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paperbackSoul Searching
by Mindy Caliguire
Are you ready to take a good look at your soul? This small book by Mindy Caliguire will help you do the hard—but good and necessary—work of self-examination, taking an honest look inside and allowing the Holy Spirit to lead, guide, and work. Complete these daily readings in four weeks, using four guided group discussions with a small group or a spiritual friend.
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caseboundForty Days on Being an Eight
Enneagram Daily Reflections
by Sandra Maria Van Opstal
Series edited by Suzanne Stabile"Fósforito! The explosion happened so quickly there was no stopping it. My mother called me 'tiny match' when she would see this fire exploding from me." This is how Latina pastor, activist, and worship leader, Sandra Maria Van Opstal, describes her experience as an Enneagram Eight. In these forty daily readings, Sandra offers insight from her ethnic journey alongside Enneagram wisdom.
Number of Studies: 40
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paperbackListen In
Building Faith and Friendship Through Conversations That Matter
by Rachael Crabb, Sonya Reeder, and Diana Calvin
Foreword by Larry CrabbHow can we use words to connect with each other in ways that can do deep and lasting good? Rachael Crabb and two of her friends in ministry take up this question in a creative and informative way, providing model dialogues exploring the deep issues of their lives. Learn from their journeys how to listen to others more deeply and grow your spiritual friendships.
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paperbackLove Is an Orientation
Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community
by Andrew Marin
Foreword by Brian McLarenWhen three of Andrew Marin's friends came out to him in the span of three months, he was confronted head-on with the question of how to reconcile his friends with his faith. Love Is an Orientation is the result of years of wrestling with this issue. In the book, Marin speaks out with compassion and conviction, elevating the conversation between Christianity and the GLBT community so that the focus is moved from genetics to gospel, where it really belongs.
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paperbackKilling a Messiah
A Novel
by Adam Winn
As Passover approaches, the city of Jerusalem is a political tinderbox. When rumors start spreading about the popular prophet Jesus, unexpected alliances emerge between Roman and Jewish leaders. In Killing a Messiah, New Testament scholar Adam Winn weaves together stories of historical and fictional characters in a fresh reimagining of the events leading up to Jesus' execution, shedding new light on our reading of biblical texts.
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hardcoverGreek Commentaries on Revelation
Ancient Christian Texts
by Oecumenius and Andrew of Caesarea
Translated by William C. Weinrich
Edited by Thomas C. OdenIn this volume of the Ancient Christian Texts series, William Weinrich renders a particular service to readers interested in ancient commentary on the Apocalypse. He translates in one volume the only two major commentaries on Revelation to come out of the Greek tradition, the early sixth-century commentaries of Oecumenius and Andrew of Caesarea.
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paperbackKeeping Place
Reflections on the Meaning of Home
by Jen Pollock Michel
Foreword by Scott SaulsHome is our most fundamental human longing. Jen Pollock Michel connects that desire with the story of the Bible, revealing a homemaking God with wide arms of welcome—and a church commissioned with this same work. Keeping Place offers hope to the wanderer, help to the stranded, and a new vision of what it means to live today longing for our eternal home.
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paperbackYou Welcomed Me
Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us
by Kent Annan
"Are we for them or against them?" In this wise, practical book on the refugee and immigrant crises around the world, Kent Annan explores how fear and misunderstanding can motivate our responses to people in need. Instead, he invites us into stories of welcome, laying out simple practices for a way forward across social and cultural divides.
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paperbackCross-Cultural Connections
Stepping Out and Fitting In Around the World
by Duane Elmer
Duane Elmer offers the tools needed to reduce apprehension, communicate effectively and establish genuine trust and acceptance between cultures while demonstrating how we can avoid being cultural imperialists and instead become authentic ambassadors for Christ.
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paperbackShort-Term Mission
An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience
by Brian M. Howell
Brian Howell provides an anthropology of short-term mission (STM) among American Christians. Delivering a history of STM along with an ethnographic case study of a trip to the Dominican Republic, Howell argues that the movement is sustained by a uniquely Christian travel narrative that borrows from the anthropology of tourism and pilgrimage.
