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"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"--
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"For years, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland spoke about 'racial reconciliation' to congregations, justice organizations, and colleges. Yet over time, she felt she could no longer trust in the God she'd been taught to worship--a God who, she realized, did not affirm a Black woman like her. Her crisis of faith sent her on an intellectual and spiritual journey through history and across France, on a four-hundred-mile...
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"Aimee Byrd explores the theological meaning behind our sexes, helping Christians to understand our sexuality as gift and to grasp the story our bodies tell of Christ's love for his church. She calls the church to the recovery of God's true design of man and woman that unfolds through Scripture--indeed to a sexual reformation"--
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"We Carry the Fire begins with actions that nurture families and citizenship, fostering present-moment satisfaction through service. This brand of spirituality results in tangible outcomes in the real world: less poverty and better health, the restoration of nature, minimization of inequality, optimization of education and opportunity, and the human spirit improved both qualitatively and quantitatively. The author shows how actively engaging in this...
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Christians today face a dilemma: in a world that seems to reject everything we believe, how do we walk closely with God without caving to pressure or alienating those we hope to reach?
In The Daniel Dilemma, Chris Hodges provides a solution by examining the life of the prophet Daniel, who persevered in a corrupt culture that closely resembles our own—and emerged as an influential force in God's redemptive plan.
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"With all the hardships and unmet needs in the world, it's difficult to believe one person can make a difference. Where can you even begin? What do you have to offer? Rodney D. Bullard, Executive Director of the Chick-fil-A Foundation, wants to share with you the surprisingly simple but incredibly powerful ways you can impact others and create a legacy of service." --Amazon.
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John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation, and a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. In 1543, he penned A Treatise on Relics, and their religious-historical influence.
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"In an increasingly secular society, those who have a biblical worldview are now a shrinking minority. As mainstream culture grows more hositle toward the Bible's truths and those who embrace them, you'll face mounting pressures - from family, friends, media, academia, and government - to change and even abandon your beliefs. But these challenges also create abundant opportunities to stand strong for Christ and reveal His light to those hurt by the...
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Why the call to Love Thy Body? To counter a pervasive hostility toward the body and biology that drives today's headline stories: Transgenderism: Activists detach gender from biology. Kids down to kindergarten are being taught their bodies are irrelevant. Is this affirming--or does it demean the body? Homosexuality: Advocates disconnect sexuality from biological identity. Is this liberating--or does it denigrate biology? Abortion: Supporters deny...
10) All But Invisible: Exploring Identity Questions at the Intersection of Faith, Gender, and Sexuality
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What does it mean to be gay ... and a Christian? Beginning with how the Bible describes the Church, author Nate Collins outlines a vision for community life that challenges Christians to examine obstacles that inhibit spiritual unity. This new vision calls straight and non-straight believers alike to patterns of Christian obedience that respect and honor their similarities and differences.
In addition, Collins provides a theological framework for...
11) Becoming Like Creoles: Living and Leading at the Intersections of Injustice, Culture, and Religion
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The French Caribbean authors of In Praise of Creoleness (loge de la Crsbquoolitsbquo) exclaim, "Neither Europeans, nor Africans, nor Asians, we proclaim ourselves to be Creoles." Creoleness, therefore, becomes a metaphor for humanity in all its diversity. Unique among the many images useful for discussing diversity, Creoleness is, formed within a history of injustice, oppression, and empire. Creolization offers a way of envisioning a future through...
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What relevance has comedy for the global crises of late-modernity and the theological critique thereof? Coming out of the experience of war, a generation of modern theologians such as Donald MacKinnon, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and, more recently, Rowan Williams, in their accommodation to literature, choose tragedy as the paradigm for theological understanding and ethics. By contrast, this book develops recent philosophical, anthropological, and psychoanalytical...
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Where Are Critical Theory and the Social Justice Movement Taking Us?
Critical theory and its expression in fields such as critical race theory, critical pedagogy, and queer theory are having a profound impact on our culture. Contemporary critical theory's ideas about race, class, gender, identity, and justice have dramatically shaped how people think, act, and view one another-in Christian and secular spheres alike.
In Critical Dilemma, authors...
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What might it mean for public and political life to be understood as an important dimension of following Jesus? As a part of Zondervan's Ordinary Theology series, Vincent E. Bacote's The Political Disciple addresses this question by considering not only whether Christians have (or need) permission to engage the public square, but also what it means to reflect Christlikeness in our public practice, as well as what to make of the typically slow rate...
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Each day, the world's urban population swells by almost 200,000. With every passing week, more than a million people new to cities face unexpected realities and challenges of urban life. Just like the sheer volume of people in the city, these challenges can be staggering. As with the height and breadth of our metropolises, the wonders of urban life can be breathtaking. Like the city itself, the questions and challenges of urban life are both sprawling...
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How do we love people who we are afraid of?
The political climate of the US in recent years has revealed significant divisions in our nation and our neighborhoods, divisions often fueled by fear. For those who follow a call and commitment to love our neighbors, how do we love in the midst of this fear?
In this book, Cassie Trentaz looks that question in the eyes and asks her friends and neighbors in four communities currently facing pressure and...
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Recollecting America's Original Sin: A Pilgrimage of Race and Grace journeys into anti-black racism throughout US history through a Christian spirituality lens. The reflections are fashioned as a spiritual pilgrimage that integrates listening, reflecting, and daily living. It recollects the nation's freedom struggles around race, our original sin, which constrains and stains us now as ever. Walking a holy road of past, present, and future meaning,...
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Siguiendo las directrices del Papa Francisco, que ha dicho que «el camino sinodal es el camino que Dios espera de la Iglesia del tercer milenio», el Grupo Iberoamericano de Teología reunió en la Universidad de Puebla a un reconocido grupo de teólogas y teólogos, pastoralistas y canonistas de América Latina, España, Italia y Norteamérica, con el fin de reflexionar sobre las consecuencias de la sinodalidad en la vida de la Iglesia. Fruto de...
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DesARMAr reexamina lo que la Biblia dice (y no dice) acerca de la homosexualidad de tal manera que da nueva vida a suposiciones e interpretaciones obsoletas e inexactas.
Las iglesias, tanto en América Latina como en Estados Unidos, están experimentando una fractura sin precedentes debido a sus creencias y actitudes hacia la comunidad LGTBIQ+.
Armado con sólo seis pasajes en la Biblia, a menudo conocidos como los "versículos garrote", una posición...
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Few topics can grab headlines and stir passions quite like politics, especially when the church is involved. Considering the attention that many Christian parachurch groups, churches, and individual believers give to politics-and of the varying and sometimes divergent political ideals and aims among them-Five Views on the Church and Politics provides a helpful breakdown of the possible Christian approaches. Readers will find themselves equipped to...
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