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PaperbackIglesia mestiza
Cinco siglos de justicia social, teología e identidad latina
by Robert Chao Romero
Foreword by Justo L. Gonzalez
Translated by Jesus Escudero NavaEstá creciendo el interés, la conciencia y la demanda por el conocimiento de que la justicia social es algo que sale de la fe cristiana. Pero esto no es algo nuevo.
Por quinientos años la cultura e identidad latina han sidomoldeadas por sus desafíos al statu quo religioso, socioeconómico y político, ya sea en oposición al colonialismo español, las dictaduras latinoamericanas, ...
PaperbackMapping Church Missions
A Compass for Ministry Strategy
by Sharon R. Hoover
Foreword by Paul BorthwickThe terrain of church missions is often bewildering.Should we prioritize evangelism or works of service? Local ministries or overseas missions? What's more important: giving our money or giving our time? Crisis relief or buildingsustainable, long-term ministries? And what about the often debated pros and cons of short-term missions trips?In Mapping Church Missions, Sharon ...
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Al Lopus
Al Lopus is the president and CEO of the Best Christian Workplaces Institute (BCWI), which provides research-based measurement tools and strategic advisory services with a single vision: to help Christian organizations set the standard as the best, most effective workplaces in the world. At BCWI, Al has pioneered the broadest-ever employee engagement survey of Christian workers. To date, the survey has involved more than 1,000 Christian organizations, with employees completing over 300,000 survey questionnaires.Prior to cofounding BCWI, Al served for over twenty years in leadership roles with the global human resource consulting firm Watson Wyatt (now Willis Towers Watson), where he built a reputation for his vision and implementation ofhuman capital programs for clients such as Boeing, Alaska Airlines, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and USAA. A former board member of Christian Leadership Alliance, Al currently serves on the association's advisory council. He also served on the Board of Trustees for Virginia Mason Medical Center, a 5,000-employee, award-winning healthcare organization. He and his wife, Kathy, are the parents of two adult daughters.
PaperbackCross-Cultural Conflict
Building Relationships for Effective Ministry
by Duane H Elmer
Whether at home or abroad, communicating with people of other cultures is difficult. It requires new ways of thinking and interpreting the world. When conflict arises, as it often does, the issues become even more confusing. Without a good understanding of how different cultures handle conflict, our best intentions may only make matters worse.
With a particular focus on Asian and Hispanic ...
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David P. Leong
David P. Leong (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is associate professor of missiology at Seattle Pacific University and Seminary, where he also serves as the director of the Global and Urban Ministry minor. He previously served in churches in urban Seattle through ministries focused on community groups and neighborhood involvement. As a scholar and practitioner, Leong examines the theological meaning of the city in an increasingly globalized and urbanized world. At the intersection of intercultural and missiological discourse, he sees the city as a rich context for theological reflection about topics ranging from hip hop and the built environment to multiculturalism and missional ecclesiology. He is the author of Street Signs: Toward a Missional Theology of Urban Cultural Engagement, and he lives in Seattle's Rainier Valley with his wife and two sons.
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Christianity Today has released the winners of its 2023 Book Awards and InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce that it received top honors in three categories: Church and Pastoral Leadership, Marriage and Family, and Politics and Public Life.
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Tara Beth Leach
Tara Beth Leach (MDiv, Northern Seminary) is a pastor, author, and speaker. The senior pastor at Good Shepherd Church (Naperville, Illinois), she has also served communities in the Chicago suburbs as well as Southern California. As the author of Emboldened, Radiant Church, and Forty Days on Being a Six, the cofounder of Propel Ecclesia, and cohost of The Pastor's Table podcast, Tara Beth writes and speaks widely about women in ministry and church leadership. She hastwo beautiful and rambunctious sons and has been married to the love of her life, Jeff, since 2006.
EbookThe Church as Movement
Starting and Sustaining Missional-Incarnational Communities
by JR Woodward and Dan White Jr.
Foreword by Alan HirschIVP Readers' Choice Award
Missio Alliance Essential Reading ListPublic gatherings are vital for movement, but too often in our approach to planting churches, we haven't paid enough attention to the difficult grassrootswork of movement: discipleship, community formation, and mission. This book will help you start missional-incarnational communities in a way that reflects ...
PaperbackDisruptive Witness
Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age
by Alan Noble
2018 WORLD Magazine Book of the Year—Accessible Theology
2018 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
★ Publishers Weekly Starred review
We live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits—and devices—that distract and "buffer" ...
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Nikole Lim
Nikole Lim is a speaker, educator, and consultant on leveraging dignity through the restorative art of storytelling. She is the founder and international director of Freely In Hope, a nonprofit organization dedicated to equipping survivors and advocates to lead in ending sexual violence through their rewritten stories. Nikole graduated with a degree in film production from Loyola Marymount University and is currently pursuing a masters in global leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary.
