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The Forgotten Books of the Bible: Recovering the Five Scrolls for Today

You're probably missing out on some of the most interesting books of the Bible. In the Jewish tradition, the five books known as the Five...

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Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity

Marva Dawn has an insider's view of the many spiritual, intellectual, emotional, social, and physical difficulties encountered by people with chronic illness...

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Prayers from the East: Traditions of Eastern Christianity

This rich anthology offers new insight into an ancient form of Christianity still little understood in the West. An introduction to the rich diversity of the...

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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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Beyond the Scandals: A Guide to Healthy Sexuality for Clergy

Recent sexual scandals have rocked the North American religious scene and left the churches concerned about credibility and liability. What are the bounds of...

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Waiting for Good News: Living with Chronic and Serious Illness

Sally Wilke has lived with and through the serious chronic illness of someone she cared deeply about. And she has provided pastoral care to individuals and families in similar situations. Waiting for Good News captures her hard-won, helpful, and hope-filled wisdom. Wilke also offers tools, tips, ideas, and resources for obtaining or providing additional support.

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Real Faith for Real Life: Living the Six Marks of Discipleship

For Christians seeking to apply their faith to everyday life, Real Faith for Real Life invites readers to answer the call of discipleship and provides guidance...

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Tracks in the Straw: Tales Spun from the Manger

In a memorable Christmas book full of surprises and wonder, Loder offers 15 nativity stories and fables that bring forth an amazing set of characters, animals,...

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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.

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Embracing God's Future without Forgetting the Past: A Conversation about Loss, Grief, and Nostalgia in Congregational Life

Embracing God's Future without Forgetting the Past helps congregations, leaders and members alike, process the grief and loss in their congregational system, and use what they have learned to adapt creatively to the changing realities they face in mission and ministry. Congregations who work through their grief over change and loss and redefine their relationship with their past can draw strength and encouragement from their memories and step boldly into God's good future with confidence.

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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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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...

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Strength to Love: Gift Edition

"If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love." So wrote Coretta...

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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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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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The Color of the Night: Reflections on Suffering and the Book of Job

This new release of Gerhard E. Frost's classic The Color of the Night includes eighty-six short reflections inspired by the biblical Job. Each reflection...

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Love and Quasars: An Astrophysicist Reconciles Faith and Science

In Love and Quasars, Paul Wallace shows how faith and science are pitted against one another, and he explains how the standard ways of reconciling them don't work. He then proposes a reasonable, thoughtful approach that will appeal to Christians and students of science alike. Readable and wise, Love and Quasars is an indispensable resource for people who wonder if faith and science can coexist.

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Preaching from the Old Testament

Walter Brueggemann shows Christian preachers how to consider the faith witnessed in several Old Testament traditions and to help them discover rich and suggestive connections to our contemporary faith challenges. He claims that sustained engagement with the Old Testament is worth the effort for the preacher. This volume is part of the new Working Preacher Books series designed to provide timely and compelling books on biblical preaching. God uses good preaching to change lives.

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Nurturing Hope: Christian Pastoral Care in the Twenty-First Century

Lynne Baab discusses seven trends in pastoral care with stories about Christian caregivers meeting those challenges in creative ways. Baab also presents four practical skills pastoral carers need: to understand common stressors, to listen, to pray with others, and to nurture their personal resilience. In each chapter, she offers discussion question as well as tips for readers who are training other pastoral carers.

Nurturing Hope brings readers hope for their caring role and their own spiritual journey.

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Friendship with Jesus: A Way to Pray the Gospel of Mark

Build a powerful friendship with Jesus through the ancient art of contemplative prayer. Perfect for individual or group use, this guide and workbook helps...

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