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Bethany Dearborn Hiser
Bethany Dearborn Hiser is the director of soul care for Northwest Family Life, a network of therapists trained to work with survivors of domestic violence and sexual trauma. As a bilingual social worker, chaplain, and pastoral advocate, Hiser has worked in a variety of ministry and social service settings with people affected by addiction, sexual exploitation, incarceration, and immigration. She and her husband, Kenny, live in Seattle with their two young children.
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paperbackCross and Crescent
Responding to the Challenges of Islam
by Colin Chapman
Is the Muslim my neighbor? For increasing numbers of Christians, the answer to that question is yes. The crescent, an emblem of the Islamic faith recognized throughout the world, is gaining prominence in the West, bringing with it the collision of worldviews. When the cross meets the crescent, what ought to happen? In the newly revised classic Cross and Crescent, Colin Chapman brings ...
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paperbackRedeeming Law
Christian Calling and the Legal Profession
by Michael P. Schutt
Being a Christian lawyer is possible, but not easy. Law professor Michael Schutt believes that although there are significant obstacles, Christians belong in the legal profession and should regard it as a sacred calling. The Christian God is, after all, a God concerned with justice, both divine and human. However, the pathway beginning with law school and leading to the daily demands of practice ...
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caseboundForty Days on Being a Five
Enneagram Daily Reflections
by Morgan Harper Nichols
Series edited by Suzanne StabileWhat is it like to be an Enneagram Five?
Instagram poet and artist Morgan Harper Nichols reflects on this question in a spirit of honest self-assessment and with a desire for personal and spiritual growth. She draws wisdom from the deep wells of counseling and spirituality using illustrations from both Scripture and life. Each of these forty readings concludes with an opportunity ...
Number of Studies: 40
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paperbackCentering Discipleship
A Pathway for Multiplying Spectators into Mature Disciples
by E. K. Strawser
Foreword by JR WoodwardDiscipleship without mission is discipleship without Christ.
The church often lacks maturity and missional impact because discipleship is at its periphery. In order to get discipleship to the center, leaders need a locally rooted, culturally contextual discipleship pathway to tether disciples who are disciplemakers to the neighborhood or network around them.
Pastor and ...
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paperbackWrestling with Job
Defiant Faith in the Face of Suffering
by Bill Kynes and Will Kynes
The unique richness of the book of Job cannot be simply explained—it must be experienced. While Job presents challenges for scholars, ministry leaders, and laypeople, it also contains powerful lessons on faith and perseverance in the face of suffering that we all need to hear.
In Wrestling with Job, Bill Kynes, a lifelong pastor, and his son Will Kynes, a Job scholar, ...
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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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paperbackShades of Light
A Novel
by Sharon Garlough Brown
"I was desperate. . . . I couldn't turn off the dark thoughts, no matter how hard I tried or how much I prayed. And then I spent a whole weekend in bed, and the crying wouldn't stop, and I got really scared. I've had bouts with depression before—it's kind of a cloud I've learned to live with—but this time was different. I felt like I was going under, like I'd never feel hopeful ...
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paperbackThe Girl in the Orange Dress
Searching for a Father Who Does Not Fail
by Margot Starbuck
"Chosen." "Special." Those are the words Margot Starbuck used to describe herself as a child adopted into a loving family. And when her adoptive parents divorced, her dad moved east, and her mom and dad each got remarried, she told herself that she was extra loved, since she had more than two parents and people in different times zones who cared about her. But the word she really believed about ...
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product setAlabaster Guided Meditations
Series edited by Brian Chung and Bryan Ye-Chung
Come and experience the Scriptures in a fresh and life-giving way.
In collaboration between Alabaster Co. and IVP, the volumes in the Alabaster Guided Meditations offer the full text of a biblical book in the New Living Translation, presented alongside beautiful full-color photographs that invite the reader into deeper reflection. The Scripture passages and photography are ...
