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Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education

In this compelling exploration of what it means to be a Black woman pursuing higher education, Dr. Jasmine Harris moves beyond the "data points" to examine the day-to-day impacts of racism in education on Black women as individuals, the longer-term consequences to our personal and professional lives, and the generational costs to our families.

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Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell

What if aging is something to aspire to, not to dread? Join Karen Walrond, author of The Lightmaker's Manifesto, as she investigates how we can reclaim aging, cultivate joy, and resist ageism. Walrond does a deep dive into different aspects of getting older, including health, beauty, spirituality, relationships, adventure, activism, and purpose.

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Raising Kids beyond the Binary: Celebrating God’s Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children

Drawing on the author's experience as the mother of a transgender child and her years of advocacy work, this book helps Christian parents navigate the emotional, spiritual, and logistical landscape of raising a gender-diverse child. It paints a picture of who transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse young people are and what they need to thrive.

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Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging

In this immersive book, Rev. Ben McBride asks what it would take to truly belong to each other. Radical belonging requires looking at our implicit biases, at our faulty understandings of power, and at how we "other" or "same" people. It may even mean troubling the waters to stir up truth and save our humanity.

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Ordinary Blessings for the Christmas Season: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations

For many of us, the season leading up to Christmas is a time of expectations, busyness, joy, and often grief. Meta Herrick Carlson's Ordinary Blessings for the Christmas Season is a lovely companion to help us access the deeper meaning of holidays, connect to the ancient story of Christmas, and pause to recognize the sacred ordinary in the season.

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The Just Kitchen: Invitations to Sustainability, Cooking, Connection, and Celebration

Food and faith podcasters Derrick Weston and Anna Woofenden invite you into a kitchen where a passion for food, sharing meals, showing hospitality, and understanding cultures, and local foodways collide. Answer the call of a just kitchen, where meal preparation is as much an act of resistance against injustice as are marches and protests.

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Holy Runaways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion

Psychotherapist Matthias Roberts speaks with empathy and compassion to people who have left their faith community after experiencing trauma, hypocrisy, or resistance to change. Blending personal stories, new interpretations of Christian parables, and research on religious trauma, Roberts guides "holy runaways" toward new and loving spiritual homes.

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The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal

Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all, from gunshot wounds to traumatic brain injuries. In The Bodies Keep Coming, Williams ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. Black bodies will continue to be wracked by violence, racism, and healthcare inequities until we enact changes of policy and law.

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We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope

Native America has confronted apocalypse for more than four hundred years. Choctaw elder Steven Charleston tells the stories of four Indigenous prophets who helped their people learn strategies for surviving catastrophe, using their lessons and wisdom as guidance for how we can face the uncertainty of the modern age.

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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.

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The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism: An Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality

From beloved spiritual teacher Carl McColman comes a book about big possibility: the hope of achieving authentic, blissful, experiential union with God. He reveals the various ways Christian mysticism and contemplation have been in dynamic practice through the centuries, proving inspirational for today's seekers, regardless of faith tradition.

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Breath Prayer: An Ancient Practice for the Everyday Sacred

Christine Valters Paintner, abbess of Abbey of the Arts, introduces us to the spiritual practice of breath prayer and offers beautiful poem-prayers for walking, working, dressing, cleaning, sitting in silence, doing the dishes, living in community--breathing the divine into our daily lives. Over time these recitations become as natural as breathing. We don't so much recite the prayers as the prayers recite us, guide us, and open our hearts to the everyday sacred.

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Welcoming and Affirming: A Guide to Supporting and Working with LGBTQ+ Christian Youth

A handbook for pastors, youth workers, church leaders, educators, and other adults in Christian settings, this guide provides answers to the most pressing questions about sexuality, gender, mental health, safe sex, and more. You'll walk away with a lot of insight, prepared to love, affirm, and accept the LGBTQ+ teens in your community the way God does--exactly as they are.

A companion book to Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens.

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The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

The Woman They Wanted recounts the remarkable story of Shannon Harris' courtship with Joshua Harris (author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye), her grappling with conservative Christianity's patriarchy and narrow definition of womanhood, and her journey to break free and reclaim a more authentic version of herself.

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Ask Me for a Blessing (You Know You Need One)

Once a week Adrian Dannhauser stands outside her church with a sign that reads "Ask me for a blessing." What is a blessing? Do you have to believe to receive one? Dannhauser offers glimpses into the tender, holy, and funny moments she has with people looking for a blessing and delves into the power that ancient ideas hold in a disenchanted world.

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Love Without Limits: Jesus' Radical Vision for Love with No Exceptions

Our world feels more divided than ever. Polarization, racial violence, and inequity leave us asking, Is it even possible to heal? Award-winning author and theologian Jacqueline A. Bussie believes it is. In Love Without Limits, she challenges each of us to practice a love so deep, so radical, so capacious, it excludes no one.

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Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith

God's love for us breaks every boundary. So should our love for each other. Mihee Kim-Kort is a wife, a mom, and a Presbyterian minister....

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Prayers for Comfort and Encouragement

A thoughtfully illustrated collection of Bible passages, prayers, and poems, Prayers for Comfort and Encouragement offers solace and hope to those struggling with grief, illness, or a difficult season of life. This lovely book is the perfect gift for a friend or loved one in need.

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Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story

In Outlove, Julie Rodgers details her deeply personal journey from a life of self-denial in the name of faith to her role in leading the take-down of Exodus International, the largest ex-gay organization in the world, to her marriage to a woman at the Washington National Cathedral. Rodgers's story sheds light on the debate between Evangelical Christians and the LGBTQ community, ultimately casting a hopeful vision for how the church can heal.

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Jesus for Farmers and Fishers: Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System

Food producers in America are in the midst of one of the most severe farm crises of the last half-century. Yet we are largely unaware of the plight of those whose hands and hearts toil to sustain us. In Jesus for Farmers and Fishers, Gary Nabhan offers a fresh look at the parables of Jesus to bring us into a heart of compassion for those in the food economy hit by this crisis.

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