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PaperbackPermission to Be Black
My Journey with Jay-Z and Jesus
by Adam David Thomason
Embracing your Christian identity does not make you "soft." Embracing your Black identity does not make you less Christian.
Throughout American history, Black people were not given the freedom to acknowledge their suffering. A. D. Thomason believes that the Holy Spirit brings freedom and liberation as we're able to name our pain, recognize its roots in history and society, ...
PaperbackThe Image of God in an Image Driven Age
Explorations in Theological Anthropology
Wheaton Theology Conference Series
Edited by Beth Felker Jones and Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Whether on the printed page, the television screen or the digital app, we live in a world saturated with images.Some images help shape our understanding of ourselves and the world around us in positive ways, while others lead us astray and distortour relationships. Christians confess that human beings have been created in the image of God, yet we chose to rebel against that God and so became unfaithful ...
PaperbackExperiencing Healing Prayer
How God Turns Our Hurts into Wholeness
by Rick Richardson
Foreword by Richard PeaceOne restless night Rick Richardson was disturbed throughout his sleep by an image of a man coming at him with a knife. Taking that image seriously set Rick on a profound journey of healing and prayer around issues of masculinity and relationships.Sometimes we feel spiritually numb, find ourselves emotionally dependent, struggle with addictive behavior, or see a trail of broken relationships behind ...
PaperbackDisunity in Christ
Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart
by Christena Cleveland
Leadership Journal Book Award
Readers' Choice Awards Honorable MentionDespite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ from the beginning to the present. We cluster in theological groups, gender groups, age groups, ethnic groups, educational and economic groups. We criticize freely those who disagree with ...
PaperbackBlack Man's Religion
Can Christianity Be Afrocentric?
by Glenn Usry and Craig S. Keener
Some say Christianity is white man's religion. . . .And it is true that there is a long and ugly history of abuse of African-Americans at the hands of Anglo Christians. Afrocentric interpretations of history often point to slavery, lynchings and the like as proof that Christianity is inherently antiblack.But Craig Keener and Glen Usry contend that Christianity can be Afrocentric. In this massively ...
PaperbackReconstructing the Gospel
Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Foreword by William J. Barber2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist—Multicultural
"I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided."
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news ...
PaperbackThe Heart of Racial Justice
How Soul Change Leads to Social Change
The IVP Signature Collection
by Rick Richardson and Brenda Salter McNeil
Foreword by John M. PerkinsRacial and ethnic hostility is one of the most pervasive problems the church faces. It hinders our effectiveness as one body of believers. It damages our witness. Why won't this problem just go away?Because it is a spiritual battle.In response, we must employ spiritual weapons—prayer, repentance, forgiveness. In this book Brenda Salter McNeil and Rick Richardson provide a model ...
PaperbackWhen God Became White
Dismantling Whiteness for a More Just Christianity
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Foreword by David P. GusheeWhen Western Christians think about God, the default image that comes to mind is usually white and male. How did that happen?
Christianity is rooted in the ancient Near East among people of darker skin. But over time, European Christians cast Jesus in their own image, with art that imagined a fair-skinned Savior in the style of imperial rulers. Grace Ji-Sun Kim explores the ...
PaperbackOwnership
The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield
by Sean McGever
Foreword by Vincent E. BacoteECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Award of Distinction–History and Biography
Men of their time?
Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield were the three most prominent early evangelicals—and all three were deeply compromised on the issue of slavery. Edwards and Whitefield both kept slaves ...
HardbackThe New Testament in Color
A Multiethnic Bible Commentary
Contributions by Lisa M. Bowens, Jordan J. Cruz Ryan, Jarvis J Williams, Gene L. Green, Eric Clark Redmond, M Sydney Park, Dennis R Edwards, Marcus Stephen Jerkins, Madison Pierce, Christin Joy Fort, Ekaputra Tupamahu, Rodolfo Galvan Estrada, Mateus de Campos, Daniel Ishmael Morrison, Julie Newberry Douce, T. Christopher Hoklotubbe, Daniel Zacharias, Michael Gorman, Kay Higuera Smith, Diane Chen, and Miguel Echevarría
Associate Editor Janette H. Ok, Osvaldo Padilla, and Amy Peeler
General Editor Esau McCaulleyChristianity Today Book Award—Biblical Studies
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention
SOLA Network's Asian American Book Awards Honorable Mention
In a first-of-its-kind volume, The New Testament in Color offers biblical commentary that is:
- Multiethnic ...
