Mae Elise Cannon

After the Trip

Evangelism & Missions

“Cory Trenda captures the vulnerability of transformational travel in his book After the Trip: Unpacking Your Crosscultural Experience. He writes about what it means to be open, intentional, and humble as we embrace true learning through missional travel experiences and crosscultural encounters. I finished reading this book with a conviction that our travels and experiences with every person we meet have the potential to be not only humbling, but life changing. May we all be courageous enough to embrace the type of transformative travel that Trenda describes!”

Christian Zionism and the Restoration of Israel

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“An invitation to meaningful and constructive dialogue with Christian Zionists, this book helps move the conversation forward by providing abundant opportunities to engage with biblical passages throughout the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament related to Zionism and Israel. Regardless of if one agrees, Chapman's expertise and contextual knowledge provoke critical questions and provide invaluable resources that will help the church bridge divides and move toward a more holistic understanding of the Bible and Israel.”

Church for the Fatherless

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Mark E. Strong boldly identifies the crisis of fatherlessness and provides practical actions the church can take to equip, mentor and respond to the needs of children without a father's presence in their life.”

Evangelical Peacemakers

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Evangelical Peacemakers educates and equips followers of Jesus about what it means to walk in the footsteps of the Prince of Peace in a war-torn world. With diverse perspectives from leading evangelicals, the book provides critical analysis and discussion that help direct Christian understanding and action in pursuit of global peace and justice. May this resource serve as a rallying cry for evangelicals to be increasingly engaged with peace-building efforts around the world!”

Liberation Is Here

Women

“What a vulnerable, deep, and profound book of hope and hidden beauty! Through the lens of an artist, in powerful and beautiful images, Nikole Lim's Liberation Is Here stewards the stories of women who have survived abuse and sexual violence. Heart-wrenching and full of trauma, the accounts of violations against women are not the end of the story. Rather, Lim walks the reader through a transformative journey of joy and profound pain in the quest for liberation from sexual violence and oppression. Liberation Is Here describes a mutual process of transformation and liberation where our individual freedom is bound up in the stories, pain, and the triumph of others' quests for redemption and healing. Lim describes how healing and transformation parallel the story of Jesus through joy and pain, death and rebirth. May all who read Liberation Is Here experience the binding power of our common humanity as we hold onto hope and seek mutual healing and justice.”

Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys

Evangelism & Missions

“Richard Twiss's Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys provokes and challenges while leading readers into a Native American understanding of the 'Jesus Way.' The reader is confronted directly with racism, oppression and pain in Twiss's own personal narrative as he sought to express a contextualized indigenous Christian theology that extended far beyond the limitations of 'white man's religion.' This indigenous account of decolonization of the gospel presents profound truths about the person of Christ and significant historical lessons from indigenous believers.”

Scars Across Humanity

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Elaine Storkey courageously identifies how violence against women—be it physical, sexual, psychological, or economic—is, as her title suggests, a scar across humanity. Her work addresses the broad-sweeping manifestations of patriarchy in Christian history, the internalized gender discrimination and justification of abuse in societies around the world, and the church’s inadequate response to these violations and injustices. But this book isn’t just a broad-sweeping condemnation of Christian failure, as Storkey offers direct and clear recommendations for how violence against women can be overcome. Not an easy read, Scars Against Humanity is an essential work calling the Christian community to address one of the greatest injustices of our day.”

Southern Baptists and Muslims

World Religions

Foreword

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The Other Side of the Wall

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Munther Isaac's deeply moving The Other Side of the Wall tells his story as a Christian growing up in the Palestinian town of Bethlehem over decades of violence, war, and occupation. The reading of Isaac's Palestinian narrative in no way negates Jewish ties to the land but rather tells an often-unheard side of the story. Isaac's experiences of dehumanization and wrestling with God's purpose for the Palestinian people is one with which Christians around the world must contend. Not only that, Christians often contribute further to the suffering of the Palestinian people by elevating one people group over another. The Other Side of the Wall is a must-read, that even in the midst of great suffering and loss and decades of ongoing occupation, Isaac continues to hold on to hope in Christ. He reminds us that our faith can move mountains, elevate justice, and prepare a path to a better world for Palestinians and all people in the Middle East and the world.”

This Is Going to Hurt

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This Is Going to Hurt reorients narratives and demands a courageous reader. McNeel calls the people of America to hear stories of suffering and pay attention to competing stories that lead us to tolerate that suffering. McNeel challenges her readers to be willing to pay the cost of entering into ‘healing stories’ that include choices that are painful but righteous. Wrestling with some of the most fundamental issues of our day, McNeel doesn’t shy away from addressing critical divisions within the church while calling us to respond more faithfully as witnesses to the cross.”

Wasted Evangelism

Evangelism & Missions

“In Wasted Evangelism, Anderson reminds readers of the inextricable link between the gospel, evangelism, and God's heart for justice. Analyzing the Gospel of Mark, Anderson shows how the good news of Christ's gospel can be manifested as people pursue social action and respond to the needs of the poor and the oppressed. May the church be increasingly inspired in our evangelistic efforts while also responding to the needs of the least of these in our midst!”