title: Shalom Sistas
author: Osheta Moore
The practices, great and small, of everyday peacemaking.
Stephanie Chase
His love endures forever? One Sunday morning, our pastor was leading my church family in a communal reading of Psalm 136. Our pastor would say the first half of each…
Yellow Bellies Written by Johnny Wideman and Rebecca Steiner Directed by Dr. Andrew Houston and Rebecca Steiner Mennonites are a people of living out discipleship in the grind of daily…
Paradoxology: Why Christianity was Never Meant to be Simple Krish Kandiah IVP What is the subject? In Paradoxology, Kandiah explores paradoxes that trouble and baffle us as Christians. How can…
Title: The Spiritual Practice of Remembering
Author: Margaret Bendroth
To be a Christian is to remember the past and engage with it, through conversation with the words of those who have gone before us, who “are still speaking the same language of faith.”Truax and Campell explore generosity by relating the story of LaSalle Street Church (downtown Chicago), who received an unexpected windfall of $1.6 million from the sale of property.
title: Return to Justice: Six movements that reignited our contemporary evangelical conscience
Authors: Soong-Chan Rah & Gary VanderPol
Preaching or a cup of cold water?title: The Justice Calling
authors: Bethany Hanke Hoang & Kristen Deede JohnsonIn The Justice Calling, Bethany Hanke Hoang and Kristen Deede Johnson call us to a better way: a way that participates in God’s vision of justice for the world.
The Nonviolent God
J. Denny Weaver
Is God violent? And if he is, what does this do to my conviction of nonviolent discipleship? Anabaptist scholar J. Denny Weaver has asked these same questions, and the result is The Nonviolent God.Discipleship is a buzzword in our church culture. We see what Jesus did for Matthew the tax collector, or what Paul did for Timothy, and we know that we have…
Graduations mark the end of an intense period of studies and signal the beginning of something undefined, unknown, utterly new for the graduates. At Bethany College’s 88th graduation exercises Apr. 25–26, 2015, these characteristics applied not only to the students’ future but to the school’s.