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Author
Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"John Pavlovitz examines the bedrock ideas of our religion: the existence of hell, the utility of prayer, the way we treat LGBTQ people, the value of anger, and other doctrines to help all of us take a good, honest look at how the beliefs we hold can shape our relationships with God and our fellow humans--and to make sure that love has the last, loudest word"--
Author
Language
English
Description
In Between the Listening and the Telling, Mark Yaconelli leads readers into an enchanting meditation on the power of storytelling. From personal meaning-making to school shootings, climate change, and immigration justice, stories help us connect to out human longings and deep scurrents of hope.
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestseller God's Politics struck a chord with Americans disenchanted with how the Right had co-opted all talk about integrating religious values into our politics, and with the Left, who were mute on the subject. Jim Wallis argues that America's separation of church and state does not require banishing moral and religious values from the public square. God's Politics offers a vision for how to convert spiritual values into real social...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
Churches remain racially segregated and are largely ineffective in addressing complex racial challenges. In The Color of Compromise, Jemar Tisby takes us back to the root of this injustice in the American church, highlighting the cultural and institutional tables we have to flip in order to bring about progress between black and white people.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Tucker's husband was a preacher, and theirs was a Christian home-- until they were behind closed doors. There she was caught in a cycle of domestic violence; his physical abuse of women was based on his theological abuse of Scripture. Now Tucker offers hope for those caught in this cycle, and suggests ways to overcome the devastation it leaves behind.
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice argues that resistance isn't just for professional activists but for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing."--
In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Sharing from his own life, as well as the stories of others, Chuck Colson exposes the counterfeits of the good life and leads readers to the only true source of meaning and purpose, Jesus Christ. But he does that in an unusual way, allowing powerful stories to illustrate how people have lived out their beliefs in ways that either satisfy or leave them empty. Colson addresses seekers-people looking for the truth. He shows through stories that the truth...
Author
Language
English
Description
On August 14, 2014, five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown ignited race riots throughout the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the nation found an unlikely hero in Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol. Charged with the Herculean task of restoring peace between a hostile African American community and the local police, Johnson, a 30-year law enforcement veteran and an African American, did the unthinkable; he took off his bullet-proof...
11) Criminal justice
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Criminal Justice: Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of current-issue materials. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications"--
Author
Series
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Unoffendable readers will find something of immeasurable value---a concrete, practical way to live life with less stress. They'll adjust their expectations to fit human nature and replace perpetual anger with refreshing humility and gratitude. --Publisher's description.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all 'home.' Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Have you ever stopped to think, Maybe the Amish are on to something? Look around. We tweet while we drive, we talk while we text, and we surf the Internet until we fall asleep. We are essentially plugged in and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Rather than mastering technology, we have allowed technology to master us. We are an exhausted nation. No one has enough time, everyone feels stressed out, and our kids spend more hours staring at...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan Reflective
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Not In It To Win It is a relatable and practical resource that guides readers to the priorities of Jesus, even as we are navigating the complicated and emotionally-charged terrain of today's cultural divides and disagreements. Setting aside partisanship, Andy challenges readers to evaluate all of life through the wide-angle lens of faith"--
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Two friends on opposite sides of the aisle provide a practical guide to grace-filled political conversation while challenging readers to put relationship before policy and understanding before argument. More than ever, politics seems driven by conflict and anger. People sitting together in pews every Sunday have started to feel like strangers, loved ones at the dinner table like enemies. Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers say there is a better...
Author
Publisher
FrontLine
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"With pundits asking, “How did he win?” this book explores whether there was a supernatural element involved. Christian leaders prophesied before the election that God had raised up Donald Trump to lead the nation through a time of crisis. But could this billionaire reality-TV star actually convince the voters he was for real? If so, what is God doing now not only in Donald?s Trump?s life, but also in the nation? Trump is an enigma, a brash self-promoter,...
Author
Publisher
FrontLine, an imprint of Charisma Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Josiah Manifesto will take you on a prophetic journey from a Caribbean Island to the Washington D.C. to the ancient Valley of Hinnom to the Supreme Court to a desert mountain to an ancient middle eastern temple to the gates of America to uncover an ancient puzzle of stunning mysteries that lie behind the events of recent times that have altered our lives. From the Island of Mysteries to the Stranger in the Living Room to the House of Fallen Children...
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. More Americans have died from guns in the US in the last fifty years than in all the wars in American history. With less than 5% of the world's population, the people of the US own nearly half the world's guns. America also has the most annual gun deaths--homicide, suicide,...
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