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Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens

Written by a group of queer adults, and featuring testimony from young LGBTQ+ Christians, Queerfully and Wonderfully Made looks to educate young queer people of faith and to help them stay safe, healthy, and secure.

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Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth

Randy Woodley, an activist, scholar, and Cherokee descendant, guides us on a one-hundred-day journey to reconnect with the land around us, with the people native to that land, and with ourselves. Meditations, epigraphs, and ideas for reflection and action help us become rooted in our relationship with creation and Creator.

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A Simple Christmas on the Farm

Warm and heartfelt, this story invites readers to imagine an inclusive, generous Christmas, focusing on the simple pleasures of family, community, and making things by hand.

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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? In The Lightmaker's Manifesto, activist 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. Includes conversations with changemakers Valarie Kaur, Brené Brown, Tarana Burke, and Zuri Adele.

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Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation

Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people. Women in the Bible—some of their...

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Sparrow's Prayer

When Sparrow can't find the words to pray, he discovers new ways to connect with God without words.

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God's Holy Darkness

In God's Holy Darkness, Sharei Green and Beckah Selnick deconstruct anti-Blackness in Christian theology by celebrating instances in the story of God's people when darkness, blackness, and night are beautiful, good, and holy. Perfect for reading and anti-racist reflection in worship and as an affirmation and celebration with children.

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The Story of Us

With poetic text and luminous illustrations, this stunning picture book written by award-winning author Mitali Perkins invites readers to experience the biblical redemption story in a whole new way.

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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.

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Raising Kids beyond the Binary: Celebrating God’s Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children

Drawing on the author's experience as the mother of a transgender child and her years of advocacy work, this book helps Christian parents navigate the emotional, spiritual, and logistical landscape of raising a gender-diverse child. It paints a picture of who transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse young people are and what they need to thrive.

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Love Without Limits: Jesus' Radical Vision for Love with No Exceptions

Our world feels more divided than ever. Polarization, racial violence, and inequity leave us asking, Is it even possible to heal? Award-winning author and theologian Jacqueline A. Bussie believes it is. In Love Without Limits, she challenges each of us to practice a love so deep, so radical, so capacious, it excludes no one.

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Beside Still Waters: Favorite Prayers, Poems, and Scriptures to Calm the Soul

This small treasury is an essential source of wisdom, encouragement, and faith for every season.

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Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder's Meditations on Hope and Courage

Native America knows something about cultivating resilience and resisting darkness. Choctaw elder and Episcopal priest Steven Charleston offers words of hard-won hope, rooted in daily conversations with the Spirit and steeped in Indigenous wisdom. For all who yearn for hope, Ladder to the Light is a book of comfort, truth, and challenge in a time of anguish and fear. Night will not last forever. Together we can climb toward the light.

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Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell

What if aging is something to aspire to, not to dread? Join Karen Walrond, author of The Lightmaker's Manifesto, as she investigates how we can reclaim aging, cultivate joy, and resist ageism. Walrond does a deep dive into different aspects of getting older, including health, beauty, spirituality, relationships, adventure, activism, and purpose.

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The Mindful Grandparent: The Art of Loving Our Children's Children

Grandparenting is a sacred, challenging, and sometimes bewildering calling. As educators, writers, and grandmothers with twelve grandchildren between them, Marilyn McEntyre and Shirley Showalter team up to share practices, tips, and ideas for grandparenting with intention and grace.

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Ask Me for a Blessing (You Know You Need One)

Once a week Adrian Dannhauser stands outside her church with a sign that reads "Ask me for a blessing." What is a blessing? Do you have to believe to receive one? Dannhauser offers glimpses into the tender, holy, and funny moments she has with people looking for a blessing and delves into the power that ancient ideas hold in a disenchanted world.

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Brave: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Grief, Mercy, Folly, Joy, Sex, and Redemption

Following the success of Fierce, Alice Connor returns to introduce a new group of women from the Bible, some whose names we know, others who go unnamed. Connor invites us to see them not as players in a man's story, but as foremothers of the faith.

Skillfully drawn by the author, these women's stories are challenging and beautiful. When we read their stories, we see not only their particular, formidable lives but also our own.

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Breath Prayer: An Ancient Practice for the Everyday Sacred

Christine Valters Paintner, abbess of Abbey of the Arts, introduces us to the spiritual practice of breath prayer and offers beautiful poem-prayers for walking, working, dressing, cleaning, sitting in silence, doing the dishes, living in community--breathing the divine into our daily lives. Over time these recitations become as natural as breathing. We don't so much recite the prayers as the prayers recite us, guide us, and open our hearts to the everyday sacred.

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The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

The Woman They Wanted recounts the remarkable story of Shannon Harris' courtship with Joshua Harris (author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye), her grappling with conservative Christianity's patriarchy and narrow definition of womanhood, and her journey to break free and reclaim a more authentic version of herself.

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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.

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