Edwin David Aponte

A Biblical Study Guide for Equal Pulpits

Women

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Brown Church

History & Biography

“Here is a sweeping and fascinating account of the vital theologies and prophetic witness of the Brown church in the Americas. Weaving together stories of oppressed Latin American and US Latina/o communities, Robert Chao Romero tells of faithfulness to Christian calling, commitment to biblical justice, and collaborative theologies that challenge injustice and transform society. Brown Church is a story for the entire church as it seeks to fulfill its callings in the twenty-first century.”

Crisis and Care

Work, Money & Leadership

“These timely and insightful reflections about faith and philanthropy call us to join creative, imaginative, collaborative work in the world in the context of multiple worldwide calamities. Crisis and Care shuns narrow, self-centered, and ineffective concepts about faith and giving, and invites us to reimagine philanthropy as a shared calling that expresses Christian love in action that helps all to live into the reality of life together through new visions of contextual Christian leadership and ministries.”

I Was a Stranger

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Jodi Mullen Fondell provides an accessible and timely look at understanding and practicing the vital biblical mandate to welcome strangers, foreigners, and all those persons whom others may shun or even hate. From her years of pastoral ministry within international communities, Mullen Fondell invites us to embrace this central individual and communal Christian calling, which demonstrates the overflowing love of God in Christ that to all who find themselves as the outsider and outcast.”

Living Under Water

Christian Living

“This is an insightful, exciting, carefully researched, and timely analysis of the gift of baptism that will energize Christian practice. Using diverse stories from many traditions and times of the Christian church, as well as from popular culture, Living under Water provides both an invitation and a tangible pathway to embracing an everyday baptismal identity of faith in action that gets beyond limited ideas of a magical naming ceremony or an expression of only personal piety. Well suited for individual and communal study, Living under Water is essential reading for theological education and preparation for ministry at every level.”

Resisting Apartheid America

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“In his distinctive and rigorous way, De La Torre gives us a provocative analysis of white Christian nationalism, which shows its face in sectarianism, religious chauvinism, social oppression, and political violence. And we are challenged to live out a different type of Christian faith that is courageous, turns away from death-dealing theologies, and works for true freedom.”

Surviving God

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Kim and Shaw courageously address the difficult reality of sexual assault and violence in both society and church. The authors' multilayer approach includes their dialogue with each other, as well as stories from other survivors of sexual abuse. Even in a world of suffering and injustice, this book provides a helpful method of critique and reimagination that presents pathways to new understandings and practices, with the potential for new hope and joy.”

The Mestizo Augustine

History & Biography

“In a fresh, masterful, and highly readable way, Justo González shows the ongoing relevance and importance of the multicultural St. Augustine engaging his own contexts from a place between and within cultures. González provides new lenses for us to appreciate the mestizo Augustine as a resource for theology, ministry, and emerging ways of being church for our own contemporary multicultural, multiethnic, and globalized contexts in a racialized society.”

When the Spirit Is Your Inheritance

“In When the Spirit Is Your Inheritance, Jonathan Calvillo delivers excellent and nuanced insights about contextualized Pentecostalism through the lens of both literal and conceptual borderlands, weaving together big stories and little stories that also provide insights for other faith-based communities. Drawing on his research and the experiences of transnational testimonios across many generations, Calvillo presents a sweeping nonbinary analysis well-grounded in particular accounts as well historical and sociological realities. It helps us examine the workings of power at micro and macro levels through the experiences of borderlands Pentecostals.”