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David W. Swanson
David W. Swanson is the pastor of New Community Covenant Church, a multicultural congregation in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. He helps lead New Community Outreach, a nonprofit that collaborates with the community to reduce sources of trauma, and he speaks around the country on the topics of racial justice and reconciliation. He is the author of Rediscipling the White Church, and he has written articles for Christianity Today, the Englewood Review of Books, and theCovenant Companion. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two sons.
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Advances in Church-Related Higher Education
The Advances in Church-Related Higher Education series provides resources for collegiate educators committed to those time-consuming processes in ways that discern the opportunities and challenges that define the age in which they find themselves serving.
Each volume is framed by a collaborative and ecumenical appreciation for the riches found in the church’s theological and liturgical practices and, in turn, insights from across the disciplines. These efforts offer frameworks for practice and further research on topics relevant to all educators including, for example, the roles hope, mentors, and public intellectuals play when serving in Christ’s name.
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Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard (1935-2013) was a professor in the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. A highly influential author and teacher, Willard was as celebrated for his enduring writings on spiritual formation as he was for his scholarship. His books include The Divine Conspiracy, The Spirit of the Disciplines and Hearing God. 
PaperbackDaughters of Hope
Stories of Witness Courage in the Face of Persecution
by Kay Marshall Strom and Michele Rickett
Throughout the world today, Christians continue to face intense persecution, and Christian women are often the most vulnerable. In Pakistan, Christian girls are systematically kidnapped, tortured and raped. In China, underground church leaders aresent to labor camps for hosting illegal home meetings. In Sudan, Christian women are captured and sold into slavery or mutilated and left to die. And in ...
PaperbackMore Than Equals
Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel
The IVP Signature Collection
by Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice
"The first step in the reconciliation process," Spencer Perkins writes, "is admitting that the race problem exists and that our inability to deal with race has weakened the credibility of our gospel."
When longtime ministry partners and friends Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice began writing More Than Equals in the early 1990s, their goal was to offer an example of how ...
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The Academy of Parish Clergy, Inc. has chosen Reading the Bible Around the World: A Student's Guide to Global Hermeneutics as one of its Top Five Reference Books as part of its Book of the Year Awards.
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Mariah Humphries is a citizen of the Mvskoke Nation, writer, lecturer, and speaker whose work explores the intersections of spiritual formation and justice. Drawing from her lived experience navigating both Native and White American contexts, Mariah invites audiences to consider how faith can confront inequity and embody justice.
PaperbackParenting
Loving Our Children with God's Love
LifeGuide Bible Studies
by Richard Patterson Jr.
Parenting is hard work, full of tough choices and new situations. And many voices compete with ours for our children's attention. In a rapidly changing world, how can we parent in a way that will cause our children to love Christ deeply and live for him? These nine-session LifeGuide® Bible Study by Richard Patterson Jr. address nine parenting challenges, pointing us directly to time-tested truth ...
Number of Studies: 9
PaperbackStrangers Next Door
Immigration, Migration and Mission
by J. D. Payne
More than ever, North America is being flooded by people from all around the world, many of them here illegally. How should the church respond to these sojourners among us?
In Strangers Next Door professor of evangelism and church planting J. D. Payne introduces the phenomenon of migrations of peoples to Western nations and explores how the church should respond in light of the mission ...
PaperbackWeathering Change
Seeking Peace Amid Life’s Tough Transitions
by Courtney Ellis
Foreword by Lore Ferguson Wilbert"Ellis has written another exquisite contemplation; shelve this alongside her earlier works, books by Anne Lamott, and Barbara Mahany’s The Book of Nature (2023)." — Booklist Review, December 2025
“In this beautiful book, Courtney Ellis brings us along with her on a journey through weather, the seasons, the land, and the inhabitants of this earth we call ...
