January 2025<br><em>Walking with God through the Valley</em><br>by May Young
I wrote this book because I want more people to understand a fuller conception of biblical lament so that they can experience the healing and hope that it brings. Too often when people talk about lament, they describe it as sadness or even wallowing in pain. The Bible offers a much deeper perspective, which I seek to unpack in my book.
December 2024<br><em>Exodus</em><br>by Chloe T. Sun
Traditionally, Exodus is considered a book of redemption, law, and God’s presence. However, through a diasporic lens, it is also a book of migration, the ambivalence between home and new lands, liminality, a journey of becoming God’s people and experiencing God’s presence through local churches in the diaspora.
November 2024<br><em>Numbers 1-19</em> and<em> 20-36 </em>(AOTC)<br>by L. Michael Morales
Numbers has much to teach us about ecclesiology, the doctrine of God’s people, and the relationship between God and his people. In other words, the Camp of Israel is not simply God’s organizing his people for departure, for traveling through the desert—no, it’s God’s creation of his covenant community!
October 2024<br><em>Reading the Bible Latinamente</em><br>by Ruth Padilla DeBorst, M. Daniel Carroll R., and Miguel G. Echevarría
It is clear to those who attend our Latino/a churches that many believers have never thought of how their immigrant experience and heritage might impact their reading of the Bible. Our hope is that this book might stimulate more Bible readings from that perspective, for the sake of Latino/a churches as well as for those from other communities who could learn much from Latinos/as.
September 2024<br><em>Just Discipleship</em><br>by Michael J. Rhodes
Each chapter explores a different portion of Scripture, exploring what it might suggest about just discipleship and drawing that discussion into dialogue with a contemporary justice issue. So, for example, I explore Deuteronomy’s feasts as practices that shape the community for justice, and bring that into dialogue with the contemporary issue of economic segregation.
August 2024<br><em>The New Testament in Color</em><br>Edited by Esau McCaulley, Janette H. Ok, Osvaldo Padilla, and Amy Peeler
We wanted to provide, in one volume, a beautiful example of socially located exegesis, attentive to the power and authority of the Biblical text in its historical context along with insights that are born out of one’s culture and experience.
July 2024<br><em>A Tapestry of Global Christology</em><br>Isuwa Y. Atsen
The biggest “aha” moment for me was learning about the non-Western influences that shaped Western culture and civilization. This clearly problematizes the claim of cultural independence (also, superiority or inferiority), which has a significant implication for global theological reflection. It means that theological constructions in non-Western contexts should be free to draw helpful insights from outside our cultures without thinking that we are using something foreign.
June 2024<br><em>The Hispanic Faculty Experience</em><br>Edited by Octavio J. Esqueda and Benjamin D. Espinoza
In many colleges and universities there has been an interest in attracting more Hispanic students but not enough focus on attracting Hispanic faculty. We wanted to hear Hispanic professors describe their journeys in the academy and the challenges they faced because we believe that representation is important.
May 2024<br><em>Do Black Lives Matter?</em><br>Edited by Lisa M. Bowens and Dennis R. Edwards
I wanted to bring Black voices together to address the value of Black lives, theologically, biblically, and sermonically—especially in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and many other events like that in our nations’ history.
April 2024<br><em>The Spirit, Ethics, and Eternal Life</em><br>Jarvis J. Williams
I think, with other scholars, that the Spirit is neglected in discussions about Paul’s soteriology in Galatians. I wanted to demonstrate that one of Paul’s chief concerns in the letter is to argue that the Galatians have everything they need in Christ to live a life pleasing to God because they have the Spirit.