Deep Dive Bible Study & Church History

Christian Black Americans

A Journey from Biblical Times to Today

Discover the Untold Story of a Faith That Shaped a Continent and a Nation.

Was Christianity a foreign faith brought to Africa by European colonial ships? In Christian African Americans, Rene’ Stanley corrects this enduring myth, revealing that Christianity was vibrant in Africa long before colonial maps were ever drawn. This book follows a “long,...

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Rulers and Reeds

How the Church Measured the Books of the Bible

Discover how a simple river reed became the measure of the Christian Bible.

If you grew up with a 66-book Protestant Bible, a 73-book Roman Catholic Bible, or a slightly larger Eastern Orthodox Bible, you might be surprised to learn that the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church reads from an 81-book canon. This raises a profound question: Who...

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What Did It Say First?

Hearing the Bibles In It’s Own Words

What Did It Say First? Hearing the Bible in Its Own Words is a guided tour beneath the surface of our English Bibles for ordinary Christians who sense there is more going on than any one translation can show. Instead of teaching readers Hebrew and Greek, the book introduces a focused set of key terms—like YHWH and “LORD,” Torah and “law,”...

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The Way

From Hiding to Fellowship in the Light

In an upper room in Ephesus, the aged apostle John and a younger believer named Demetrius sit with a stack of pages between them. Their task is simple and impossible at once: to put into words what it means to walk with God in the light.

The Way: From Hiding to Fellowship in the Light traces the long arc from Eden’s hiding to the cross, the empty...

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