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  • Growing Healthy Asian American Churches, Edited by Peter Cha and S. Steve Kang and Helen Lee
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    Growing Healthy Asian American Churches

    Edited by Peter Cha, S. Steve Kang, and Helen Lee

    The Asian American church is in transition. Congregations face the challenges of preserving ethnic culture and heritage while contextualizing their ministry to younger generations and the unchurched. Many Asian American church leaders struggle with issues like leadership development, community dynamics and intergenerational conflict. But often Asian American churches lack the resources and support ...

  • An Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches, By Ray S. Anderson
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    An Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches

    by Ray S. Anderson
    Foreword by Brian McLaren

    If the emerging church movement is looking for a theology, Ray Anderson offers clear and relevant theological guidance for it in this timely book. Reaching back through time, Anderson roots an emergent theology in what happened at Antioch, where Saul (Paul) and Barnabas were set apart for a mission to establish churches outside of Jerusalem--among Gentiles who had to be reached in their own cultures. ...

  • 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 R. Strickland II

    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 ...

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    Swing Low, volume 1

    A History of Black Christianity in the United States

    Swing Low Set

    by Walter R. Strickland II

    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

    General Editor Walter R. Strickland II
    Associate Editor Justin D. Clark, Yana Jenay Conner, and Courtlandt K. Perkins

    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
    casebound

    Swing Low, volume 2

    An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States

    Swing Low Set

    General Editor Walter R. Strickland II
    Associate Editor Justin D. Clark, Yana Jenay Conner, and Courtlandt K. Perkins

    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 ...

  • Dynamic Diversity: Bridging Class, Age, Race and Gender in the Church, By Bruce Milne
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    Dynamic Diversity

    Bridging Class, Age, Race and Gender in the Church

    by Bruce Milne

    From the footpaths of our cities to the chatrooms of the Internet, people are connecting today as never before. As the planet shrinks through the multiple forces of immigration, travel, electronic communication and more fluid employment patterns, we will find ourselves increasingly forced into contact with those who are significantly different from ourselves. Sadly however, the stranger is often ...

  • Public Intellectuals and the Common Good: Christian Thinking for Human Flourishing, Edited by Todd C. Ream and Jerry A. Pattengale and Christopher J. Devers
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    Public Intellectuals and the Common Good

    Christian Thinking for Human Flourishing

    Edited by Todd C. Ream, Jerry A. Pattengale, and Christopher J. Devers
    Foreword by George M. Marsden

    Evangelical Christians are active across all spheres of intellectual and public life today. But a disconnect remains: the work they produce too often fails to inform their broader communities. In the midst of a divisive culture and a related crisis within evangelicalism, public intellectuals speaking from an evangelical perspective have a critical role to play—within the church ...

  • Changing Signs of Truth: A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication, By Crystal L. Downing
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    Changing Signs of Truth

    A Christian Introduction to the Semiotics of Communication

    by Crystal L. Downing

    What signals are you sending when you share the gospel? The importance of signs for communicating truth has been recognized throughout the ages. Crystal L. Downing traces this awareness from biblical texts, through figures from church history like John Wycliffe and William Tyndale, to more recent writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge and C. S. Lewis. In the nineteenth century, this legacy of interest ...