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Erin F. Moniz
Rev. Erin F. Moniz (DMin, Trinity School for Ministry) is a deacon in the Anglican Church in North America and associate chaplain and director for chapel at Baylor University, where she disciples emerging adults and journeys with them toward healthy, gospel-centered relationships. She is a trained conciliator, mediator, and conflict coach. She enjoys content creation, playing music, being outdoors, and narrating the inner monologue of her two cats. She lives in Waco, Texas, with her husband,Michael.
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Amy L. Williams
Youth ministry veteran Amy Williams ministers to teens involved in gangs and those lost in the criminal justice system with a key strategy of life-on-life mentoring. As a certified gang intervention specialist, she heard God's call to move into aLatino gang neighborhood in Chicago's Humboldt Park community to be a "Hope Dealer" doing street outreach and walking life with young people on her block. Amy is project coordinator at New Life Centers, bringing in restorative justice programming toyouth at juvenile prisons. Amy has been a youth pastor, a reentry coordinator, and a youth mentor and advocate. She is a graduate of both University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and National Louis University. She resides in Chicago and loves salsa dancing and is a true beach baby.
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Robert Chao Romero
Robert Chao Romero (PhD, University of California at Los Angeles; JD, University of California at Berkeley) is associate professor in the Departments of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of the award-winning The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940, Jesus for Revolutionaries: An Introduction to Race, Social Justice, and Christianity, and Mixed Race Student Politics.
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W. Ross Hastings
W. Ross Hastings (PhD chemistry, Queen's; PhD theology, St Andrews) is the Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology at Regent College, Vancouver. Among other books, he is the author of Missional God, Missional Church; Total Atonement; and The Resurrection of Jesus Christ. He also serves as an Anglican priest at St. John's Vancouver and enjoys watching rugby, soccer, and cricket. He lives in Vancouver with his wife, Tammy. They have five children and nine grandchildren.
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Courtney Ellis
Courtney Ellis is a pastor at Presbyterian Church of the Master in Mission Viejo, California. She is the author of six books, including Looking Up: A Birder's Guide to Hope Through Grief. Courtney hosts The Thing with Feathers, apodcast about birds and hope. She lives in Orange County, California, with her husband and three children.
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A Week in the Life Series
In imaginative historical fiction, splashed with informative sidebars and images, the volumes in A Week in the Life Series give us a new view of Jesus' world and Bible-era culture.
In these engaging narratives, New Testament scholars lead us behind the veil of centuries to see and experience the historical and social realities of the time when Jesus walked the earth. Drawing on what we do know from history, these biblical fiction books invite you to imagine possible events and explore the forgotten stories of the Ancient Near East.
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paperbackYour Calling Here and Now
Making Sense of Vocation
by Gordon T. Smith
Our vocation is the outworking of how God has made us. It is not a goal on the horizon but a present reality that we are called to discern and explore. However, in the midst of our daily lives, finding meaning can prove both difficult and elusive, and we are often left wondering if we are missing out on God's purpose for our lives.
Gordon Smith invites us to reflect on our ...
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paperbackWisdom for Faithful Reading
Principles and Practices for Old Testament Interpretation
by John H. Walton
The church has too often lost its way in reading the Old Testament for lack of sound principles of interpretation. When careless habits get us off track, we can lose sight of what the Bible is really saying, derailing our own spiritual growth and even risking discredit to God’s word.
We need a consistent approach to give us confidence as faithful interpreters. In Wisdom ...
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paperbackNobody's Mother
Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament
by Sandra L Glahn
Christianity Today Book Award Finalist—Biblical Studies
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist
How Has Misinterpreting Paul Led to the Silencing of Women?
Some Christians think Paul's reference to "saved through childbearing" in 1 Timothy 2:15 means that women are slated primarily for delivering and raising ...
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paperbackMisreading Scripture with Western Eyes
Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
by E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O'Brien
Over 150,000 Copies Sold Worldwide!
Understand Scripture on Its Own Terms
What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Western biases to the text. For example:
- When Western readers hear Paul exhorting ...
