• Global Christianity and Islam: Exploring History, Politics, and Beliefs, By Wafik W. Wahba
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    Global Christianity and Islam

    Exploring History, Politics, and Beliefs

    by Wafik W. Wahba

    A Comprehensive Overview of Christianity and Islam

    Together, the adherents of Christianity and Islam make up over half of the world's population, and their numbers are expected to keep growing. The influence of these two faiths—and their relations with each other—is seen in politics, economics, and social interactions. Religious identity and aspirations remain powerful and ...

  • Faithful Disobedience: Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement, By Wang Yi
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    Faithful Disobedience

    Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement

    by Wang Yi
    Edited by Hannah Nation and J. D. Tseng
    Foreword by Ian Johnson

    Reader's Choice Award Winner

    Throughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Chinese and rooted in the historical doctrines of the faith. To understand how they have endured despite government pressure and cultural marginalization, we must ...

  • 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 ...

  • Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church, By Eric Costanzo and Daniel Yang and Matthew Soerens
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    Inalienable

    How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church

    by Eric Costanzo, Daniel Yang, and Matthew Soerens

    Outreach Resource of the Year

    The American church is at a critical crossroads. Our witness has been compromised, our numbers are down, and our reputation has been sullied, due largely to our own faults and fears. The church's ethnocentrism, consumerism, and syncretism have blurred the lines between discipleship and partisanship. Pastor Eric Costanzo, missiologist ...

  • Thirsting for Living Water: Finding Adventure and Purpose in God's Redemption Story, By Michael J. Mantel
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    Thirsting for Living Water

    Finding Adventure and Purpose in God's Redemption Story

    by Michael J. Mantel
    Foreword by Richard Stearns

    When a perfect storm of personal, professional, and natural disaster threw Mike Mantel into a dark night of the soul, he embarked on a journey through his own life and around the world to rediscover God's presence through the diverse body of Christ.

    In Thirsting for Living Water, Mantel invites readers to join him on this adventure and open their eyes to their own ...

  • The Shape of Christian History: Continuity and Diversity in the Global Church, By Scott W. Sunquist
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    The Shape of Christian History

    Continuity and Diversity in the Global Church

    by Scott W. Sunquist

    While understanding history has always been an essential task for God's people, rapid changes within the past two generations of Christianity have challenged many of our assumptions and methods for studying the past. How should thoughtful Christians—and especially historians and missiologists—make sense of global Christianity as an unfolding historical movement?

    Scott Sunquist ...

  • Reading the Bible Around the World: A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics, By Federico Alfredo Roth and Justin Marc Smith and Kirsten Oh and Alice Yafeh-Deigh and Kay Higuera Smith
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    Reading the Bible Around the World

    A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics

    by Federico Alfredo Roth, Justin Marc Smith, Kirsten Oh, Alice Yafeh-Deigh, and Kay Higuera Smith

    Parish Clergy Award

    It's an exciting time to be reading the Bible. As we increasingly encounter readers with perspectives, experiences, and cultures different from our own, we can incorporate new ideas and approaches to interpreting Scripture. When diverse interpretations from various social locations are gathered together, we gain new vistas and a fuller ...

  • Pentecostal Orthodoxy: Toward an Ecumenism of the Spirit, By Emilio Alvarez
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    Pentecostal 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 ...

  • Cradling Abundance: One African Christian's Story of Empowering Women and Fighting Systemic Poverty, By Monique Misenga Ngoie Mukuna
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    Cradling Abundance

    One African Christian's Story of Empowering Women and Fighting Systemic Poverty

    by Monique Misenga Ngoie Mukuna
    With Elsie Tshimunyi McKee

    Growing up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Monique Misenga Ngoie Mukuna persevered through many challenges: political turmoil and violence, misogyny and patriarchy, lack of community resources and personal loss. As she carved out a life for herself, her family, and her community, she kept seeing the same story played out for women vulnerable and trapped in poverty. Every system ...

  • Spiritual Formation for the Global Church: A Multi-Denominational, Multi-Ethnic Approach, Edited by Ryan A. Brandt and John Frederick
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    Spiritual Formation for the Global Church

    A Multi-Denominational, Multi-Ethnic Approach

    Edited by Ryan A. Brandt and John Frederick

    The church is called to grow in Christ. Yet too often, it ignores the practical dimensions of the faith.

    The church is one in Christ. Yet too often, it is divided by national, denominational, theological, and racial or ethnic boundaries.

    The church is a global body of believers. Yet too often, it privileges a few voices and fails to recognize its own diversity.

    In response, this ...

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