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  • A Beginner's Guide to Crossing Cultures: Making Friends in a Multicultural World, By Patty Lane
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    A Beginner's Guide to Crossing Cultures

    Making Friends in a Multicultural World

    by Patty Lane

    The global village has arrived.Recent census figures show that communities in the United States are more culturally and ethnically diverse than ever before. And you may be just one of many who find it challenging to build relationships with peoplefrom backgrounds unlike your own.

    • How do you befriend an international student or a new coworker from a different country?
    • What can ...
  • The Gospel and Pluralism Today: Reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in the 21st Century, Edited by Scott W. Sunquist and Amos Yong
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    The Gospel and Pluralism Today

    Reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in the 21st Century

    Missiological Engagements

    Edited by Scott W. Sunquist and Amos Yong

    Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Theology

    Toward the end of the twentieth century, Lesslie Newbigin offered a penetrating analysis of the challenges of pluralism that confronted a Western culture and society reeling from the dissolution of Christendom. His enormous influence has been felt ever since. Newbigin (1909-1998) was a longtime Church of Scotland missionary ...

  • Spiritual Theology: A Systematic Study of the Christian Life, By Simon  Chan
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    Spiritual Theology

    A Systematic Study of the Christian Life

    by Simon Chan

    Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten Book

    Theology is "the doctrine of living unto God," wrote the Puritan theologian William Ames. Unfortunately, post-Enlightenment theology has tended to divorce "doctrine" from "living unto God." And to the degree that this split has been deepened and perpetuated, both theology and spirituality have been impoverished.

    Spiritual Theology ...

  • Making Peace with the Land: God's Call to Reconcile with Creation, By Fred Bahnson and Norman Wirzba
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    Making Peace with the Land

    God's Call to Reconcile with Creation

    Resources for Reconciliation

    by Fred Bahnson and Norman Wirzba
    Foreword by Bill McKibben

    God is reconciling all things in heaven and on earth.We are alienated not only from one another, but also from the land that sustains us. Our ecosystems are increasingly damaged, and human bodies are likewise degraded. Most of us have little understanding of how our energy is derived or our food is produced, and many of our current industrialized practices are both unhealthy for our bodies and unsustainable ...