- Sam Andres, Mustard Seed Associates (msainfo.org), August 22, 2008 "I believe this is one of the few Christian books which helps disinterested, 'over family-focused' evangelicals to clearly see the implications that our current global context will have on the rich, middle and low income groups across the globe." -- Bricks and Mortar blog, July 9, 2008 "To put it simply, [this] is an encyclopedia of the new movement in the Evangelical church in Australia, Canada, Britain and the United States. Sine is very thorough. At least when it comes to Western authors, Sine has read about as widely as he's traveled." -- Tim N., Young Anabaptist Radicals, June 13, 2008 "[C]omes highly recommended by a veritable who's who of Christian writers, thinkers, and theologians, ranging from new monastic proponent Shane Claiborne (who writes the foreword) to Jim Wallis." -- C. E. Moore, The Christian Manifesto, June 10, 2008 "Lovers of his earlier Mustard Seed Conspiracy will truly enjoy this fresh, updated work." -- Scott Wagoner, Quakemergent (emergentquakerism.blogspot.com), April 3, 2008 "Tom does a brilliant job of surveying much of what God is up to in the next generation of church as it shapes up in North America and Western Europe. Tom brings a depth and breadth of practice and reflection to his writing that one is very aware we are just getting the tip of the research iceberg." -- Geoff and Sherry, the ashram blog, March 29, 2008 "Tom Sine lays bare the church's Inconvenient Truth. Taking a broad overview of the challenges that we have to address in the twenty-first century, Tom has sounded a wake-up call that beckons us to reassess the way we have sold out to the values of modernity. Laying out an alternative future, this book is a bold challenge to all who think that the kingdom of God can be built from the starting point of compromise and comfort." -- Andy Harrington, executive director, Youth for Christ: Vancouver Tom Sine is the bestselling author of several books, including the groundbreaking Mustard Seed Conspiracy. He is the