Contemporary Social Issues

In this introduction to religion and science, William Chalker outlines the nature of knowledge involved in claims about science and about religion ...

An in-depth exploration of the breadth, intensity and root causes of gender-based violence against women, and the resources we need to drawn on in ...

There is a widespread view that there is ‘no difference’ between the outcomes for the children of same-sex parents and those of opposite sex parent...

We are living in an era where the cult of the expert enables the increasing encroachment of civil government into areas of cultural and societal li...

New York Times best-selling author Brigitte Gabriel regularly faces death threats from terrorists, condemnation from critics, and attacks from the ...

A revolution of repentance by the power of the Holy Spirit is needed in the church to bring renewal to a hurting nation. After reading Revolution y...

Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for social justice issues surrounding life and deat...

Many Christian books on environmental care and awareness have been published in recent years but few, if any, grapple effectively with today's sust...

Christians are awakening to the legacy of racism in America like never before. While public conversations regarding the realities of racial divisio...

An unforgettable invitation to treat our lives as the sacred things they are—and a call to embrace the love, dreams, and healing that only w e can ...

Noted Attorney and Seminary Graduate Matthew T. Martens Answers the Question: Does the Design and Operation of the American Criminal Justice System...

"Rediscovering the Kingdom" is a guide through the treacherous storms of the 21st century. All of the past ideologies have failed--humanism, commun...

A major study on the theology of Beloved Community. This long awaited work by the Church's top clergy, scholars and thought leaders examines the th...

Tiffany Bluhm wishes this wasn't her story to tell. Yet like many women today who are taking action against sexual harassment and sexual assault, i...

For more than a millennium, beginning in the early Middle Ages, most Western Christians lived in societies that sought to be comprehensively Christ...

Almost every pastor feels the pressure to get people in the doors. More people means Christians are constantly accused of being too political or no...

The text of this beautifully design gift book is largely based on Sheridan Voysey’s contributions to the BBC Radio 2 Pause for Thought radio progra...

As the culture changes all around us, it is no longer possible to pretend that we are a Moral Majority. That may be bad news for America, but it ca...

Oneness is hard achieve. Let the kingdom unity of Scripture point the way. Today’s world is torn apart. Tension is everywhere. Brother is pitted ag...

Reggie Dabbs and John Driver--a Black man and a white man, and longtime friends--engage in a courageous, respectfully honest, challenging explorati...

News outlets, historians, and sociologists can (and do) tell us all about the statistics, but they don't (and can't) tell us about what it's really...

Keep Swimming Against the Tide of a Sinking Culture In No Reason to Hide, bestselling author Erwin W. Lutzer examines the culture-wide spiritual fr...

Will You Be Complicit, Complacent, or Courageous? In a culture with an ever-narrowing understanding of tolerance, Christians can no longer remain s...

C. Herbert Oliver, a Black civil rights leader from Birmingham, Alabama, spent thirteen years rethinking the racial ideologies of his day before wr...

Technology is not neutral. From the plow to the printing press, technology has always shaped human life and informed our understanding of what it m...

This book takes a distinctive approach to the same-sex-union debate by framing the issue as a matter of marriage. Darrin Snyder Belousek demonstrat...

“The abortion debate raises sensitive issues, and often provokes strong reactions on both sides of the argument. As we consider the Bible’s teachin...

What does it look like to love someone you disagree with? Fighting, disagreements, hatred, dissension, and silence. These things seem common in the...

Why the call to Love Thy Body? To counter a pervasive hostility toward the body and biology that drives today's headline stories:Transgenderism: Ac...

Living in a Gray World: A Christian Teen's Guide to Understanding Homosexuality is an honest, accessible resource for Christian teens who have lesb...

We are surrounded by lies. They are incorporated into the worldview of our culture. We daily absorb them, and these lies can have deadly effects on...

Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed as worrying exclusively about...

Os Guinness argues that we face a fundamental crisis of freedom as we enter an era of political warfare where our enemies are not foreign adversari...

Between social media platforms, the videos kids watch online, or the television shows they can now stream from anywhere at any time, keeping up wit...

Before you can do what’s right, you have to see what’s right. When it comes to racial reconciliation, we often ask, “Where do we go from here?” But...

The 2020 murder of George Floyd ignited a racial firestorm throughout America, provoking lament and grief over a long history of tragedy. The wides...

It is one of our favorite questions: Is God a Republican or a Democrat? “Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they sh...

Christians love to talk about politics, but the current conversation is full of contentious words that divide our churches and families. Dr. Tony E...

We love God. We love our country. What does it look like to love each properly and well? National tensions are at a record high. People on all poin...

With so many issue swirling about and what seems to be a constant stream of negative stories about culture and society, Joyfully Lutheran is a bold...

Jesus for President is a radical manifesto to awaken the Christian political imagination, reminding us that our ultimate hope lies not in partisan ...

It’s complicated! For centuries the Middle East conflict was framed as “Arabs vs. Israel.” Now, in the aftermath of the recent Persian Gulf crisis,...

The world seems more fractured each day. People are asking, "Is this the End?" Never have the headlines been this jarring, the cultural changes th...

In this updated 10th Anniversary Edition of Irresistible Revolution, Shane Claiborne uses unconventional examples from his own life to stir up ques...