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EbookOld Testament Ethics for the People of God
by Christopher J. H. Wright
Nothing confuses Christian ethics quite like the Old Testament. Some faithful readers struggle through its pages and conclude that they must obey its moral laws but may disregard its ceremonial and civil laws. Others abandon its teaching altogether in favor of a strictly New Testament ethic. Neither option, argues Chris Wright, gives the Old Testament its due.In this innovative approach to Old Testament ...
PaperbackOld Testament Ethics for the People of God
by Christopher J. H. Wright
Nothing confuses Christian ethics quite like the Old Testament. Some faithful readers struggle through its pages and conclude that they must obey its moral laws but may disregard its ceremonial and civil laws. Others abandon its teaching altogether in favor of a strictly New Testament ethic. Neither option, argues Chris Wright, gives the Old Testament its due.In this innovative approach to Old Testament ...
EbookSoul Repair
Rebuilding Your Spiritual Life
by Jeff VanVonderen, Dale Ryan, and Juanita Ryan
Do you fear that God is angry with you? Do you wonder if God is really for you? if God really loves you? Deep down many of us believe that we are not good enough, and never will be good enough, to have a meaningful relationship with God.This is because we have been spiritually trained in ways that have left us with distorted and inadequate spiritualities of four different kinds:
- abusive
- anorexic
- addictive
- codependent
And ...
PaperbackBeauty and Resistance
Spiritual Rhythms for Formation and Repair
by Jonathan P Walton
Englewood Review of Books Readers' Best Awards Honorable Mention
Build sacred rhythms for rested, sustainable justice—where beauty and resistance naturally flow
Many today are caught in cycles of outrage and exhaustion while trying to stay sane and engaged. Is there a different way? How can you pursue justice, work towards a renewed world, and sustain ...
PaperbackHow the News Makes Us Dumb
The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society
by C. John Sommerville
We who live at the end of the twentieth century are better informed--and more quickly informed--than any people in history. So why do we also seem more confused, divided and foolish than ever before?Some pundits criticize the news media for political bias. Other analysts worry that up-to-the-minute news reports on radio and television oversimplify complex realities. Still more critics point out ...
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InterVarsity Press (IVP) is thrilled to announce the honoring of two IVP titles in the 2025 Englewood Readers Best Awards. Beauty and Resistance: Spiritual Rhythms for Formation and Repair received an honorable mention and Remissioning Church: A Field Guide to Bringing a Congregation Back to Life won the overall award.
PaperbackReconstructing the Gospel
Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Foreword by William J. Barber2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist—Multicultural
"I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided."
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for ...
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.
Muchof 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 ...
PaperbackPlundered
The Tangled Roots of Racial and Environmental Injustice
by David W Swanson
Two of the world's greatest crises, systemic racism and environmental destruction, share the same origin story. The two are rooted in economic forces that exploit and oppress both people and land.
Pastor David Swanson showshow we have failed our God-given duty as caretakers of creation and how that failure has resulted in the exploitation of people and the extraction of natural ...
PaperbackUrban Ministry
The Kingdom, the City & the People of God
by Harvie M. Conn and Manuel Ortiz
No. 3 in the Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten Books of the Year
The city presents serious challenges that cry out for answers: poverty, racism, human exploitation and government corruption. How can the church move ahead in the midst of these demands with the gospel of hope?
Here, in one comprehensive volume, Harvie Conn and Manuel Ortiz, two noted scholars and proven ...
