Tim Dickau

A Faithful Public-Prophetic Witness

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Barry Morris serves as a creative and faithful guide through the tensions of pursuing both systemic justice and a personal ministry of solidarity and compassion. If you want to learn how to be a faithful prophetic witness to the justice and love of the triune God in the urban context, Morris’s book provides a superb resource. Reading it inspired me to get back at it.”

Friendship with Jesus

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“In a secular age, one seemingly devoid of divine action, prayer can seem both useless and wasteful of time. If you are ready and longing to break free from this stifling secularism, read this book. Dan Heavenor invites us into a contemplative, receptive, and imaginative way of praying that opens our eyes to the ways that Jesus is indeed at work in our lives and our world.”

Hopeful Realism in Urban Ministry

Church Leadership & Ministry

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

How Relationships Work, Second Edition

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Having lived in a shared household as part of an intentional community for over thirty years, I wish I had read this book at the beginning of that journey. Alexander gets to the heart of how relationships work and does so in a way that empowers us to love one another well for the long haul. I will refer this book to other community dwellers!”

In the Shadow of a Rugged Cross

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Christian formation is sometimes reduced to a few techniques or straight pathways. This book provides an alternative. By focusing on how Bonhoeffer confronted the misshaping powers of his day through his life, thought and actions, Ringma develops a robust, winding, full-orbed pathway of Christian formation that both avoids trite or simple solutions and equips us to face the powers of our secularized Western cultures. Ringma opens us up to embrace a more mature and transformational spirituality. And God knows that we need to find and take this road much less travelled if we are going to be the people of the Way in our present cultural context.”

Pub Theology

“What makes this book a standout is its combination of mature personal reflction with careful attention to lived realities in our social world and the environment. The book is like taking a gulp of fresh theological air. This is public theology that filed me with a desire to take up the call of God more deeply and widely.”

Seed Falling on Good Soil

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This book is more than just an intellectual exercise or one more book on the parables. Instead, King offers the kind of combination we definitely need more of in Biblical studies today. King blends a thick and convincing biblical exegesis with powerful stories from around the globe that illuminate both the text and what it means to live it out in our contemporary context, a penetrating systemic analysis of the injustices in our political economy, and a persuasive and lucid literary style. This combination moves me. Like Jesus's parables, King subversively gets under my skin--and into my heart and mind--and leaves me both exposed and convicted. When I finished the book, I knew that I was being called to change how I live. More than that, I wanted to change. Read it for yourself and I have no doubt you too will be transformed into someone who is living closer to God's vision for a restored world marked by justice and shalom.”