Augsburg Fortress

One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins

Emmy Kegler has a complicated relationship with the Bible. As a queer woman who grew up in the church, she knows too well how Scripture...

Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What to Do about It

We have a universal yearning, writes David Zahl, not to be happy or respected so much as enough--what religions call "righteous." Today, we look to all sorts of everyday activities--from eating and parenting to dating and voting--for the meaning once provided on Sunday morning. Seculosity takes a thoughtful yet entertaining tour of American "performancism." Ultimately, Zahl brings us to a fresh appreciation for the grace of God in all its countercultural wonder.

Be Still...And Know That I Am God: Devotions for Every Day of the Year

This daily devotional is based on selected reflections written over a three-year period by the author whose challenging, thoughtprovoking, and personal...

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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: Actions, Prayers, Poems, and Songs for Bedtime

Now children everywhere can share some peaceful moments with this new collection of activity prayers and quiet conversations with God. Charming full-color...

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Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible

Dietrich Bonheffer gives one of his secrets behind the powerful witness of his own life. He had learned to pray the Psalms and from them drew on the power of...

40-Day Journey with Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, having authored twelve best-selling books, including I Know Why the Caged Bird...

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When Your Child Loses A Loved One: A how-to guide for every parent

Talking with a grieving child may put a parent at a loss for words. In this brief guide, Theresa Huntley leads parents through a child's grief process,...

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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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When Your Child Dies: Healing, hopeful words for grieving parents

The loss of a child is something no parent is prepared to face. Drawing on her experience as a counselor, Theresa Huntley gives grieving parents tools to...

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When Your Parent Dies

Each year, 12 million Americans experience the death of a parent. Even when the death is expected, the loss presents both unique challenges and opportunities...

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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.

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...

Crazy Talk: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Theological Terms, Revised and Expanded Edition

?Theology does not often produce a mix of humor and profundity. In Crazy Talk all three come together. You will break up laughing and just...

Crazy Book: A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Biblical Terms, Revised and Expanded Edition

Very similar in tone and organization to Crazy Talk, the authors of Crazy Book unleash their passion, faith, and humor. This time they have their sights on the...

Good Grief: 50th Anniversary Edition (Large Print)

For fifty years Good Grief has helped millions of readers, including NFL players and a former first lady, find comfort and rediscover hope after loss. Now this...

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Holy Grounds: The Surprising Connection between Coffee and Faith—From Dancing Goats to Satan's Drink

From the coffee bean's discovery by ninth-century Ethiopian Muslims to being condemned as "Satan's drink" by medieval Christians, to becoming an integral part of Passover...

Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People

Practicing Our Faith offers help to Christians who are asking how our faith can help us discern what we might do and who we might become. Practices are shared activities that address fundamental needs of humankind and creation and that, woven together, form a way of life. The twelve practices explored in this book are practices that human beings simply cannot do without, particularly at this time in history.

Good Grief: The Guide and Devotional

This two-book pack, Good Grief: The Guide and Devotional, offers Good Grief, a foundation for understanding the natural process of grieving, along with The Good Grief Devotional, which provides valuable insights and wise companionship for reflecting on the experience.

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All Will Be Well: A Gathering of Healing Prayers

In an attractive gift format, this is a book for all in need of healing, for those who pray for others, for caregivers, pastors, counselors, Stephen...

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Helping Children Grieve, revised edition: When Someone They Love Dies

This straightforward book helps adults talk to children in meaningful ways, nurturing their faith and building their emotional strength during a time of...

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