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  • A Common Mission

    Healthy Patterns in Congregational Mission Partnerships

    by David Wesley ...
    The term Ubuntu articulates an African understanding of our need to connect to one another in order to be complete. Likewise, A Common Mission offers a description of churches that connect with one another through the growing phenomenon of mission partnerships. The word "common" indicates something shared among equals. The word "common" also suggests something present in all parts of an organism, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Effective Engagement in Short-Term Missions

    Doing It Right!

    Edited by Robert J. Priest ...
    Series Book 16 - Evangelical Missiological Society Series
    Effective Engagement in Short-term Missions represents the single most ambitious effort to date to understand and improve upon patterns of ministry in STM. In six sections, the authors explore topics such as the links between STM and older patterns of long-term missions; engagement with people of other cultures; international partnerships; specialized ministries such as medical missions; legal and ... Read more

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  • The Missionary Family

    Witness, Concerns, Care

    Edited by Dwight P. Baker, Robert J. Priest ...
    Series Book 22 - Evangelical Missiological Society Series
    The title of this book points to a feature—the missionary family—often considered to be a distinctive of the Protestant missionary movement. Certainly the presence of missionary families in the field has been a central factor in enabling, configuring, and restricting Protestant missionary outreach. What special concerns does sending missionary families raise for the conduct of mission? What means ... Read more

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  • This Side of Heaven

    Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith

    Edited by Robert J. Priest, Alvaro L. Nieves ...
    In recent years Christian scholars have become increasingly aware of their responsibility to recognize and respond to the challenges posed by ethnic and racial diversity. Similarly, historically white Christian colleges, universities, seminaries and congregations are struggling to transform themselves into communities that are welcoming to minorities and sensitive to their needs. This collection ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Making a Difference in a Globalized World

    Short-term Missions that Work

    by Laurie A. Occhipinti ...
    Every year, an estimated 1.6 million Americans participate in short-term mission trips, spending over one billion dollars—figures that have increased exponentially in the last two decades. About one third of U.S. congregations sponsor such trips each year. While they are referred to as “mission” trips, many trips focus not on conversion or evangelism, but on service projects—building a playground, ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • The Anthropology of Religious Conversion

    by Robert T. Anderson, Diane Austin-Broos, Thomas K. Brown, Simon Coleman, Maria Pia Di Bella, Charles Farhadian, Roger Ivar Lohmann, Marcela Mendoza, Kalyani Devaki Menon, Rebecca Sachs Norris, Robert J. Priest, Lewis R.Rambo, Mary Ann Reidhead, Van A Reidhead, Don Seeman ...
    The Anthropology of Religious Conversion paints a picture of conversion far more complex than its customary image in anthropology and religious studies. Conversion is very seldom simply a sudden moment of insight or inspiration; it is a change both of individual consciousness and of social belonging, of mental attitude and of physical experience, whose unfolding depends both on its cultural ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • This Side of Heaven

    Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith

    Edited by Robert J. Priest, Alvaro L. Nieves ...
    In recent years Christian scholars have become increasingly aware of their responsibility to recognize and respond to the challenges posed by ethnic and racial diversity. Similarly, historically white Christian colleges, universities, seminaries and congregations are struggling to transform themselves into communities that are welcoming to minorities and sensitive to their needs. This collection ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Effective Intercultural Communication

    A Christian Perspective

    by A. Scott Moreau, Susan Greener, Evvy Campbell, A. Moreau ...
    Series series Encountering Mission
    With the development of instantaneous global communication, it is vital to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries. This addition to the acclaimed Encountering Mission series is designed to offer contemporary intercultural communication insights to mission students and practitioners. Authored by leading missionary scholars with significant intercultural experience, the book explores the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Short-Term Mission

    An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience

    by Brian M. Howell ...
    Over the past few decades, short-term mission trips have exploded in popularity. With easy access to affordable air travel, millions of American Christians have journeyed internationally for ministry, service and evangelism. Short-term trips are praised for involving many in global mission but also critiqued for their limitations.Despite the diversity of destinations, certain universal ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Helping Hurts

    How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself

    by Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert ...
    With more than 450,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation.Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • We Cannot Be Silent

    Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Sex, Marriage, and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong

    by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. ...
    Twenty years ago, not one nation on earth had legal same-sex marriage. Now, access to same-sex marriage is increasingly seen as a basic human right. In a matter of less than a generation, western cultures have experienced a moral revolution.Dr. R. Albert Mohler examines how this transformation occurred, revealing the underlying cultural shifts behind this revolution: the acceptance of divorce ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Miracles

    The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts

    by Craig Keener ...
    Christianity Today **2013****Book Award WinnerWinner of The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship's 2012 Award of Excellence2011 Book of the Year, Christianbook.com's Academic Blog**Most modern prejudice against biblical miracle reports depends on David Hume's argument that uniform human experience precluded miracles. Yet current research shows that human experience is far from uniform. In fact, ... Read more

    $57.59 USD