David Swanson
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Kevin Ford and Jim Singleton are faithful, experienced leaders in Christ's church who bring unique, insightful understanding into the rapidly changing nature of today's cultural landscape. For the overwhelmed pastor with little time for grasping a wider view of the world, this book provides a wonderful grid for asking the right questions and responding biblically to the churches they lead.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“There is a generation of white evangelical Christians who are discovering God's beautiful and risky call to seek justice in this world. Unfortunately, many of these younger women and men were discipled in churches where justice was viewed as being either tangential to the gospel or a threat to it. The result is that as they grow close to God's heart for justice, these young Christians often move away from church. Becoming a Just Church demonstrates how unnecessary the gap between justice and church is. Rather than being an impediment to justice, Adam contends that our congregations are meant to provide the spiritual formation that matures us into people who don't simply do justice but who are just. He has written a book that is wise and practical. If we let these pages shape our imaginations, it's possible that generations of Christians will mature within just congregations. And what a hopeful future that would be!”
Theology
“When first starting our church, I was told that learning to be the church would be our biggest challenge. More than gathering unchurched people, starting ministries, or leading Sunday worship, growing into our identity as God's people had to be our priority. I needed this book back then! Expertly working her way through the Old Testament into the Gospels and Epistles, Carmen Joy Imes reveals that it has always been God's desire to form disparate and diverse people into a family who reflect his glory. Accessible and inspiring, Becoming God's Family is a beautiful vision for being the church.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“This is a special book which generously expands our understanding about what counts as spiritual formation. Written as a spiritual memoir, Called to Remember recounts God’s kindness to Denise as she purposefully looks back at how her faith grew and deepened throughout her life. The act of remembering, modeled so compellingly by the author, becomes a fruitful way to grow more deeply in Christ.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This urgent and gracious book is an answer to prayer for those of us heartbroken by the power of Christian nationalism over our loved ones. Now we have a resource brimming with practical wisdom to equip us to approach family and friends with the liberating gospel of Jesus.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Our society’s status quo bends toward scarcity, as José and Adam show so precisely in these pages. But their real contribution, the practical hope they offer to anyone ready to usher shalom into their neighborhood, lies in the beautiful vision for liberating abundance they find in Scripture. You’ll find no spiritual platitudes or justice clichés here; the authors’ wisdom has been gained over years of practical ministry in relationship with diverse communities. What you will find is a paradigm for local ecosystems in which everyone and everything can thrive. Read carefully, imagine creatively, implement collaboratively, and then keep your eyes open for the lasting fruits of righteousness and justice.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Recent years have revealed a new generation of women and men who are ready to defy injustice. But how do we move from passion about justice to participation in the day-to-day work for justice? Drawing from the experience of her years of collaborative advocacy and the wisdom of the biblical prophets, Michelle Warren offers us an accessible vision for how each of us—no matter our social location—can join the beautiful resistance.”
Christian Living
“I think about multiethnicity a lot. I have beloved family members who are multiethnic, and I pastor a diverse congregation. And yet, as Chandra's book makes plain, I still have so much to learn about the experiences—the pains and the joys—of those who don't neatly fit into monoethnic categories. With the sure footing of one who has lived the experience, Chandra invites those of us who haven't to listen carefully and to imagine ways of following Jesus together that are hospitable to everyone. Mixed Blessing is required reading for anyone who wants a glimpse of the complex and hopeful future of the church in this country.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“For the past decade José Humphreys has been my friend and trusted guide. His wisdom about multiracial churches helped me through my early days as a church planter. His commitment to place influenced me deeply as he walked me around his church's neighborhood in East Harlem. His pastoral sensibilities to the diverse experiences of his congregation grow my own sensibilities each time I visit his church. And now with Seeing Jesus in East Harlem, José once again proves himself a trustworthy guide, this time to faithful ministry at some of the crossroads of our culture's most important thoroughfares. These pages contain a beautiful and soaring vision, a call for our churches to 'cultivate ecologies of grace.' And because our guide has long planted his feet firmly in his context, it's a vision we can practically apply within our own.”
Theology
“During a time of profound uncertainty, writes Derek Taylor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer "refused to abandon the future." The Art of Creaturely Life faces our own moment of ecological uncertainty and, drawing from Bonhoeffer's work and witness, invites us to refuse both the apocalyptic despair and the technological optimism that characterize our times. In their place, Taylor imagines a thoroughly different vision--lives adapted to the nourishing confines of our creatureliness.”
The Good War That Wasn’t—and Why It Matters
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Military spending, as Eisenhower warned, generates wars. Myths about World War II generate military spending. World War II has been propping up military spending through decades of wars openly acknowledged as disasters. This book exposes World War II as a crisis that need not have been created and could have been handled otherwise. That understanding should save the U.S. about $1 trillion a year and a great many people their lives.”
Christian Living
“With so many people living through an epidemic of inferiority, one caused by a secular view of self instead of a biblical one, The Power to Bless solidifies the foundation on which we ought to stand. Alan Wright has given us an inspiring, accessible, and practical work to help us change our approach both to self and to others.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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