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Hear Us Out: Six Questions on Belonging and Belief
Sue Pizor Yoder and her team of scholars and ministry leaders interviewed over two hundred people under age forty in search of the lessons they might teach about belonging, adversity, legacy--and faith. Through collaborative storytelling, Hear Us Now illustrates the ways Millennials and Gen Z are navigating life and making meaning.
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Mission Rift: Leading through Church Conflict
In Mission Rift, David E. Woolverton reorients our view of congregational conflict. In part 1, he examines conflict from a theological and ecclesiological framework, exploring why it may be essential to discipleship and mission. In part 2, he presents six principles of missional leadership, challenging pastors and other leaders to create environments that use conflict as a tool to facilitate growth and empower a congregation's witness within the community and beyond.
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When Prophets Preach: Leadership and the Politics of the Pulpit
In When Prophets Preach, Jay Augustine urges preachers to speak openly against social injustice and to be prophetic leaders. By breaking the pulpit silence, he argues, the church can bridge social and ethnic gaps among its members and show society at large how to heal divisions in our world.
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The Bush Still Burns: How Spirituality and Organizing Transformed a Pastor and Congregation
In this compelling and practical volume, Terry Allen Moe describes how he and the congregation he served turned to the burning bush of deepened spirituality, coupled with hard-nosed organizing, to transform a community of faith and impact the local neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. It's timely inspiration for congregations struggling to find their way out of decline and the immobilization caused by fear and lack of creative leadership.
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The Deepest Belonging: A Story about Discovering Where God Meets Us
This book is for all pastors and church leaders, as well as for those disillusioned with Christianity and the church and longing for something more real and honest. The Deepest Belonging is a call not to resist but to embrace our vulnerability. As a move away from religion seeking security, protection, and influence, this story invites individuals and congregations to return bravely to the core of our humanity: our belonging to God and one another.
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Sustaining While Disrupting: The Challenge of Congregational Innovation
In Sustaining While Disrupting: The Challenge of Congregational Innovation, Frederick Douglas Powe Jr. and Lovett H. Weems Jr. show church leaders how to sustain and strengthen the churches they serve while guiding the critical innovation required to address a context vastly different from the one that current assumptions and behaviors fit.
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Holy Friendships: Nurturing Relationships That Sustain Pastors and Leaders
Victoria Atkinson White in Holy Friendships: Nurturing Relationships That Sustain Pastors and Leaders offers hope, grace, and humor, inviting readers to invest in their own resilience, sustainability, and flourishing and to cultivate beloved community by nurturing holy friendships--mutual and sacred relationships deeply rooted in God's love.
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The Emergence of Islam, 2nd Edition: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective
Now in an updated second edition, Gabriel Said Reynolds tells the story of Islam in this brief survey, beginning with Muhammad's early life and rise to power, then tracing the origins and development of the Qur'an juxtaposed with biblical literature, and concluding with an overview of modern and fundamentalist narratives of the origin of Islam.
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Deconstructing Racism: A Path toward Lasting Change
Deconstructing Racism explores why change has been so difficult to come by and offers new paths toward lasting change through the deconstruction of racism's roots within systems and institutions. It speaks to people in both church and society who are or have been working to dismantle institutional and systemic racism.
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Leading Faithful Innovation: Following God into a Hopeful Future
Leading Faithful Innovation offers a practical, hands-on approach to addressing the challenges of change in the church and our culture. This three-step process is not another program or add-on to what readers are already doing. It is an ongoing way of following God that allows the Spirit of God to drive the energy among the people of the church.
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Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition
These imagined dialogues between the elders on freedom, liberation, and more offer rich reflection and a unique vantage point for understanding the luminaries of liberation through the generations. An important resource for the contemporary task of Black liberation.
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Experiencing Scripture: The Five Senses in Biblical Interpretation
To recreate or envision life in biblical times it is essential to acknowledge that humanity in every time and place is constantly immersed in sensation and derives meaning from sensual experience. The biblical text not only hints at sensual impressions, but also indicates how the senses are valued for interpretation.
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The Holy and the Hybrid: Navigating the Church's Digital Reformation
In The Holy and the Hybrid: Navigating the Church's Digital Reformation, Ryan M. Panzer helps church leaders develop hybrid ministries through aligning the shared mission of the church with the shared values of our tech-shaped culture. The goal is to build communities that serve as the hands and feet of Christ simultaneously online and offline.
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Honestly: Telling the Truth about the Bible and Ourselves
It's no wonder modern Christians have trouble with the truth after living for so long with lies about the Bible. This book aims to set the record straight and encourage honest conversation about the Bible and ourselves. It explores a number of big topics through the lenses of truth and faith.
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Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life
Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life informs and inspires the practice of ministry through "on the ground" learning experienced in a variety of ministry settings. Each of the fifty chapters explores a single concept through story, reflection, and provocative open-ended questions designed to spark conversation between ministers and mentors, among ministry peers, or for personal journal reflections. The book is closely integrated with the author's Three Minute Ministry Mentor web resource.
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20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America
The way most people think about religion and politics is only loosely linked to empirical reality, argues Ryan P. Burge. In 20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America, Burge strives to be an impartial referee and to overcome these caustic misperceptions by using both rigorous data analysis and straightforward explanations.
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God's People Made New: How Exploring the Bible Together Launched a Church's Spirit-Filled Future
God's People Made New reveals the role of God's Word in forming a congregation. Through the voices of congregants, biblical texts, theological reflection, and tools for studying the Bible, Rachael J. Powell inspires congregations to enter into the power of Scripture.
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Managing Congregations in a Virtual Age
In Managing Congregations in a Virtual Age, John W. Wimberly Jr. draws on the experience of the business community, and on a diverse group of skilled pastors and rabbis, as he lays out the opportunities and challenges of working from home for congregations and staff, offering principles and best practices for successfully managing remote workers and ministries. This comprehensive guide will serve congregations well into the future, even as technology and circumstances change.
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The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary
The Community Rule is an important document to emerge from Qumran. For fifty years after its discovery scholars relied predominantly on the well-preserved Cave 1 copy. Since the early 1990s, ten additional copies have become available. This is the first commentary to treat all the manuscript and the first in English since A. R. C. Leaney's in 1966.
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Clergy Burnout, Revised and Expanded: Surviving in Turbulent Times
In Clergy Burnout, Fred Lehr explores the nature and practice of codependence in the life and ministry of clergy. In short, insightful, and easily accessible chapters, he offers many useful examples along with hard-won and carefully distilled wisdom for ministry amid today's cultural shifts.
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