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  • What does it look like to disrupt the church and world as we know it? The Disrupters podcast from IVP, features stories of positive disruption from both emerging and trusted voices within Christianity. These authors, pastors, scholars, activists, and creators tell their honest stories about the experiences that have challenged their thinking about faith, the church, and their calling in life.

  • Is Christianity the White Man's Religion?: How the Bible Is Good News for People of Color, By Antipas L. Harris Is Christianity the White Man's Religion?: How the Bible Is Good News for People of Color, By Antipas L. Harris
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    Is Christianity the White Man's Religion?

    How the Bible Is Good News for People of Color

    by Antipas L Harris

    Among many young people of color, there is a growing wariness about organized religion and Christianity in particular. If Christianity is for everyone, why does the Bible seem to endorse slavery? Why do most popular images of Jesus feature a man with white skin and blue eyes? Is evangelical Christianity "good news" or a tool of white supremacy?As our society increases in ethnic ...

  • Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church's Mission, By Amy Simpson
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    Troubled Minds

    Mental Illness and the Church's Mission

    by Amy Simpson
    Foreword by Marshall Shelley

    Christianity Today Book Award Winner
    Leadership Journal Book Award

    Mental illness is the sort of thing we don't like to talk about. It doesn't reduce nicely to simple solutions and happy outcomes. So instead, too often we reduce people who are mentally ill to caricatures and ghosts, and simply pretend they don't exist. They do exist, however—statistics ...

  • Renovation of the Church: What Happens When a Seeker Church Discovers Spiritual Formation, By Kent Carlson and Mike Lueken
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    Renovation of the Church

    What Happens When a Seeker Church Discovers Spiritual Formation

    by Kent Carlson and Mike Lueken
    Foreword by Dallas Willard

    Christianity Today Book Award winner

    Leadership Journal Top Book of the Year

    Copastors Kent Carlson and Mike Lueken tell the story of how God took their thriving, consumer-oriented church and transformed it into a modest congregation of unformed believers committed to the growth of the spirit--even when it meant a decline in numbers.

    As ...

  • Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity, By David W. Swanson Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity, By David W. Swanson
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    Rediscipling the White Church

    From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity

    by David W Swanson
    Foreword by Brenda Salter McNeil

    "Many white Christians across America are waking up to the fact that something is seriously wrong—but often this is where we get stuck."

    Confronted by the deep-rooted racial injustice in our society, many white Christians instinctively scramble to add diversity to their churches and ministries. But is diversity really the answer to the widespread racial dysfunction we see ...

  • 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 ...