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Noel Castellanos
Noel Castellanos has worked in full-time ministry in Latino, urban communities since 1982, serving in youth ministry, church planting, advocacy and community development in San Francisco, San Jose and Chicago. He is chief executive officer of Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) and was the founding pastor of Chicago?s La Villita Community Church. In addition to being a popular speaker, Castellanos mentors young leaders across the United States and directs the CCDA Institute, training emerging leaders in the Christian Community Development philosophy. He was appointed to serve on President Obama's Council for Faith and Neighborhood Partnerships and has served as the chaplain for the Chicago Cubs. He has a deep passion to serve and invest in the lives of leaders committed to serving the poor. Noel is the coauthor of A Heart for the Community and New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry and has contributed to various other books and publications including Deep Justice in a Broken World, A Heart for the City, and Crazy Enough to Care. He and his wife, Marianne, have three children and make their home in the barrio of La Villita in Chicago.
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MaryKate Morse
MaryKate Morse is professor of leadership and spiritual formation at George Fox Evangelical Seminary and director of strategic planning at George Fox University in Portland, Oregon. She is a trained spiritual director and serves as a consultant tochurches and organizations. She is also the author of Making Room for Leadership.
PaperbackSlow Church
Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus
by C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison
Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-HartgroveReaders' Choice Award Winner
Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
Fast food. Fast cars. Fast and furious. Fast forward. Fast . . . church?
The church is oftenidealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our ...
PaperbackFaith That Lasts
A Father and Son on Cultivating Lifelong Belief
by Cameron McAllister and Stuart McAllister
Foreword by Chris Brooks"Please fix my kid."In their work as Christian apologists, father and son Stuart and Cameron McAllister have heard many variations on this theme from concerned parents. It's a sentiment lots of Christian parents can relate to—a deep and fearful sense of their own inadequacy to raise their children in the faith amid a seductive culture that's often hostile to Christianity.In Faith ...
PaperbackCharitable Writing
Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words
by Richard Hughes Gibson and James E. Beitler III
Afterword by Alan Jacobs
Foreword by Anne Ruggles GereECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
Our written words carry weight.
Unfortunately, in today's cultural climate, our writing is too often laced with harsh judgments and vitriol rather than careful consideration and generosity. But might the Christian faith transform how we approach the task of writing? How might we love God and our neighbors through our writing?
This ...
PaperbackAre You Waiting for "The One"?
Cultivating Realistic, Positive Expectations for Christian Marriage
by Margaret Kim Peterson and Dwight N. Peterson
Does God want to write your love story?Well, maybe not—especially not if it is the culture's romanticized ideal of happily ever after! Margaret and Dwight Peterson help us sort out the difference between how our surrounding society often depicts marriage and how Christians really should approach this particular gift of God to all humanity. They guide us through many aspects of a growing, maturing ...
PaperbackCreating Cultures of Belonging
Cultivating Organizations Where Women and Men Thrive
by Beth Birmingham and Eeva Sallinen Simard
Foreword by Emily SarmientoWith increasing interest from donors and board members to see faith-based, missional organizations reflect the diversity of God's kingdom, these organizations desire to have women in positions of leadership. However, this proves difficult when the organizational culture is one that silences and even penalizes the unique giftings that women bring to the table.
Many organizations ...
PaperbackAnalog Christian
Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age
by Jay Y. Kim
Foreword by Dan KimballThe Gospel Coaltion Award of Distinction—Christian Living
Outreach Resource of the Year
The digital age is in the business of commodifying our attention. The technologies of our day are determined to keep us scrolling and swiping at all costs, plugged into a feedback loop of impatience, comparison, outrage, and contempt. Blind to the ...
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Todd C. Ream
Todd C. Ream serves at Indiana Wesleyan University as university professor, executive director of faculty scholarship, and a senior fellow for the Lumen Research Institute. 
PaperbackCulture Care
Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life
by Makoto Fujimura
Foreword by Mark LabbertonOutreach Magazine Resource of the Year
Christianity Today's Book of the Year Award of Merit"Culture is not a territory to be won or lost but a resource we are called to steward with care. Culture is a garden to be cultivated."
Many bemoan the decay of culture. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it ...
