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• A personal journey of a priest's understanding of his Whiteness widens into an invitation to wrestle with larger cultural issues of race and belonging
With humor, and a sharp, easily-readable style, Peter Jarrett-Schell delves deeply into how Whiteness has shaped his life. By telling his story, he challenges readers to personally consider the role of race in their own lives.
In recent years, white institutions, congregations, and individuals...
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Encouragement and inspiration for special needs families. God has a unique and magnificent purpose for every child-a purpose that is no less important for special-needs children. Through the story of her own ongoing struggles and victories raising her autistic son, Kelly Langston brings to light God's promises for exceptional kids and highlights covenants that assure special-needs parents of their children's potential and beauty.
3) When a Man You Love Was Abused: A Woman's Guide to Helping Him Overcome Childhood Sexual Molestation
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For all women who know and love a survivor of sexual assault, best-selling author Cecil Murphey has penned an honest and forthright book about helping the man in your life survive--and thrive--despite past abuses.
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The Let My People Go handbook is a practical guide to equip churches to love their most vulnerable neighbors. The name, Let My People Go, recalls the words of Moses as he spoke to those who had enslaved his people. Moses called for holistic freedom, freedom from physical and spiritual bondage. It's the authors' prayer that this guide would help you and your church take up this mantle of liberty in your community.
Human trafficking is the exploitation...
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Reflections on current affairs through the lens of history.
A resource for social justice and resilience.
Ida B. Wells was a powerful churchwoman and witness for justice and equity from 1878-1931. Born enslaved, her witness flowed through the struggles for justice in her lifetime, especially in the intersections of African Americans, women, and those who were poor. Her life is a profound witness for faith-based work of visionary power, resistance,...
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Which Gospel are you following?
In the United States, the Prosperity Gospel’s tenets, spread widely by many Protestant preachers, have crept into the Catholic Church. Where did the “Prosperity” Gospel come from? And how has it embedded itself so deeply in this country?
In this book, Thomas Storck demonstrates the deep roots that the unrestrained desire for gain has in this country. He argues that the exclusion of serious religious discourse...
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Laudate Deum: the Pope's cry for a response to the climate crisis. In continuity with his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si, the Pope Francis went further to clarify and bring to completion his previous text on integral ecology, while at the same time sounding an alarm that our power and the progress we are producing are turning against us, and calls for co-responsibility, in the face of the climate emergency.
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Did God instruct the human race to be His caretakers over nature? If so, is environmental exploitation disobedience to God? Is it true, as many critics claim, that Christianity is the root cause of today's environmental problems-or are all religions and cultures responsible? How should the church respond? Should Christians Be Environmentalists? systematically tackles these tough questions and more by exploring what the Bible says about the environment...
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Many people today desire a simple life that is closely connected to land, whether it be gardening, farming, or ranching. There is a spiritual draw to a non-consumeristic lifestyle that places God, the family, and the home at the center of all activity. This "agrarian conversion" has led many families to seek out rural communities and leave behind the suburban life.
Over ten years ago two Catholic friends, Jason M. Craig and Thomas D Van Horn, experienced...
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Where does technology belong in the biblical story of redemption? Believers and unbelievers alike are saturated with technology, yet most give it little if any thought. Consumers buy and upgrade as fast as they can, largely unaware of technology's subtle yet powerful influence. In a world where technology changes almost daily, many are left to wonder: Should Christians embrace all that is happening? Are there some technologies that we need to avoid?...
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Dolphus Weary knows from personal experience just how harmful racial division can be. Growing up in rural Mississippi, he learned that if poverty, hunger, and disease didn't kill him, racism, bigotry, or the Klan just might. So when a college basketball scholarship gave him the opportunity to get away from the broken, racially divided city of Mendenhall, he jumped at the chance. But he couldn't outrun racism. Eventually God called him back to his...
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Hard choices lie ahead, Christians. The bestselling team of James Robison and Jay Richards show what's at stake in our post-Christian society, how to prepare, and why we must never forget that the battle, above all, is spiritual.
Our rulers have kicked aside our Constitution and common sense. They have demonized our heroes. Now they're trying to erase the difference between male and female. All while running up unimaginable and catastrophic debt....
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Published in the years following 9/11, David Darks book The Gospel according to America warned American Christianity about the false worship that conflates love of country with love of God. It delved deeply into the political divide that had gripped the country and the cultural captivity into which so many American churches had fallen.
In our current political season, the...
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To show the world you're a good person, and also to avoid getting canceled and having your life ruined by a Twitter mob-you need to get WOKE. In The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness, the writers of satirical sensation The Babylon Bee tell you how to choose your pronouns, blame everyone else for your problems, and show the world how virtuous you are with virtue-signaling profile pictures and stunning and brave hashtags. A tongue-in-cheek guide to the...
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The world is full of good-hearted heathens, those who love people and those who want to do good in the world. They're not against Godâ€"they just have little use for church. Church is boring and hypocritical. Plus, who wants to sit through a sermon every week? But while organized religion doesn't appeal to them, these heathens long for a connection to something bigger than themselves: meaning, community, mission.
Pastor Jerry Herships leads...
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Joyful and daunting opportunities to live into God's dream of justice and beloved community are compelling and available. Hope, says Luther Smith Jr., is essential to the needed personal and social transformations that prepare us for such sacred opportunities. Yet genuine hope is often confused as merely wish fulfillment, optimism, or perceiving better tomorrows. In Hope Is Here! Smith describes how we truly perceive and join "the work of hope," enlivening...
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As Gabi sees her friends enjoying their summer, while she's expected to work in the family bakery, and has plans to attend Camp Ever Wood, she doesn't anticipate that her summer would turn out to be life-changing. When Gabi attends camp, girls laugh at her, she's continually called by the wrong name, bugs are dumped on her, and much more. Gabi's journey to camp is filled with embarrassing obstacles, a few unfriendly campers, and homesickness. When...
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A Political Commentary Narrative Novel: A warm and touching novel that encourages embracing traditional Christian American values, highest morals and ethics, family values, working together (not separately) as American citizens toward common, sensible and benevolent goals and aspirations with courage and resolve and unhindered, undefeatable determination to be the best citizen of the United States and best world citizen possible, thereby benefitting...
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Jesus is not white. Jesus is not American. Jesus does not want to make America great. While many of us grew up looking at gleaming portraits of Jesus with blond, flowing hair and hearing sermons reaffirming that we have the answers to save a fallen world, the real Jesusa Middle Eastern Jew preaching radical, humble, self-emptying lovecalls us to a different life.
As we see oppression and hate run rampant in our nation, it's as if Christianity has...
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In this new edition that includes a study guide, popular author Walter Brueggemann writes that the Sabbath is not simply about keeping rules but rather about becoming a whole person and restoring a whole society. Brueggemann calls out our 24/7 society of consumption, a society in which we live to achieve, accomplish, perform, and possess. We want more, own more, use more, eat more, and drink more. Brueggemann shows readers how keeping the Sabbath...
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