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HardbackThe Way Up Is Down
Becoming Yourself by Forgetting Yourself
by Marlena Graves
Christianity Today Award of Merit in Spiritual Formation
"Now, with God's help, I shall become myself."
These words from Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard resonate deeply with Marlena Graves, a Puerto Rican writer, professor, and activist. In these pages she describes the process of emptying herself that allows her to move upward toward God ...
PaperbackA Future for the Latino Church
Models for Multilingual, Multigenerational Hispanic Congregations
by Daniel A. Rodriguez
Foreword by Manuel OrtizMany assume that Hispanic ministry in North America still necessarily focuses on Spanish-language congregations. But over 60 percent of all American Latinos were born in the United States and are now English dominant.
Daniel Rodriguez argues that effective Latino ministry and church planting are now centered in second-generation, English-dominant leadership and congregations. Based on his ...
PaperbackMixed Blessing
Embracing the Fullness of Your Multiethnic Identity
by Chandra Crane
Foreword by Jemar TisbyECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
"So what are you?"
Chandra Crane knows what it's like to get that question. She has a Thai birth father, a European American mother, and an African American father who adopted her when she was five. With this mixed multiethnic and multicultural background, she has keenly felt the otherness of never quite fitting in. Where ...
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Robert C. Bishop
Robert C. Bishop (PhD, University of Texas) is associate professor of physics and philosophy and the John and Madeleine McIntyre Endowed Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Wheaton College. His research interests include the physicaland social sciences, particularly the implications of science and its assumptions for theories of mind, free will and consciousness. Bishop is the author of The Philosophy of the Social Science and co-editor of Between Chance and Choice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Determinism.Widely published in scientific and religious journals, Bishop is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Scientific Affiliation and the Philosophy of Science Association. He is also the area editor for philosophy of science at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Christopher Boyd Brown
Christopher Boyd Brown (PhD, Harvard University) is associate professor of church history at Boston University School of Theology. He is the author of Singing the Gospel: Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation and the general editor of the American edition of Luther's Works.
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Richard F. Lovelace
Richard F. Lovelace (ThD, Princeton) was emeritus professor of church history at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. His books include The American Pietism of Cotton Mather and Renewal as a Way of Life: A Guidebook for Spiritual Growth.
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Marybeth Baggett
Marybeth Baggett (PhD, Indiana University of Pennsylvania) is professor of English at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. She is the coauthor of At the Bend of the River Grand and the editor of They Hummed of Mystery: Representations of Faith in the Contemporary American Novel.
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Thabiti M. Anyabwile
Thabiti M. Anyabwile is senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. Thabiti has a strong professional and academic background in community psychology, with special interest in the history and development of the African American church.
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