Zondervan, 2007, 224 pp., $12.99, www.zondervan.com Friendship. Neighborliness. Community. Revolution. Peppermint-Filled Piñatas explores these themes and others to challenge contemporary Christians to mo...

Baker, 2006, 180 pp., $12.99, www.bakerbooks.com Building on the belief that “stories help us to make sense of this thing called living and encourage us to face the challenges and glories of another day,...

DOUG PAGITT is pastor of Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis, a leader in the Emergent Movement and the author of Preaching Re-Imagined (Zondervan). Michael Duduit, the editor of our sister magazine Preaching,...

Tyndale, 2006, 296 pp., $19.99, www.tyndale.com A brilliant, fourth-year med student leaves Harvard Medical School to work with street children in La Paz, Bolivia. He spends the next year learning lessons in f...

Multnomah, 2006, 224 pp., $19.99, www.multnomahpublishers.com/ What would you do if those you pastor earned their living as adult dancers or as workers in the gambling industry? Stripped does a good job of we...

“Culture, Future, Church, Gospel,” were the words emerging from a stage-sized screen at the Q Conference in Atlanta in April. More than buzz words, they repre­sented the themes participants expl...

Regal, 2006, 223 pp., $12.99, www.regalbooks.com Have you ever wondered what it takes to start a new church? It is with this question in mind that church planters Nelson Searcy and Kerrick Thomas passionately ...

B&H Publishing Group, 241 pp., 2006, $19.99, www.bhpublishinggroup.com After extensive research in American churches, Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger found an almost universal difference between vibrant, thriv...

Dr. Nigel M. de S. Cameron is a leading Christian expert on bioethics issues in America and Europe. He has appeared on major network and cable news shows and has testified on human cloning before the U.S. Congr...

Recording a Grammy-nominated first album. Songwriting with Michael W. Smith. Touring churches across the country. Getting his homework done? For LEELAND MOORING, this is nothing out of the ordinary. Mooring, th...