The Choice: Should the Church Affirm LGBTQ+ Identities and Ways of Living? BY RON HIGHFIELD

The Choice: Should the Church Affirm LGBTQ+ Identities and Ways of Living? BY RON HIGHFIELD

ByMegan Rose

Highfield’s The Choice is a careful and erudite analysis of Keen’s work that uncovers a species of argument being offered from many quarters. First, he lays bare Keen’s postmodern substitution of feeling and rhetoric for Scripture and sound reasoning. “From the postmodern perspective,” he notes, “autobiography is argument.” In such a case, Scripture can be displaced by personal desire. Second, he skillfully explains the implications of such an approach to an orthodox view of the Bible. If only those historic demands of Scripture that pass muster with one’s self-defined notions of kindness, justice, love, secular psychology, and minimal human suffering (i.e., inconvenience, restraint of desire) are obligatory to Christians, we are back to the ancient times in Israel when every individual is a law to her/himself.

Rethinking Church: A Guide for the Perplexed and Disillusioned by Ron Highfield

Rethinking Church: A Guide for the Perplexed and Disillusioned by Ron Highfield

ByCassandra Anderson

Ron Highfield. Rethinking Church: A Guide for the Perplexed and Disillusioned. Keledei Publications, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-946849-90-8. eISBN: 978-1-946849-88-5. 107pp. $8.95 (pbk). $7.99 (eBook). Available in paperback and eBook at retailers worldwide Amazon | Barnes & Noble Kindle | Apple Books | Kobo | Nook Direct from Publisher In Rethinking Church, veteran church leader, theologian, and…

Chuck Miller’s The Fear of Eden – new edition with study guide now available

ByCassandra Anderson

New edition with study guide! Miller brings a lifetime of experience in child care ministry, prison ministry, Christian camping, counseling, teaching, and preaching. From the Arkansas hills to the streets of Chicago and from Statesville prison, to a rich family legacy, Charles Miller invites us to travel with Lady Wisdom in the fear of the Lord.

Just Published – The History of the Restoration Movement in Illinois in the 19th Century (James L. McMillan & Thomas H. Olbricht)

Just Published – The History of the Restoration Movement in Illinois in the 19th Century (James L. McMillan & Thomas H. Olbricht)

ByCassandra Anderson

Now available in paperback and eBook worldwide,

The Stone-Campbell Movement resulted from a confluence of several international efforts to restore the life and faith of the first century church in the nineteenth century. The Movement in the twenty-first century claims about five million members around the globe. Illinois played a pivotal role the early years. In 1880 there were more members of the movement in Illinois than in any state in the United States or in any country in the world. We elaborate upon the various religious tributaries involved from the beginning and have depicted churches, leaders, members, educational institutions, books, journals, and organizations in their various and wide-ranging manifestations. Authors of earlier published histories of the Movement in Illinois did not have access to some important primary sources that the authors of this new history have been able to utilize, including correspondence, books, periodicals and ephemera located in libraries, personal collections, historical societies and online. A significant number of these sources have been digitized just for this project. Illinois readers will identify the roots of the Movement in their region and readers elsewhere will recognize insights that impact the total Movement and forces related to their own situation.

Preorder now – The History of the Restoration Movement in Illinois in the 19th Century (James L. McMillan & Thomas H. Olbricht)

Preorder now – The History of the Restoration Movement in Illinois in the 19th Century (James L. McMillan & Thomas H. Olbricht)

ByCassandra Anderson

The Stone-Campbell Movement resulted from a confluence of several international efforts to restore the life and faith of the first century church in the nineteenth century. The Movement in the twenty-first century claims about five million members around the globe. Illinois played a pivotal role the early years. In 1880 there were more members of the movement in Illinois than in any state in the United States or in any country in the world. We elaborate upon the various religious tributaries involved from the beginning and have depicted churches, leaders, members, educational institutions, books, journals, and organizations in their various and wide-ranging manifestations. Authors of earlier published histories of the Movement in Illinois did not have access to some important primary sources that the authors of this new history have been able to utilize, including correspondence, books, periodicals and ephemera located in libraries, personal collections, historical societies and online. A significant number of these sources have been digitized just for this project. Illinois readers will identify the roots of the Movement in their region and readers elsewhere will recognize insights that impact the total Movement and forces related to their own situation.