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Academics, the media and diplomats are turning to Os Guinness, a prominent social critic and author of The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity, for his insights into one of the most pressing issues of our time—religious expression and tolerance. Guinness will be the featured speaker at the International Prayer Breakfast for the opening day of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday, September 17.
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Reckoning with global issues like refugee crises, global conflicts, human trafficking, and human rights violations can feel overwhelming. Here, you'll find books that offer thoughtful, hopeful, and practical guidance for our thinking and action about these issues and more.
PaperbackYou Welcomed Me
Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us
by Kent Annan
"Wait, Dad. Are we for them or against them?"
Kent Annan was talking with his eight-year-old son about the immigrant and refugee crises around the world. His son's question, innocent enough in the moment, is writ large across our society today. How we answer it, Annan says, will reveal a lot about what kind of family, community, or country we want to be.
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PaperbackWindow on the World
An Operation World Prayer Resource
Operation World Resources
Edited by Molly Wall and Jason Mandryk
Teach Kids to Pray for the World with Window on the World
Window on the World is your ticket to travel the globe! If you've appreciated Operation World as an adult, the kids in your life will lovethis invaluable and age-appropriate prayer resource that develops cultural, political, and geographical awareness through a Christian lens. Find out how ...
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Seminary shaped Makayla Payne in countless ways, but one of the greatest gifts it gave her was how it deepened her appreciation for different church traditions and global perspectives. Read these five ways that theological education can expand your outlook and introduce you to impactful resources for Scripture study.
PaperbackIn Search of Christ in Latin America
From Colonial Image to Liberating Savior
by Samuel Escobar
Foreword by C. René PadillaTen Outstanding Books in Mission Studies, World Christianity and Intercultural Theology for 2019—International Bulletin of Mission Research
Noted theologian Samuel Escobar offers a magisterial survey andstudy of Christology in Latin America. Starting with the first Spanish influence and moving through popular religiosity and liberationist themes in Catholic and Protestant ...
PaperbackGod on Campus
Sacred Causes Global Effects
by Trent Sheppard
Afterword by Pete Greig"Let every student be plainly instructed . . . to consider well the main end of . . . life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life . . . and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning."-Harvard College Laws, 1642There was a time when Harvard was considered a holy place and Princeton trained prophets, when students and ...
PaperbackEvangelical Postcolonial Conversations
Global Awakenings in Theology and Praxis
Edited by Kay Higuera Smith, Jayachitra Lalitha, and L. Daniel Hawk
Colonialism involves more than just territorial domination. It also creates cultural space that silences and disenfranchises those who do not hold power. This process of subjugation continues today in various forms of neocolonialism, such as globalization. Postcolonialism arose in the latter half of the twentieth century to challenge the problem of coloniality at the level of our language and our ...
PaperbackCradling Abundance
One African Christian's Story of Empowering Women and Fighting Systemic Poverty
by Monique Misenga Ngoie Mukuna
With Elsie Anne McKeeGrowing up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Monique Misenga Ngoie Mukuna persevered through many challenges: political turmoil and violence, misogyny and patriarchy, lack of community resources and personal loss. As she carved out a life for herself, her family, and her community, she kept seeing the same story played out for women vulnerable and trapped in poverty. Every system ...
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To understand our roles in God's global mission, we first need to understand that mission. In this article, author Paul Borthwick shares eight ways that John 3:16 describes the missionary heart of God so that we can find our place as missionaries and disciples in God's kingdom.
