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  • The State of Missiology Today: Global Innovations in Christian Witness, Edited by Charles E. Van Engen
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    The State of Missiology Today

    Global Innovations in Christian Witness

    Missiological Engagements

    Edited by Charles E. Van Engen

    Mission is constantly innovating.

    As contexts change, so too does the work of the church. Today, in the face of a rapidly changing world and a growing global church, the task of mission must continue to innovate in unexpected ways.The State of Missiology Today explores the developments and transformations in the study and practice of mission. Looking both backwards—especially over ...

  • The Gospel and Pluralism Today: Reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in the 21st Century, Edited by Scott W. Sunquist and Amos Yong
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    The Gospel and Pluralism Today

    Reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in the 21st Century

    Missiological Engagements

    Edited by Scott W. Sunquist and Amos Yong

    Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Theology

    Toward the end of the twentieth century, Lesslie Newbigin offered a penetrating analysis of the challenges of pluralism that confronted a Western culture and society reeling from the dissolution of Christendom. His enormous influence has been felt ever since. Newbigin (1909-1998) was a longtime Church of Scotland missionary ...

  • Family Ministry: A Comprehensive Guide, By Diana R. Garland
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    Family Ministry

    A Comprehensive Guide

    by Diana R. Garland

    North American families are in crisis, and the need for family ministry is more evident than ever. In her many years of ministry, research and teaching, author Diana Garland has found that the strength of Christian families is rooted in their faith and nurtured in their congregations. Garland believes that Christian families gain strength in part because of their communities of faith.Twelve years ...

  • No Longer Strangers: Finding Belonging in a World of Alienation, By Gregory Coles
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    No Longer Strangers

    Finding Belonging in a World of Alienation

    by Gregory Coles
    Foreword by Jen Pollock Michel

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    Belonging has never come easy to me.

    Growing up, there was my mutated national identity to deal with—my not-quite-American, not-quite-Indonesian soul, restless in both countries. Later, when I came out as a celibate gay Christian, I found I didn't fit into the church as easily as I used to. I've often wondered what it ...

  • Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion, By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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    Reconstructing the Gospel

    Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion

    by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
    Foreword by William J. Barber

    2018 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 for ...

  • Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity, By Robert Chao Romero
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    Brown Church

    Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity

    by Robert Chao Romero

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist

    Interest in and awareness of the demand for social justice as an outworking of the Christian faith is growing. But it is not new.

    For five hundred years, Latina/o culture and identity have been shaped by their challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo, whether in opposition ...

  • The Art of Lent: A Painting a Day from Ash Wednesday to Easter, By Sister Wendy Beckett
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    The Art of Lent

    A Painting a Day from Ash Wednesday to Easter

    by Sister Wendy Beckett

    A Visual and Spiritual Companion for Lent

    This delightful book describes and interprets a series of forty full-color paintings for each day of Lent. Artists often address subjects that our culture seeks to avoid, and the brilliant and perceptive reflections from nun and art historian Sister Wendy Beckett will help you to read these paintings with a more discerning eye and ...

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