Soong-Chan Rah
Biography
Soong-Chan Rah wrote The Next Evangelicalism, Prophetic Lament, and Many Colors.
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“Paul Tokunaga has hit a grand slam. All throughout this book I found myself repeatedly saying, 'That's me. . . . That's exactly how I feel. . . . That's exactly how I am.' Paul has captured the pulse of the Asian American leader: competent, highly skilled and gifted, with tremendous potential and possibility yet in need of encouragement, mentoring and hope. Paul provides for us the possibility of being ourselves and being effective leaders.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Biblical justice requires a healthy spirituality. Christian spirituality demands a life of justice. Using powerful and relevant historical and contemporary examples, Mae Cannon offers the possibility of a deeply spiritual faith transforming and shaping our Christian mission. Mae Cannon's Just Spirituality is now the essential text that integrates justice and spirituality and empowers evangelicals for justice.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Kingdom Racial Change offers a significant step forward for those of us concerned about racial justice and reconciliation. The authors demonstrate the power of narrative as their stories help us access foundational truths about the need for kingdom racial change. These stories are intertwined with insightful sociological research and thoughtful biblical reflection. Racial justice and healing do not occur without intellectual, emotional, and spiritual transformation, and this book offers a way toward that goal.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Warning: this book will awaken you to better understand a dynamic and growing population of Jesus followers. You may end up longing to participate in the good work that God is doing in the AAPI community. Learning Our Names provides inside stories that evoke both laughter and tears and give insight into the unique identity and social-cultural reality of AAPI Christians. You will need this book for impactful ministry in the twenty-first-century North American context.”
Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“When confronted with profoundly complex problems and crises, sometimes the most important step is the initial one. Gary Chapman and Clarence Shuler offer an example of the necessary first step in the journey toward healing in our world. The power of friendship that embodies the important work of Christian witness and God’s justice is demonstrated in a beautiful and real way through the story of these two individuals.”
Christian Living
“More and more churches understand that in order to effectively preach the gospel, we must also live the gospel. In contrast to the societal value of gaining and collecting power, privilege, and wealth, this book documents the story of a church that opted to give away their possessions. Their example reminds us that the New Testament church is alive and well and that there could be the possibility of a movement of generous churches.”
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes is an important book that comes along at a critical moment in global evangelical history. Helpful examples reveal our cultural tendencies and biases that could hinder a deeper reading of Scripture. The authors help us to recognize our blind spots and offer insight that honors the intention of Scripture to be read in the context of community. I am grateful to the authors for their effort to be self-reflective and engage in a critical examination of our engagement with Scripture from within Western culture.”
Evangelism & Missions
“We have forgotten as an American church what it means to engage in a healthy, holistic, and effective evangelism. We have been operating a sports car with eight cylinders on only two cylinders. Eugene Cho and Samira Izadi Page have edited an important volume that engages the significance of evangelism while recognizing the power of the gospel at work in the marginalized communities. This book calls us to rediscover an expression of biblical Christian faith that does not ignore those who will form the spiritual backbone of the next evangelicalism.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“The absence of lament in the American Christian church has resulted in a noticeable theological gap and a failure to engage the full breadth and depth of biblical Christian faith. Dr. Rebekah Eklund brings the rigor of academic inquiry balanced with a pastoral heart that offers the necessary corrective to this dysfunctional ecclesial reality. Practicing Lament is an important work not only in what it teaches from the depth and integrity of Dr. Eklund’s academic work, but also how it is offered, with great sensitivity and spiritual depth. Lament is the spiritual discipline needed by the church and this text offers an essential guide for this long-lost spiritual practice.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Foreword
“Race and Place offers the needed work of cultural and social exegesis and also offers the potential positive power of the Christian imagination. Allow David Leong—a scholar, a pastor, an urbanite, a deeply spiritual and thoughtful follower of Jesus—to guide you through this important theological journey.”
Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys
Evangelism & Missions
“Richard Twiss was one of my most formative and important mentors in the Jesus Way. His words, life and ministry left an indelible mark on all who knew him. Now in this book, we are able to sit and learn once more from one of the most important voices in American Christianity. This text serves as a necessary prophetic critique of culturally captive Western Christianity but it also provides a redemptive way forward. Richard's words once again call us to a joyous and infectious hope that can arise from honesty.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In a time of great anxiety, knowledge and wisdom are desperately needed. In Rethinking Incarceration, Dominique Gilliard provides well-researched content as well as insightful stories that provide the essential foundation for a long overdue dialogue on mass incarceration. The church needs this primer on the history of incarceration in the United States and needs to hear the cogent theological analysis and response that is offered. This text should now be required reading for any thinking and feeling American Christian who wants to engage the topic of mass incarceration in a meaningful way.”
Saved by Faith and Hospitality
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The twenty-first-century American church faces the crisis of exclusion. In this book Joshua Jipp points toward the possibility of a church that is not drenched in the un-Christian characteristic of irrational xenophobia but instead follows in the footsteps of Jesus’s hospitality. If North American churches embrace this crucial biblical teaching, we may truly become the Christian witness we claim to be.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Attention all hipster pastors who want to reshape the church and world in your image—you do not want this book, but you really need this book. Pastor José Humphreys offers an authentic narrative not based on an unrealistic, romanticized view of urban church life (centered on coffee shops and organic grocery stores). This text provides a biblically and theologically robust vision of an embodied church that should provide a guidepost for the next generation of churches.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Two of the most significant developments in twenty-first-century American evangelicalism are the missional church movement and the church planting movement. However, these two movements have not always produced the most robust, ecclesial works that reflect the great cultural diversity and innovative ministry necessary for the changing face of American Christianity in the twenty-first century. Starting Missional Churches is the necessary corrective step towards an ecclesial engagement as well as a relevant embodied practical theology. This book may prove to be the essential starter text for those engaged in both the missional and church planting movements.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“use of the word privilege. Our witness as a racially reconciled Christian community requires us to examine our failure as witnesses to the truth of the gospel because of our failure to deal with truth. Through this text, Gilliard calls us into a deeper discipleship that takes us further into God’s word so that we may find the healing balm of truth. May the reader take heed and act upon these important words.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The American church stands at an important crossroads. Will we embrace God's plan for the church as revealed in Revelation 7:9, or will the church disintegrate into the chaos, confusion, and cacophony akin to the story of the Tower of Babel as we build dividing walls of hostility? In order to move into God's heart for the church, truth-telling must occur. Without truth, we simply rebuild the Tower of Babel rather than become the people of God. In this book, Ken Wytsma embraces the courage needed to speak the truth in love. Wytsma speaks the truth even at the risk of putting himself in peril. That kind of truth-telling is much needed in our turbulent world. Thank you, Ken, for the courage expressed in this book. May you who engage this book also find the similar courage to take these truths and be transformed by them.”
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