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  • Young, Gifted, and Black: A Journey of Lament and Celebration, By Sheila Wise Rowe Young, Gifted, and Black: A Journey of Lament and Celebration, By Sheila Wise Rowe
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    Young, Gifted, and Black

    A Journey of Lament and Celebration

    by Sheila Wise Rowe

    "Young, gifted and black,
    Open your heart to what I mean . . . "

    Nina Simone's popular anthem from the civil rights movement speaks to both the celebrations and trials of the Black experience.

    Young, Gifted, and Black gives voice to the real-life stories of Black millennials and younger adults. If life was a race, it's assumed that every runner has a fair ...

  • The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity, By Soong-Chan Rah The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity, By Soong-Chan Rah
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    The Next Evangelicalism

    Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity

    by Soong-Chan Rah

    • 2010 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner

    The future is now. Philip Jenkins has chronicled how the next Christendom has shifted away from the Western church toward the global South and East. Likewise, changing demographics mean that North American society will accelerate its diversity in terms of race, ethnicity and culture. But evangelicalism has long been held captive ...

  • Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism, By George A. Yancey Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism, By George A. Yancey
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    Beyond Racial Division

    A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism

    by George Yancey

    Christianity Today Book Award—Politics and Public Life

    Efforts at colorblindness and antiracism have not been very effective in addressing racial tensions in the United States.

    Colorblindness ignores the realities of race and the history of injustice. On the other hand, antiracism centers racial concerns and in so doing often alienates people ...

  • The Riches of Your Grace: Living in the Book of Common Prayer, By Julie Lane-Gay The Riches of Your Grace: Living in the Book of Common Prayer, By Julie Lane-Gay
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    The Riches of Your Grace

    Living in the Book of Common Prayer

    by Julie Lane-Gay

    Word Guild Award Winner—Christian Living—Personal Growth

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    An Invitation into God's Grace

    As we race to work in the morning, have coffee with a friend, or fall into bed exhausted, we want to feel God's presence, to sink into his grace. Yet too often he feels aloof, absent. Our prayers feel trivial. ...

  • The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry, By Andrew Root and Kenda Creasy Dean
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    The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry

    by Andrew Root and Kenda Creasy Dean

    Christianity Today Book Award of Merit winner

    What haunts your youth group? So often we avoid talking about doubts and fears because we feel inadequately equipped to address them in any meaningful way. Thecrisis of existence can't be answered with pat Sunday school formulas or a few Bible verses, let alone another relay race.

    The questions our youth ...

  • Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Epic Challenge to the Church, By Edward Gilbreath Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Epic Challenge to the Church, By Edward Gilbreath
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    Birmingham Revolution

    Martin Luther King Jr.'s Epic Challenge to the Church

    by Edward Gilbreath

    From time to time prophetic Christian voices rise to challenge our nation's "original sin." In the twentieth century, compelled by the Spirit of God and a yearning for freedom, the African American church took the lead in heralding the effort. Like almost no other movement before or since, Christian people gave force to a social mission. And, remarkably, they did it largely through nonviolent actions. ...

  • All God's Children: How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity, By Terence Lester All God's Children: How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity, By Terence Lester
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    All God's Children

    How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity

    by Terence Lester
    Foreword by Daniel Hill

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

    The more you understand someone's history, the better you can see their humanity. This is true for individuals as well as for society at large. Race relations have suffered because of the erasure of important Black history and cultural context. As we fill in the gaps of our collective knowledge, communities ...