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Baker Publishing Group Beyond Her Yes – Reimagining Pro–Life Ministry to
Book SynopsisMuch pro-life ministry is focused on encouraging women to say yes to life rather than terminate their pregnancies. But what happens after that decision has been made? Who will provide that mother, who likely considered abortion because she could not see how she could afford to have a child, with the long-term emotional support, education, and guidance that will help her out of poverty? Economics and abortion are intrinsically linked, and if pro-life ministry is to make a real difference in the lives of women and families, it must expand its perspective beyond that initial yes in order to address the underlying problem of generational poverty. In Beyond Her Yes, cofounder of RENEW Life Center Marisol Maldonado Rodriguez helps you understand the full impact that poverty has on women making life decisions and then shows how a comprehensive approach to pro-life ministries can make a far greater impact. Saving the lives of the not-yet-born is just the first step. Discover how you can be part of saving entire families from a life of hardship and hard choices.
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Baker Publishing Group Called to Reconciliation – How the Church Can
Book SynopsisOutreach 2023 Recommended Resource (Social Issues) Nationally recognized speaker and church leader Jay Augustine demonstrates that the church is called and equipped to model reconciliation, justice, diversity, and inclusion. This book develops three uses of the term "reconciliation": salvific, social, and civil. Augustine examines the intersection of the salvific and social forms of reconciliation through an engagement with Paul's letters and uses the Black church as an exemplar to connect the concept of salvation to social and political movements that seek justice for those marginalized by racism, class structures, and unjust legal systems. He then traces the reaction to racial progress in the form of white backlash as he explores the fate of civil reconciliation from the civil rights era to the Black Lives Matter movement. This book argues that the church's work in reconciliation can serve as a model for society at large and that secular diversity and inclusion practices can benefit the church. It offers a prophetic call to pastors, church leaders, and students to recover reconciliation as the heart of the church's message to a divided world. Foreword by William H. Willimon and afterword by Michael B. Curry.Table of ContentsContentsForeword by William H. WillimonIntroductionReconciliation in ContextThe Divided States of AmericaSocial Divisions and the Church's Ministry of ReconciliationConclusionPart 1: The Theology of Reconciliation1. The Trajectory of Reconciliation: Definitions and Peter's Leadership in the Early ChurchDefining and Contextualizing Reconciliation: Salvific, Social, and CivilPeter's Leadership in Moving the Church toward Reconciliation: The Original Use of the Word ChurchThe Church Was Born as a Jewish AssemblyReconciliation Under Peter's Leadership: The Church Admits Gentiles as "the Other"2. Social Reconciliation: Paul's Theology of Equality in Christ JesusPaul's Theology in Moving the Church toward ReconciliationSocial Reconciliation in Galatians, 1 Corinthians, and RomansApplying Social Reconciliation's Threefold Criteria to Paul's Theology of Equality3. Civil Reconciliation: Contextualizing King and the Black Church's Ministry of ReconciliationCivil Reconciliation Stems from Social ReconciliationThe Importance of Forgiveness in Civil ReconciliationContextualizing Civil ReconciliationRevisiting Forgiveness as a Part of Reconciliation: King's Theology with a More Contemporary and Applied ResponseConclusionPart 2: Reconciliation with "the Other"4. The Response to Civil Reconciliation: White Evangelicalism and the Southern Strategy Give Rise to "Make America Great Again"The Southern Strategy Meets "Make America Great Again"The Voting Rights Act and Affirmative Action: Two of the Civil Rights Movement's Most Measurable Achievements in Civil ReconciliationA Response to Success: The Southern Strategy Fusion of White Evangelicals and the Republican PartyCan Anything Separate Evangelicals from Blind Political Allegiance?Conclusion5. Where Do We Go from Here? A Call for the Church to Return to Her Apostolic-Era Embrace of Diversity and Inclusion What Did God Intend the Church to Look Like?How Can Diversity and Inclusion Be Good in Moving the Church toward Reconciliation?Evangelicals and the Issues: Can the Divisions Unearthed by "Make America Great Again" Move the Church toward Reconciliation?ConclusionEpilogueAfterword by Michael B. CurryAppendix: Supreme Court CasesIndexes
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Orbis Books (USA) Anthropology for Christian Witness
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Orbis Books (USA) Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victim Pleads
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Orbis Books (USA) No Room at the Table: Earth`s Most Vulnerable
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Orbis Books (USA) Justice: A Global Adventure
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Orbis Books (USA) Beads and Strands
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Novalis Press (CN) Globalization and Catholic Social Thought:
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Orbis Books (USA) Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic
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Orbis Books (USA) Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence
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Orbis Books (USA) No Salvation Outside the Poor: Prophetic-Utopian
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Orbis Books (USA) Trails of Hope and Terror: Testimonies on
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Orbis Books (USA) God, Creation and Climate Change: A Catholic
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Orbis Books (USA) Faith and Struggle on Smokey Mountain: Hope for a
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Baker Publishing Group The Justice Calling: Where Passion Meets
Book SynopsisChristianity 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, who sees the needs, hears the cries, and gives strength--through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit--to his people. Offering a comprehensive biblical theology of justice drawn from the whole story of Scripture, this book invites us to know more intimately the God who loves justice and calls us to give our lives to seek the flourishing of others. The authors explore stories of injustice around the globe today and spur Christians to root their passion for justice in the persevering hope of Christ. They also offer practices that can further form us into people who join God's work of setting things right in the world. Now in paper with an added reader's guide.
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Baker Publishing Group Liberty for All – Defending Everyone`s Religious
Book Synopsis2021 Book Award Winner, The Gospel Coalition (Public Theology & Current Events) Southwestern Journal of Theology 2021 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Baptist Studies) Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed as worrying exclusively about the erosion of their freedom to assemble and to follow their convictions, while not seeming as concerned about publicly defending the rights of Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and atheists to do the same. Andrew T. Walker, an emerging Southern Baptist public theologian, argues for a robust Christian ethic of religious liberty that helps the church defend religious freedom for everyone in a pluralistic society. Whether explicitly religious or not, says Walker, every person is striving to make sense of his or her life. The Christian foundations of religious freedom provide a framework for how Christians can navigate deep religious difference in a secular age. As we practice religious liberty for our neighbors, we can find civility and commonality amid disagreement, further the church's engagement in the public square, and become the strongest defenders of religious liberty for all. Foreword by noted Princeton scholar Robert P. George.Table of ContentsContentsForeword by Robert P. GeorgeIntroduction: You Get to Decide What to Worship, Not Whether to Worship1. Religious Liberty as a Christian Social EthicPart 1: Eschatology2. The Reign of Jesus Christ and Religious Liberty3. Religious Liberty and Christian SecularismPart 2: Anthropology4. The Imago Dei and Religious Liberty5. That They Should Seek GodPart 3: Missiology6. Religious Liberty as Christian Mission7. Moral Ecology and Christian MissionConclusion: Retrieving a Tradition for the Common GoodEpilogue: Liberal Democracy and Religious LibertyAppendix: How Religious Liberty Made Me a Baptist
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Baker Publishing Group Silencing White Noise – Six Practices to Overcome
Book Synopsis★ Publishers Weekly starred review "A superior volume on Christian antiracism."--Publishers Weekly Racism is omnipresent in American life, both public and private. We are immersed in what prominent faith leader Willie Dwayne Francois III calls white noise--the racist speech, ideas, and policies that lull us into inaction on racial justice. White noise masks racial realities and prevents constructive responses to microaggressions, structural inequality, and overt interpersonal racism. In this book, Francois calls people of all racial backgrounds to take up practices that overcome silence and inaction on race and that advance racial repair. Drawing from his anti-racism curriculum, the Public Love Organizing and Training (PLOT) Project, Francois encourages us to move from a "colorblind" stance of mythic innocence to one that takes an honest account of our national history and acknowledges our complicity in racism as a prelude to anti-racist interventions. Weaving together personal narrative, theology, and history, this book invites us to engage 6 "rhythms of reparative intercession." These are six practices of anti-racism that aim to repair harm by speaking up and "acting up" on behalf of others. Silencing White Noise offers concrete ways to help people wrest free from the dangers of racism and to develop lifelong Christian anti-racist practices.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Why We Are Lulled to Racial Inaction1. Cues to Color: Embracing Difference as GiftWhite Noise: "I don't see color. We are all the same in Christ."2. Momentum to Encounter: Confronting the Histories of WhitenessWhite Noise: "It's not my fault. Slavery was so long ago. Get over it."3. Pattern Recognition: Honoring Our InterdependenceWhite Noise: "I've had it hard too, but I worked hard."4. Syncopated Identity: Exploring Our Fuller SelvesWhite Noise: "Why does everything have to be about race?"5. Pulse to Risk: Sacrificing Our Power and PrivilegeWhite Noise: "It's not my job to fix racism."6. Downbeat Truth: Naming Our Complicity with RacismWhite Noise: "I'm scared of the backlash."Conclusion: Invent Hope Every Day
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Warner Press Preaching the Story: How to Communicate God's
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Penguin Putnam Inc Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just
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Rose Publishing Armor of God
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P & R Publishing Co (Presbyterian & Reformed) The Heart Is the Target: Preaching Practical
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NavPress Publishing Group The Prayer-Saturated Church : A Comprehensive
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Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can be
Book Synopsis“On these pages, the Garden of Eden meets the world we live in.” – Shane Claiborne, activist and author God once declared everything in the world “very good.” Can you imagine it? Through careful exploration of the biblical text, particularly the first three chapters of Genesis, Lisa Sharon Harper shows us what “very good” can look like today—in real time. Shalom is what God declared. Shalom is what the Kingdom of God looks like. Shalom is when all people are treated equitably and have enough. It’s when families are healed. It’s when churches, schools, and public policies protect human dignity. Shalom is when the image of God is recognized, protected, and cultivated in every single human. It is the vision God set forth in the Garden and the restoration God desires for every broken relationship. Shalom is the “very good” in the gospel. Because despite our anxious minds, despite divisions, and despite threats of violence, God’s vision remains: wholeness for a fragmented world. Peace for a hurting soul. Shalom.
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NavPress Publishing Group Growing Kingdom Character
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No Greater Joy Ministries, Incorporated The Bible on Divorce and Remarriage
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Ignatius Press How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other
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Sophia Institute Press The Case for Patriarchy
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Orbis Books (USA) Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice
Book Synopsis"If Trayvon was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?" --President Barack ObamaThe 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American teenager in Florida, and the subsequent acquittal of his killer, brought public attention to controversial "Stand Your Ground" laws. The verdict, as much as the killing, sent shock waves through the African-American community, recalling a history of similar deaths, and the long struggle for justice. On the Sunday morning following the verdict, black preachers around the country addressed the question, "Where is the justice of God? What are we to hope for?" This book is an attempt to take seriously social and theological questions raised by this and similar stories, and to answer black church people''s questions of justice and faith in response to the call of God.But Kelly Brown Douglas also brings another significant interpretative lens to this text: that of a mother. "There has been no story in the news that has troubled me more than that of Trayvon Martin''s slaying. President Obama said that if he had a son his son would look like Trayvon. I do have a son and he does look like Trayvon." Her book will also affirm the "truth" of a black mother''s faith in these times of stand your ground.
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Orbis Books (USA) The Two Hands of Yes and No: One Family's
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P & R Publishing Co (Presbyterian & Reformed) Same Lake, Different Boat
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P & R Publishing Co (Presbyterian & Reformed) Pastors and Their Critics
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Charisma House Josiah Manifesto, The
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NavPress Publishing Group Born to Reproduce 10-Pack
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NavPress Publishing Group Bridge to Life (pack of 25)
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NavPress Publishing Group Path out of Loneliness, The
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NavPress Publishing Group Finding Home
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NavPress Publishing Group Least of These, The
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NavPress Publishing Group Loving Disagreement
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NavPress Publishing Group Ways of the Leader, The
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NavPress Publishing Group Small-Batch Disciplemaking
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Sophia Institute Press The Gentleman's Guide to Manners, Sex, and Ruling
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Sophia Institute Press Christian Social Principles
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (USA) LLC Papa Francisco. El pastor: Desafíos, razones y
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Focus on the Family Publishing Abortion Survivors Break Their Silence
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Focus on the Family Publishing Merge for Marriage, The
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WestBow Press Trust the Circle: Understanding God's Design for
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Hendrickson Publishers Inc Preaching Difficult Texts of the Old Testament
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Faithlife Corporation Affirming God′s Image
Book SynopsisWhat is a knowledgeable, faithfully biblical response to transgenderism? In Affirming God's Image, J. Alan Branch takes a fair, respectful, and factual tone in addressing this complex issue through a biblical lens. You'll learn: Scientific research around the transgender experience An Overview of the history of transgenderism Important terminology surrounding gender issues Why people pursue gender reassignment surgery, and what happens after How to navigate conversations around this topic The book ends with two practical chapters for families and churches, giving you guiding principles for how to address this issue in a loving, Christ--honoring way. The first step to responding well to any situation is understanding it. Affirming God's Image equips you with the biblical, scientific, and practical knowledge you need for a wise response.
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