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paperbackWhite Awake
An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
by Daniel Hill
Foreword by Brenda Salter McNeilDaniel Hill will never forget the day he heard these words: "Daniel, you may be white, but don't let that lull you into thinking you have no culture. White culture is very real. In fact, when white culture comes in contact with other cultures, it almost always wins. So it would be a really good idea for you to learn about your culture." Confused and unsettled by this encounter, Hill began ...
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paperbackThe Gift of Hard Things
Finding Grace in Unexpected Places
by Mark Yaconelli
- Foreword Reviews' 2016 INDIES Book of the Year Award, Silver Winner in Self-Help
In many ways society teaches us to try to have everything under our control. If we are honest, we tend to think that this can be true even of our spiritual lives. But Mark Yaconelli eloquently expresses the reality of our situation: "We are small, sensitive creatures with short lifespans, ...
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paperbackThe Power of Proximity
Moving Beyond Awareness to Action
by Michelle Ferrigno Warren
Foreword by Noel CastellanosWe can see evidence of injustice all around us, whether in continuing incidents of racial inequality or in the systemic forces that disenfranchise people and perpetuate poverty. It's important to learn about the world's inequities and to be a voice for the voiceless any way we can. But in an age of hashtag and armchair activism, merely raising awareness about injustice is not enough. Michelle Warren ...
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paperbackRaising Sons of Promise
A Guide for Single Mothers of Boys
by Roland C. Warren
With Heather CreekmoreMillions of single mothers find themselves in the difficult position of raising boys alone. Many of those boys are at risk of falling behind in school or repeating the patterns of their own absent or neglectful fathers. Single mothers, who are often the only parental influence on their sons, are critical to reversing this troubling trend. But how?
You might be wounded by the ...
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paperbackThe Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis
How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
by Jason M. Baxter
C. S. Lewis had one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Many readers know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. Others know him for his books in apologetics, including Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain. But few know him for his scholarly work as a professor of medieval and ...
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paperbackWait with Me
Meeting God in Loneliness
by Jason Gaboury
"To be human is to be lonely." When his seventy-something spiritual director Friar Ugo spoke these words in a voice cracking with age, Jason Gaboury felt a deep sense of their truth. To the observer, Jason, a campus minister, active church member, and father with a young family, might not have seemed lonely. But it's how he felt. He has wrestled with loneliness ever since he can ...
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caseboundMaking Room in Advent
25 Devotions for a Season of Wonder
by Bette Dickinson
Preparation for the Christmas season can often feel busy and frantic, but it doesn't have to be this way. What if we stopped and listened to the movement and unfolding of God's plan around us? Making Room in Advent is an invitation away from the chaos and into the space where God is at work.
The unfolding of God's plan often happens in unlikely spaces, both in Scripture ...
Number of Studies: 25
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hardcoverChrist Among the Dragons
Finding Our Way Through Cultural Challenges
by James Emery White
"Here Be Dragons" When medieval mapmakers came to the end of the world as they knew it, they would write on the edges of their maps, "Here Be Dragons." Without a way to navigate, these areas were, at best, promising yet unexplored, and at worst, perilous. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, evangelical Christians have an equally unsettling map and a lack of unity in regard to how we ...
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caseboundForty Days on Being an Eight
Enneagram Daily Reflections
by Sandra Maria Van Opstal
Series edited by Suzanne StabileWhat is it like to be an Enneagram Eight?
"Fósforito! The explosion happened so quickly there was no stopping it. My mother called me 'tiny match' when she would see this fire exploding from me." This is how Latina pastor, activist, and worship leader, Sandra Maria Van Opstal, describes her experience as an Eight. There came a point in her life when she saw how her ...
Number of Studies: 40
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hardcoverMother to Son
Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope
by Jasmine L. Holmes
Foreword by Jackie Hill PerryChristianity Today Book Award
"Wynn is my son. No little boy could be more loved by his parents. Inquisitive, fiercely affectionate, staunchly opinionated, he sees the world through eyes of wonder and has yet to become jaded by society's cruelty. I know he'll grow up with stories of having been made to feel 'other' because of the color of his skin. I want to teach ...
