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Count It All Joy: The Ridiculous Paradox of Suffering
Can joy come from suffering?We think of suffering as the worst of all evils. Our culture tells us to avoid it at all costs. But can suffering produce growth in us when we learn to endure it . . . then value it . . . then allow God to redeem it?John Perkins&’ response to suffering at the hands of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
He Calls Me Friend: The Healing Power of Friendship in a Lonely World
"I believe He Calls Me Friend is one of the most important books of our day, from one of the last living prophets of the Civil Rights Era."–Nick Hall, Founder of Pulse movement, author of Reset: Jesus Changes EverythingWhat if friendship is the key to changing the world?As a follow-up to his lan... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
He Calls Me Friend: The Healing Power of Friendship in a Lonely World
"I believe He Calls Me Friend is one of the most important books of our day, from one of the last living prophets of the Civil Rights Era."–Nick Hall, Founder of Pulse movement, author of Reset: Jesus Changes EverythingWhat if friendship is the key to changing the world?As a follow-up to his lan... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Count It All Joy: The Ridiculous Paradox of Suffering
Can joy come from suffering?We think of suffering as the worst of all evils. Our culture tells us to avoid it at all costs. But can suffering produce growth in us when we learn to endure it . . . then value it . . . then allow God to redeem it?John Perkins&’ response to suffering at the hands of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Welcoming Justice: God's Movement Toward Beloved Community (Resources For Reconciliation)
We have seen progress in recent decades toward Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of beloved community. But this is not only because of the activism and sacrifice of a generation of civil rights leaders. It happened because God was on the move. Historian and theologian Charles Marsh partners with vetera... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development
Already with decades of experience speaking prophetically into the charged racial climate of the American south, John Perkins began to see a need for organized thinking and collaborative imagination about how the church engages urban ministry. And so the Christian Community Development Association (... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook For Christian Community Development
Already with decades of experience speaking prophetically into the charged racial climate of the American south, John Perkins began to see a need for organized thinking and collaborative imagination about how the church engages urban ministry. And so the Christian Community Development Association (... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Called To Community: The Life Jesus Wants For His People
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky • C. S. Lewis • Dietrich Bonhoeffer • Richard J. Foster • Thomas Merton • Dorothy Day • Mother Teresa • Søren Kierkegaard • Eugene H. Peterson • Henri J. M. Nouwen • Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove • Joan Chittister • Jean Vanier • David Janzen • Christine D. Pohl • John M. Perkins • Howard A. Snyder • Eberhard Arnold • Chiara Lubich • Saint Benedict • Charles E. Moore • S Ren KierkegaardWhy, in an age of connectivity, are our lives more isolated and fragmented than ever? And what can be done about it? The answer lies in the hands of God's people. Increasingly, today's Christians want to be the church, to follow Christ together in daily life. From every corner of society, they are d... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Gray Love: Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60
by Sarah Dunn • Natasha Josefowitz • Erica Manfred • Jonathan Ned Katz • David Levy • Dustin Beall Smith • Paul Lauter • Barbara Abercrombie • Irvin Peckham • Susan Ostrov Weisser • Amy Rogers • Phyllis Carito • Mimi Schwartz • Doris Friedensohn • Nan Bauer-Maglin • Daniel E. Hood • Alice F. Freed • Cynthia McVay • Neil Stein • Laura Broadwell • Stephanie M. Brown • Elizabeth Locke • Candida B. Korman • Margie Kaplan • Hedva Lewittes • Rett Zabriskie • William Wiesner • Phyllis Bogen • Judith Ugelow Blak • Linda Wright Moore • Jean Y. Leung • Jan Jacobson • Stephanie Speer • Sandi Goldie • Jim Bronson • Vincent Valenti • Stacey Parkins Millett • Eugene Roth • Isabel Hill • Susan O’Malley • Susan Bickley • Bonnie Fails • Angela Page • Tierl Thompson • Idris WaltersGray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starting or ending a relationship, embracing life alone or enjoying a partnered one. The longing for connect... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023