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

    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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  • The Hindu Traditions: A Concise Introduction

    The Hindu Traditions: A Concise Introduction

    Renowned lecturer Mark W. Muesse brings readers into an encounter with the world's oldest living religious tradition, known as Hinduism. Muesse's brief survey...

    9780800697907

    $8.50

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  • Blessing and Beseeching: Seventy Prayers Inspired by the Scriptures

    Blessing and Beseeching: Seventy Prayers Inspired by the Scriptures

    Collected here are seventy new prayers that grew from Gail Ramshaw's close reading of the Bible in the quietest months of the pandemic. Surprises and riches are found on every page. By turns bold and humble, universal and deeply personal, Ramshaw's poetry in prayer will inspire individual reflection and enrich public worship settings alike.

    9781506484990

    $19.99

  • Saving Faith: How American Christianity Can Reclaim Its Prophetic Voice

    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

  • Little Prayer Book, 1522 and A Simple Way to Pray, 1535: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

    Little Prayer Book, 1522 and A Simple Way to Pray, 1535: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

    This volume provides two of Martin Luther’s most significant writings on prayer. In Little Prayer Book, 1522, Luther seeks to reform the theology and practice...

    9781506432458

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  • Open: Unorthodox Thoughts on God and Community

    Open: Unorthodox Thoughts on God and Community

    This book boldly articulates an open theology--progressive approaches that promote unorthodox theological reflection and the creation of inclusive communities. Brad Braxton outlines Christianity's capacity to foster healing, hope, and restorative justice through embracing pluralism and radically inclusive love.

    9781506488813

    $24.00

  • Ancient Echoes: Refusing the Fear-Filled, Greed-Driven Toxicity of the Far Right

    Ancient Echoes: Refusing the Fear-Filled, Greed-Driven Toxicity of the Far Right

    In Ancient Echoes, Walter Brueggemann responds to eight "truth claims" made by the radical right in US politics. In each instance, ancient biblical faith grounds the critical response to those mistaken "truth claims." The echoes of biblical faith reveal that the right wing "truth claims" contradict reality and the legacy of the biblical tradition.

    9781506494968

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  • Martin Luther's Table Talk

    Martin Luther's Table Talk

    In this volume, editor Henry F. French has carefully chosen some of the best of Luther's conversations with many guests who frequented the dinner table in the home of Martin and Katie Luther. Those who read this book will join the conversation with Luther and friends around the dinner table as they wrestle with important questions of the day. Pull up a chair and join the circle.

    9781506434315

    $19.00

  • Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel

    Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel

    There are untold numbers of female prophets hiding in the masculine grammar and androcentric focus of the Hebrew scriptures. There are women-prophets in the...

    9780800662585

    $29.00

  • The Small Catechism, 1529: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

    The Small Catechism, 1529: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

    Timothy J. Wengert provides detailed background into the development of Luther's popular Small Catechism, which began with Luther's early sermon series on the Ten Commandments,...

    9781506432472

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  • The Everyday Advocate: Living Out Your Calling to Social Justice

    The Everyday Advocate: Living Out Your Calling to Social Justice

    In The Everyday Advocate, Ross Murray encourages Christians to discern their call to advocate for justice and shows them how to respond faithfully by taking practical steps in everyday life. He also shows faith leaders how to help people think through their calling to advocacy and connect with communities that can use their passions and talents.

    9781506485430

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  • Jürgen Moltmann: Collected Readings

    Jürgen Moltmann: Collected Readings

    Jürgen Moltmann's life and work have marked the history of theology after the Second World War in Europe and North America like no other.

    9780800699895

    $34.00

  • Visionary Women: Three Medieval Mystics

    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

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  • Serving Money, Serving God: Aligning Radical Justice, Christian Practice, and Church Life

    Serving Money, Serving God: Aligning Radical Justice, Christian Practice, and Church Life

    Justice commitments can and must be integrated into all of a church's financial practices. So argues Sheryl Johnson in Serving Money, Serving God: Aligning Radical Justice, Christian Practice, and Church Life. She offers a positive and constructive approach with inspiring examples and a sense of hope-filled adventure for churches of all sizes.

    9781506482965

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  • The Cross in Our Context: Jesus and the Suffering World

    The Cross in Our Context: Jesus and the Suffering World

    In this small gem of theological reflection, North America's foremost "theologian of the cross" offers a profound and compelling contemplation on the...

    9780800635817

    $21.00

  • Refugia Faith: Seeking Hidden Shelters, Ordinary Wonders, and the Healing of the Earth

    Refugia Faith: Seeking Hidden Shelters, Ordinary Wonders, and the Healing of the Earth

    In Refugia Faith, Debra Rienstra explores nature's refugia--places where life endures in a crisis--and applies this model to faith. Drawing from theology, nature writing, and science, she examines how Christian spirituality and practice must adapt for a climate-altered planet.

    9781506473796

    $26.00

  • Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation. Thirtieth Anniversary Expanded Edition

    Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation. Thirtieth Anniversary Expanded Edition

    A hallmark of American Black religion is its distinctive use of the Bible in creating community, resisting oppression, and fomenting social change. Stony the Road We Trod accomplishes this--and much more. This expanded edition contains a new introduction and three new essays that underscore the historic importance of this book for a new generation.

    9781506472041

    $8.00

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  • Mystics, Visionaries, and Prophets: A Historical Anthology of Women's Spiritual Writings

    Mystics, Visionaries, and Prophets: A Historical Anthology of Women's Spiritual Writings

    Winner of Catholic Press Association Book-of-the-Year Award—Spirituality
    Unique in its range and depth, this lavish anthology for the first time...

    9780800634209

    $39.00

  • When Prophets Preach: Leadership and the Politics of the Pulpit

    When Prophets Preach: Leadership and the Politics of the Pulpit

    In When Prophets Preach, Jay Augustine urges preachers to speak openly against social injustice and to be prophetic leaders. By breaking the pulpit silence, he argues, the church can bridge social and ethnic gaps among its members and show society at large how to heal divisions in our world.

    9781506479187

    $19.99

  • Shelter Theology: The Religious Lives of People without Homes

    Shelter Theology: The Religious Lives of People without Homes

    Shelter Theology offers insight into the worlds of the invisible: individuals experiencing homelessness and those living in extreme poverty. Based on over ten years of chaplaincy in a homeless shelter, Dunlap shares the nuanced theology of people in harsh circumstances and outlines how their beliefs and practices enable survival and resistance.

    9781506471556

    $26.00

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