Christina Edmondson

Celebrities for Jesus

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This timely book offers the reader a close, revealing, and challenging look at celebrity Christianity. It doesn’t point fingers but rather holds up an overdue mirror to American Christian pop culture. Beaty’s journalism bona fides are on full display as she highlights familiar and maybe unfamiliar stories about large segments of American Christianity filled with unchecked power, manipulative charisma, and cultures of enablement. Her vulnerable self-reflection and theological survey are an added bonus that strengthens her credibility. This work contributes to a growing body of thoughtful commentary on church dysfunction with the hope of transformation.”

Cultural Engagement

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues centers important conflicts, worldviews, and etiologies present in the contemporary church in America. As an instructor in intergroup dialogue and cultural diversity, I find this text to be a helpful resource for both Christian higher education professionals and a much broader audience who would benefit from its concise examination of diverse Christian thought manifested in social-political ideologies and practices. This book reminds us that even within the subset known as the American church there are various competing and impactful perspectives that call for deep understanding and not simple caricatures.”

Discipleship as Holy Collaboration

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Yolanda Solomon offers us something both accessible and profound in Discipleship as Holy Collaboration. Her vulnerable anecdotes and deep mining of the Scriptures work together to equip the reader to take heart in the Holy Spirit's profound work in raising a saint and take seriously each disciple's mandate to make disciples. This timely book serves as a unique resource for both individuals and small groups.”

Healing Leadership Trauma

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“The church needs this book. Nicholas Rowe and Sheila Wise Rowe offer a timely, insightful, and practical cross-discipline resource for Christian leaders. This learned and Spirit-filled pair name the elephant in the sanctuary. Our leaders are often deeply wounded while seeking to serve others. Without shame, but with necessary accountability, Rowe and Wise Rowe help Christian leaders to better understand themselves and their wounds so that they might heal and serve from a place of health and wholeness.”

Hope Ain't a Hustle

Christian Living

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Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves

Arts & Literature

“McCampbell takes the ingredients of the familiar and invites us on a theological and experiential journey to self and neighbor compassion. In her book, both storytelling and story analysis, from film to Holy Scripture, inspire and equip us to grow what seems so lacking today: empathy.”

Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“For those of us who claim to be religious and those of us who religiously deny such labels, Dark grants us the gift and burden to think deeply about the imagination, scaffolding, and consequences of our religiosity. In reading his journey and cautions, my sense of personal accountability and religious identity were expanded. Such is a book that reads the reader and if we stick with it we gain insight into self and neighbor.”

The Anti-Greed Gospel

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, including racism. Malcolm Foley is a thinker who makes you think. In his debut work, Foley unpacks the theological and sociological layers of racism. He rightly identifies the center of American racism, which is greed—greed that costs human lives. Foley’s book builds a strong case for what’s really fueling the lie of race and the horrors of racism, but he doesn’t leave us hopeless. This book offers us a necessary antidote to racism if we put down the delusions and temptations of greed.”

The Color of Compromise

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Each individual and society is a compilation of what has come before them, whether they own this notion or not. Tisby’s thoughtful work reminds us that you can run from, deny, or remix it, but history will find you out. The American church’s history of wanting to hold holiness in one hand and racial stratification in the other has seeded a deeply corrupted tree. The book causes us to examine the implications of the historical trajectory of our theological influences. Yet this book, with the same intensity that it offers historical truth, provides grace. If race can be constructed, racism can be deconstructed. In Christ’s name, it must be!”

The Color of Compromise Study Guide plus Streaming Video

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“Each individual and society is a compilation of what has come before them, whether they own this notion or not. Tisby’s thoughtful work reminds us that you can run from, deny, or remix it, but history will find you out. The American church’s history of wanting to hold holiness in one hand and racial stratification in the other has seeded a deeply corrupted tree. The book causes us to examine the implications of the historical trajectory of our theological influences. Yet this book, with the same intensity that it offers historical truth, provides grace. If race can be constructed, racism can be deconstructed. In Christ’s name, it must be!”

The Mindful Christian

Christian Living

“The Mindful Christian highlights the crucial role self-compassion and gratitude play in strengthening the follower of Christ, who is called to be a witness to Christ's peace.”

Womanish Theology

World Religions

“Khristi Adams is a consistent and credible voice for young Black women. In Womanish Theology, she generously takes us on a journey of the spiritual dimensions of her Black girlhood while unpacking the complex, developing, and rich theological wanderings of the contemporary Black girls and young women featured in this one-of-a-kind work. I found myself reclaiming and cherishing anew my own Black girl spiritual development journey.”