Douglas Jacobsen

Cultivating Mentors

Discipleship & Christian Education

“The context for mentoring has changed enormously in recent years, and the roles of mentor and mentee now frequently oscillate. Cultivating Mentors explores this new terrain where generational differences and cultural diversities are taken seriously and where personal flourishing receives intensified attention. With insights from a multitude of organizational and generational perspectives, this volume will encourage fresh thinking across the full spectrum of institutional roles in Christian higher education.”

Desiring the Kingdom

Theology

“In lucid and lively prose, Jamie Smith reaches back past Calvin to Augustine, crafting a new and insightful Reformed vision for higher education that focuses on the fundamental desires of the human heart rather than on worldviews. Smith deftly describes the ‘liturgies’ of contemporary life that are played out in churches—but also in shopping malls, sports arenas, and the ad industry—and then re-imagines the Christian university as a place where students learn to properly love the world and not just think about it.”

Faithful Witness in a Fractured World

Christian Living

“This book winsomely preaches the gospel without ever getting preachy. The authors use a series of contemporary life stories to illustrate what it means to follow Jesus authentically and creatively, and then weave together a description of faith that is simultaneously realistic, encouraging, hopeful, and compelling. This is the best and most refreshing discussion of what it means to be a Christian that I have read in years.”

Flourishing in Community

Theology

“Joel Kime’s book is a call for togetherness, a special way of being in community that allows everyone to flourish as God intended, overcoming not only loneliness and hyper-individualism but also injustice and political animosity. In our socially fragmented era, no message is more important for American Christians to hear.”

From Bubble to Bridge

World Religions

“Religious conflicts often dominate today's headlines, and Christian colleges are faced with the challenge of preparing students to live faithfully and graciously as followers of Jesus in a world where peace and good will among people of differingfaiths is desperately needed. From Bubble to Bridge explains what's at stake, analyzes the difficulties, and maps a positive path forward. Engaging, well-organized, and overflowing with practical wisdom, this is the guide to interfaith relations that evangelical educators have been seeking.”

How to Worship for All Its Worth

Preaching & Worship

“How to Worship for All Its Worth provides an invaluable new framework for analyzing and celebrating the diverse array of contemporary worship experiences. Steven Félix-Jäger honors the unique sense of calling and community of every congregation and encourages worship leaders to be biblically faithful, aesthetically excellent, and spiritually authentic.”

Introduction to World Christian History

History & Biography

“Derek Cooper's helpful volume reminds us that the global complexity of Christianity today is the fruit of a Christian past that is equally multifaceted and complex. His fresh rendering of that past emphasizes overlooked histories of Christians in Africa, Asia and other regions of the world, and downplays some familiar tales from the West that now seem quite parochial when viewed in global perspective. Cooper's kaleidoscopic account provides many different angles from which to view Christian similarities and differences, and readers will be enriched by the breadth and magnanimity of his presentation.”

To Whom Does Christianity Belong?

History & Biography

“With this volume both as a self-standing book and an anchor for the new series Understanding World Christianity, Dyron Daughrity renders an immense service to church and academia by helping them understand the new reality of Christianity as a global religion. Comprehensive in scope, historically up-to-date, theologically sophisticated, and engagingly written, the volume as well as the series of which it is the anchor will bring both the author's name and the emerging discipline of World Christianity to the forefront of contemporary scholarship. I recommend To Whom Does Christianity Belong? most enthusiastically for courses on the history and theology of Christianity.” —Peter C. Phan Georgetown University “To Whom Does Christianity Belong? is a cry from the heart about the future of Christianity. Drawing on the author’s personal interactions with Christians in specific global settings, this compendium of hopes and fears raises important questions about how Christian faith and practice may be reshaped in the years ahead and who will control those decisions.”