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  • What does it look like to disrupt the church and world as we know it? The Disrupters podcast from IVP, hosted by Kaitlyn Schiess, features stories of positive disruption from both emerging and trusted voices within Christianity. These authors, pastors, scholars, activists, and creators tell their honest stories about the experiences that have challenged their thinking about faith, the church, and their calling in life.

  • The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor, By Kaitlyn Schiess
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    The Liturgy of Politics

    Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

    by Kaitlyn Schiess
    Foreword by Michael Wear

    A generation of young Christians are weary of the political legacy they've inherited and hungry for a better approach.

    They're tired of seeing their faith tied to political battles they didn't start, and they're frustrated by the failures of leaders they thought they could trust. Kaitlyn Schiess grew up in this landscape, and understands it from the inside.

    Spiritual ...

  • Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope, By Esau McCaulley
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    Reading While Black

    African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

    by Esau McCaulley

    Outreach Resources of the Year, Christianity Today Book Award, The Gospel Coalition Book Award

    Biblical Interpretation from the Black Church Tradition

    Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despair and hope that marks the lives of some in the African American context. ...

  • The Earliest Christologies: Five Images of Christ in the Postapostolic Age, By James L. Papandrea
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    The Earliest Christologies

    Five Images of Christ in the Postapostolic Age

    by James L. Papandrea

    The second century was a religious and cultural crucible for early Christian Christology. Was Christ a man, temporarily inhabited by the divine? Was he a spirit, only apparently cloaked in flesh? Or was he the Logos, truly incarnate? Between varieties of adoptionism on the one hand and brands of gnosticism on the other, the church's understanding took shape. In this clear and concise introduction, ...

  • Whole Life Transformation: Becoming the Change Your Church Needs, By Keith Meyer
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    Whole Life Transformation

    Becoming the Change Your Church Needs

    by Keith Meyer
    Foreword by Dallas Willard

    • 2011 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner
    Ministry to others and growing the church were the center of Keith Meyer's life. And yet he was arguing with his wife about how many nights a week he was spending in meetings. His temper was short, and he was exhausted. Keith writes: "I can see that I was pursuing a twisted idea of 'success'--not in the ...
  • Taking It to the Streets: Lessons from a Life of Urban Ministry, By Harry Louis Williams II
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    Taking It to the Streets

    Lessons from a Life of Urban Ministry

    by Harry Louis Williams II

    • 17th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Church

    There's an urgent need for Christian ministry in our cities—but we need a guide. Known around Oakland, California, as "OG Rev.," Reverend Harry Williams's calling is to the streets: to the hungry, homeless, addicted, incarcerated, and vulnerable. In Taking It to the Streets, ...

  • Kingdom Collaborators: Eight Signature Practices of Leaders Who Turn the World Upside Down, By Reggie McNeal
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    Kingdom Collaborators

    Eight Signature Practices of Leaders Who Turn the World Upside Down

    by Reggie McNeal

    "These who have turned the world upside down have come here too." (Acts 17:6) When Paul and Silas came to Thessalonica, they changed the community. How? By collaborating with God to bring his kingdom on earth. Will you collaborate on God's kingdom work in your community? If you're ready to see God move in all areas—business, education, media, arts, healthcare, spiritual growth, ...

  • Theologies of the American Revivalists: From Whitefield to Finney, By Robert W. Caldwell III
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    Theologies of the American Revivalists

    From Whitefield to Finney

    by Robert W. Caldwell III

    For centuries, revivals—and the conversions they inspire—have played a significant role in American evangelicalism. Often unnoticed or unconsidered, however, are the particular theologies underlying these revivals and conversions to faith. With that in mind, church historian Robert Caldwell traces the fascinating story of American revival theologies from the First Great Awakening through the ...

  • Apostolicity: The Ecumenical Question in World Christian Perspective, By John G. Flett
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    Apostolicity

    The Ecumenical Question in World Christian Perspective

    Missiological Engagements

    by John G. Flett

    What constitutes the unity of the church over time and across cultures? Can our account of the church's apostolic faith embrace the cultural diversity of world Christianity?

    The ecumenical movement that began in the twentieth century posed the problem of the church's apostolicity in profound new ways. In the attempt to find unity in the midst of the Protestant-Catholic schism, participants ...