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The Mind of Terror: A Former Muslim Sniper Explores What Motiviates ISIS and other Extremist Groups (and how best to respond)
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The Mind of Terror: A Former Muslim Sniper Explores What Motiviates ISIS and other Extremist Groups (and how best to respond)

by Tass Saada

Narrated by Saada, Tass

What motivates Islamic terrorists? What's in the mind of terror?News reports cover the tragic events — the bombings, the massacres, and the suicide attacks. Our newscasters take time to explain who the players are — from Hezbollah to the Iranian Quds, from ISIS to the Palestinian National Authority. But what is behind these events t… Read more…

Advocating for Justice: An Evangelical Vision for Transforming Systems and Structures

Advocating for Justice: An Evangelical Vision for Transforming Systems and Structures

by Gregg Okesson, F David Bronkema, Robb Davis, Stephen Offutt and Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy

Christians are increasingly interested in justice issues. Relief and development work are important, but beyond that is a need for advocacy. This book shows how transforming systems and structures results in lasting change, providing theological rationale and strategies of action for evangelicals passionate about justice. Each of the authors contributes both… Read more…

Us versus Us: The Untold Story of Religion and the LGBT Community

Us versus Us: The Untold Story of Religion and the LGBT Community

by Andrew Marin

Would you believe that 86 percent of LGBT people—from the proud marcher at the Pride Parade to the quiet, closeted teen—spent their childhood in church? More than half of them left those religious commu-nities as adults; three out of four would be happy to come back.For decades now we have found our-selves caught up in a culture war: us versus them. Good… Read more…

How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World

How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World

by Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson

Incisive insights into contemporary pop culture and its apocalyptic bentThe world is going to hell. So begins this book, pointing to the prevalence of apocalypse — cataclysmic destruction and nightmarish end-of-the-world scenarios — in contemporary entertainment. In How to Survive the Apocalypse Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a numbe… Read more…

Churchfails: 100 Blunders in Church History (& What We Can Learn from Them)

Churchfails: 100 Blunders in Church History (& What We Can Learn from Them)

by David K Stabnow, Rex Butler, Ken Cleaver, Rodrick K Durst, Lloyd A Harsch, James Lutzweiler and Stephen Presley

churchfails is a collection of 100 articles describing people who claim to be Christians doing foolish things. Each article will include a picture of the subject.From the Introduction: "Groucho Marx once said, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” If Christianity is a club, it has featured innumerable inglorious members. As … Read more…

Believers, Thinkers, and Founders: How We Came to Be One Nation Under God
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Believers, Thinkers, and Founders: How We Came to Be One Nation Under God

by Kevin Seamus Hasson

Narrated by Hasson, Kevin Seamus

In Believers, Thinkers, and Founders: How We Came to Be One Nation Under God, Kevin Seamus Hasson — founder and president emeritus of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty — offers a refreshing resolution to a familiar conundrum: If there is real religious freedom in America, how is it that our government keeps invoking God? H… Read more…

On Secular Governance: Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues

On Secular Governance: Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues

by Ronald W Duty and Marie A Failinger

This volume puts forth an unprecedented, distinctive Lutheran take on the intersection of law and religion in our society today. On Secular Governance gathers the collaborative reflections of legal and theological scholars on a range of subjects — women’s issues, property law and the environment, immigration reform, human trafficking, church-stat… Read more…

Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved

Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved

by Emerson B Powery and Rodney S SadlerJr

Considering that the Bible was used to justify and perpetuate African American enslavement, why would it be given such authority? In this fascinating volume, Powery and Sadler explore how the Bible became a source of liberation for enslaved African Americans by analyzing its function in pre-Civil War freedom … Read more…

Faith in the Voting Booth: Practical Wisdom for Voting Well

Faith in the Voting Booth: Practical Wisdom for Voting Well

by Leith Anderson and Galen Carey

Faith in the Voting Booth by National Association of Evangelicals leaders Leith Anderson and Galen Carey will help you clarify your own positions in light of your faith before you enter the voting booth. Anderson and Carey show that biblical wisdom is surprisingly relevant to today’s complex political issues. Each voting decision should be thoughtfully… Read more…

The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom
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The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom

by David Kupelian

Narrated by Kupelian, David

Americans have come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents’ generation – from easy divorce and unrestricted abortion-on-demand to extreme body piercing and teaching homosexuality to grade-schoolers. Does that mean today’s Americans are inherently more morally confused and depraved than pre… Read more…

Life of Jesus: Matthew through John

Life of Jesus: Matthew through John

by Dr. Henrietta C. Mears and Bayard Taylor

With Dr. Mears as teacher and mentor, readers will study the four accounts of Jesus Christ’s life and ministry from the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They will gain a big-picture understanding of key events—Jesus’ miraculous birth, His ministry, His teachings, and His crucifixion and resurrection—yet also see how each Gospel evangelist chos… Read more…

African American Theological Ethics: A Reader

African American Theological Ethics: A Reader

by Peter J Paris and Julius Crump

This volume in the Library of Theological Ethics series draws on writings from the early nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries to explore the intersection of black experience and Christian faith throughout the history of the United States. The first sections follow the many dimensions of the African American struggle with racism in this country: st… Read more…


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