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The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America

The Habit of Poetry brings together the work of mid-20th century American nuns to reveal a notable Catholic literary renaissance of women religious poets. It is a case study of how women negotiate tradition and individual creativity.

9781506471129

$28.99
Before the Streetlights Come On: Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate Solutions

Climate change disproportionately affects every aspect of life for Black communities. In this book, climate activist Heather McTeer Toney demonstrates how and why, as we strive for systemic change, climate justice is a central issue and how Black Americans are leading the movement for climate solutions for their communities and the world.

9781506478623

$24.99
Finding Calm in Nature: A Guide for Mindful Kids

A gentle, practical guide to help kids discover the ways that spending time in nature can help them navigate their feelings.

9781506485133

$19.99
Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter

The story of Harriet Tubman, freedom fighter, has been told countless times. This is not that story. In Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman, we meet Harriet, a deeply spiritual mystic who drew strength from Christian and African traditions. Just as Tubman's faith fueled an internal liberation that drove her in the fight for freedom, so can ours.

9781506478333

$25.99
What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman served as the spiritual godfather of the civil rights movement. What wisdom might he offer us today? Lerita Coleman Brown beckons everyday seekers and activists into a mentorship with Thurman and his mystical and liberating spirituality. Thurman's work enlivened an entire movement, and it may inspire us to authentic action today.

9781506474656

$26.99
In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit

A grandmother's theology carries wisdom strong enough for future generations. Theologian Yolanda Pierce builds an everyday womanist theology rooted in liberating scriptures and truths from Black women's lives in this paperback edition. It's time to get to know the God who has been showing up at the kitchen tables of Black women all along.

9781506484662

$18.99
Collisions of Earth and Sky: Connecting with Nature for Nourishment, Reflection, and Transformation

Spending time in nature provides countless benefits. But our lives leave little room for connecting with the natural world, and a history of colonization complicates our relationship to the land. Guided by wellness coach Heidi Barr, this journey of self-inquiry calls you to embrace wildness as an integral part of being fully alive.

9781506482545

$25.99
Jesus the Refugee: Ancient Injustice and Modern Solidarity

The book argues that the holy family has a limited set of legal options for protection, but under current law is unlikely to receive any. Along with the basics of modern refugee law and processes, Butner raises ethical challenges to the refugee system, indicting our moral failures and daring us to make amends.

9781506479361

$25.00
The Magi: Who They Were, How They’ve Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate

The Magi examines the Magi story, its enrichments and expansions in apocryphal writing and early Christian preaching, its artistic expressions, and its modern legacy in writing and music. The book explores the fascination the Magi story elicits in both ancient and modern readers and what the legacy tells us about its storytellers--and ourselves.

9781506473734

$28.00
The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier

The Prophetic Lens takes an important look at the use of the video camera as an indispensable prophetic tool for the security of Black lives and greater possibility for racial justice. The book highlights both the prophetic potential of the camera and the context of Blackness as a liminal existence amid a context dominated by whiteness.

9781506484198

$28.00
The Visual Preacher: Proclaiming an Embodied Word

In The Visual Preacher: Proclaiming an Embodied Word, Steve Thomason's winsomely illustrated text shows preachers basic principles and visual techniques to create and use images that will make them even more effective communicators than they already are. Preachers need not be skilled artists or technological wizards to apply Thomason's ideas.

9781506464732

$19.99
Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women

Film critic and food writer Alissa Wilkinson sits down with a hypothetical table of smart, engaging, revolutionary women of the twentieth century to explore the ways food centered each woman's creative work. As we meet these multifaceted women, we learn how to live with courage, smarts, saltiness, and sometimes feasting--even in uncertain times.

9781506473550

$25.99
Deuteronomy for the Church: Who We Are, What God Requires

Deuteronomy's core theology expressed in the Shema forms the structure of the book: What does it mean to "hear"? Who is "all Israel"? How does the identity of the one Lord shape ethics? The competence to be God's people, to know God, and to do God's will comes only through hearing the transforming Word of God in Scripture.

9781506474755

$36.00
J. H. Oldham and George Bell: Ecumenical Pioneers

An introduction to two British shapers of ecumenical thought in the twentieth century, J. H. Oldham and Bishop George Bell. Oldham pioneered new thinking on social, racial, and international issues, while Bell used his stature to give voice in support of the oppressed in Nazi Germany. Both aided in the formation of the World Council of Churches.

9781506470009

$7.25
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Real People, Real Faith: Preaching Biblical Characters

Real People, Real Faith portrays biblical characters as multidimensional human beings who journeyed with God. Cindy Halvorson provides practical tools for creating portraits of real people whose relationship with God is like our own. Being touched by a biblical character's story can help one experience the Divine's love and care for them.

9781506469669

$18.99
Be the Brave One: Living Your Spiritual Values Out Loud and Other Life Lessons

The Rev. Ann Kansfield left Wall Street and found her calling as the first female and openly gay chaplain at the New York Fire Department. Guiding her life are the values that anchor her. Weaving real-life stories with wit and practical faith, Kansfield challenges readers to discover and live out their own spiritual values.

9781506463735

$24.99
Honest to God Preaching: Talking Sin, Suffering, and Violence

Brent A. Strawn focuses on the importance of honesty in preaching, especially around three challenging Old Testament themes: sin, suffering, and violence. He makes the case that preaching honestly about these topics is critical in the church today. Without honesty regarding them, there is no way forward to reconciliation, health, and recovery. He frames this work specifically for working preachers, to help them speak to these thorny themes with depth and clarity.

9781506461267

$19.99
Seeing Jesus: Visionary Encounters from the First Century to the Present

Jesus ascended to heaven. End of story. But then how do we explain the Christians, in nearly every century since, who claimed to have seen, heard, met, and touched Jesus in the flesh? In Seeing Jesus, Robert Hudson ponders characters throughout Christian history who have encountered the actual face of the resurrected Christ.

9781506465753

$24.99
Exploring Islam: Theology and Spiritual Practice in America

Exploring Islam is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the foundations of the Islamic faith, including its history, theology, and spiritual practice. The book also deals with issues such as jihad, the status of women, and the various sectarian divisions in Islam. Most distinctive about this work is its analysis of the lived experience of Muslims in modern American life. Sayilgan offers readers a perspective that is scholarly, judicious, and engaging.

9781506468020

$36.00
There Is No God and Mary Is His Mother: Rediscovering Religionless Christianity

In this personal, witty, and timely book, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Cathcart takes readers on a journey into belief and unbelief and leads them through to "religionless Christianity." He shows that, even absent traditional theological formulas and doctrines, Christianity can be credible, meaningful, and practical.

9781506474168

$19.00