Shane Blackshear

Blessed Are the Nones

History & Biography

“Some people have the impression that both faith and marriage are supposed to be static and changeless. In reality, marriage is a constant negotiation of what it looks like to be married. And to have faith is to daily waiver between some amount ofdoubt and some amount of belief and to decide which aspects of your faith you have to let go of and which aspects you need to keep. In Blessed Are the Nones, Stina Kielsmeier-Cook beautifully shares her own experience of negotiation and wavering in the most vulnerable and honest terms.”

Mentor for Life

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Spiritual growth is something we do by ourselves and is between us and God.” That’s a very American thought, but it has nothing to do with biblical Christianity. Natasha Sistrunk Robinson explains clearly not only why Christians need to mentor and be mentored but how to best go about it. The information in Mentor for Life will revolutionize your spiritual life.”

Permission to Be Black

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Whiteness has wreaked havoc on the lives of Black men with its violence and overall dehumanization. In Permission to Be Black, A. D. Thomason, with intimacy and vulnerability, pulls back the veil on this destruction and shows how Jesus makes a way to live in the fullness of life despite the trauma inflicted. I'm just a mediocre middle-class White guy, but I needed this message of Christ-centered transformation.”

Unarmed Empire

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“We modern evangelicals have long been proponents of ‘defending the faith,’ but rarely have we stopped to ask ‘Defending it from what or (maybe more appropriately) whom?’ and when the faith has been adequately defended, ‘Who was defeated in the process?’ Sean invites us into a better story, an unapologetically biblical story that has been there all along. It’s not about acquiescing to culture, it’s about the way of Christ, which is laying down our lives for those around us.”