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  • A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality, By Mekdes Haddis
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    A Just Mission

    Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

    by Mekdes Haddis
    Foreword by Latasha Morrison

    Why do American Christians travel overseas to reach people in distant lands, but neglect ministering to people who immigrate from those lands to their home communities?

    Why does Western missions funding depend on narratives that marginalize indigenous leadership?

    Why are diaspora Christians from the Global South not seen as legitimate missionaries to the West?

    Western ...

  • Life Together in Christ: Experiencing Transformation in Community, By Ruth Haley Barton
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    Life Together in Christ

    Experiencing Transformation in Community

    Transforming Resources

    by Ruth Haley Barton

    Best Book of Spiritual Formation, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    Have you joined a church or small group in hopes of experiencing real life change, only to be disappointed?

    Have you sat through inspiring sermons about what is possible when Christians gather together in mutually edifying relationships, only to recognize how cynical you have become after ...

  • Ancient Christian Devotional: Lectionary Cycle A, Edited by Cindy Crosby
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    Ancient Christian Devotional

    Lectionary Cycle A

    Ancient Christian Devotional Set

    Edited by Cindy Crosby
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    "To search the sacred Scripture is very good and most profitable for the soul. For, 'like a tree which is planted near the running waters,' so does the soul watered by sacred Scripture also grow hearty and bear fruit in due season," writes John of Damascus in Orthodox Faith (4.17). By helping us to read holy writings with ancient eyes, the church fathers help us drink deeply from the only ...

  • Incarnate: The Body of Christ in an Age of Disengagement, By Michael Frost
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    Incarnate

    The Body of Christ in an Age of Disengagement

    Forge Partnership Books

    by Michael Frost

    • 12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation (Missional Church)
    • 2014 Best Book of Missional Theology, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    The story of Christianity is a story of incarnation—God taking on flesh and dwelling among the people he created. God appointing and sending people as his body, his hands and feet. Disciples ...

  • Faithful Antiracism: Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change, By Christina Barland Edmondson and Chad Brennan
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    Faithful Antiracism

    Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change

    by Christina Barland Edmondson and Chad Brennan
    Foreword by Korie Little Edwards and Michael O. Emerson

    Reader's Choice Award Winner

    It's time to move past talk. It's no longer news to most of us that our society has a deep-seated racism problem. Christians of all ethnic and economic backgrounds are tired of seeing the ugly legacy of racism play out before their eyes and feeling ill-equipped to respond. They watch as friends and family members leave the visible ...

  • The 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition, Edited by Samuel L. Bray and Drew Nathaniel Keane
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    The 1662 Book of Common Prayer

    International Edition

    Edited by Samuel L. Bray and Drew Nathaniel Keane

    A Prayerbook for All Christians and All Nations

    The Book of Common Prayer (1662) is one of the most beloved liturgical texts in the Christian church, and remains a definitive expression of Anglican identity today. It is still widely used around the world, in public worship and private devotion, and is revered for both its linguistic and theological ...

  • Ancient Christian Devotional: Lectionary Cycle B, Edited by Cindy Crosby
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    Ancient Christian Devotional

    Lectionary Cycle B

    Ancient Christian Devotional Set

    Edited by Cindy Crosby
    General Editor Thomas C. Oden

    Reading the writings of early church fathers points us to the deep joy that awaits us in Christ when we drink deeply from Scripture, the only water that can give us true life. This guide for reflection combines excerpts from the writings of the church fathers as found in the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture with a simple structure for daily or weekly reading and prayer. Included are fifty-two ...

  • From Head-Hunters to Church Planters: An Amazing Spiritual Awakening in Nagaland, By Paul Hattaway
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    From Head-Hunters to Church Planters

    An Amazing Spiritual Awakening in Nagaland

    by Paul Hattaway

    There is a tendency today to associate revival and miracles with charismatic churches, but there were none of those in Nagaland when God first brought revival there. These powerful and life-changing visitations came to orderly, conservative Baptist congregations. As a result, Nagas found their true dignity not in themselves, their ethnic roots, their head-hunting, or the defense of their homeland, ...