Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Biography
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove wrote Revolution of Values.
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History & Biography
“Evangelicals are often accused of being ahistorical because we jump from Paul to Martin Luther without a pause to consider what the Spirit did in between. But every Christian tradition finds some way to draw the line from Jesus to the present. How we tell that story shapes who we are. 'Follow Me' tells the Christian story in a way that sparks my imagination and gets me excited about who the church is becoming in our post-Christian era. I hope every community of disciples will read it and ask, 'How is God calling us to live the next chapter?'”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Like a good gardener, Holsinger tends the field of theologian and activist Jim Douglass's life work. Here is scholarship at its very best. Not only is Holsinger pointing us to one of the most important prophets of our time; she also creates a space where the seeds of his thought can flourish into good fruit. I devoured this book like the first strawberries of spring.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Flannery O’Conner said the writer is one who stares longer than usual in order to pay attention and help us see. Gopo’s attention to Scripture and her experience across many borders illuminates a spiritual reality that is sorely needed. Take and see.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Back in 1973, Will Campbell saw that our retributive justice system was an affront to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Four decades later, ten times as many people are behind bars, and millions of others have been labeled 'convicted felons' for life. The only power great enough to overcome our prison-industrial complex is the power that raised Jesus from the dead. Thank God, that power is alive and well--both in these essays and in our world.”
Are You Waiting for "The One"?
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“For years I've been looking for a book I could give friends who are getting married--something that sums up the complex gift and challenge that Christian marriage is. Finally, I've found it. The Petersons combine the skills of a theologian and a Bible scholar with the experiences of both being married and helping students prepare for marriage. Here is a book full of good sense and good news. I'm sending it to two friends now.”
Evangelism & Missions
“D. L. Mayfield’s voice aches like a psalmist’s; it sings out like the prophets of old. This book is not the next hot new thing. It is ancient wisdom, distilled from the daily grind, rendered in the vernacular of American life.”
Theology
“Beyond Welcome is an invitation to re-read Scripture through the eyes of the people at the center of the story—immigrants who find their identity in God’s family. González has offered us the opportunity to unlearn the habits of colonized hospitality and to know the beloved community God makes possible in the fellowship of those who know this world’s systems are not their home. It’s an invitation for all of us to find our true home by reimagining the spaces we inhabit.”
Bridges, Paths, and Waters; Dirt, Sky, and Mountains
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Part poetry collection, part guided journal, this book is an invitation to sit and watch with one who has paid attention. To RSVP with your time is to receive a gift-and with it, wonder.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“A gospel for white people, this book calls for nothing less than laying down the trump card of reconciliation for the sake of true repentance and conversion. Jennifer Harvey is proclaiming truth. Listen to her.”
Christian Living
“In any crisis it’s helpful to remember how faithful witnesses from the past navigated the crises of their time. But the art of interpreting the past for the present isn’t simple work. It takes care and discernment. For Such a Time as This reveals Hanna Reichel to be a master of the craft. This book reads like a classic for the present.”
World Religions
“Harper is one of our generation’s most important wisdom teachers. Fortune is a compelling invitation to receive the story that has shaped a nation through the story of her family. It makes clear how the stakes in our public conversations about race and justice are both deeply personal and universal: they touch us in the most intimate spaces of our lives.”
Freeing Congregational Mission
Evangelism & Missions
“Much of what goes by the name 'missions' in American Christianity is captive to the habits of settler colonialism and slaveholder religion, squelching the good news both for those who proclaim it and those who hear it. Freeing Congregational Mission offers hope that churches can discover the gospel anew and the world can hear and see God's mission in a way that brings hope and healing for all.”
Theology
“Whether out of reverence or fear (or both), many attempts to talk about God end up feeling like a rigid translation of someone else’s conversation. Mallory Wyckoff dares to speak about the divine mystery from her own experience. The result is an invitation into something both beautiful and disorienting—a language as authentic as the messy reality we all know to be true to life.”
Having Nothing, Possessing Everything
Church Leadership & Ministry
“How would the story of America be different if the first Christians to come to this land had assumed that God was already present among its peoples? It’s hard to imagine. But reading the story Mike has to tell in this book helps to stir our imagination that we might learn, one community at a time, to become the nation we’ve never yet been.”
Work, Money & Leadership
“Holy Cooperation! is a tract for our times. For a generation that says, 'Don't tell me what you believe until you show me how you live,' Andrew opens up a treasure chest of experiments old and new in the truth of God's economy. He writes with the zeal of a convert because he's one who has found new hope in Jesus's vision of a kingdom that overcomes Mammon one mustard seed at a time.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Since Moses was in Egypt land, God's people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken Sehested is a song leader in that great cloud of witnesses. Receive his words as gift--and keep singing.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Michelle Warren has learned from personal experience how drawing near to those who hunger for justice can bring us closer to God and God's dream for our lives. Join the Resistance is a gift to those who've sensed that the Spirit is stirring in the streets, inviting us to follow Jesus among neighbors crying aloud for their lives. Receive the gift, and join the resistance in Jesus' name.”
Theology
“Ideas have consequences, the philosophers tell us. And they are right. But every idea also has a story. This is the tale of how one of American Christianity’s most careful thinkers got justice deep down in his soul. Journey toward Justice is nothing if it is not clear. But it is more: by telling the story of how people suffering injustice touched him, Wolterstorff has also made his case deeply compelling. I put this book alongside Lament for a Son as his best writing for the church.”
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Christian Living
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