A church is where an insecure sixteen-year-old girl should feel welcome, happy, and most importantly, safe. Tragically for some, the church can become a place of great harm.Sandy Phillips Kirkham details her account of how a charismatic youth minister preyed upon her, a betrayal which left her broken, with a shattered faith, and the ultimate shame of being blamed and forced from the church she loved. From their very first meeting, the new youth minister slowly and methodically turn...

Thriving in the Modern Workplace: A Gen Z Guide to Success is a comprehensive career roadmap for the most digitally connected and socially conscious generation in history.Blending professional development, personal growth, and workplace psychology, this book addresses the real challenges Gen Z faces:✔ Navigating multi-generational teams✔ Managing burnout and mental health✔ Mastering communication and professionalism✔ Building resilience in e...

The church is reeling because of the relativistic mindset of our world. Up until a generation ago, most adults had similar moral intuitions whether they were believers or not, and the core of protestant orthodoxy was still intact. Yet, in the wake of postmodernity and secularism, all that has changed.Convinced that gospel-centered ministry is utterly imperative for such a time as this, contributors D. A. Carson, Tim Keller, Kevin DeYoung, Philip Ryken, Bryan Chapell, Thabiti Anyabw...

Tragedy in Aurora is about the 2012 murder of budding sports journalist Jessica (Jessi) Redfield Ghawi in a public mass shooting, and the widening circle of pain it inflicted on her family, friends, police, medical first responders, and others. The book is at the same time a deep examination of the causes and potential cures of the quintessential 21st century American sickness—public mass shootings. At the heart of that examination is an unpacking of America’s deep polarization and politic...

The toll of America’s gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost—more than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many more people who are shot every year, and survive.Shot and Forgotten, The TraceNearly 40,000 people die from gun violence in the US every year. This uniquely American crisis leaves no community untouched—but it doesn’t have to be this way.Gabrielle GiffordsThe...

By the winners of the Association for Talent Development's 2022 Thought Leader award!Prove your effectiveness to anyone-and achieve professional success-by adopting the same ROI methods and metrics that leading companies use.In an era of evidence-based inquiry, people need to be able to measure their success. In their new book, Patricia Phillips and Jack Phillips aim to help readers see the value of their work and then share it with others.The Show the Value process...

Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first centuryEric Williams’s Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has proved an enduring and controversial book. Never out of print since its publication, it is constantly being reevalua...