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  • True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World, By David Skeel
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    True Paradox

    How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World

    Veritas Books

    by David Skeel

    Foreword Review's Annual INDIEFAB Book of the Year Finalist

    How do we explain human consciousness? Where do we get our sense of beauty? Why do we recoil at suffering? Why do we have moral codes that none of us can meet? Why do we yearn for justice, yet seem incapable of establishing it?

    Any philosophy or worldview must make sense of the world as we actually ...

  • Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey, By Gena Thomas
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    Separated by the Border

    A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey

    by Gena Thomas
    Foreword by Michelle Ferrigno Warren

    In 2017 five-year-old Julia traveled with her mother, Guadalupe, from Honduras to the United States. Her harrowing journey took her through Mexico in the cargo section of a tractor trailer. Then she was separated from her mother,who was held hostage by smugglers who exploited her physically and financially. At the United States border, Julia came through the processing center as ...

  • The Spirit of Methodism: From the Wesleys to a Global Communion, By Jeffrey W. Barbeau
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    The Spirit of Methodism

    From the Wesleys to a Global Communion

    by Jeffrey W. Barbeau

    "I felt my heart strangely warmed."That was how John Wesley described his transformational experience of God's grace at Aldersgate Street on May 24, 1738, an event that some mark as the beginning of the Methodist Church.Yet the story of Methodism, while clearly shaped by John Wesley's sermons and Charles Wesley's hymns, is much richer and more expansive. In this book, Methodist ...

  • A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century, By Donald M. Lewis
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    A Short History of Christian Zionism

    From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century

    by Donald M. Lewis

    Top World Guild Award Winner

    This book is about an idea—namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine—which in turn morphed into a political movement, rallied around a popularslogan ("A country without a nation for a nation without a country"), and eventually contributed to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. ...

  • Swing Low, volume 2: An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States
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    Swing Low, volume 2

    An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States

    Swing Low Set

    Associate Editor Justin Clark, Yana Conner, and Courtlandt Perkins
    General Editor Walter Robert Strickland

    A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American Christianity

    The history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God's glory. Yet stories of faithful Black Christians have often been forgotten or minimized. The dynamic witness of the Black church in the United States ...

  • Swing Low, volume 2: An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States
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    Swing Low, volume 2

    An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States

    Swing Low Set

    Associate Editor Justin Clark, Yana Conner, and Courtlandt Perkins
    General Editor Walter Robert Strickland

    A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American Christianity

    The history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God's glory. Yet stories of faithful Black Christians have often been forgotten or minimized. The dynamic witness of the Black church in the United States ...

  • Swing Low, volume 1: A History of Black Christianity in the United States, By Walter R. Strickland II
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    Swing Low, volume 1

    A History of Black Christianity in the United States

    Swing Low Set

    by Walter Robert Strickland

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

    A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American Christianity

    The history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God's glory. Yet stories of faithful Black Christians have often been forgotten ...

  • Swing Low, volume 1: A History of Black Christianity in the United States, By Walter R. Strickland II
    Hardback

    Swing Low, volume 1

    A History of Black Christianity in the United States

    Swing Low Set

    by Walter Robert Strickland

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

    A Groundbreaking Portrait of African American Christianity

    The history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God's glory. Yet stories of faithful Black Christians have often been forgotten ...

  • What Jesus Intended: Finding True Faith in the Rubble of Bad Religion, By Todd D. Hunter
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    What Jesus Intended

    Finding True Faith in the Rubble of Bad Religion

    by Todd D. Hunter
    Foreword by Esau McCaulley

    Have you lost your footing in church? Or has the church lost its footing?

    Many of us feel unsteady, disoriented, even crushed after an endless string of scandals within the walls of a place meant to offer compassion and safety. Others feel forced to draw back or distance ourselves from the church. All the while, our instincts tell us this is not what Jesus wanted for his people. ...