Augsburg Fortress

The Book of Nature: The Astonishing Beauty of God’s First Sacred Text

Before the sacred Scriptures were ever written, there was a much earlier text: The Book of Nature. Barbara Mahany invites us to discover an ancient theology that focuses on the text of God first revealed through creation--nature in all its kaleidoscopic turnings.

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Why Churches Need to Talk about Sexuality: Lessons Learned from Hard Conversations about Sex, Gender, Identity, and the Bible

Journalist and pastor Mark Wingfield describes how the congregation he serves undertook a study of how churches respond to the inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender members. Why Churches Need to Talk about Sexuality is for congregational leaders and others who want to understand the debates about human sexuality and who desire to follow a process to discuss the topic and make decisions about how congregations and individuals will respond to these issues.

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Good Grief: The Guide and Journal

Good Grief: The Guide and Journal, a two-book pack, offers Good Grief, a foundation for understanding the natural process of grieving, along with The Good Grief Journal, a pathway for expressing, exploring, and growing from a significant loss.

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More Dog Psalms: Prayers My Dogs Have Taught Me

Inspired by Brokering's observations of dogs, each of these whimsical, playful psalm-meditations is filled with tender wisdom and expresses what dogs can teach...

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Partner People: A Manna and Mercy Board Book

This colorful and inviting board book introduces young children to serving God and working together with God as Partner People. 

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Elders Rising: The Promise and Peril of Aging

Riding the age wave with grace In this inspiring book, Roland D. Martinson draws on the folk wisdom and experience of over fifty persons between...

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Manna and Mercy Starter Pack

The Manna and Mercy Starter Pack includes all the new components of the Manna and Mercy collection: All four board books for young ones, a Manna and Mercy Leader Sourcebook, and Manna and Mercy: An Interactive Edition for Kids.

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God with Us: A Manna and Mercy Christmas Board Book

This colorful and inviting board book introduces young children to the story of Christmas.

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Practicing Your Path: A Book of Retreats for an Intentional Life

An invitation to rebalance your life and regain perspective. Practicing Your Path offers seven one-day retreats on the components of classical Christian...

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Ordinary Blessings for Parents: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Family Life

Ordinary Blessings for Parents is a spiritual high-five for parents in every stage of raising kids. In this beautiful collection of blessings, poet and pastor Meta Herrick Carlson names the moments we take for granted, makes space for the hard times, and reminds us we are in good company and are loved in the midst of loving children.

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40-Day Journey with Julian of Norwich

The volumes in the 40-Day Journey series invite readers to take a spiritual journey with a great spiritual guide from the past or the present. In this volume,...

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When Your Spouse Dies

The death of a spouse can create emotional, spiritual, and financial chaos for the one left behind. It is a journey through grief no one wishes to make. In...

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They Don't Come with Instructions: Cries, Wisdom, and Hope for Parenting Children with Developmental Challenges

Hollie M. Holt-Woehl offers insights for the journey with a developmentally challenged child. As the mother of a son with an autism diagnosis, she also offers ways to keep hope.

The book focuses on the challenges of parenting children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD), and/or Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).

Readers who seek to understand what it is like to live with a developmentally challenged child will appreciate Holt-Woehl's down-to-earth and compassionate approach.

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Faith in Action: A Handbook for Activists, Advocates, and Allies

You want to make the world better. This book can help. Faith in Action offers quick dives into a range of topics, from racial justice...

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Word of Life: Introducing Lutheran Hermeneutics

Timothy J. Wengert explores the genesis of Lutheran biblical interpretation by tracing the early work and methods of Martin Luther and other Wittenberg exegetes. Their new approach led them to view Scripture in terms they called "law and gospel," to read and translate the Greek and Hebrew text, and to focus on a theology of the cross and justification by faith. Wengert then demonstrates how these approaches can used in preaching and teaching today.

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Good Grief: The Complete Set

This three-book collection, Good Grief: The Complete Set, offers Good Grief, a foundation for understanding grief; The Good Grief Devotional, a collection of valuable insights...

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In the Midst of Chaos: Caring for Children as Spiritual Practice

In the Midst of Chaos, by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, explores parenting as spiritual practice.

Both honest about the difficulties and attentive to the blessings present in everyday life, it explores how parents might use seven daily practices, such as play, reading, chores, and saying goodbye or goodnight, as rich opportunities to shape both parent and child morally and spiritually.

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In the Bleak Midwinter: Forty Meditations and Prayers for Advent and Christmas

Once again, well-known and beloved author Herbert Brokering offers spiritual nourishment, this time based on Christina Georgina Rossetti's Christmas carol,...

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Come, Lord Jesus: Devotions for the Home: Advent/Christmas/Epiphany

Scripture readings and brief meditations serve as the backdrop for poetry, new seasonal blessings, mealtime prayers, songs and activities that prepare the...

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Fortress Introduction to the Gospels, Second Edition

In the second edition of this well-known textbook, Mark Allen Powell offers an accessible and trustworthy introduction to the contents, structure, and themes of the New Testament Gospels. Written as a basic introduction for Gospels courses at the undergraduate to early seminary level, Powell surveys the genre of the Gospels, their political, religious, and social worlds, and key methods of approaching early Christian texts. This second edition features a new chapter on the historical Jesus.

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