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  • The Book of Nature: The Astonishing Beauty of God’s First Sacred Text

    The Book of Nature: The Astonishing Beauty of God’s First Sacred Text

    Before the sacred Scriptures were ever written, there was a much earlier text: The Book of Nature. Barbara Mahany invites us to discover an ancient theology that focuses on the text of God first revealed through creation--nature in all its kaleidoscopic turnings.

    9781506473512

    $27.99

  • My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick 

    My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick 

    We live in a world that is sick. Both literally sick, with chronic illness on the rise, and figuratively sick, facing ever increasing rates of burnout, disconnection, and disaster. Lyndsey Medford draws on her experience living with a rare autoimmune disease to offer the broader lessons we need to heal what ails us, individually and communally.

    9781506484310

    $26.99

  • Dear Revolutionaries: A Field Guide for a World beyond the Church

    Dear Revolutionaries: A Field Guide for a World beyond the Church

    In Dear Church, Lenny Duncan had a vision for a church that could reform itself into something new. Four years, an uprising, and a pandemic later, Lenny contends that we don't need a reformation--we need a revolution. Dear Revolutionaries gives readers the tools for spiritual community led by the people in a world beyond the church.

    9781506479064

    $17.99

  • Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter

    Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter

    The story of Harriet Tubman, freedom fighter, has been told countless times. This is not that story. In Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman, we meet Harriet, a deeply spiritual mystic who drew strength from Christian and African traditions. Just as Tubman's faith fueled an internal liberation that drove her in the fight for freedom, so can ours.

    9781506478333

    $25.99

  • In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit

    In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit

    A grandmother's theology carries wisdom strong enough for future generations. Theologian Yolanda Pierce builds an everyday womanist theology rooted in liberating scriptures and truths from Black women's lives in this paperback edition. It's time to get to know the God who has been showing up at the kitchen tables of Black women all along.

    9781506484662

    $18.99

  • Everyday Prayers for Families

    Everyday Prayers for Families

    This beautifully illustrated collection of prayers, poems, and Bible readings is perfect for families who want to grow in faith together. Use this book, and the heartwarming illustrations inside, for family devotions around the dinner table or at bedtime. Give it as a gift to new parents. Take a break from the harried pace of family life to reflect on the many blessings God has given us.

    9781506468112

    $14.99

  • What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman

    What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman

    Howard Thurman served as the spiritual godfather of the civil rights movement. What wisdom might he offer us today? Lerita Coleman Brown beckons everyday seekers and activists into a mentorship with Thurman and his mystical and liberating spirituality. Thurman's work enlivened an entire movement, and it may inspire us to authentic action today.

    9781506474656

    $26.99

  • Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible

    Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible

    In 1940, just before the Nazis banned him from publishing, Dietrich Bonhoeffer published this book of reflections on the Psalms. Now with an introduction by Walter Brueggemann and excerpts from the Psalms, this classic reveals the Psalms as essential to the life of the believer and offers wisdom for living today.

    9781506480190

    $15.99

  • Collisions of Earth and Sky: Connecting with Nature for Nourishment, Reflection, and Transformation

    Collisions of Earth and Sky: Connecting with Nature for Nourishment, Reflection, and Transformation

    Spending time in nature provides countless benefits. But our lives leave little room for connecting with the natural world, and a history of colonization complicates our relationship to the land. Guided by wellness coach Heidi Barr, this journey of self-inquiry calls you to embrace wildness as an integral part of being fully alive.

    9781506482545

    $25.99

  • Inkwell: Simple Writing Practices to Restore Your Soul

    Inkwell: Simple Writing Practices to Restore Your Soul

    Tired. Uninspired. Emotionally exhausted. Overwhelmed. Burned out. In a world where the pace seems to get faster and the problems seem intractable, more and more people feel they just can't go on as they have been doing. The truth is, we're much better at caring for our bodies than caring for our spirits. In Inkwell, writing instructor and professor Anne Whitney shows how writing can be a powerful tool for your spiritual self-care.

    9781506464794

    $16.99

  • Dimming the Day: Evening Meditations for Quiet Wonder

    Dimming the Day: Evening Meditations for Quiet Wonder

    The moon is out, the air has cooled, you are ready for bed. You know that scrolling on your phone does not draw you toward sleep. Power down your phone, take a breath, and begin to dim the day. Author Jennifer Grant offers gentle meditations that help you direct your gaze away from screens and toward the natural world. Replace anxiety with awe, distraction with focus, and worry with true rest.

    9781506471198

    $19.99

  • Beside Still Waters: Favorite Prayers, Poems, and Scriptures to Calm the Soul

    Beside Still Waters: Favorite Prayers, Poems, and Scriptures to Calm the Soul

    This small treasury is an essential source of wisdom, encouragement, and faith for every season.

    9781506459103

    $15.99

  • Brave: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Grief, Mercy, Folly, Joy, Sex, and Redemption

    Brave: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Grief, Mercy, Folly, Joy, Sex, and Redemption

    Following the success of Fierce, Alice Connor returns to introduce a new group of women from the Bible, some whose names we know, others who go unnamed. Connor invites us to see them not as players in a man's story, but as foremothers of the faith.

    Skillfully drawn by the author, these women's stories are challenging and beautiful. When we read their stories, we see not only their particular, formidable lives but also our own.

    9781506463964

    $18.99

  • Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

    Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

    Diana Oestreich served 407 days as a combat medic in Iraq. But when she was commanded to run over an Iraqi child to keep her battle buddies safe, she became a peacemaker instead. This beautiful and gut-wrenching memoir exposes the false divide between loving our country and living out our faith's call to love our enemies. By showing that us-versus-them is a false choice, this book will inspire us all to choose love over fear.

    9781506463704

    $24.99

  • Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--and What Comes Next

    Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--and What Comes Next

    Watching the eerie footage of the January 6 insurrection, Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left evangelicalism, would I have been there? Onishi, a religion scholar and former evangelical, crafts an engrossing historical account of the New Religious Right and of White Christian nationalism that is at once intimate, taut, and unsparing.

    9781506482163

    $28.99

  • Preaching to Those Walking Away

    Preaching to Those Walking Away

    Preaching to Those Walking Away explores approaches to preaching typically not taught in seminaries and that reach the spiritual but not religious. N. Graham Standish integrates insights from postmodernism, multiple-intelligences and marketing theories, spiritual formation, counseling, brain research, TED Talks, and other disciplines.

    9781506471716

    $21.99

  • Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith

    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....

    9781506408965

    $18.99

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

    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.

    $22.99

  • In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World

    In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World

    From master storyteller and host of On Being's Poetry Unbound, Pádraig Ó Tuama, comes an unforgettable spiritual memoir of peace and reconciliation, Celtic spirituality, belonging, and sexual identity. From the heart of a poet comes a profound look at the landscapes we all try to inhabit even as we always search for shelter, a place we can call home.

    9781506470528

    $19.99

  • Breath Prayer: An Ancient Practice for the Everyday Sacred

    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.

    9781506470672

    $19.99

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