Brooks was raised in the Englewood neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. As soon as he was able, he left the community and moved as far away as he could…

"I'm tired of helping others enjoy God―I just want to enjoy God for myself." With this painful admission, Ruth Haley Barton invites us to an honest exploration of what happens when spiritual leaders lose track of their souls…

Most believers live in the state of “being a Christian” without ever being deeply formed by Christ. Our pace is too frenetic to be in union with God, and we don’t know how to quiet our hearts and minds to be present…

With fiery words of wisdom and a passion for justice, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired people everywhere to perform extraordinary acts of courage and ignited one of the most influential movements of the twentieth century…

In an era where we seem to be increasingly divided along racial lines, many are hesitant to step into the gap, fearful of saying or doing the wrong thing. At times the silence, particularly within the church, seems deafening…

For five hundred years, Christianity has played a significant role in Latina/o culture and identity. Romero considers how this movement has responded to challenges and injustices by appealing to the belief that God's vision…

For the first time we in the West are living in what has been called a "post- Christendom era." This is a time when…

"Lost Boy" John Bul Dau's harrowing experience surviving the brutal horrors of Sudanese civil war and his adjustment to life in modern America is chronicled in this inspiring memoir and featured in an award-winning documentary film of the same name.

We are living in historic times. Not since the civil rights movement of the 60s has our country…

Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it.

In Evicted, Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads.

Pastor Daniel Hill began a journey of understanding his own white identity when he entered into urban ministry as an evangelical church planter.

In Ministering Cross-Culturally, the authors demonstrate that Jesus needed to learn and understand the culture…

In Making Neighborhoods Whole, Perkins and Gordon revisit the eight principles of Christian Community Development…

Among the various lines drawn between people in the church--male and female, young and old, black and white, rich and poor, Republican and Democrat--there is the line between the urban and the suburban.