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  • The Four Gospels on Sunday: The New Testament and the Reform of Christian Worship

    The Four Gospels on Sunday: The New Testament and the Reform of Christian Worship

    Premier liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop argues that far too often liturgy, preaching, and liturgical theology are informed by naïve and outdated exegesis. In another fully original...

    9780800698522

    $49.00

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America

    The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America

    The Habit of Poetry brings together the work of mid-20th century American nuns to reveal a notable Catholic literary renaissance of women religious poets. It is a case study of how women negotiate tradition and individual creativity.

    9781506471129

    $28.99

  • The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Volume 2

    The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Volume 2

    In his preaching, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's strong, personal faith—the foundation for everything he did—shines in the darkness of Hitler's Third Reich and in the church struggle against it. Though not overtly political, Bonhoeffer's deep concern for the developments in his world is revealed in his sermons as he seeks to draw the listener into conversation with the promises and claims of the gospel—a conversation readers today are invited to join.

    9781506433363

    $7.49

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  • 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

  • Leading Faithful Innovation: Following God into a Hopeful Future

    Leading Faithful Innovation: Following God into a Hopeful Future

    Leading Faithful Innovation offers a practical, hands-on approach to addressing the challenges of change in the church and our culture. This three-step process is not another program or add-on to what readers are already doing. It is an ongoing way of following God that allows the Spirit of God to drive the energy among the people of the church.

    9781506488769

    $23.99

  • Untimely Christianity: Hearing the Bible in a Secular Age

    Untimely Christianity: Hearing the Bible in a Secular Age

    In Untimely Christianity, acclaimed poet and literary scholar Michael Edwards calls for a countercultural Christianity that recovers the Bible's radical otherness and renews our attention to its message. Rich in theology, philosophy, poetry, biblical interpretation, and cultural criticism, the book calls readers to encounter the Bible anew.

    9781506480879

    $7.00

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  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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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  • Luther's Rome, Rome's Luther: How the City Shaped the Reformer

    Luther's Rome, Rome's Luther: How the City Shaped the Reformer

    This book offers a fresh reevaluation of Martin Luther's tempestuous relationship with Rome, the city he visited as a young Augustinian friar and never thereafter forgot. Luther's Rome, Rome's Luther will help readers see the ancient city, the long-lived empire, and the sacred home of the papacy from Luther's complicated perspective.

    9781506472027

    $6.75

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  • 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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  • When Prophets Preach: Leadership and the Politics of the Pulpit

    When Prophets Preach: Leadership and the Politics of the Pulpit

    In When Prophets Preach, Jay Augustine urges preachers to speak openly against social injustice and to be prophetic leaders. By breaking the pulpit silence, he argues, the church can bridge social and ethnic gaps among its members and show society at large how to heal divisions in our world.

    9781506479187

    $19.99

  • My Burden Is Light: Making Room for Jesus in Preaching

    My Burden Is Light: Making Room for Jesus in Preaching

    My Burden Is Light invites preachers to reclaim proclaiming Jesus as the goal of preaching. Satterlee argues that by preaching Jesus's life, death, and resurrection as good news, we address the issues we face. This book is foundational for preaching courses and a balm for preachers needing nourishment and renewal.

    9781506465814

    $24.99

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