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PaperbackShades of Light
A Novel
Shades of Light Series
by Sharon Garlough Brown
"I was desperate. . . . I couldn't turn off the dark thoughts, no matter how hard I tried or how much I prayed. And then I spent a whole weekend in bed, and the crying wouldn't stop, and I got really scared. I've had bouts with depression before—it's kind of a cloud I've learned to live with—but this time was different. I felt like I was going under, like I'd never feel hopeful ...
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What does it look like to live fully into your identity as both a mixed or multiethnic person and a child of God? These books offer companionship, personal stories, and theological perspectives on topics like ethnic identity and racial justice. You can also meet all of IVP's authors or color or read articles from authors on issues of race and ethnicity.
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PaperbackFrom Plato to Christ
How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith
by Louis Markos
What does Plato have to do with the Christian faith?
Quite a bit, it turns out. In ways that might surprise us, Christians throughout the history of the church and even today have inherited aspects of the ancient Greek philosophy of Plato, who was both Socrates's student and Aristotle's teacher.
To help us understand the influence of Platonic thought on the Christian ...
PaperbackEscape from Reason
IVP Classics
by Francis A. Schaeffer
Foreword by J. P. MorelandOver 100,000 Copies Sold!
Truth used to be based on reason. No more. What we feel is now the truest source of reality. Despite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face anxiety, despair, and purposelessness.How did we get here? And where do we find a remedy?
In this modern classic, Francis A. Schaeffer traces trends in twentieth-century ...
HardbackFaithful Antiracism
Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change
by Christina Edmondson and Chad Brennan
Foreword by Korie Little Edwards and Michael O. EmersonReader's Choice Award Winner
It's time to move past talk. It's no longer news to most of us that our society has a deep-seated racism problem. Christians of all ethnic and economic backgrounds are tired of seeing the ugly legacy of racism play out before their eyes and feeling ill-equipped to respond. They watch as friends and family members leave the visible ...
PaperbackLiving in Color
Embracing God's Passion for Ethnic Diversity
by Randy Woodley
"We would never give Picasso a paintbrush and only one color of paint, and expect a masterpiece," writes Randy Woodley. "We would not give Beethoven a single piano key and say, 'Play us a concerto.' Yet we limit our Creator in just these ways." Though our Christian experience is often blandly monochromatic, God intends for us to live in dynamic, multihued communities that embody his vibrant creativity.Randy ...
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Throughout its seventy-five years of publishing, InterVarsity Press (IVP) has been intentional about providing books that address issues of justice, race, ethnic identity, and other topics that speak to the culture and the church as a whole. During Black History Month in February, IVP will celebrate its legacy by remembering the many IVP authors who have written and are writing boldly and prophetically about the history, and the future, of the Black experience.
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Jenny Eaton Dyer
Jenny Eaton Dyer (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is the founder of The 2030 Collaborative. As such, she directs the Faith-Based Coalition for Global Nutrition with support from the Eleanor Crook Foundation. Dyer formerly served as the executive director of Hope Through Healing Hands, a nonprofit chaired by Senator Bill Frist, MD. She also served as the national faith outreach director for the DATA Foundation and The ONE Campaign, Bono's organization. She has written widely on the intersection ofreligion and global health. She is a contributor of Why Save Africa: Answers from around the World and a co-compiler of The Mother and Child Project: Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope and The aWAKE Project: Uniting Againstthe African AIDS Crisis. She is also a lecturer in the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt School of Medicine as well as within the Vanderbilt School of Divinity.Dyer holds a BA in religion from Samford University, an MTS from VanderbiltDivinity School, and a PhD in history and critical theories of religion from Vanderbilt University. She lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with her husband, John, and their two children.
