Imagine looking at the daunting task of leading a church to revitalize. Imagine the number of questions you might have. Then imagine an all-star team of experts coming alongside you to guide you in this leadership challenge. Imagine no more. You have that resource in your hand. Lead to Revitalize! is a gift to those of us who are leading and helping churches toward revitalization. Now, open the pages to this book and receive this gift for yourself!Thom Rainer

Seventy percent of the oil America uses each year goes to transportation. That means that the national oil addiction and all its consequences, from climate change to disastrous spills to dependence on foreign markets, can be greatly reduced by changing the way we move. In Transport Beyond Oil, leading experts in transportation, planning, development, and policy show how to achieve this fundamental shift.The authors demonstrate that smarter development and land-use decision...

The introduction of "Black" studies programs into institutions of higher education was a direct response to the mandate for change at all levels that characterized the civil rights movement and the social rebellions of the 1950s and 1960s. In Out of the Revolution, Delores P. Aldridge and Carlene Young collect thirty-one of the nation's top scholars to provide a complete reference for understanding the impetus for, the development of, and future considerations for the discipline o...