Augsburg Fortress

Delivering the Sermon: Voice, Body, and Animation in Proclamation

Teresa L. Fry Brown introduces preachers to the effective use of voice and body in the animation of the word in the preaching moment. Suggestions and exercises...

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Shaping the Claim: Moving from Text to Sermon

Shaping the Claim helps the preacher discover the core of the message to be preached—the sermonic "claim." In order to be effective, says...

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Priesthood, Pastors, Bishops: Public Ministry for the Reformation & Today

Today's Protestant churches are often rent by disagreement and dissent over the office of bishop, the roles of the ordained, and myriad forms of lay ministry. ...

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Knowing the Context: Frames, Tools, and Signs for Preaching

While everyone might affirm that preaching needs to engage its listeners deeply, the initial move for novice preachers is to think this can be attained by...

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Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America

More than 15 years have passed since Joe Barndt wrote his influential and widely acclaimed Dismantling Racism (1991, Augsburg Books). He has now written a...

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Christian Education as Evangelism

Christian Education as Evangelism provides skills and tools for evangelical outreach. Each chapter includes stories, questions for reflection, and practical...

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What Can I Do?: Ideas to Help Those Who Have Experienced Loss

Barbara A. Glanz knows grief from personal experience. Her son died at a very young age and her husband of many years died recently. Although the ideas in the...

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I Will to You: Leaving a Legacy for Those You Love

Almost everyone has a Last Will and Testament that tells their family and friends what is to become of their property, but few people have thought about the...

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The Unfolding Drama of the Bible: Fourth Edition

In this concise and accessible volume, newly revised, one of the most revered contemporary biblical theologians introduces the first-time reader to the dramatic...

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Ethics in the Community of Promise: Faith, Formation, and Decision, Second Edition

In this excellent and accessible introduction, now in a second edition, Childs helpfully articulates the shared features of Christian faith and shows how that...

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Cómo se formó la Biblia: How the Bible Was Formed

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The Jonah Factor: Thirteen Spiritual Steps to Finding the Job of a Lifetime

Extensively researched, The Jonah Factor provides a step-by-step approach to helping Christians discern what jobs, careers, and volunteer activities will...

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Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition, Second Edition

An accessible, introductory text first published by Fortress Press in 1983, Her Story: Women in Christian History has sold over 30,000 copies of the first...

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Clergy Burnout: Recovering from the 70-Hour Week...and Other Self-Defeating Practices

In this highly accessible book, Fred Lehr clarifies the nature and practice of clergy codependence. In short, insightful, and highly readable chapters, filled...

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The Resurrection of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright in Dialogue

Two of today's most important and popular New Testament scholars, John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright, here air their very different understandings of the...

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Religion, Politics, and the Christian Right: Post 9-11 Powers and American Empire

Princeton theologian Mark Taylor analyzes right-wing Christian movements in the United States amid the powers of religion, politics, empire, and corporate...

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Ordinary Joy: Finding Fresh Promise in Routine Moments

The discovery of true joy, says Joe Campeau, begins not by breaking out of the daily grind, but by learning to recognize a joy that is already at hand. Written...

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Fire of Grace: The Healing Power of Forgiveness

Trinity Lutheran Church was burned to the ground by one of the most prolific arsonists in the history of the United States. When Paul Keller was finally apprehended and...

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Morning B.R.E.W.: A Divine Power Drink for Your Soul

Unlike other morning devotions, in which you digest the words of others, this book teaches you how to create your own devotional experiences through silence and...

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From Every People and Nation: The Book of Revelation in Intercultural Perspective

A diverse group of New Testament scholars and theologians offer myriad paths to a better understanding of the Book of Revelation. They discuss topics such as...

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