• Hermanas: Deepening Our Identity and Growing Our Influence, By Natalia Kohn Rivera and Noemi Vega Quiñones and Kristy Garza Robinson
    paperback

    Hermanas

    Deepening Our Identity and Growing Our Influence

    by Natalia Kohn Rivera, Noemi Vega Quiñones, and Kristy Garza Robinson

    Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist - Multicultural

    God calls Latinas to lives of influence. He created his Latina daughters to partner with him, live into the incredible plans he has for each of us, and walk in his grace and strength to help change this world. But many of us have heard cultural messages that make us doubt our adequacy. We have ...

  • Can
    paperback

    Can "White" People Be Saved?

    Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission

    Missiological Engagements

    Edited by Love L. Sechrest, Johnny Ramírez-Johnson, and Amos Yong
    Contributions by Willie James Jennings, Andrea Smith, Hak Joon Lee, Akintunde E. Akinade, Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, Angel D. Santiago-Vendrell, Andrew T. Draper, Erin Dufault-Hunter, Clifton Clarke, Daniel Jeyaraj, and Jonathan Tran

    Yes, White people can be saved. In God's redemptive plan, that goes without saying. But what about the reality of white normativity? This idea and way of being in the world has been parasitically joined to Christianity, and this is the ground of many of our problems today. It is time to redouble the efforts of the church and its institutions to muster well-informed, gospel-based initiatives ...

  • Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered: Millennials and Social Change in African Perspective, By Wanjiru M. Gitau
    paperback

    Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered

    Millennials and Social Change in African Perspective

    Missiological Engagements

    by Wanjiru M. Gitau
    Foreword by Mark R. Shaw

    Christianity Today 2019 Book of the Year Award, Missions/Global Church

    Building from a behind-the-scenes case study of Kenya's Nairobi Chapel and its "daughter" Mavuno Church, Wanjiru M. Gitau expands their story into a narrative that offers analysis of the rise, growth, and place of megachurches worldwide in the new millennium. In contexts experienced as deeply volatile, ...

  • The Minority Experience: Navigating Emotional and Organizational Realities, By Adrian Pei
    paperback

    The Minority Experience

    Navigating Emotional and Organizational Realities

    by Adrian Pei

    It's hard to be in the minority. If you're the only person from your ethnic or cultural background in your organization or team, you probably know what it's like to be misunderstood or marginalized. You might find yourself inadvertently overlooked or actively silenced. Even when a work environment is not blatantly racist or hostile, people of color often struggle to thrive—and ...

  • The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott, By Brian Stanley
    hardcover

    The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism

    The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott

    History of Evangelicalism Series

    by Brian Stanley

    Evangelical Christianity underwent extraordinary expansion—geographically, culturally and theologically—in the second half of the twentieth century. How and why did it spread and change so much? How did its strategic responses to a rapidly changing world affect its diffusion, for better or for worse? This volume in the History of Evangelicalism series offers an authoritative survey of worldwide ...

  • Serving God in a Migrant Crisis: Ministry to People on the Move, By Patrick Johnstone
    paperback

    Serving God in a Migrant Crisis

    Ministry to People on the Move

    Operation World Resources

    by Patrick Johnstone
    With Dean Merrill
    Foreword by Stephan Bauman

    "God has used migration for millennia to achieve his purposes for his people," writes Patrick Johnstone. "He is doing so again in our time." Millions are on the move, driven by war, drought, terrorism, poverty, failed states, environmental catastrophes, disease, revolutions, and the desire for a better life. Christians have a unique perspective on the migrant crisis: after all, ...

  • Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores, By Dominique DuBois Gilliard
    paperback

    Rethinking Incarceration

    Advocating for Justice That Restores

    by Dominique DuBois Gilliard

    IVP Readers' Choice Award
    Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year

    The United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. Mass incarceration has become a lucrative industry, and the criminal justice system is plagued with bias and unjust practices. And the church has unwittingly contributed ...

  • The Colors of Culture: The Beauty of Diverse Friendships, By MelindaJoy Mingo
    paperback

    The Colors of Culture

    The Beauty of Diverse Friendships

    by MelindaJoy Mingo

    How diverse are your friendships?

    We are living in a time where fear and mistrust among people of different cultural and ethnic groups is becoming the norm rather than the exception. It appears that cultural and racial divides are expanding rather than shrinking. What can we do?

    We can learn to see every human being from God's perspective and value their experiences ...

  • Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, By Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
    paperback

    Unsettling Truths

    The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

    by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award
    American Society of Missiology Book Award
    ★ Publishers Weekly starred review

    You cannot discover lands already inhabited.

    Injustice has plagued American society for centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions. ...

  • Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey, By Sarah Shin
    paperback

    Beyond Colorblind

    Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey

    by Sarah Shin

    Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year
    Foreword INDIES Award Finalist

    For a generation or so, society has tried to be colorblind. People say they don’t see race. But this approach has limitations. In our broken world, ethnicity and racial identity are often points of pain and injustice. We can’t ignore that God created us with our ethnic identities. ...

Textbook Selector

An easy way to find your next textbook by field and subject: