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Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

by Steve Turner

Imagine art that is risky, complex, and subtle. Imagine music, movies, books, and paintings of the highest quality. Imagine art that permeates society, challenging conventional thinking and standard morals to their core. Imagine that it is all created by Christians!This is the bold vision of Steve Turner, who has worked among a wide variety of artists for de… Read more…

Altars Where We Worship: The Religious Significance of Popular Culture

Altars Where We Worship: The Religious Significance of Popular Culture

by Stacey M Floyd-Thomas, Juan M Floyd-Thomas and Mark G Toulouse

While a large percentage of Americans claim religious identity, the number of Americans attending traditional worship services has significantly declined in recent decades. Where, then, are Americans finding meaning in their lives, if not in the context of traditional religion? In this provocative study, the … Read more…

Law at the Movies: Sidney Lumet and Robert Bolt; Legal Novels from Turow and Grisham
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Law at the Movies: Sidney Lumet and Robert Bolt; Legal Novels from Turow and Grisham

by John Warwick Montgomery

Narrated by Montgomery, John Warwick

A look at select legal issues raised in recent books and movies. Two lectures.… Read more…

Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle's Vision for Men and Women in Christ

Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle's Vision for Men and Women in Christ

by Cynthia Long Westfall

Christianity Today 2018 Book Award WinnerRespected New Testament scholar Cynthia Long Westfall offers a coherent Pauline theology of gender, which includes fresh perspectives on the most controverted texts. Westfall interprets passages on women and men together and places those passages in the context of the Pauline corpus as a whole. She offers viable alter… Read more…

Tweetable Nietzsche: His Essential Ideas Revealed and Explained

Tweetable Nietzsche: His Essential Ideas Revealed and Explained

by C Ivan Spencer

Friedrich Nietzsche's thoughts in 140 characters or less.Tweetable Nietzsche introduces and analyzes the worldview of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s tweets, 140 characters or less, provide readers a distilled essence of every major aspect of his worldview. Each tweet illustrates some aspect of his worldview contributing toward a full-orbed u… Read more…

Crossing Cultures in Scripture: Biblical Principles for Mission Practice

Crossing Cultures in Scripture: Biblical Principles for Mission Practice

by Marvin J. Newell and Patrick Fung

14th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year, Cross-Cultural CategoryFrom Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is a crosscultural book. Scripture is full of narratives of God's people crossing cultures in pursuit of God's mission. Biblical texts shed light on mission dynamics: Sarah and Hagar functioning in an honor-shame culture, Moses as a multic… Read more…

Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? Revised Edition: A Historical Introduction

Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? Revised Edition: A Historical Introduction

by John Fea

John Fea offers a thoroughly researched, evenhanded primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective, helping readers see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our past. This updated e… Read more…

Transgender: Christian compassion, convictions and wisdom for today's big issues

Transgender: Christian compassion, convictions and wisdom for today's big issues

by Vaughan Roberts

There’s been huge cultural change in the last few decades. Same-sex marriage would have been unthinkable 20 or 30 years ago. Now it’s almost universally accepted in the Western world. Now suddenly the issue of transgender is the next big social, cultural issue that has dominated the headlines. Vaughan Roberts surveys the Chri… Read more…

Pursuing Health in an Anxious Age

Pursuing Health in an Anxious Age

by Andy Crouch, Cutillo MD and Cutillo Bob

A Redeemed and Renewed Vision of Health Despite all the care available to us, our society is more concerned about health than ever. Increased technology and access to health care give us the illusion of control but can never deliver us from the limitations … Read more…

The New Christian Zionism: Fresh Perspectives on Israel and the Land

The New Christian Zionism: Fresh Perspectives on Israel and the Land

by Gerald R. McDermott

Can a theological case be made from Scripture that Israel still has a claim to the Promised Land? Christian Zionism is often seen as the offspring of premillennial dispensationalism. But the historical roots of Christian Zionism came long before the rise of the Plymouth Brethren and John Nelson Darby. In fact, the authors of The New Christian Zionism contend… Read more…

Mormonism

Mormonism

by Alan W. Gomes and Kurt Van Gorden

With their strong emphasis on traditional family values, education, discipline, and service, Mormons sound and look more "Christian" than many believers. At first glance, there seems to be little to criticize in what they say or do. But peel back the façade, and you find a cult with its roots in immorality and heresy. The story of the Mormon Church is… Read more…

The Liberty Book: How Freedom Can & Will Be Won

The Liberty Book: How Freedom Can & Will Be Won

by John Bona and Don Schanzenbach

News reports bring to our ears daily stories of further intrusion in our lives and increased regulations too many to number. America is losing its heritage of God-given freedoms, which were originally derived from biblical teaching. We sense that our well-sung liberties are being lost to a point of no return.  The Liberty Book examines the Christian roo… Read more…


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