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PaperbackA Week in the Life of a Slave
A Week in the Life Series
by John Byron
"I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, who became my son while I was in chains. Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me."
These words, written by the apostle Paul to a first-century Christian named Philemon, are tantalizingly brief. Indeed, Paul's epistle to Philemon is one of the shortest books in the entire Bible. While it's direct ...
PaperbackA Week In the Life of Ephesus
A Week in the Life Series
by David A. deSilva
How should Christians live in an age of empire?
As the city of Ephesus prepares for a religious festival in honor of the emperor Domitian, a Christian landowner feels increasing pressure from the city's leaders to participate. Can he perform his civic duties and remain faithful to his Lord? Or has the time come for a costly choice?
In this historical novel, biblical ...
PaperbackReading the Bible Around the World
A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics
by Federico Alfredo Roth, Justin M. Smith, Kirsten S. Oh, Alice Yafeh, and Kay Higuera Smith
Parish Clergy Award
It's an exciting time to be reading the Bible. As we increasingly encounter readers with perspectives, experiences, and cultures different from our own, we can incorporate new ideas and approaches to interpreting Scripture. When diverse interpretations from various social locations are gathered together, we gain new vistas and a fuller ...
PaperbackThe Gospel According to Eve
A History of Women's Interpretation
by Amanda W. Benckhuysen
Word Guild Awards Shortlist — Academic
What does it mean to be male and female? Do women and men have different intellectual, spiritual, moral, or emotional capacities? Are women especially suited for serving and men for leading? Are women and men equal?
While these may seem like relatively recent questions, they have been a topic of conversation throughout Christian ...
PaperbackIn Search of the Common Good
Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World
by Jake Meador
ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist - Faith and Culture
Christianity Today Book of the Year Award, Politics and Public LifeCommon life in our society is in decline.
Our communities are disintegrating, as the loss of meaningful work and the breakdown of the family leave us anxious and alone—indeed, half of all Americans report daily feelings ...
PaperbackChoosing Community
Action, Faith, and Joy in the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers
Hansen Series
by Christine A Colón
Few writers in the twentieth century were as creative and productive as Dorothy L. Sayers, the English playwright, novelist, and poet. Her justly renowned works include detective fiction featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, theological reflections, literary criticism, and her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
Among the prominent themes of her work was the need for and ...
PaperbackThe Canon of Scripture
by F. F. Bruce
- Winner of two 1990 Christianity Today Awards: Readers' Choice (1st place; theology doctrine) and Critics' Choice (1st place; theology doctrine).
- A 1989 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner
How did the books of the Bible come to be recognized as Holy Scripture?Who decided what shape the canon should take?What criteria influenced these decisions?After nearly nineteen centuries ...
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Every Voice Now is an IVP initiative that seeks to address the racial and ethnic imbalances in the publishing industry and the church’s public witness. The initiative is jointly supported by InterVarsity Press and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and includes opportunities for additional funding to support and amplify voices of color, expand our reach with diverse audiences, increase IVP’s internal cultural competency, and create an organization that more fully reflects God’s diverse kingdom.
PaperbackWhen the Spirit Comes with Power
Signs and Wonders Among God's People
by John White
John White has extensively interviewed many people, including those from John Wimber's Vineyard Christian Fellowship. His years of work as a psychiatrist and as a missionary in the Third World qualify him in a special way to analyze the experiences described in this book. In addition he has thoroughly studied revivals of the past, highlighting the differences and the similarities to what is happening ...
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Robert Chao Romero
Robert Chao Romero (PhD, University of California at Los Angeles; JD, University of California at Berkeley) is associate professor in the Departments of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of the award-winning The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940, Jesus for Revolutionaries: An Introduction to Race, Social Justice, and Christianity, and Mixed Race Student Politics.
