Augsburg Fortress

Journeying through Lent with Matthew: Daily Meditations

In this Lenten devotional, each reflection focuses on a key point in Matthew and includes a prayer and inspirational verse, as well as questions for...

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Act of God/Active God: Recovering from Natural Disasters

Is a natural disaster an "act of God?" Did God cause the disaster? If God is all powerful, why did God allow it to happen? Gary Harbaugh argues that God is active in our questions, confusions, and doubts, as well as in those who help?either individually or as communities of faith.

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Soul Gardening: Cultivating the Good Life

This book is about what it means to be a soul gardener. Reading it is not unlike walking in a garden—where it feels good to be alive, where we sit for...

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Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches

Issues surrounding homosexuality threaten to divide the Christian churches and the people within them. This unique resource presents short pieces from some...

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The Lord's Supper

This new release of Martin E. Marty's classic book on Holy Communion features a new study guide to help individual readers and study groups ponder the...

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Every Day and Sunday, Too

Young children will be drawn to the many illustrations depicting their experiences of daily life and, at the same time, they'll learn the basic pattern and...

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Finding the Right Words: Offering Care and Comfort When You Don't Know What to Say

Practical suggestions for offering care and comfort. Bockelman discusses many common situations and provides guidelines for using Scripture and sharing your faith as you reach out to others.

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The Augsburg Confession: A Commentary

A concise commentary, highly useful as an accompaniment to the reading of the Augsburg Confession itself. All who are interested in the doctrinal traditions...

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Where God Meets Man: Luther's Down-to-Earth Approach to the Gospel

This book about Luther's theology is written out of a two-fold conviction. First, that many of our problems have arisen because we have not really understood...

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Honestly: Telling the Truth about the Bible and Ourselves

It's no wonder modern Christians have trouble with the truth after living for so long with lies about the Bible. This book aims to set the record straight and encourage honest conversation about the Bible and ourselves. It explores a number of big topics through the lenses of truth and faith.

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Deconstructing Racism: A Path toward Lasting Change

Deconstructing Racism explores why change has been so difficult to come by and offers new paths toward lasting change through the deconstruction of racism's roots within systems and institutions. It speaks to people in both church and society who are or have been working to dismantle institutional and systemic racism.

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For Every Matter under Heaven: Preaching on Special Occasions

In For Every Matter under Heaven: Preaching on Special Occasions, Beverly Zink-Sawyer and Donna Giver-Johnston offer a process for creating biblically grounded, relevant sermons for events that arise from calendars, celebrations, or circumstances by considering the occasion, the gathered listeners, and the ways God is at work in that season.

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The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus

The God of the Bible was never neutral. Pointing to today's protests, riots, and strikes, popular YouTuber and public theologian Damon Garcia rallies progressive Christians to set aside niceness and the compulsive need for harmony to walk in Jesus's footsteps--the Jesus who flipped tables in the temple and shook empires.

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Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us

In Between the Listening and the Telling, Mark Yaconelli leads readers into an enchanting meditation on the power of storytelling. Stories can be medicine, helping individuals and communities address the despair of climate change, the trauma of school shootings, and the daily struggle for meaning and hope.

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You Mean It or You Don't: James Baldwin's Radical Challenge

It is not enough to hold progressive views on racial justice, LGBTQ+ identity, and economic inequality. Through a rich examination of James Baldwin's writing and interviews, You Mean It or You Don't spurs today's progressives from conviction to action, from dreaming of justice to living it out in our communities, churches, and neighborhoods.

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Joyful Defiance: Death Does Not Win the Day

Joyful Defiance encourages readers to reflect on experiences of anxiety, anger, exhaustion, and grief, emotions not always welcomed in the Christian tradition. Lament is an act of faith in God that acknowledges pain and protests death. Joy is a counterstory and a truer tale, less a feeling than a way of being for the self and for the world.

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Sarah Rising

Minneapolis-based poet and playwright Ty Chapman's child's-eye view of a protest provides an entre for children to learn and talk about racial injustice and the importance of community.

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In Deep Waters: Spiritual Care for Young People in a Climate Crisis

Climate change is creating a spiritual emergency that hits young people harder than any others, observes author Talitha Amadea Aho. In Deep Water guides readers of any generation to develop a communal practice of ecologically informed spiritual care, especially for today's youth.

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The Sacred Pulse: Holy Rhythms for Overwhelmed Souls

Contemporary life is leaving us frazzled, overwhelmed, and out of sorts.

In The Sacred Pulse, pastor and author April Fiet invites us to examine the frantic patterns of perfection and production and to reclaim the deeper, sacred pulses that pattern our days. Through stories, scripture, and practical guidance for daily living, she lays out twelve practices that are both sustainable and sustaining so we can tap into the joyful, holy rhythms of life.

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Everyone Must Eat: Food, Sustainability, and Ministry

Rural contexts are often over-looked, treated as "flyover land." But because everyone must eat, rural communities and their work in food production are important to the whole of society. Mark Yackel-Juleen, the executive director of Shalom Hill Farm, connects issues of food production and environmental sustainability in profound ways to the Bible and theology. He offers actionable tools for rural leaders and ministers to address issues of sustainability and land use in their ministry.

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