Jerry Pattengale – författare

With rose gold accents a part of every illustration, celebrate the glory of the Lord with this spiritually uplifting and stress-relieving coloring book, pairing 30 inspiring line-drawings with expressions of praise from the Bible.Focusing in particular on the Psalms, the classic passages showcased in Color and Praise help you celebrate your faith in a different way, through the mindful activity of coloring. Each of the Bible selections offers heart-lifting praise to God, and is accompanied by a black-and-white line drawing highlighted with intricate rose-gold detailing inspired by the beautiful artwork used to illuminate early Christian manuscripts. Inside Color and Praise you’ll find:30 spreads printed on high-quality art paper, each featuring an inspiring Bible passage and a beautiful geometrical abstract illustration with rose-gold detailing to colorArtwork templates which include “ghost” shapes to color, minimizing outlinesAn instructional section which covers basic techniques for using art pens, pencils, and paintsBlank pages to record and illustrate your own favorite passages from Scripture Whether you use pens, pencils, markers, acrylic or watercolor paints, once you’ve finished coloring, the text and drawings in Color and Praise can be removed using scissors for framing or display. No matter your artistic level, coloring is a fun way to express your creative gifts—a wonderful meditative act that celebrate the greatness of God and can help enhance your spiritual journey and deepen your faith.

In the 1990s, Christian colleges and universities experienced a record boom in students and employees. However, less than twenty years later Christian institutions experienced new challenges spurred on by four major changes: first, the "Great Recession" of 2008 and widespread debt; second, declining birthrates in certain regions of the United States; third, the passing of the Affordable Care Act, which raised the question of whether Christian institutes were required to cover contraceptives; and fourth, the Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage, which brought issues of employment to the forefront at certain Evangelical institutions. Yet despite mounting challenges, most Christian colleges and universities are still stronger now than at any point in their respective histories by almost any measure.With The Anxious Middle, Todd C. Ream and Jerry Pattengale engage the work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a model for navigating our tumultuous times. The authors argue that if the present age is defined by what Bonhoeffer calls in Creation and Fall the "anxious middle"—somewhere between Eden and the Apocalypse—the challenges faced by Christian higher education must be recognized as both existential and practical. To confront them while still embracing any opportunities afforded by occasional cross breezes, Christian colleges and universities would be wise to employ a fourfold approach to planning informed by Bonhoeffer's work as well as historic and contemporary examples: institutions should be articulate about their missions, imaginative in advancing them, collaborative in deploying them, and strategic in sharing them.  Trustees, administrators, faculty members, and others concerned with the future of Christian colleges and universities will find in The Anxious Middle a planning process applicable to organizational levels ranging from the campus-wide to the departmental or the programmatic. The result is an understanding of Christian higher education not merely focused on surviving but thriving between Eden and the Apocalypse.