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eBook-Be Still and Know: God's Presence in Silence

Norris J. Chumley introduces us to Hesychasm, or silence, and to the lives of its early practitioners. The reader is introduced to St. Anthony, St. Pachomius, Evagrius, St. John Climacus, and many others.

9781451479911
Redeeming a Prison Society: A Liturgical and Sacramental Response to Mass Incarceration

The United States criminal justice system is in a state of crisis, from unprecedented rates of imprisonment and recidivism to the privatization of the prison system and the disproportionate representation of particular racial, ethnic, social, and economic groups. Amy Levad offers a Catholic perspective that directly addresses the concrete issues from a strongly interdisciplinary approach and utilizes the rich liturgical and sacramental resources of penance and Eucharist to offer a theological vision of reform.

9780800699918

$39.00
Extremist for Love: Martin Luther King Jr., Man of Ideas and Nonviolent Social Action

Martin Luther King Junior is a rare mix of the deeply profound thinker and intellect who put the fruit of that reflection into the service of direct social action.

9781451470208

$24.00
Solidarity Ethics: Transformation in a Globalized World

Rebecca Todd Peters argues for an ethic of solidarity as a new model for how people of faith in the first world can live with integrity in the midst of global injustice and shape a more just future.

9781451465587

$39.00
Professional Sexual Ethics: A Holistic Ministry Approach

Sexual health is an essential part of maintaining professional relationships in ministry.

9780800699437

$24.00
eBook-By the Rivers of Babylon: Blueprint for a Church in Exile

Robert Hoch reads the larger North American tradition of Christian worship and mission through the prism of visibly marginalized communities.

9781451438505
Pauline Perspectives: Essays on Paul, 1978-2013

This companion volume to Paul and the Faithfulness of God and Paul and His Recent Interpreters brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Paul and his letters over the last three decades.

9780800699635

$69.00
Bach Through the Year: The Church Music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Revised Common Lectionary

The church music of Johan Sebastian Bach is identified with the Revised Common Lectionary texts, an invaluable reference for church musicians.

9781932688870

$22.00
Christ Crucified in a Suffering World: The Unity of Atonement and Liberation

Nathan Hieb gives an innovative study that bridges the boundaries of method, doctrine, and praxis, creating a strong theological and action-oriented relationship between systematic and liberation theology.

9781451465716

$59.00
The Precious Gift: The Hymns, Carols, and Translations of Henry L. Lettermann

Henry L. Lettermann (1932-96) served as professor of English at Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, Illinois, from 1959 to 1988 where his talent for poetry became readily apparent. From 1979 to 1987 he served as a member and secretary of the Hymn Text and Music Committee which produced Lutheran Worship in 1982. His original texts, translations, and observations about the process of preparing this new hymnal provide fascinating insights.

9781932688917

$18.00
Christian Economic Ethics: History and Implications

Daniel Finn reviews insights provided by a large number of texts on economic ethics, from the Bible and the early church, to the Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, to treatments of the subject in the last century.

9780800699611

$49.00
Finding God among Our Neighbors: An Interfaith Systematic Theology

This supplemental theology text prepares students for articulating their Christian beliefs in a religiously and culturally diverse world.

9780800699338

$34.00
What Is Christianity?: An Introduction to the Christian Religion

Gail Ramshaw frames this new introduction to Christianity around the basic questions that students ask.

9780800698195

$45.00
Redeeming Fear: A Constructive Theology for Living into Hope

In this book, Whitehead helps us find the roots of hope in the soil of our fears so that we can form lives and communities of hope in the midst of a culture of fear.

9780800699147

$19.00
Let Us Sing: Improve Your Skills, Improve Your Choir - A Brief Guide for the New or Untrained Choir Director

The book addresses key areas of competence ranging from auditions to rehearsals to vocal training, enunciation, warm-ups, conducting, score preparation, motivation and management, and performance and recordings and much more.

9781932688771

$16.00
Models of Atonement: Speaking about Salvation in a Scientific World

Models of Atonement breaks new ground in the science-theology dialogue, going beyond questions about the doctrine of creation to speak about God's work of new creation through Christ in a world described by science. It discusses the concepts of original sin and the work of Christ which reconciles "all things" to God in ways that take seriously today's evolutionary and cosmic realities. It is a resource for proclaiming the Christian message in today's world.

9781932688856

$18.00
Ain't I a Womanist, Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought

This volume gathers essays from established and emerging scholars whose work is among the most lively and innovative scholarship today.

9780800698768

$34.00
August Crull and the Story of the Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book 1912

August Crull edited and compiled the first edition of the Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book (1889), thus playing a critical role in shaping the The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod as it transitioned from German to English. This study tells the story of Crull's pioneering labor in the formation of this seminal hymnal and documents the twenty-year journey to its final edition in 1912, which became the first, official English-language hymnal of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod.

9781932688887

$15.00
The Sound of Scripture: Reading the Bible Aloud - A Brief Guide for Lay Readers

This book is designed as a guide for readers who want to become more confident and effective in communicating the meaning of God s Word clearly to listeners. Reading scripture aloud involves a great many considerations by the reader: knowledge and understanding, faith, respect, spirit and heart, vocal skill, and physical control. Though reading individual words on the printed page might seem an easy task, communicating the profound meaning of the words clearly can be an exciting challenge. Lay readers and lectors are here given a simple process to follow when preparing their readings so they feel comfortable reading with variety, expressiveness, and, most of all, with clear understanding.

9781932688788

$15.00
Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint

In this timely book, Sallie McFague recalls her readers to the practices of restraint.

9780800699604

$29.00