Redeeming Time: The Wisdom of Ancient Jewish and Christian Festal Calendars
by Bruce Chilton

Redeeming Time addresses the temporal imbalance and disorientation that is widely reported in the post-industrial West. The essay evolves by analyzing the philosophical and aesthetic contexts, first of our own experience of time, then of the Judaic context within which the Gospels developed, and finally of the Gospels themselves. In this way, Chilton interprets the visions of eternity in Israel’s Scriptures and in the New Testament that healed the breaches of time in their own epochs and still have the power to do so in ours.

Social Justice Handbook
by Mae Elise Cannon
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Cannon provides a comprehensive resource for Christians committed to social justice. She presents biblical rationale and explains a variety of approaches. The wide-ranging catalog of topics and issues gives background information about justice issues at home and abroad.

Embodying Our Faith
by Tim Morey
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“Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mohandas Gandhi famously critiqued the contemporary church with this pithy phrase. The challenge ever since has been for the church to look more like Christ.

Tim Morey had this challenge in mind as he oversaw the planting of Life Covenant Church in Torrance, California, and he keeps it in mind as he coaches other church planters in the Evangelical Covenant Church. In this book he brings his experience, combined with research and theological reflection, to help your church cultivate the irreducible qualities of an embodied apologetic: a community that is revealed by its faithful to be experiential, communal and enacted.