The Justice Calling: Where Passion Meets Perseverance

Christianity Today Book Award Winner Justice requires perseverance--a deep perseverance we can't muster on our own. The world's needs are staggering and even the most passion-driven reactions, strategies, and good intentions can falter. But we serve a God who never falters,...

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Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call To Leverage Privilege by Dominique Dubois Gilliard

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Were You There? Lenten Reflections On The Spirituals by Luke A. Powery

February 22, 2023 Valuable not only for their sublime musical expression, the African American spirituals provide profound insights into the human condition and Christian life. Many spirituals focus on the climax of the Christian drama, the death and resurrection of...

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JAMES:  9 Studies For Individuals and Groups by N.T. Wright

JAMES: 9 Studies For Individuals and Groups by N.T. Wright

Every generation in the church worries, rightly, about people who just glide along, seeming to enjoy what they hear in church but without it making any real difference. James faced exactly the same problem in the very first generation....

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The Bible

The Bible

The Bible is in itself a small library of books, all of which emerged from the history of the people of ancient Israel. It is the most influential book in the history of Western and much of Eastern civilization....

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The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle

The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle

Fall 2021 The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle   https://www.phyllistickle.com/books/the-great-emergence/ Rooted in the observation that massive transitions in the church happen about every 500 years, Phyllis Tickle shows readers that we live in such a time right...

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Who Will Be A Witness: Igniting Activism for God’s Justice, Love, and Deliverance by Drew Hart

Who Will Be A Witness: Igniting Activism for God’s Justice, Love, and Deliverance by Drew Hart

April  2021 – June 2021 Who Will Be a Witness offers a vision for communities of faith to organize for deliverance and justice in their neighborhoods, states, and nation as an essential part of living out the call of Jesus. Author Drew...

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Missional Economics: Biblical Justice and Christian Formation  by Michael Barram

Missional Economics: Biblical Justice and Christian Formation  by Michael Barram

October 2020 - March 2021 American Christians today, says Michael Barram, have a significant blind spot when it comes to economic matters in the Bible. In this book Barram reads biblical texts related to matters of money, wealth, and poverty...

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God Loves Justice: A User-Friendly Guide to Biblical Justice and Righteousness by Jessica Nicholas

God Loves Justice: A User-Friendly Guide to Biblical Justice and Righteousness by Jessica Nicholas

Past Study Text Christians seem to ask this question all the time, yet still are confused and divided over the answers they come up with. What would God say about social justice as we know it today? This book answers...

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