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Saving Faith: How American Christianity Can Reclaim Its Prophetic Voice

Few Americans would deny that Christianity in America is in crisis, its credibility diminished by everything from sex scandals to close identification with extremist politics. Saving Faith examines this crisis and argues that recovering a prophetic voice entails learning from history and listening to Jesus.

9781506488066

$18.00
Visionary Women: Three Medieval Mystics

The influential feminist theologian Rosemary Ruether glimpses into the souls of three medieval mystics: Hildegard of Bingen, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Julian of Norwich. Ruether's sympathetic overview evokes the new religious horizons they envisioned for Christianity.

9781506488509

$14.99
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
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
How to Begin When Your World Is Ending: A Spiritual Field Guide to Joy Despite Everything

Covering everything from doomsday disasters to everyday calamities, Molly Phinney Baskette confronts life straight-on with spiritual wisdom to help us survive, own our fears, and find our way back from the brink of our worst-case scenarios.

9781506481609

$26.99
A Costume for Charly

Halloween is tricky for Charly, but this year they are determined to find a costume that represents their feminine and masculine identities equally. With trick-or-treat looming, they must think outside the box to find a costume that allows them to present as one hundred percent Charly.

9781506484051

$18.99
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
A Path to Belonging: Overcoming Clergy Loneliness

Fifty percent of Americans, including clergy, are lonely, according to leadership development consultants Mary Kay DuChene and Mark Sundby. In A Path to Belonging: Overcoming Clergy Loneliness, they offer research, tools, and remedies for clergy to embark on the path toward a healthy sense of contentment and belonging and more effective leadership.

9781506473819

$22.99
The Way of Abundance: Economic Justice in Scripture and Society

In The Way of Abundance, economist and minister Edith Rasell examines the Old and New Testament teachings on economic justice through the evolution of ancient economic orders and systems. While scriptural instructions address economies in the past, Rasell identifies consistent, recurring principles to construct a vision for a just economy today.

9781506469829

$34.00
Unmasking the African Ghost: Theology, Politics, and the Nightmare of Failed States

Africa is continuously redefining itself in the face of Eurocentrism, misery, and oppression. Unmasking the African Ghost is a theological exploration of why the political and economic systems of so many African countries have failed and a proposal for paths toward renewing the social order.

9781506479439

$9.75
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Free in Deed: The Heart of Lutheran Ethics

Free in Deed provides an imaginative and succinct introduction to Lutheran ethics, which the author contends is, finally, neighbor ethics. The gospel of Jesus Christ sets us free to serve neighbors--including all creation--and their well-being. This Lutheran framework provides a distinctive approach for navigating social issues in tumultuous times.

9781506479125

$24.00
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
The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work for Change without Losing Your Joy

Many of us want to advocate for causes we care about--but which ones? We want to work for change--but will the emotional toll lead to burn out? Karen Walrond shares strategies to help you define the actions that bring you joy, identify the values and causes about which you are passionate, and put them together to create change.

9781506469942

$26.99
N: My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic

This book is about a Black man's experience of reading Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time while in graduate school. It captures the author's emotional struggle with Twain's use of the racial epithet more than two hundred times in the text. In these pages, Harris challenges his instructor and classmates and inspires readers to redress the long history of American racism and white supremacy bound up with the N word.

9781506479163

$4.75
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Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred

Like many unfulfilled by traditional faith expressions, Victoria Loorz went in search of a spirituality strong enough to reckon with the unraveling of her vocation, identity, and planet, and found herself in the wilderness. Loorz invites us to reimagine our relationship with and commitment to a suffering planet by loving it--and calling it church.

9781506469645

$18.99
Feed the Wolf: Befriending Our Fears in the Way of Saint Francis

Turn from fear and find peace. In Feed the Wolf, author and Saint Francis scholar Jon M. Sweeney explores fifteen spiritual practices from the essential wisdom of Saint Francis for us to apply to our twenty-first-century lives.

9781506470733

$26.99
Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children's Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls

Join award-winning author Mitali Perkins as she explores the promise of seven timeless children's novels for adults living in uncertain times. Through works by Louisa May Alcott, C. S. Lewis, L. M. Montgomery, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and other literary "uncles" and "aunts," Perkins unpacks wisdom to help us thrive.

9781506469102

$24.99
Our Angry Eden: Faith and Hope on a Hotter, Harsher Planet

The planet we will pass on is different than the one we inherited. Living with our angry Eden will involve sustained difficulty. David Williams spells out how we will be morally tested, outlines nine virtues key to thriving in the decades to come, and beckons readers toward a faith and hope resilient enough to face the effects of climate crisis.

9781506470443

$26.99
Managing Congregations in a Virtual Age

In Managing Congregations in a Virtual Age, John W. Wimberly Jr. draws on the experience of the business community, and on a diverse group of skilled pastors and rabbis, as he lays out the opportunities and challenges of working from home for congregations and staff, offering principles and best practices for successfully managing remote workers and ministries. This comprehensive guide will serve congregations well into the future, even as technology and circumstances change.

9781506472638

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