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  • Enough for Today: Forty Reflections for Surviving the Wilderness, By Donna Barber
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    Enough for Today

    Forty Reflections for Surviving the Wilderness

    by Donna Barber

    Find Strength in the Wilderness

    When life feels like a wilderness—a place of uncertainty, exhaustion, and spiritual stumbling—what do you hold on to?

    For many of us the past few years have been clouded by plagues ofillness and dying, anger and violence, disillusionment and loss. And numerous pharaohs, from the church house to the courthouse to the White House, appear ...

  • Church Forsaken: Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods, By Jonathan Brooks
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    Church Forsaken

    Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods

    by Jonathan Brooks
    Foreword by Amisho Baraka

    "There are no God-forsaken places, just church-forsaken places." —Jon Fuller, OMF InternationalJonathan Brooks was raised in the Englewood neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. As soon as he was able, he left the community and moved as far away as he could. But through a remarkable turn of events, he reluctantly returned and found himself not only back in Englewood but also ...

  • Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice, By Brenda Salter McNeil Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice, By Brenda Salter McNeil
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    Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0

    Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice

    by Brenda Salter McNeil
    Foreword by Eugene Cho
    Contributions by J. Derek McNeil

    We can see the injustice and inequality in our lives and in the world. We are ready to rise up. But how, exactly, do we do this? How does one reconcile? What we need is a clear sense of direction.Based on her extensive consultingexperience with churches, colleges and organizations, Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil has created a roadmap to show us the way. She guides us through the ...

  • Race and Place: How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation, By David P. Leong Race and Place: How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation, By David P. Leong
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    Race and Place

    How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation

    by David P. Leong
    Foreword by Soong-Chan Rah

    Geography matters.We long for diverse, thriving neighborhoods and churches, yet racial injustices persist. Why? Because geographic structures and systems create barriers to reconciliation and prevent the flourishing of our communities.Race and Place reveals the profound ways in which these geographic forces and structures sustain the divisions among us. Urban missiologist ...

  • The Heart of Racial Justice Bible Study, By Brenda Salter McNeil and Rick Richardson The Heart of Racial Justice Bible Study, By Brenda Salter McNeil and Rick Richardson
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    The Heart of Racial Justice Bible Study

    IVP Signature Bible Studies

    by Brenda Salter McNeil and Rick Richardson
    With Steve Tamayo

    For Christians, pursuing racial justice and reconciliation begins with following Scripture and the voice of the Holy Spirit. Transformation starts in each individual and community as we ask God to give us new eyes and hearts.

    These five studies, adapted by Steve Tamayo, are based on the groundbreaking book The Heart of Racial Justice by Brenda Salter McNeil and Rick ...

    Number of Studies: 5

  • 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.

  • Forgiving As We've Been Forgiven: Community Practices for Making Peace, By L. Gregory Jones and Célestin Musekura
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    Forgiving As We've Been Forgiven

    Community Practices for Making Peace

    Resources for Reconciliation

    by L. Gregory Jones and Célestin Musekura

    Christians are supposed to forgive others as we've been forgiven. But hearing the call to forgive is different from knowing how to practice forgiveness at home and in the world. Forgiveness is about more than the isolated acts and words of individuals. To forgive and be forgiven, we need communal practices and disciplines for a way of life that makes for peace.Greg Jones and Célestin Musekura describe ...