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  • 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 ...

  • Be Kind to Yourself: Releasing Frustrations and Embracing Joy, By Cindy Bunch
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    Be Kind to Yourself

    Releasing Frustrations and Embracing Joy

    by Cindy Bunch
    Foreword by Ruth Haley Barton

    When we experience frustrations in daily life, many of us hold ourselves to blame. Self-criticism is often our default setting. But we can have a more gracious posture toward ourselves. We can practice disciplines of self-kindness.

    Editor and spiritual director Cindy Bunch calls us to self-care through greater compassion for ourselves. She helps us pay attention to the frustrations ...

  • The Shape of Christian History: Continuity and Diversity in the Global Church, By Scott W. Sunquist
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    The Shape of Christian History

    Continuity and Diversity in the Global Church

    by Scott W. Sunquist

    While understanding history has always been an essential task for God's people, rapid changes within the past two generations of Christianity have challenged many of our assumptions and methods for studying the past. How should thoughtful Christians—and especially historians and missiologists—make sense of global Christianity as an unfolding historical movement?

    Scott Sunquist ...

  • New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis: Advances in the Origins Debate, By John H. Walton
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    New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis

    Advances in the Origins Debate

    The Lost World Series

    by John H. Walton
    Contributions by J. Harvey Walton

    Updating and expanding upon his previous work on origins, this riveting volume from John H. Walton marks the eighth entry in his bestselling Lost World Series, which has sold more than 125,000 copies.

    For over a decade, John Walton's books The Lost World of Genesis One and The Lost World of Adam and Eve have shaped readers' understanding of the ancient Near ...

  • More Than Enchanting: Breaking Through Barriers to Influence Your World, By Jo Saxton
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    More Than Enchanting

    Breaking Through Barriers to Influence Your World

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    by Jo Saxton
    Foreword by Jenni Catron

    Women have always been central to the life of the church. From the early hours of the first Easter, when women were charged to announce the resurrection of Jesus, to the state of the contemporary church, where women outnumber men in pews and positions of service.

    But as central as women have been, they've also found themselves regularly marginalized--and not only in the church but in the neighborhoods, ...

  • A Sojourner's Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World, By Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
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    A Sojourner's Truth

    Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World

    by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
    Foreword by Patricia Raybon

    A Sojourner's Truth is an African American girl’s journey from South Carolina to the United States Naval Academy, and then to her calling as an international speaker, mentor, and thought-leader. Intertwined with Natasha's story is the story of Moses, a leader who was born into a marginalized people group, resisted the injustices of Pharaoh, denied the power of Egypt, and trusted God even ...

  • From Jerusalem to Timbuktu: A World Tour of the Spread of Christianity, By Brian C. Stiller
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    From Jerusalem to Timbuktu

    A World Tour of the Spread of Christianity

    by Brian C. Stiller

    Christianity started in Jerusalem. For many centuries it was concentrated in the West, in Europe and North America. But in the past century the church expanded rapidly across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Thus Christianity's geographic center of density is now in the West African country of Mali—in Timbuktu. What led to the church's vibrant growth throughout the Global South? Brian Stiller identifies ...

  • Business Ethics in Biblical Perspective: A Comprehensive Introduction, By Michael E. Cafferky
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    Business Ethics in Biblical Perspective

    A Comprehensive Introduction

    by Michael E. Cafferky

    It is legal for CEOs to make 300 times the amount of the average worker. But is this fair and just? Is it ethical for a customer to purchase a digital camera for the sole purpose of using it on a ski trip and then return the item to the store afterwards? Should companies who purchase advertising space on websites that offer pirated videos for download be held accountable for breaking intellectual ...

  • Let Creation Rejoice: Biblical Hope and Ecological Crisis, By Jonathan A. Moo and Robert S. White
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    Let Creation Rejoice

    Biblical Hope and Ecological Crisis

    by Jonathan A. Moo and Robert S. White

    "Let all creation rejoice before the LORD, for he comes." Psalm 96:13 The Bible is bathed with images of God caring for his creation in all its complexity. Yet in the face of climate change and other environmental trends, philosophers, filmmakers, environmentalists, politicians and senior scientists increasingly resort to apocalyptic rhetoric to warn us that a so-called perfect storm of factors ...

  • Fasting: Spiritual Freedom Beyond Our Appetites, By Lynne M. Baab
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    Fasting

    Spiritual Freedom Beyond Our Appetites

    by Lynne M. Baab

    "You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God." Matthew 5:6 The Message We live in hungry times. Ours is a consumer culture, predisposed to quickly fill the cravings of body and mind. The idea of fasting--the voluntary denial of something for a specific time, for a spiritual purpose--sets us immediately on edge. But Lynne Baab makes the case that anyone can fast. ...