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The Irresistible Revolution
Clayborne, Shane
Service/Discipleship
Spirituality/contemporary sources contemporary sources
Without a doubt, one of the top five books being read by current volunteers in VEV programs! The book stirs up questions about the church and world and challenges believers to live an authenic faith.
Living a Life that Matters
Kushner, Harold
Service/Discipleship
Spirituality/contemporary sources contemporary sources
Author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Kushner offers a profound and practical book about doing well by doing good.
Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People (The Practices of Faith Series)
Bass, Dorothy (editor)
Service/Discipleship
Dialogue among 13 theologians and educators from a variety of religious and ethnic backgrounds about applying Christian tradition and practice to everyday life.
Gracious Christianity: Living the Love We Profess
Jacobsen, Douglas
Sawatsky, Rodney
Service/Discipleship
A little book that summarizes the entire scope of Christian theology under a single theme, "gracious love defines the core of God's character."
Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World
Keen, Cheryl
Keen, James; Daloz, Lambent Park; Parks, Sharon Daloz
Service/Discipleship
A landmark study that reveals how we become committed to the common good and sustain such commitments.
Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships
Lingenfelter, Sherwood
Mayers, Marvin
Service/Discipleship
What is means to establish relationships of grace with those from different cultural and social backgrounds
How Coffee Saved My Life: And Other Stories of Stumbling to Grace
Roscher, Ellie
Service/Discipleship
Spirituality/contemporary sources contemporary sources
An incredibly honest account of her year in Latin America while serving within a volunteer program for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The Skeptical, Passionate Christian: Tools for Living Faithfully in an Uncertain World
Duffy, Michael
Service/Discipleship
Explores what it means to discern and live out a thoughtful, informed and responsible faith.
The God of Intimacy and Action: Reconnecting Ancient Spiritual Practices, Evangelism, and Justice
Campolo, Tony
Darling, Mary Albert
Service/Discipleship
Spirituality
Combines action and contemplation in order to become like Christ and change the world.
Faith in Leadership : How Leaders Live Out Their Faith in Their Work-And Why It Matters
Powell, Kimberly
Banks, Robert
Service/Discipleship
A collection of essays from a wide spectrum of Christian traditions about how personal convictions relate to public responsibilities.
The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism
Coles, Robert
Service/Social Issues
A searching probe that examines the idealistic motivations of those engaged in volunteer work, community service or activism
Dante to Dead Man Walking: One Reader's Journey Through the Christian Classics
Schroth, Raymond SJ
Service/Social Issues
Spirituality/contemporary sources contemporary sources
Fifty works from the Old Testament to contemporary works that challenge the social conscience and raise religious issues in a provocative way.
Crying in the Wilderness: The Struggle for Justice in South Africa
Service/Social Issues
Spirituality/contemporary sources Contemporary sources
A moving, gruelling account of Tutu's work in South Africa.
While We Run This Race: Confronting the Power of Racism in a Southern Church
Stroupe, Nibs
Fleming, Inez
Service/Social Issues
The story of Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Georgia and its challenges and hopes in addressing pervading racism.
Urban Ministry: The Kingdom, the City & the People of God
Conn, Harvie
Ortiz, Manuel
Service/Urban Issues
Addresses the vital work of the urban church examining the biblical basis for that mission.
Theirs Is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America
Lupton, Robert
Service/Urban Issues
Reflection on the relationship between poverty and Christianity--and lessons that Christians can learn from the poor.
Urban Ministry in a New Millenium
Claebaut, David
Service/Urban Issues
A practical and academic book dealing with Christian ministy in an urban context.