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PaperbackPentecostal Orthodoxy
Toward an Ecumenism of the Spirit
by Emilio Alvarez
Foreword by John Behr“Can anything orthodox come from Pentecostalism?”
This recasting of Nathaniel's familiar question from the Gospel is a fair summary of many modern Christians' assessment of the Pentecostal tradition. Yet in recent years, a growing number of Pentecostals have been turning afresh to the ancient, creedal Christian faith.
Bishop Emilio Alvarez has himself been at the forefront ...
PaperbackChristianity and Western Thought
Journey to Postmodernity in the Twentieth Century
Christianity and Western Thought Series
by Alan G. Padgett and Steve Wilkens
Colin Brown's Christianity Western Thought, Volume 1: From the Ancient World to the Age of Enlightenment was widely embraced as a text in philosophy and theology courses around the world. His project was continued with the same spirit, energy and design by Steve Wilkens and Alan Padgett in volume 2, which explores the main intellectual streams of the nineteenth century.This, the third and ...
PaperbackTouch the Earth
Poems on The Way
by Drew Edward Jackson
Foreword by Pádraig Ó TuamaGather it from memory.
Let it touch the earth.In Touch the Earth, Drew Jackson continues the project he began in God Speaks Through Wombs, reflecting on the Gospel of Luke through poetry. Touch the Earth picks up in chapter nine and continues through the end of Luke's Gospel. Part protest poetry, part biblical commentary, Jackson presents the ...
PaperbackResilient Ministry
What Pastors Told Us About Surviving and Thriving
by Bob Burns, Tasha D. Chapman, and Donald C. Guthrie
What does it take to have fruitful ministry over the long haul?
The stresses of pastoring are well known and can be a match for even the best-prepared, most experienced in ministry--multiple tasks, long hours, taxing responsibilities and, yes, some challenging personalities. Too often the results can be burnout, being run out or just feeling worn out.
To find out how pastors can thrive ...
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Alvin C. Bibbs
Alvin Bibbs is founder and director of the Obsidian Consulting Group and former executive director of multicultural church relations for the Willow Creek Association. From 1984 to 1992, Alvin was executive director of LaSalle Street Young Life. In this role he ministered to the youth and families in the Cabrini-Green housing development project in Chicago, where he grew up. He also served as chaplain to the Chicago Cubs for seven seasons.
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Walter Strickland’s Swing Low is a rich, in-depth project of historical understanding in two complementary volumes: a comprehensive narrative of the history of Black Christianity in America since colonial times alongside a full volume of historical documents enabling readers to hear the voices of the African American church for ourselves.
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Ben Lowe
Ben Lowe is on staff with the Evangelical Environmental Network and serves as the national spokesperson for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action. A dedicated activist and organizer, Ben was raised a missionary kid in Southeast Asia and now lives as part of an intentional community in a refugee and immigrant neighborhood outside Chicago, where he ran for US Congress in 2010. He is a graduate of Wheaton College (IL) and the author of Green Revolution.
PaperbackThere's a Teenager in My House
101 Questions Parents Ask
Edited by Wayne Rice
You have one of the toughest and most important jobs out there: raising teenagers.Their reputation precedes them: cluttered rooms, changing moods, curfew wars and confusing relationships haunt the dreams of parents well before their oldest child hits adolescence. Wayne Rice, founder of Understanding Your Teenager, has compiled more than a hundred of the most common concerns that parents bring to ...
PaperbackAwakening to Justice
Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past
by The Dialogue on Race and Faith, Seattle Pacific University , Albert George Miller, Estrelda Y. Alexander, Jemar Tisby, Christopher Momany, Sègbègnon Mathieu Gnonhossou, David Daniels, R. Matthew Sigler, Douglas M. Strong, Diane Kathleen Leclerc, and Esther Chung-Kim
"O where are the sympathies of Christians for the slave and where are their exertions for their liberation? . . . It seems as if the church were asleep."
David Ingraham, 1839
In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a ...
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