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  • The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry, By Mandy Smith
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    The Vulnerable Pastor

    How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry

    by Mandy Smith
    Foreword by David Hansen

    Missio Alliance Essential Reading List

    Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books

    ProdigalThought.net's Top Reads

    Englewood Review of Books Best Books

    Leadership Journal's Best Ministry Books of the Year

    Often as pastors we feel like we need to project strength and competency in order ...

  • Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age, By Alan Noble
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    Disruptive 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" us ...

  • Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times, By Soong-Chan Rah
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    Prophetic Lament

    A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

    by Soong-Chan Rah
    Foreword by Brenda Salter McNeil

    Missio Alliance Essential Reading List
    Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books
    RELEVANT's Top 10 Books
    Englewood Review of Books Best Books

    When Soong-Chan Rah planted an urban church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his first full sermon series was a six-week exposition of the book of Lamentations. Preaching on an obscure, depressing Old Testament book was ...

  • An Explorer's Guide to Julian of Norwich, By Veronica Mary Rolf
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    An Explorer's Guide to Julian of Norwich

    Explorer's Guides

    by Veronica Mary Rolf

    IVP Readers' Choice Award
    Publishers Weekly Starred Review

    "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."

    Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love is truly an astounding work: an inspired example of Christian mysticism, a unique contribution to Christian theology, the first book in English known ...

  • God Is Great, God Is Good: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible, Edited by William Lane Craig and Chad Meister
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    God Is Great, God Is Good

    Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible

    Edited by William Lane Craig and Chad Meister

    2011 Outreach Magazine Book Award Winner

    2010 Christianity Today Book Award Winner

    The days have passed when the goodness of God--indeed, the reality of God itself--could reasonably be called a consensus opinion. God's reputation has come under considerable review in recent days, with some going so far as to say that it's not we who've ...

  • The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct, By Ruth Everhart
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    The #MeToo Reckoning

    Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct

    by Ruth Everhart

    2020 Publishers Weekly Book of the Year—Religion

    "Everhart’s unsparing analysis will be helpful for both ministers and lay readers who are concerned about sexual abuse." — ★ Publishers Weekly Starred Review

    The #MeToo movement has revealed sexual abuse and assault in every sphere of society, including the church. But victims are routinely ignored ...

  • Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience, By Sheila Wise Rowe
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    Healing Racial Trauma

    The Road to Resilience

    by Sheila Rowe
    Foreword by Soong-Chan Rah

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award - Multicultural
    Christianity Today Book Award - Christian Living/Discipleship Award
    Publishers Weekly starred review

    "People of color have endured traumatic histories and almost daily assaults on our dignity. We have prayed about racism, been in denial, or acted out in anger, ...

  • Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul, By Mark Glanville
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    Improvising Church

    Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul

    by Mark R Glanville

    Word Guild Award Winner—Academic

    Englewood Review of Books Best Theology Book of the Year

    Plenty of books diagnose our post-Christian malaise. Here's a dynamic solution.

    The post-Christian cultural turn is creating the conditions for a crisis of confidence in the church and in pastoral ministry. While such changes can be disruptive ...

  • Black Woman Grief: A Guide to Hope and Wholeness, By Natasha Smith
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    Black Woman Grief

    A Guide to Hope and Wholeness

    by Natasha Smith
    Foreword by Quantrilla Ard

    "This excellent book skillfully showcases Smith’s method for identifying and healing from grief and finding wholeness." – Library Journal Review, January 2025

    Dear Black woman, you are not alone.

    God has not disregarded your pain and suffering. God sees you. God knows you. God understands.

    In Black Woman Grief, Natasha Smith unearths a ...