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Katie Schnack
Katie Schnack is a writer and book publicist. Her articles have appeared in Relevant, Today.com, Hello Giggles, Romper, and Scary Mommy. Katie and her family live in West Palm Beach, Florida, and she is the author of The Gap Decade: When You're Technically an Adult but Really Don't Feel Like it Yet.
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Sandra L. Barnes
Sandra L. Barnes (Ph.D., Georgia State University) is assistant professor of sociology and African American studies at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Her scholarly work has been published in The Journal of African American Studies, Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Social Problems, Journal of the Interdenominational Theology Center and Journal of Black Studies. She is the author of The Cost of Being Poor (SUNY Press).
PaperbackLife After Church
God's Call to Disillusioned Christians
by Brian Sanders
Life without church. It's getting easier to imagine.And maybe you already left. A leaver, then. Committed to Jesus, not an institution. Perhaps you've left your church in spirit, remaining in the pew. Outwardly silent. Secretly bored. Ineither case, Brian Sanders has a word for you.Out of his own experience as a leaver, Brian distills the complex problem into two viable options:
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PaperbackFaith Comes by Hearing
A Response to Inclusivism
Edited by Christopher W. Morgan and Robert A. Peterson
What about those who have never heard?The debate swirls and feelings run deep. What is the fate of the unevangelized? The traditional position--that apart from an explicit faith in Jesus no one is saved--seems to have fallen out of favor with manyevangelicals. Here is a passionate but irenic response to the arguments of those who believe that the unevangelized can (or might) be saved apart from ...
PaperbackMore Than Things
A Personalist Ethics for a Throwaway Culture
by Paul Louis Metzger
ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
We live in a culture of commodification. People are too often defined by what they do or own; they're treated as means to an end or cogs in a machine. What goes missing is a deep sense of personhood—the belief that all humans are unique subjects with inherent worth and the right to self-determination in authentic communion ...
PaperbackTheology for Better Counseling
Trinitarian Reflections for Healing and Formation
Christian Association for Psychological Studies Books
by Virginia Holeman
At one time, Virginia Todd Holeman "Toddy" thought being biblically literate was all she needed and had little interest in what real theologians talked about. But in her counseling she found that clients pressed her for more.They didn't just want what she had gained through training in the best theories and practices available for counseling. They asked hard theological questions often related to ...
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Helen Cepero
Helen Cepero (M.Div., North Park Seminary) trains spiritual directors at the C. John Weborg Center for Spiritual Direction at North Park Seminary and is co-program director of the Spiritual Direction Formation Program at the Journey Center in Santa Rosa, California. She is a spiritual director for the Academy for Missional Wisdom, and a consultant with the Transformational Listening Center. She is an adjunct instructor at North Park Theological Seminary and Multnomah School of the Bible. A frequent retreat leader, she is ordained in the Evangelical Covenant Church. She is the author of Journaling as a Spiritual Practice. She and her husband, Max, live in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Gavin McGrath
Gavin J. McGrath (Ph.D.) is Associate Minister at St. Luke's Anglican Church, Wimbledon Park, London. He is the author of A Confident Life in an Age of Change (Inter-Varsity Press).
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Diana Shiflett
Diana Shiflett is ordained in the Evangelical Covenant church. She is an adjunct professor of youth ministry at North Park University, and a certified spiritual director. She has a master's degree in clinical psychology from Wheaton College.
PaperbackThe Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era
Exploring the Background of Early Christianity
by James S. Jeffers
What was life like for first-century Christians?
Imagine a modest-sized Roman home of a well-to-do Christian household wedged into a thickly settled quarter of Corinth. In the lingering light of a summer evening, men, women and children, merchants, working poor and slaves, a mix of races and backgrounds have assembled in the dimly lit main room are are spilling into the central courtyard. ...
