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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two decades outside of it.
In Testimony, Ward tells the engaging story of his upbringing in, and eventual break from, an influential evangelical church in the 1980s and 1990s. Ward sheds light on the evangelical movement's troubling political and cultural dimensions, tracing the ways in which the Jesus People movement was seduced by materialism and other factors...
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Series
Littlest Bigfoot volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After discovering that she is not human, twelve-year-old Alice Mayfair is on a mission to find out who and what she is, but she must do it alone because her best friend Millie Maximus, an undersized Bigfoot who lives in the forest near Alice's school in upstate New York, is focused on fulfilling her dream to sing for a nationally televised talent competition.
4) The great dechurching: who's leaving, why are they going, and what will it take to bring them back?
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater than the First and Second Great Awakening and every revival in our country combined but in the opposite direction. Yet precious little rigorous study has been done on the broad phenomenon of dechurching in America. Jim Davis and Michael Graham have commissioned the largest and most comprehensive study of dechurching in America by renowned sociologists...
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Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity.
American Idolatry reveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of American Christians and the church. Leading scholar Andrew Whitehead shows how the idols of power, fear, and violence can lead Christians to embrace expressions of the faith that harm their neighbors. He explains how these idols violate core Christian beliefs...