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Color of Compromise: Audio Lectures: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism
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Color of Compromise: Audio Lectures: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism

by Jemar Tisby

Narrated by Jemar Tisby

The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Color of Compromise: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant mate… Read more…

Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience

Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience

by Sheila Wise Rowe

2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award - Multicultural2021 Christianity Today Book Award - Christian Living/Discipleship AwardPublishers Weekly starred review"People of color have endured traumatic histories and almost daily assaults on our dignity. We have prayed about racism, been in denial, or acted out in anger, but we have not known how to individ… Read more…

Be True to Yourself: Why it doesn't mean what you think it does (and how that can make you happy)

Be True to Yourself: Why it doesn't mean what you think it does (and how that can make you happy)

by Matt Fuller

Our culture tells us that the way to be happy is to "be true to yourself". It’s posted on social media, promoted in adverts, taught in schools and, even, expressed in churches. But what does that mean, and does it actually work? Matt Fuller explores how true happiness, wholeness and freedom can be found not by turning inwards a… Read more…

Spirit of Hope: Theology for a World in Peril

Spirit of Hope: Theology for a World in Peril

by Jürgen Moltmann

Famous theologian Jrgen Moltmann returns here to the theme that he so powerfully addressed in his groundbreaking work, Theology of Hope. In the twenty-first century, he tells us, hope is challenged by ideologies and global trends that would deny hope and even life itself. Terrorist violence, social and economic inequality, and most especially the looming cri… Read more…

Rings of Fire: Walking in Faith through a Volcanic Future

Rings of Fire: Walking in Faith through a Volcanic Future

by Mark Chironna and Leonard Sweet

What Lies Ahead for Christians around the World?If you follow the works of bestselling authors Malcolm Gladwell, Faith Popcorn, Daniel Pink, and other trend forecasters, you’ll appreciate learning about over 25 rings of fire that lie ahead for Christians around the world.Len Sweet once again maps the future for the church in this sweeping survey of the twe… Read more…

Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey

Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey

by Gena Thomas

In 2017 five-year-old Julia traveled with her mother, Guadalupe, from Honduras to the United States. Her harrowing journey took her through Mexico in the cargo section of a tractor trailer. Then she was separated from her mother, who was held hostage by smugglers who exploited her physically and financially. At the United States border, Julia came through th… Read more…

Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism

Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism

by William A. Dyrness and Jonathan A Anderson

Christianity Today Book of the Year Award of Merit - Culture and the ArtsFor many Christians, engaging with modern art raises several questions: Is the Christian faith at odds with modern art? Does modernism contain religious themes? What is the place of Christian artists in the landscape of modern art?Nearly fifty years ago, Dutch art historian and theologi… Read more…

The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World

The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World

by Cathleen Falsani and Jenny Eaton Dyer

2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalists - Ecology and Environment Jesus' command is clear: we are called to feed all of God's children. But is that possible?Twenty-five years ago, 23.3 percent of the world's population lived in hunger. Today, that number has dropped to 12.9 percent—giving rise to the renewed hope that what once se… Read more…

No podemos callar: Decir la verdad en una cultura que redefine el sexo, el matrimonio y lo que está bien o mal

No podemos callar: Decir la verdad en una cultura que redefine el sexo, el matrimonio y lo que está bien o mal

by Mohler Jr.

Hace veinte años, ninguna nación en la tierra tenía un matrimonio legal entre personas del mismo sexo. Ahora, el acceso al matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo se ve cada vez más como un derecho humano básico. En cuestión de menos de una generación, las culturas occidentales han experimentado una revolución mor… Read more…

Intensional: Kingdom Ethnicity in a Divided World

Intensional: Kingdom Ethnicity in a Divided World

by D. A. Horton

When it comes to the ethnic divisions in our world, we speak often of seeking racial reconciliation. But at no point have all the different ethnicities on Earth been reconciled. Animosity, distrust, and hostility among people from various ethnicities have always existed in American history. Even in the church, we have often built walls—ethnic segregation, … Read more…

Not From Around Here: What Unites Us, What Divides Us, and How We Can Move Forward

Not From Around Here: What Unites Us, What Divides Us, and How We Can Move Forward

by Brandon J O'Brien and Brandon O'Brien

Tidy categories may suit the media, but people are more complex up close.News outlets, historians, and sociologists can (and do) tell us all about the statistics, but they don’t (and can’t) tell us about what it’s really like in a given place—how the squish of creek water between your toes or the crunch of autumn leaves on a city s… Read more…

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God Loves Broken People: And Those Who Pretend They're Not
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God Loves Broken People: And Those Who Pretend They're Not

by Sheila Walsh and Pam Farrel

Narrated by Sheila Walsh

The other side of brokenness"If I could write only one book in my lifetime, I would ask God to make it this one, the very book you now hold in your hands. . . ."?Sheila WalshGod loves broken people. And when weary, wounded men and women find a way to open their bruised hearts and somehow welcome Him into their personal darkness, they will find a love beyond … Read more…


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