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Noel Castellanos
Noel Castellanos has worked in full-time ministry in Latino, urban communities since 1982, serving in youth ministry, church planting, advocacy and community development in San Francisco, San Jose and Chicago. He is chief executive officer of Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) and was the founding pastor of Chicago?s La Villita Community Church. In addition to being a popular speaker, Castellanos mentors young leaders across the United States and directs the CCDA Institute, training emerging leaders in the Christian Community Development philosophy. He was appointed to serve on President Obama's Council for Faith and Neighborhood Partnerships and has served as the chaplain for the Chicago Cubs. He has a deep passion to serve and invest in the lives of leaders committed to serving the poor. Noel is the coauthor of A Heart for the Community and New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry and has contributed to various other books and publications including Deep Justice in a Broken World, A Heart for the City, and Crazy Enough to Care. He and his wife, Marianne, have three children and make their home in the barrio of La Villita in Chicago.
PaperbackThe Other Side of the Wall
A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope
by Munther Isaac
A Palestinian Pastor's Invitation to Lament and Hope
Christians have lived in Palestine since the earliest days of the Jesus movement. The Palestinian church predates Islam. Yet Palestinian Christians find themselves marginalized and ostracized. In the heated tensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the voices of Palestinian Christians are often unheard and ignored.
This ...
PaperbackLiving the Christian Year
Time to Inhabit the Story of God
by Bobby Gross
Infuse your days with meaning.You are part of a larger Story. And the One who began the Story is at work today, in your life, in the midst of your meetings and bills and family activities that make the days rush by and blur together. In these pages Bobby Gross opens to you--and opens you to--the liturgical year, helping you inhabit God's Story every day.
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PaperbackCulture Making
Recovering Our Creative Calling
by Andy Crouch
Afterword by Tish Harrison WarrenChristianity Today Book Award winner
Publishers Weekly's best booksThe only way to change culture is to create culture.
Most of the time, we just consume or copy culture. But that is not enough. We must also do more than condemn or critique it. The only way to change it is to create it.
For too long, Christians have had ...
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InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce a new series in conjunction with their partnership with the BioLogos Foundation: BioLogos Books on Science and Christianity. BioLogos invites the church and the world to see the harmony between science and biblical faith while presenting an evolutionary understanding of God's creation.
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Dr. David A. Anderson
David A. Anderson (DPhil, DLitt) is the founder and senior pastor of Bridgeway Community Church. He is the founder and president of Gracism Global andand chancellor of Omega Graduate School. David's other books include Letters Across the Divide and Multicultural Ministry. He and his wife, Amber, have three children.
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E. K. Strawser
E. K. Strawser (DO, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine) is the co-vocational lead pastor of Ma Ke Alo o (which means "presence" in Hawaiian)—non-denominational missional communities multiplying in Honolulu—and a community physician at KeOla Pono. She is the founder of `Iwa Collaborative, a consulting and content-developing firm to empower kingdom-grounded leaders to navigate change, grow adaptive capacity, and foster local flourishing. Prior to transitioning to Hawaii, she served as adjunct professor of medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and of African Studies at her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania (where she and her husband served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship), after finishing her Fulbright scholarship at the University of Dar es Salaam. She is the author of Centering Discipleship, and she and Steve have three seriously amazing children.
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InterVarsity Press was honored to host their first Latino-focused publishing consultation at their offices in Westmont, IL, June 15-17. As a reflection of IVP's long-standing goal to publish books and authors of diverse backgrounds and voices, the representatives at the Latino/a Consultation included nineteen men and women from within the academy, the church, and religious non-profit world.
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IVP booklets offer sensitive, biblical perspectives from writers who are recognized experts in their fields. These inexpensive, shareable pamphlets are perfect for introducing the basic beliefs and disciplines of Christianity, and for opening up discussion with those in need of support and counsel, and for using as part of a personal or church-sponsored ministry.
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IVP Academic has announced the acquisition of rights to publish the Pillars of Christian Dogmatics series, edited by Matthew Barrett and Craig Carter. The series aims to provide in-depth theological studies on major topics within Christian theology, emphasizing the retrieval of classical, orthodox doctrines for the contemporary church.
