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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
The Church in Act: Lutheran Liturgical Theology in Ecumenical Conversation

This book explores the dynamics of ecclesial and liturgical theology, examining the body of Christ in action.

9781451488838

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Faithful Conversation: Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality

Bitter battles over the churches' stance toward its gay and lesbian members have tested the churches' fundamental orientation and even threatened to split...

9780800635800

$10.00
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.

9781506458557

$18.99
Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping Christianity in the 21st Century

In Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping Christianity in the 21st Century author Wesley Granberg-Michaelson provides a lucid view of how the top ten winds of change blowing through...

9781506433448

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Transforming Leadership: New Vision for a Church in Mission

Transforming Leadership sets forth the core values and leadership practices that can bring fundamental transformation to the life of the local church. Based on...

9780800620486

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The Visual Preacher: Proclaiming an Embodied Word

In The Visual Preacher: Proclaiming an Embodied Word, Steve Thomason's winsomely illustrated text shows preachers basic principles and visual techniques to create and use images that will make them even more effective communicators than they already are. Preachers need not be skilled artists or technological wizards to apply Thomason's ideas.

9781506464732

$19.99
Divine Laughter: Preaching and the Serious Business of Humor

The authors look closely at both the cultural phenomenon of stand-up comedy and theories of humor, asking what preachers can learn from both. Divine Laughter brings the task of preaching into conversation with both the comedic parts of the Bible and the theological parts of the comedic in order to bring a new kind of life to preaching.

9781506468679

$19.99
Christian Worship: 100,000 Sundays of Symbols and Rituals

This unique textbook not only lays out the religious-studies framework of a contemporary understanding of worship, it also offers a full history of Christian...

9780800662332

$49.00
Pastoral Care Emergencies

David K. Switzer presents a clear, illustrative and practical manual for pastoral caregivers that covers the entire range of pastoral care emergencies...

9780800632281

$26.00
How to Mobilize Church Volunteers

How do you motivate the volunteers on your staff? Are you "burning out" your best people? What can you do with the pew- sitters? Do you find it hard to ask...

9780806620121

$14.99
Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life

Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life informs and inspires the practice of ministry through "on the ground" learning experienced in a variety of ministry settings. Each of the fifty chapters explores a single concept through story, reflection, and provocative open-ended questions designed to spark conversation between ministers and mentors, among ministry peers, or for personal journal reflections. The book is closely integrated with the author's Three Minute Ministry Mentor web resource.

9781506470061

$21.99
A Formula for Parish Practice: Using the Formula of Concord in Congregations

The most up-to-date English commentary on the Formula of Concord, A Formula for Parish Practice provides helpful, concise descriptions of key theological debates and a unique weaving of historical and textual commentary with modern Lutheran experience. Covering the entire Formula of Concord the book includes discussion questions at the end of each chapter.

9781506427034

$39.00
Christian Assembly: Marks of the Church in a Pluralistic Age

What is church? What makes the church one? While these questions may seem innocuous, church has become conflicted territory, with internal factions, external...

9780800636609

$24.00
Including Children in Worship: A Planning Guide for Congregations

Worship should be a place where both young and old feel welcome and know that they belong. Elizabeth Sandell gives convincing reasons for including children...

9780806625447

$19.99
Real People, Real Faith: Preaching Biblical Characters

Real People, Real Faith portrays biblical characters as multidimensional human beings who journeyed with God. Cindy Halvorson provides practical tools for creating portraits of real people whose relationship with God is like our own. Being touched by a biblical character's story can help one experience the Divine's love and care for them.

9781506469669

$18.99
Honest to God Preaching: Talking Sin, Suffering, and Violence

Brent A. Strawn focuses on the importance of honesty in preaching, especially around three challenging Old Testament themes: sin, suffering, and violence. He makes the case that preaching honestly about these topics is critical in the church today. Without honesty regarding them, there is no way forward to reconciliation, health, and recovery. He frames this work specifically for working preachers, to help them speak to these thorny themes with depth and clarity.

9781506461267

$19.99
Hiding in the Pews: Shining Light on Mental Illness in the Church

In 2012, Steve Austin, then a pastor, nearly died by suicide. He wondered: if church folks had talked about mental health, suicide prevention, abuse, and other hard issues, would that have changed his story? Hiding in the Pews challenges and equips leaders to transform their communities into places where suffering people can find a sense of safety.

9781506470481

$23.00
Youth Ministry as Peace Education: Overcoming Silence, Transforming Violence

Youth Ministry as Peace Education offers clergy, students, and practitioners a new approach to youth ministry--to equip young people to transform violence and oppression as part of their Christian vocation. In this theologically robust and pedagogically innovative and tested resource, Elizabeth W. Corrie shows that youth, like all of us, are meant to work to establish God's shalom--peace, justice, and well-being--on earth as it is in heaven.

9781506469454

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The Season of Creation: A Preaching Commentary

As the global climate crisis worsens, many churches have sought to respond by instituting a movement to observe a liturgical season of creation. Scholars who...

9780800696573

$39.00