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• Priests of History: Stewarding the Past in an Ahistoric Age by Sarah Irving-Stonebraker

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Priests of History: Stewarding the Past in an Ahistoric Age Author: Sarah Irving-Stonebraker Narrator: Kellie Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: How can Christians engage meaningfully with history? In an age underpinned by the idea that life is about self-invention and fulfilment, contemporary Western culture holds that the past has little to teach us. We live in what this book terms the 'Ahistoric Age,' in which we are profoundly disconnected from history. In the attempt to appear relevant, the church often embraces this ahistoric worldview by jettisoning the historic ideas and practices of Christian formation. But this has unintended consequences, leaving Christians unmoored from history and losing the ability to grapple with its ethical complexities. In Priests of History, Sarah Irving-Stonebraker draws upon her expertise, and her experience as an atheist who has become a Christian, to examine what history is and why it matters. If Christians can learn how to be 'priests of history,' tending and keeping our past, history can help us strengthen and revive our spiritual and intellectual formation and equip us to communicate the gospel in a confused and rootless world.

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• Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid Macculloch

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/733925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity Author: Diarmaid Macculloch Narrator: Diarmaid Macculloch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 19, 2024 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A major new assessment of one of the most controversial topics in history Few matters produce more public interest and public anxiety than sex and religion. Much of the political contention and division in societies across the world centres on sexual topics, and one-third of the global population is Christian in background or outlook. The issue goes to the heart of present-day religion. The Bible observes that God made humanity ‘for a little while lower than the angels’. If humans are that close to angels, where lies the difference? Is it human sexuality and what we do with it? In a single lifetime, Christianity or historically Christian societies have witnessed one of the most extraordinary about-turns in attitudes to sex and gender in human history. There have followed revolutions in the place of women in society, a new place for same-sex love amid the spectrum of human emotions, and a public exploration of gender and trans identity. For many the new situation has brought exciting liberation – for others, fury and fear. This book seeks to calm fears and encourage understanding through telling a three-thousand-year-long tale of Christians encountering sex, gender and the family, with noises off from their sacred texts. The message of Lower Than The Angels is simple, necessary and timely: to pay attention to the sheer glorious complexity and contradictions in the history of Christianity. The reader can decide from the story told here whether there is a single Christian theology of sex, or many contending voices in a symphony that is not at all complete. Oxford’s Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church introduces an epic of ordinary and extraordinary Christians trying to make sense of themselves and of humanity’s deepest desires, fears and hopes. ©2024 Diarmaid MacCulloch (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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• The Spirit of Justice: True Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance by Jemar Tisby

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723414 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spirit of Justice: True Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance Author: Jemar Tisby Narrator: Jemar Tisby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. The Black History You Never Knew: Uncovering Unsung Heroes in the Struggle for Racial Justice. The Spirit of Justice reveals the stories of the people who fought against racism and agitated for justice—and what we can learn from their example, their suffering, their methods, and their hope. How is it that people still work for change after continuously seeing the worst of humanity and experiencing the most demoralizing setbacks? What keeps them going? It is that spirit of justice that rises up 'like a war horse,' as Myrlie Evers-Williams famously said. It is a sense in the hearts of people who hunger and thirst for righteousness. In this book, award-winning author Jemar Tisby will open your eyes to the 'pattern of endurance' in the centuries-long struggle for Black freedom in America. Through a historical survey of the nation from its founding to the present day, this book gives real-world examples of people who opposed racism, how they did it, what it cost, and what they gained for themselves and others. For those who were galvanized by Tisby's call to action in his acclaimed The Color of Compromise, this book will inspire you to see past the complicity of the church and gain the determination to join the fight for racial justice, no matter the cost. As Tisby writes, 'The Spirit of justice is always at work to inspire followers of Christ to undertake acts of liberation and bear witness to the good news of their savior.' The photos can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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• What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church by Gavin Ortlund

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church Author: Gavin Ortlund Narrator: Mike Lenz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: A Powerful Defense of The Protestant Tradition. There's a movement among evangelicals of exploring the more sacramental, liturgical, and historically-conscious church traditions, including Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. This hunger for historical rootedness is welcome—but unfortunately, many assume that this need can only be met outside of Protestant contexts. In What it Means to Be Protestant, Gavin Ortlund draws from both his scholarly work in church history and his personal experience in ecumenical engagement to offer a much-needed defense of the Protestant tradition. Retrieving classical Protestant texts and arguments, he exposes how many of the contemporary objections leveled against Protestants are rooted in caricature. He shows how historic Protestantism offers the best pathway forward and to historical rootedness for Christians today. In his charitable style, Ortlund demonstrates that the 16th century Reformation represented a genuine renewal of the gospel. This does not entail that Protestantism is without faults. But because it is built upon the principle of semper reformanda (always reforming), Protestantism is capable of reforming itself according to Scripture as the ultimate authority. 'I find it hard to overstate the importance of this book for every pastor/minister, elder, and serious Bible student that I know. . .This book automatically becomes my new go-to resource explaining Protestantism. It is fantastic, and I thank God for it. . .' —Bobby Harrington, co-founder of RENEW.org and Discipleship.org, founding pastor Harpeth Christian Church

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• When Faith Disappoints: The Gap Between What We Believe and What We Experience by Lisa Victoria Fields

  https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734229 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Faith Disappoints: The Gap Between What We Believe and What We Experience Author: Lisa Victoria Fields Narrator: Lisa Victoria Fields, George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: For anyone who feels the weight of injustice, trauma, and suffering, the founder of the Jude 3 Project invites you to discover how to find hope when you can’t make sense of the pain. “Lisa Fields brilliantly offers hope for all who seek to practice their faith without the cruel dogma nurtured by Western culture.”—Otis Moss III, senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago Living as a Black woman in America, Lisa Victoria Fields understands the tension of relying on God in a broken world. While pursuing her calling in full-time Christian ministry—an often white, male-dominated vocation—she saw the contentions many people have with Christianity. She heard the theological questions, but instead of arguing for her faith, she listened to the barriers and heard the pain in their hearts: Why doesn’t God protect me from suffering and injustice? Others don’t seem to think I have value—does God? Now, in her debut book, Fields shows us how emotional pain—often more than theological concerns—is at the root of our doubt. She invites us to bring our deepest soul questions to this journey as she explores:    • Seven pain points that might be keeping us from faith: a lack of personhood, peace, provision, pleasure, purpose, protection, and power  • Honest talk about how Christianity doesn’t seem to meet our very valid needs  • Why wrestling with God doesn’t negate our faith but instead deepens it  • What it looks like to allow God to bring healing to our pain so we can see Him and others more clearly Through vulnerable storytelling and thoughtful use of Scripture, Fields tends to our hurting hearts and offers hope and resolve. She helps us move forward as we cling to a faith that brings us back to the truth of Christianity—not despite the pain of this world but in light of it.

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