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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...
22) Criminal justice
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Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"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"--
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W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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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.
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"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...
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Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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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...
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Zondervan Reflective
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"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"--
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Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"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...
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FrontLine
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"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,...
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FrontLine, an imprint of Charisma Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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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...
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Brazos Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"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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Salem Books, an imprint of Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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The ground is moving. The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the summer of 2020 shocked the nation. As riots rocked American cities, Christians affirmed from the pulpit and in social media that "Black lives matter" and that racial justice "is a gospel issue." But what if there is more to the social justice movement than those Christians understand? Even worse: What if they've been duped into preaching ideas that actually oppose the Kingdom...
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Zondervan
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Jesus for President is a radical manifesto to awaken the Christian political imagination, reminding us that our ultimate hope lies not in partisan political options but in Jesus and the incarnation of the peculiar politic of the church as a people "set apart" from this world. In what can be termed lyrical theology, Jesus for President poetically weaves together words and images to sing (rather than dictate) its message. It is a collaboration of Shane...
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Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"An examination of purity culture from the creator of the #ChurchToo movement. Sexual abuse is utterly rampant in Christian churches in America. And the reasons are somewhat different than those you might find in the #MeToo stories coming out of Hollywood or Washington. #ChurchToo turns over the rocks of the church's sexual dysfunction, revealing just what makes sexualized violence in religious contexts both ubiquitous and uniquely traumatizing, and...
35) The defiance
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Series
Delusion series volume 3
Publisher
Wander, an imprint of Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
"Four months after the deadly overlord Molek has been banished beyond the city limits of Masonville, Texas, Owen Edmonds's crucial mission to save lives escalates when seven Cosmic Rulers of darkness close in to decimate his town--and nation. As the battle between good and evil culminates in an epic standoff, Owen and his girlfriend, Ray Anne, must make the decision of a lifetime: will they face their fears or run?"--Provided by publisher
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Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Challenging many common assumptions, a Guatemalan immigrant and advocate with World Relief examines the racial, social, political, and theological implications of centering immigrants themselves in our advocacy and care"--
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Zondervan
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Preemptive Love founder Jeremy Courtney has seen the very worst of war. He's risked his life saving lives on the front lines. He's come face to face with ISIS, been targeted by death threats, and narrowly escaped airstrikes. Through it all, the most powerful thing he's learned is this: we're not just at war with each other; we're at war with ourselves. But the way things are is not the way they have to be. There is a more beautiful world. To find...
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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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As a testament to her unwavering faith in a God who delivers, Prodan denounced Nicolae Ceauşescu and dared to defend Christians in communist Romania while fearlessly declaring Christ-- even to the assassin who was ordered to kill her. She was kidnapped, tortured, and came within seconds of being executed-- but managed to defeat her enemies and expose the appalling secrets that would lead to the demise of Ceauşescu's evil empire.
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