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  • A Credible Witness: Reflections on Power, Evangelism and Race, By Brenda Salter McNeil
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    A Credible Witness

    Reflections on Power, Evangelism and Race

    by Brenda Salter McNeil
    Foreword by Tony Campolo

    Meet Jesus and Sam.Evangelist and teacher Brenda Salter McNeil thinks evangelism that only introduces people to Jesus is incomplete. The picture is much larger than that, she claims: Christ's death and resurrection reconcile us to God andto each other across gender, race and social lines.Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman, introduced here as Brenda's friend Sam, gives you the full ...

  • Faith Like a Child: Embracing Our Lives as Children of God, By Lacy Finn Borgo
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    Faith Like a Child

    Embracing Our Lives as Children of God

    by Lacy Finn Borgo

    Embrace the invitation of childlike faith. A well-known challenge of Jesus to his followers is to become like little children. But it's often difficult to remember the natural patterns of our childhood selves that enabled us to live freely in God's wonder-filled presence. Is childlike faith simply an unquestioning faith, or is it being present with ourselves in a way that invites ...

  • The Pastor as Midwife: Life-Giving Leadership for the Healing of the Church, By Shawna Songer Gaines
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    The Pastor as Midwife

    Life-Giving Leadership for the Healing of the Church

    by Shawna Songer Gaines

    Lessons from Midwives for Pastoral Leadership

    We find ourselves in a moment in which the church is in great pain. Congregations are dwindling, denominations are fracturing, and church scandals have become all too common. We need a new imagination to capture the hopefulness of God birthing something new in the midst of the pain of the old creation.

    In ...

  • Is Christianity the White Man's Religion?: How the Bible Is Good News for People of Color, By Antipas L. Harris
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    Is Christianity the White Man's Religion?

    How the Bible Is Good News for People of Color

    by Antipas L Harris

    Among many young people of color, there is a growing wariness about organized religion and Christianity in particular. If Christianity is for everyone, why does the Bible seem to endorse slavery? Why do most popular images of Jesus feature a man with white skin and blue eyes? Is evangelical Christianity "good news" or a tool of white supremacy?As our society increases in ethnic ...

  • Coming to Peace with Psychology: What Christians Can Learn from Psychological Science, By Everett L. Worthington Jr.
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    Coming to Peace with Psychology

    What Christians Can Learn from Psychological Science

    by Everett L. Worthington Jr.

    Religion and science have often been at odds. In particular, Christianity and psychology have not always gotten along. Some Christians are still suspicious of psychological findings. But researcher Everett Worthington argues that Christians can know people better--and even know God better--through psychological science. Worthington suggests that the relationship between psychological science and ...

  • God's Rivals: Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church, By Gerald R. McDermott
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    God's Rivals

    Why Has God Allowed Different Religions? Insights from the Bible and the Early Church

    by Gerald R. McDermott

    In the providence of God, why are there other religions? Was the God of the Bible wise in allowing for them? Can they serve any purpose?

    Gerald R. McDermott explores reflection on teaching from the Old and New Testaments and from a number of key teachers from the early church to suggest an answer to this perplexing but intriguing question. In the end McDermott provides considerable insight ...

  • Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, By Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
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    Unsettling Truths

    The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

    by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
    American Society of Missiology Book Award
    Publishers Weekly starred review

    You cannot discover lands already inhabited.

    Injustice has plagued American societyfor centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions. In ...