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Zion Lester
Zion Lester became interested in her dad's work on a Saturday morning when she was seven years old. Since then, she has grown to become a community leader, writer, and speaker. She has also continued to regularly serve with Love Beyond Walls and encourages others her age and younger to volunteer too.
PaperbackWho Moved My Neighborhood?
Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change
by Mark E. Strong
Foreword by Harold Calvin RayNeighborhoods are moving. While neighborhood changes can mean exciting and fresh opportunities for some, the experience can be vastly different for long-time residents. The rapid movement of people means changes in employment, economics, landscape, demographics, and the feel of a community. Churches often experience the painful impact of these shifts. Depending on how a church navigates ...
PaperbackWhat They Don't Always Teach You at a Christian College
Short Reflections on Priorities, Roommates, Dating, Family, Friendships, Discipleship and more
by Keith R. Anderson
Students and parents often have high expectations of the Christian college experience. They imagine professors who are spiritual mentors, roommates who are spiritual kin, and a host of other ideal relationships and environments which will combineto boost their growth to maturity.The truth is that a Christian college, like any other college or university, is an exciting, unpredictable and scary place. ...
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Common perception holds that the Western church is dying. But there is a movement that has escaped traditional measures of success as neighborhood parishes spring up in the everyday life of cities all over North America. Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, and Dwight J. Friesen detail this phenomenon in their book The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community.
PaperbackCrossing Cultures with Jesus
Sharing Good News with Sensitivity and Grace
by Katie J. Rawson
You can be a missionary by crossing an ocean or by crossing the street.We now have unprecedented opportunities to meet people from every culture and nation. International study and global migration allow us to build relationships with Buddhists and Muslims, students from Singapore and workers from the Middle East. But how do we share the gospel with people from different cultures and worldviews?Crosscultural ...
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Stuart McAllister
Stuart McAllister is a speaker and writer. Since becoming a Christian in his home country of Scotland in 1977, he has traveled the globe, first smuggling Bibles and Christian resources to churches behind the Iron Curtain. Throughout almost forty-five years of ministry, he has spoken to students, business professionals, and government and community leaders. He has been a frequent contributor to many publications including writing chapters for the books Beyond Opinion and Global Missiology for the 21st Century.
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Michael J. Rhodes
Michael J. Rhodes (PhD, Trinity College/University of Aberdeen) is the lecturer in Old Testament at Carey Baptist College. He is the author of Formative Feasting: Practices and Virtue Ethics in Deuteronomy's Tithe Meal and the Corinthian Lord's Supper; Practicing the King's Economy: Honoring Jesus in the Way We Work, Earn, Spend, Save, and Give (with Brian Fikkert and Robby Holt); and numerous articles in popular outlets such as Christianity Today and The Biblical Mind. Rhodes has spent more than fourteen years involved in community development and urban ministry work, and is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. He currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand with his wife, Rebecca, and theirfour children.
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Mekdes Haddis
Mekdes Haddis is the founder and executive coach of Just Missions, an online community for missionaries, mission professionals, and ministry leaders seeking a more just approach to global mission. She is also project director for an effort workingon racial justice and reconciliation. She has been a consultant and on staff with churches and nonprofit organizations in discipleship and outreach. She and her family live in South Carolina.
PaperbackSlaves, Women & Homosexuals
Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis
by William J. Webb
Foreword by Darrell L. BockIn Slaves, Women & Homosexuals William J. Webb tackles some of the most complex and controversial issues that have challenged the Christian church--and still do.
He leads you through the maze of interpretation that has historically surrounded understanding of slaves, women and homosexuals, and he evaluates various approaches to these and other biblical-ethical teachings. Throughout, ...
