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Donald Miller
is the author of Blue Like
Jazz, Searching for God Knows What, and To Own a Dragon (late 2005) and is
currently working with a team of Bible scholars and writers to paraphrase the
Bible. Don’s focus on this project is the letters of Paul.
In early 2000, Don released his first book entitled ‘Prayer and the Art
of Volkswagon Maintenance (to be re-released in 2005 under a new title) and has
since written for a number of periodicals. He is a frequent speaker, focusing on
the merit of Christian spirituality as an explanation for beauty, meaning and
the human struggle. Among the core beliefs, Don holds to the ideas that
Christian spirituality is not currently represented by one political party, that
the gospel of Jesus is a mysterious, relational invitation and that the elements
of story were caused by human and divine historical accounts. Don teaches a
class called “The Gospel and Culture” each year at Summit College outside
Toronto and lives in community in Portland, Oregon.
www.bluelikejazz.com
Jim Wallis
is a Christian leader for
social change. He is a speaker, author, activist, and international
commentator on ethics and public life. Wallis was a founder of Sojourners -
Christians for justice and peace - more than 30 years ago and continues to serve
as the editor of Sojourners magazine, covering faith, politics and
culture. In 1995, Wallis was instrumental in forming Call to Renewal, a national
federation of churches, denominations, and faith-based organizations from across
the theological and political spectrum working to overcome poverty.
Wallis speaks at more than 200 events a year and his columns
appear in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times,
and other major newspapers. His most recent book is God's Politics: Why the
Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Harper Collins, 2005). He
offers regular commentary and analysis for radio and television and teaches a
course at Harvard University on "Faith, Politics, and Society."
In the last several years, Wallis has led more than 250 town
meetings, bringing together pastors, civic and business leaders, and elected
officials in the cause of social justice and moral politics. Under Wallis'
leadership, Call to Renewal has hosted annual Roundtables on Poverty for
national religious leaders and successful National Summits. Endorsed initially
by a broad cross-section of Christian leaders, Call To Renewal's Covenant and
Campaign to Overcome Poverty now has tens of thousands of supporters around the
United States.
Jim Wallis was raised in a Midwest evangelical family. As a
teenager, his questioning of the racial segregation in his church and community
led him to the black churches and neighbourhoods of inner city Detroit. He spent
his student years involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements. While at
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, Jim and several other students
started a small magazine and community with a Christian commitment to social
justice which has now grown into Sojourners whose combined print and electronic
media have a readership of more than 100,000 people.
In 1979, Time magazine named Wallis one of the
"50 Faces for America's Future." His books include Faith Works
(2000), The Soul of Politics: A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change
(1994), Who Speaks for God? A New Politics of Compassion, Community, and
Civility (1996), Call to Conversion (1981).
Jim lives in inner city Washington, D.C. with his wife, Joy,
and their sons, Luke and Jack.
About God’s Politics: Since
when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro-war, pro-rich,
and pro-Republican? And since when did promoting and pursuing a progressive
social agenda with a concern for economic security, health care, and educational
opportunity mean you had to put faith in God aside?
God's Politics offers a clarion call to make both our
religious communities and our government more accountable to key values of the
prophetic religious tradition - that is, make them pro-justice, pro-peace,
pro-environment, pro-equality, pro-consistent ethic of life (beyond single issue
voting), and pro-family (without making scapegoats of single mothers or gays and
lesbians). These are the values of love and justice, reconciliation, and
community that Jesus taught and that are at the core of what many of us believe,
Christian or not.
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your copy today!
www.sojo.net
Dave
Toycen
is president and chief
executive officer of World Vision Canada, the largest humanitarian relief and
development agency in Canada. In his 15 years as a leader with World Vision
Canada -- seven as president -- the agency's income has increased almost
fivefold and the number of children sponsored by Canadians has tripled to
314,000. Toycen has led the agency into significant advocacy and public policy
work, with an emphasis on issues that affect children. He has spoken before the
World Bank, and has met with heads of state, key global executives and
development leaders to discuss the well being of the world's children.
Toycen's career with World Vision
internationally has spanned 30 years. His recent book, The Power of
Generosity (HarperCollinsPublishersLtd, 2004), draws from his
experiences and calls readers to become more engaged in the world and to develop
a more generous way of life.
A Canadian citizen, Toycen holds degrees in philosophy and divinity and
has received two honorary doctorates.
The Power of
Generosity -How to Transform Yourself and Your World:
http://www.worldvision.ca/home...
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book:
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Dr. Bruce H. Wilkinson
is the founder and President of Global Vision Resources (2002), which is a film
and video teaching ministry with global distribution. He was the
former president of Walk Thru the Bible Ministries (1976) which is a
global, trans-denominational Christian organization headquartered in Atlanta,
Georgia. He is recognized as one of the most appreciated and respected
communicators of Biblical truth in the Body of Christ today. In 1998, he
founded WorldTeach which is a global initiative to develop a Bible teacher for
every 50,000 people in every nation of the world.
Dr. Wilkinson has spoken to more than 500,000 men across America as a Promise
Keeper's stadium speaker. At the request of Promise Keepers, he developed
the widely used video curriculum, Personal Holiness in Times of Temptation,
as a part of "The Biblical Manhood" series.
Commencing in January of 1998, Dr. Wilkinson launched a second major
organization called WorldTeach. WorldTeach is an aggressive 15-year global
mission initiative founded to raise up an international faculty of 120,000 Bible
teachers who teach the Bible in every geographical area of 50,000 people in
every nation of the world. In the first three years, over 6,000
WorldTeachers have joined the WorldTeach vision from 40 nations including India,
Ukraine, Singapore, South Africa, Nepal, Mozambique, Philippines, Vietnam,
Kenya, El Salvador, Mexico, Hungary, Romania, Sri Lanka, Russia, Lesotho,
Swaziland, Botswana, Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Myanmar, Jordan, South Korea, and
Belarus.
Dr. Wilkinson has authored and co-authored numerous books including the
best-selling The Prayer of Jabez, Living the Jabez Miracle, Secrets
of the Vine, Experiencing Spiritual Breakthroughs (based on his
popular “The Three Chairs” seminar), 30 Days to Spiritual Breakthroughs,
Personal Holiness in Times of Temptation, Talk Thru the Old
Testament, Talk Thru the New Testament, Talk Thru Bible
Personalities, 7 Laws of the Learner, Almost Every Answer for
Practically Any Teacher (Gold Medallion Winner), and Victory Over
Temptation.
He served on the Overview Committee for the New King James version of
the Bible, authored the Books of the Bible outlines and co-edited the Bible book
introductions for The Open Bible. He is the Executive
Editor of four best-selling Bibles including The Daily Walk Bible (NIV,
NL, NKV, RSV), The Closer Walk New Testament (NIV), The Youth Walk
Bible (NIV), and The Family Walk Bible (NIV).
He was a co-founder and Chairman of the CoMission (1992-1997), which was a
massive international movement of 87 Christian organizations which banded
together in unprecedented unity and sent more than 3,500 Christians to the
former Soviet Union. In only five years, the CoMission invested over
$60,000,000, conducted thousands of Bible classes, trained tens of thousands of
public teachers to teach a class in Christian morals and ethics at the request
of the Russian Department of Education, distributed millions of pieces of
Christian literature, and touched millions of people for Christ.
Dr. Wilkinson is a frequent speaker at pastors conferences, teachers
conventions, Christian businesspersons meetings, and churches, camps, and
Christian organizations, including "Founder’s Week" at
Moody Bible Institute, the national Association of Christian Schools
International, Promise Keepers, the Navigators, Focus on the Family, the
Fellowship of Companies for Christ, Campus Crusade for Christ, Word of Life,
Mount Hermon, BIOLA, Wheaton, the Christian Businessmen’s Committee, in 2000
he was the keynote speaker at the National Day of Prayer in Washington, DC and
many more. He has spoken all over the world and takes two extended
international trips each year.
Dr. Wilkinson is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in the
South and Southwest, Who's Who in Religion, Personalities of
America, Men of Achievement, and The International Directory
of Distinguished Leadership. In 1976 he was named Alumnus of the
Year by Northeastern Bible College, and in 1986 he was awarded the Faith
and Freedom Award by the Religious Heritage of America Committee.
He was born in New Jersey into a loving and committed Christian home and
graduated from Northeastern Bible College (B.A. and Th.B.), Dallas Theological
Seminary (Th.M.) and Western Conservative Baptist Seminary (D.D.). He
served as college and graduate school professor at Multnomah School of the Bible
in Portland, Oregon, until resigning to officially launch Walk Thru the Bible in
June 1976. He and his wife Darlene reside in South Africa where they are
actively pursuing several ministries dealing with AIDS, hunger, and social
reconciliation. They have two married children (David and Jennifer), one
still at home (Jessica), and four grandchildren (Andrew, Eric, Johnny, and
Jonathan).
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Alanna Mitchell
is the international award-winning senior features writer at the Globe and Mail.
The World Conservation Union and the Reuters Foundation cited
Mitchell’s work as the best environment reporting in North America, which led
to a term of study at Oxford University. Her
latest book is called ‘Dancing at the Dead Sea.’
N.J. Lindquist is an author, columnist, speaker, and teacher as
well as the executive director of The Word Guild, an association for Canadian
writers and editors who are Christian, and the co-director of Joy Equipping
Ministries, whose goal is to release stifled Christians to serve God effectively
and joyfully. She is the author of five novels and three discipleship manuals
for ages 11 and up, and an adult mystery, Shaded Light.
www.joyequipping.com
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