Our March book is Religion, Media & Conversion in Iran by Sara Afshari. Dr. Afshari completed her PhD in 2017 from the University of Edinburgh with funding from ScholarLeaders. She now serves as a Research Tutor at Oxford Centre for Mission Studies.
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Our February book of the month is “Psalms, Islam, and Shalom: A Common Heritage of Divine Songs for Muslim-Christian Friendship” by Eric Sarwar. Dr. Sarwar completed his PhD at Fuller in 2021 with support from ScholarLeaders. He’s the founding president of Tehillim School of Church Music & Worship in Pakistan.
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Our January book is Les Origines du Coran et de I’islam by Karim, who is pursuing a doctoral thesis at the École pratique des hautes études / Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) with funding from ScholarLeaders.
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Our December book is Surviving Jewel: The Enduring Story of Christianity in the Middle East. Anne Zaki (LS), originally from Egypt, contributed the chapter “Public Theology and the Middle Eastern Church.”
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Our November book is A Postfoundationalist Comparative Christology: Parity, Particularity, and Universality in Indian Interreligious Dialogues by David Muthukumar (LS). This work facilitates dialogue across religions while affirming the particularity and universality of the Christian faith.
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Our August book is “Endangered Moral Values: Nigeria’s Search for Love, Truth, Justice and Intimacy” by Sunday Bobai Agang (LS). This work examines how many challenges facing Nigeria in the twenty-first century are rooted in an eroding moral foundation. Agang offers readers a passionate invitation to work together towards a transformed culture.
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Our July book is The Hebrew Scriptures, to which Jean Musavuli (LeaderStudies) contributed. This volume presents the Old Testament in the traditional Jewish ordering of the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings. Introductions and commentaries, written by 34 biblical scholars from around the world, offer insight into the historical context, literary style, and theological purpose of each biblical …
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Our June book is Christ the Gift and the Giver: Paul’s Portrait of Jesus as the Supreme Royal Benefactor in Romans 5:1-11 by Enoch Okode (LeaderStudies). This book takes a close look at how Paul uses the Greco-Roman royal benefaction system to portray Jesus Christ as the supreme royal benefactor so that believers might faithfully …
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Our May book is Zhang Yijing (1871-1931) and the Search for a Chinese Christian Identity by Jonathan Wang (LeaderStudies). Right now, Chinese Christians struggle with whether Christian identity and national identity can be reconciled as they live under government pressure. This book explores answers to this question through the example of a Chinese Christian patriot …
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For April, we celebrate two new books by Ayman Ibrahim (LeaderStudies), A Concise Guide to the Life of Muhammad and In Search of the True Religion. The first book answers 30 common questions about the life of Muhammad and is accessible for anyone interested in Islam. The second offers a scholarly translation of a medieval …
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Our March book is Stories from the Fireplace: Theological Meditations on Haile Gerima’s Cinema by Tekle Belachew (LeaderStudies). This book will give you a fascinating introduction to a key figure in Ethiopian cinema from a Christian theological perspective.
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Our February book is Teaching Across Cultures, for which Cesar Lopes (LeaderStudies) from Brazil and Joanna Feliciano-Soberano (LeaderStudies) from the Philippines served as co-editors. If you want to sharpen your abilities to reach out from your own culture to others, this book will serve as an essential guide. It includes both a robust theoretical framework …
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Our January book is The Evangelical Faith in the Arab Culture (currently only available in Arabic). Several members of our fellowship led and contributed to this project, which guides Arab Christians to understand core aspects of our faith through eight lenses critical for their context: Christ, Scriptures, the global church, the Missional church, Islam, the …
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Our December book is The Resilient Christian Leader: Experiences, Strategies & Opportunities in Times of Crisis, which includes an essay about the arts in Africa by Daniel Dama (LeaderStudies). The President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, wrote the introduction. The book offers wisdom on resilience from a continent frequently torn by violent conflict.
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For November, we highlight three books to which Joshua Banda (LeaderStudies) contributed: Good News from Africa; Anthology of African Christianity; Human Sexuality and the Holy Spirit. In each collection, you’ll find articles about practical Christianity in Africa. Joshua’s chapters highlight wisdom from Pentecostalism.
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