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PaperbackWhere the Nations Meet
The Church in a Multicultural World
by Stephen A. Rhodes
Ride the subway or a bus in New York, London, Los Angeles, or any number of other cities around the country or around the world, and you will be impressed by a cacophony of languages, a crazy quilt of skin colors and a ceaseless array of culturalhistories. Excitingly and sometimes confusingly, this is the world the church now serves.Pastor Stephen Rhodes, in whose congregation thirty-two nationalities ...
PaperbackHow Neighborhoods Make Us Sick
Restoring Health and Wellness to Our Communities
by Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop
Our neighborhoods are literally making us sick.
Buildings with mold trigger asthma and other respiratory conditions. Geographic lack of access to food and health care increases childhood mortality. Community violence traumatizes residents. Poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing, food insecurity, racial injustice, and oppression cause physical changes in the body, resulting ...
PaperbackRace and Place
How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation
by David P. Leong
Foreword by Soong-Chan RahGeography matters.We long for diverse, thriving neighborhoods and churches, yet racial injustices persist. Why? Because geographic structures and systems create barriers to reconciliation and prevent the flourishing of our communities.Race and Place reveals the profound ways in which these geographic forces and structures sustain the divisions among us. Urban missiologist ...
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Whether you're a survivor looking for resources to facilitate your own healing, looking to understand the experience of someone in your life who has survived abuse, or a clinician looking to deepen your trauma-informed practice, these books touch on a variety of topics and offer hope and a way toward healing. The difficult realities of abuse and trauma andthe effects that they have on survivors are real, but these resources can offer a way forward for survivors and the people and communities that surround them.
PaperbackOne Body, One Spirit
Principles of Successful Multiracial Churches
by George Yancey
Foreword by Michael O. EmersonWhen the church began, an amazing diversity of people from different geographic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds gathered together to confess a common faith in Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul cast a vision of one body where Jew and Gentile would worship together in unity. The Revelation to John likewise foreshadows an eternal future where all nations will join together at the throne of the Lamb.Sadly, ...
Paperback10 Great Ideas from Church History
A Decision-Maker's Guide to Shaping Your Church
by Mark Shaw
Tired of following the latest church-growth fad? In many churches, building vision means embracing the ideas of the latest guru and jumping from one program to another. Ministry decisions are made according to the crisis of the moment or the pressures of the bottom line. Long-term planning can seem like an impossible dream.This book offers something different. Here are ideas that have stood the ...
PaperbackGood Ideas from Questionable Christians and Outright Pagans
An Introduction to Key Thinkers and Philosophies
by Steve Wilkens
"What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What concord is there between the Academy and the church?" – Tertullian, 3rd century
Such skepticism about the place of philosophy in the life of Christians persists down through the ages. As a student, author Steve Wilkens had deep reservations about studying the works of "pagans" or even "questionable Christians." Now a teacher at a ...
HardbackLearning from Henri Nouwen and Vincent van Gogh
A Portrait of the Compassionate Life
by Carol A. Berry
Foreword by Sue Mosteller CSJCarol Berry and her husband met and befriended Henri Nouwen when she sat in his course on compassion at Yale Divinity School in the 1970s. At the request of Henri Nouwen's literary estate, she has written this book, which includes unpublished material recorded from Nouwen's lectures.
As an art educator, Berry is uniquely situated to develop Nouwen's work on Vincent van Gogh and to add her ...
PaperbackBeyond Ethnic Loneliness
The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging
by Prasanta Verma
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist
"So what are you? Go back where you belong!"
Majority white American culture has historically marginalized people of color, who at times feel invisible and alienated and at other times are traumatized by oppression and public discrimination. This reality leads to a particular kind of aloneness: ...
PaperbackCan Evangelicals Learn from World Religions?
Jesus, Revelation Religious Traditions
by Gerald R. McDermott
Christianity Today Award of Merit
"Arguably, the church's greatest challenge in the next century will be the problem of the scandal of particularity. More than ever before, Christians will need to explain why they follow Jesus and not the Buddha or Confucius or Krishna or Muhammed. But if, while relating their faith to the faiths, Christians treat non-Christian religions ...
