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  • The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism, By Paul D. Miller
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    The Religion of American Greatness

    What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism

    by Paul D. Miller
    Foreword by David French

    ECPA Top Shelf Award Winner

    Long before it featured dramatically in the 2016 presidential election, Christian nationalism had sunk deep roots in the United States. From America's beginning, Christians have often merged their religious faith with national identity. But what is Christian nationalism? How is it different from patriotism? Is it an honest quirk, ...

  • The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism, By Paul D. Miller
    paperback

    The Religion of American Greatness

    What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism

    Foreword by David French
    by Paul D. Miller

    Long before it featured dramatically in the 2016 presidential election, Christian nationalism had sunk deep roots in the United States. From America's beginning, Christians have often merged their religious faith with national identity. But what is Christian nationalism? How is it different from patriotism? Is it an honest quirk, or something more threatening?

    Paul D. Miller, ...

  • Gracism: The Art of Inclusion, By David A. Anderson
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    Gracism

    The Art of Inclusion

    BridgeLeader Books

    by David A. Anderson
    With David Heiliger
    Foreword by Erwin Raphael McManus

    We can't ignore color, class, or culture. Instead, we must engage matters of race with a different posture and embrace radical inclusion of the marginalized.

    Now with David Heiliger, David A. Anderson revives the biblical model for showing special grace to others on the basis of ethnicity, class, or social distinction—one of gracism. Responding to ongoing problems of prejudice ...

  • The Colors of Culture: The Beauty of Diverse Friendships, By MelindaJoy Mingo
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    The Colors of Culture

    The Beauty of Diverse Friendships

    by MelindaJoy Mingo

    How diverse are your friendships?

    We are living in a time where fear and mistrust among people of different cultural and ethnic groups is becoming the norm rather than the exception. It appears that cultural and racial divides are expanding rather than shrinking. What can we do?

    We can learn to see every human being from God's perspective and value their experiences ...

  • Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women, By Elaine Storkey
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    Scars Across Humanity

    Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women

    by Elaine Storkey

    >Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award, Politics and Public Life

    Across the globe, acts of violence against women produce more deaths, disability, and mutilation than cancer, malaria, and traffic accidents combined.

    The truth is that violence on such a scale could not exist were it not structured in some way into the very fabric of societies and ...

  • Free at Last?: The Gospel in the African American Experience, By Carl F. Ellis Jr.
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    Free at Last?

    The Gospel in the African American Experience

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by Carl F. Ellis Jr.
    Foreword by Amisho Baraka

    The words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech have become enshrined in US history. But after the end of King's generation of leadership, what happened to the African American struggle for freedom? Like the ancient Israelites, the African American community has survived a four-hundred-year collective trauma. What will it take for them to reach the promised land that ...

  • Effective Intercultural Evangelism: Good News in a Diverse World, By W. Jay Moon and W. Bud Simon
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    Effective Intercultural Evangelism

    Good News in a Diverse World

    by W. Jay Moon and W. Bud Simon

    We live in a multicultural society. But Christians often do not know how to engage those of other faiths. As a result, many Christians hesitate to talk about Christianity with others in any kind of evangelistic way.

    Jay Moon and Bud Simon unpack the intercultural dynamics that Christians need to understand when encountering people from different communities and cultural backgrounds. ...

  • The Surface of Water: A Novel, By Cynthia Beach
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    The Surface of Water

    A Novel

    by Cynthia Beach

    The only person who can uncover his secret has arrived.

    Matthew Goodman is tired, and his one wish is for something he can't have. Instead he focuses on the demands of his work as pastor of Chicagoland's Calvary Community, including bringing a new administrative assistant onboard. New hire twenty-five-year-old Trish Card watches him with somber, lake-clear eyes. What he doesn't ...

  • When God Became White: Dismantling Whiteness for a More Just Christianity, By Grace Ji-Sun Kim
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    When God Became White

    Dismantling Whiteness for a More Just Christianity

    by Grace Ji-Sun Kim
    Foreword by David P. Gushee

    When Western Christians think about God, the default image that comes to mind is usually white and male. How did that happen?

    Christianity is rooted in the ancient Near East among people of darker skin. But over time, European Christians cast Jesus in their own image, with art that imagined a fair-skinned Savior in the style of imperial rulers. Grace Ji-Sun Kim explores the ...