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  • Christian Faith: The Basics

    Christian Faith: The Basics

    Walt Kallestad, the senior pastor of one of the fastest growing churches in the United States, knows and understands spiritual seekers and new Christians....

    9780806633978

    $8.99

  • Digital Communion: Marshall McLuhan's Spiritual Vision for a Virtual Age

    Digital Communion: Marshall McLuhan's Spiritual Vision for a Virtual Age

    Digital Communion explores the religious history of mass communication, focusing on Marshall McLuhan's vision of the electronic world as a place of potential spiritual exchange. McLuhan's Catholicism deeply informed his theory, which in turn reveals how we can cultivate a more spiritual vision of the internet.

    9781506471143

    $6.75

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  • Black Lives Matter to Jesus: The Salvation of Black Life and All Life in Luke and Acts

    Black Lives Matter to Jesus: The Salvation of Black Life and All Life in Luke and Acts

    Black-skinned people were and are included in the family of God, demonstrating that all colors in the family of God have dignity. This view bolsters a Christian anti-racist agenda. This work attempts to undermine Christian racism that has deemed Black skin inherently problematic, showing that the destruction of racism is at the heart of the gospel of Jesus.

    9781506474625

    $7.00

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  • Deuteronomy for the Church: Who We Are, What God Requires

    Deuteronomy for the Church: Who We Are, What God Requires

    Deuteronomy's core theology expressed in the Shema forms the structure of the book: What does it mean to "hear"? Who is "all Israel"? How does the identity of the one Lord shape ethics? The competence to be God's people, to know God, and to do God's will comes only through hearing the transforming Word of God in Scripture.

    9781506474755

    $36.00

  • J. H. Oldham and George Bell: Ecumenical Pioneers

    J. H. Oldham and George Bell: Ecumenical Pioneers

    An introduction to two British shapers of ecumenical thought in the twentieth century, J. H. Oldham and Bishop George Bell. Oldham pioneered new thinking on social, racial, and international issues, while Bell used his stature to give voice in support of the oppressed in Nazi Germany. Both aided in the formation of the World Council of Churches.

    9781506470009

    $7.25

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  • Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation. Thirtieth Anniversary Expanded Edition

    Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation. Thirtieth Anniversary Expanded Edition

    A hallmark of American Black religion is its distinctive use of the Bible in creating community, resisting oppression, and fomenting social change. Stony the Road We Trod accomplishes this--and much more. This expanded edition contains a new introduction and three new essays that underscore the historic importance of this book for a new generation.

    9781506472041

    $8.00

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  • There Is No God and Mary Is His Mother: Rediscovering Religionless Christianity

    There Is No God and Mary Is His Mother: Rediscovering Religionless Christianity

    In this personal, witty, and timely book, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Cathcart takes readers on a journey into belief and unbelief and leads them through to "religionless Christianity." He shows that, even absent traditional theological formulas and doctrines, Christianity can be credible, meaningful, and practical.

    9781506474168

    $19.00

  • The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier

    The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier

    The Prophetic Lens takes an important look at the use of the video camera as an indispensable prophetic tool for the security of Black lives and greater possibility for racial justice. The book highlights both the prophetic potential of the camera and the context of Blackness as a liminal existence amid a context dominated by whiteness.

    9781506484198

    $28.00

  • Understanding Friendship: On the Moral, Political, and Spiritual Meaning of Love

    Understanding Friendship: On the Moral, Political, and Spiritual Meaning of Love

    Understanding Friendship illustrates friendship as an expression of Christian love that can enrich one's life and be socially, culturally, and politically significant. The book examines what friendship is, how its distinctive moral status can be supported by multiple approaches to Christian ethics, and its part in Christian spirituality.

    9781506479088

    $9.75

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  • Exploring Islam: Theology and Spiritual Practice in America

    Exploring Islam: Theology and Spiritual Practice in America

    Exploring Islam is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the foundations of the Islamic faith, including its history, theology, and spiritual practice. The book also deals with issues such as jihad, the status of women, and the various sectarian divisions in Islam. Most distinctive about this work is its analysis of the lived experience of Muslims in modern American life. Sayilgan offers readers a perspective that is scholarly, judicious, and engaging.

    9781506468020

    $36.00

  • With Courage and Compassion: Women and the Ecumenical Movement

    With Courage and Compassion: Women and the Ecumenical Movement

    With Courage and Compassion celebrates the contributions of women to nations, societies, churches, and the ecumenical movement. While recounting the progressive stance the World Council of Churches has taken in recognizing the leadership and theological gifts of women, this book is honest about the many forms of exclusion and even violence against women in societies in the church and the ecumenical movement that persist. It calls for a transformation of unjust attitudes and systems.

    9781506430249

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  • Living By Faith: Justification and Sanctification

    Living By Faith: Justification and Sanctification

    "Living by faith" is much more than a general Christian precept; it is the fundamental posture of believers in a world rife with suffering and injustice. In this penetrating reflection on the meaning of "justification," Oswald Bayer shows how this key religious term provides a comprehensive horizon for discussing every aspect of Christian theology, from creation to the end times.

    9781506427133

    $29.00

  • Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System

    Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System

    This strong indictment of the current prison system, undertaken by two respected experts on behalf of the American Friends Service Committee, traces the history...

    9780800638320

    $19.00

  • Sacred Pregnancy: Birth, Motherhood, and the Quest for Spiritual Community

    Sacred Pregnancy: Birth, Motherhood, and the Quest for Spiritual Community

    Sacred Pregnancy is a retrospective on evolving feminist discourse of motherhood, a sociological study of religious demographics and experience in the U.S., and an exploration of the spiritually guided reproductive health services. The book allows readers to more deeply understand the life-changing experiences of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.

    9781506485560

    $28.00

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

    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...

    9781506432564

    $12.99

  • Open: Unorthodox Thoughts on God and Community

    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.

    9781506488813

    $24.00

  • The First Advent in Palestine: Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexity of Hope

    The First Advent in Palestine: Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexity of Hope

    Bringing us the untold--often hidden--story of Advent, Kelley Nikondeha takes us back to the original landscapes. Then, as now, Palestine was the geographic, socioeconomic, and political backdrop of the Gospel narratives that wrestle with dark themes of violence, exploitive economics, and abuse to arrive at the hard-won hope of Jesus's birth.

    9781506474793

    $25.99

  • The Small Catechism, 1529: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

    The Small Catechism, 1529: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

    Timothy J. Wengert provides detailed background into the development of Luther's popular Small Catechism, which began with Luther's early sermon series on the Ten Commandments,...

    9781506432472

    $14.99

  • Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel

    Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel

    There are untold numbers of female prophets hiding in the masculine grammar and androcentric focus of the Hebrew scriptures. There are women-prophets in the...

    9780800662585

    $29.00

  • Sin Boldly!: Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls

    Sin Boldly!: Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls

    Can faith as trusting God make a difference? This book provides much-needed experiential analysis of the contrast between self-justification and justification by God.

    9781451487688

    $11.00

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