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paperbackCreating Cultures of Belonging
Cultivating Organizations Where Women and Men Thrive
by Beth Birmingham and Eeva Sallinen Simard
Foreword by Myal Greene and Emily SarmientoWith increasing interest from donors and board members to see faith-based, missional organizations reflect the diversity of God's kingdom, these organizations desire to have women in positions of leadership. However, this proves difficult when the organizational culture is one that silences and even penalizes the unique giftings that women bring to the table.
Many organizations ...
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paperbackWho Moved My Neighborhood?
Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change
by Mark E. Strong
Foreword by Harold Calvin RayNeighborhoods are moving. While neighborhood changes can mean exciting and fresh opportunities for some, the experience can be vastly different for long-time residents. The rapid movement of people means changes in employment, economics, landscape, demographics, and the feel of a community. Churches often experience the painful impact of these shifts. Depending on how a church navigates ...
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paperbackEconomic Parables
The Monetary Teachings of Jesus Christ
by David Cowan
Ever wondered how to pay the next bill? Felt the world is unfair in economic rewards? Been indecisive about investing wisely? These types of fiscal questions are addressed from a Christian viewpoint in Economic Parables. Using his vast experience in the financial world as well as church ministry, the author invites you to listen directly to the words of Jesus and reflect on a number of ...
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paperbackOverturning Tables
Freeing Missions from the Christian-Industrial Complex
by Scott A. Bessenecker
Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation
Best World Missions Book, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
We are more than the businesses we have become.
Much of Christian ministry has been shaped to operate not according to the witness of the Scriptures, but according to the values of the free market. We adopt ...
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paperbackHow Neighborhoods Make Us Sick
Restoring Health and Wellness to Our Communities
by Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop
Our neighborhoods are literally making us sick. Buildings with mold trigger asthma and other respiratory conditions. Geographic lack of access to food and health care increases childhood mortality. Community violence traumatizes residents. Poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing, food insecurity, racial injustice, and oppression cause physical changes in the body, resulting in ...
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paperbackPower Women
Stories of Motherhood, Faith, and the Academy
Edited by Nancy Wang Yuen and Deshonna Collier-Goubil
IVP Readers' Choice Award
"The dominant narrative we hear as professor mothers is that motherhood and academia are incompatible."
Two challenging vocations, each filled with complexities and daily ups and downs. Yet more and more women are answering the call to both the academy and motherhood. A growing body of literature addresses parent-professors, ...
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paperbackThe Samaritan Woman's Story
Reconsidering John 4 After #ChurchToo
by Caryn A. Reeder
Reader's Choice Award Winner
Most Christians have heard a familiar description of the Samaritan woman in John 4: she was a sinner, an adulteress, even a prostitute. Throughout church history, the woman at the well has been seen narrowly in terms of her gender and marital history. What are we missing in the story? And what difference does our interpretation ...
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paperbackThe #MeToo Reckoning
Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct
by Ruth Everhart
- 2020 Publishers Weekly Book of the Year - Religion
★ Publishers Weekly starred review. The #MeToo movement has revealed sexual abuse and assault in every sphere of society, including the church. But victims are routinely ignored by fellow Christians who deny their accounts and fail to bring accountability to the perpetrators. All too ...
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paperbackThe Wonders of Creation
Learning Stewardship from Narnia and Middle-Earth
Hansen Lectureship Series
by Kristen Page
Contributions by Christina Bieber Lake, Noah J. Toly, and Emily Hunter McGowinWhen an author of fiction employs the imagination and sets characters in a new location, they are in a sense creating a world. Might such fictional worlds give us a deeper appreciation for our own?
Many readers have found themselves, like the Pevensie children, transported by C. S. Lewis into Narnia, and they have traveled from Lantern Waste to Cair Paravel and the edge of ...
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The fifth season of The Disrupters podcast launches on October 16 with a discussion between host Kaitlyn Schiess and her first guest, Tyler Burns, president of The Witness. Together they will begin to explore this season's central question: What does it mean to disrupt ourselves in a meaningful way?
