John Alexander, who was for many years the pastor of the Church of the Sojourners community in San Francisco, once wrote an essay that he called the “Apache Document,” proposing this scenario to his readers: Suppose a white person went ...
Key historical points in this telling are taken from an older, single-volume biography by Stephen B. Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: HarperCollins, 1994). While it takes liberties with history, ...
... from Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Ameria Anonymous (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009), 12. 136 Augustine Roberts is quoted from his book Centered on Christ, 232. 136 “Unless a kernel ... ” is quoted from John 12:24.
As Meeghan cleaned out Guinn's apartment, she came across an old, weathered 3 x 5 card that read “Don't put me in a nursing home” signed in small print “Guinnevere G. Collins.” Darin and Meeghan began to wrestle with what it meant to be ...
Dr. William J. Barber led a revival meeting on the state house lawn that brought together educators and the unemployed, civil rights and labor activists, young and old, documented and undocumented, gay and straight, black, white and brown.
A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.
A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.
This best-selling book of daily devotions based on the Revised Common Lectionary features 53 writers from diverse locales, ethnicities, and Christian traditions.
Instead of saying what we believe and how we might apply that to our lives (as a typical sermon might), I've tried to focus on practices that inspire hope in our time and ask what convictions undergird a way of life that makes such ...
For those who care more about what faith does than about what it tells us to believe, The Awakening of Hope by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is for you.
“Where your treasure is,” Jesus says matteroffactly, “there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21). It may sound simple, but it's an important point: we care about the things we invest in, and the shape of our investments reveals the ...
This book can help that dream and prayer come true."--Brian McLaren, author of Everything Must Change "This is the most informative work to date on its subject.
When they began, they had little idea what might happen, but they counted on God to show up. In Strangers at My Door, Wilson-Hartgrove tells of risks and occasional disappointments.
This practical guide to the good life details how to enjoy a rich, satisfying lifestyle, no matter how much or how little money you have.
'To Baghdad and Beyond' is the story of a young evangelical couple who followed the conviction of their faith into a war zone and discovered an alternative to the violence of empires and the complicity of quietism in the "third way" of ...
Designed to help individuals, families, and congregations pray together across denominations, this book of common prayer will help you and your community join together each day with the same songs, scriptures, and prayers.
With a mother who was a Hutu and a father who was a Tutsi, author Emmanuel Katongole is uniquely qualified to point out that the tragedy in Rwanda is also a mirror reflecting the deep brokenness of the church in the West.
Highlighting the stories of people on the frontlines, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove explores how religious culture wars have misrepresented Christianity at the expense of the poor, and how listening to marginalized communities can help us ...
Despite Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove's progressive worldview, he was unaware of the invisible borders separating neighborhood churches in the New South.
Indeed, only one kind of person should avoid this book: the reader who does not wish to be changed.