Barbara Brown Taylor
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Enter the Bible through any of the fifty-two doors in this new abecedary by Anna Carter Florence, who will show you how much there is to gain from starting small and staying put with a few verses for a while. Whether her topic is an ax, a yak, or the queen of Sheba, she can sound as surprised as her reader to find how much is left to discover in a book we thought we already knew.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Frank Wade has spent a lifetime with the foundational stories of Scripture, which makes him an agile guide to the cracks that open up at these deep layers of the Bible. Whether fracking strikes you as a good thing or a bad thing, here is a book that will open your mind.”
Christianity for the Rest of Us
Church Leadership & Ministry
“This book is so full of good news that I keep it next to my Bible. With her clear vision of congregational transformation and her ability to read the signs of the times, Diana Butler Bass is the soft-spoken prophet many of us have been waiting for. What is more, she assures us that what we hope for is already underway. Anyone looking for a flourishing church will find one in these pages, along with concrete practices for renewing the congregations we know best.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Carl McColman's first gift is his commitment to write about things that matter. His second gift is his ability to write about them with clarity and warmth, enticing his readers to go places with him that we might otherwise not have gone. He leads us to the brink of lessons no book can teach, then frees us to go forward to learn them, trusting the God who meets us at every step of the unknown way.”
Christian Living
“Donald McKim may not sound like a rebel, but he is one. While other Christian writers woo readers by asking less of us, he asks more: more engagement with history, more clarity of thought, more commitment to loving God with our whole minds as well as our whole hearts and souls. Above all, he trusts we are up to the challenge of seeking deeper understanding of the faith that is in us and kindly leads the way.”
How to Read the Bible Without Losing Your Mind
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“If you have been looking for a trustworthy guide to reading the Bible with an engaged heart and an open mind, you have found it. In this book, Kent Blevins does what the best teachers always do--he reminds us that growing in wisdom has less to do with discovering the right answers than it does with asking the right questions, and then putting that wisdom to work in ways that matter.”
If You Don't Like the Possum, Enjoy the Sweet Potatoes
Christian Living
“This book is proof that John Hayes is far more interested in saying something true than in saying something agreeable. If you have ever worried about the way your toenails look as you get older-or about how to live with integrity in a world full of scoundrels and a few good friends-you will find companionship in this volume. What sets it apart from others in its genre is Hayes's aversion to sentiment and cliche. Every page of this book is as tart as a pickle.”
Christian Living
“This new constellation of early Christian scriptures adds brilliant facets to the diamond of divine revelation, waking up those of us who thought we knew it all. Here is a room full of forgotten stories about what it once meant to follow Jesus. Some are so strange that they tell me what a stranger I have become to my own faith. Others are so compelling that they refresh my sense of what this faith asks of me.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“If you’re tired of predictable prose from cautious Christian writers, check out Liz Charlotte Grant’s theopoetic work. It’s wonderful to read someone who knows what language can do when it’s let off the leash.”
Christian Living
“This book touched me as few do, which I take as proof that the author is in cahoots with the Spirit. Charleston is a spiritual medic who has given himself to a life of healing, and you will want to share his medicine with everyone you know.”
History & Biography
“When I pick up a memoir, it is not because I am hungry to learn the details of another person’s life (although that sometimes helps, especially if the person turns out to be as irregular as I am). I pick up a memoir because I want to learn how other people come to their senses, learning to live the lives they have been given instead of the lives they might have planned. If they happen to write truthfully, with generosity and humor, then I also hope those virtues will rub off on me. Calvin Miller’s book fills my cup. You can read him for the great stories he tells or read him for the great soul he is. Either way, he will show you the art of brinkmanship, inviting you to join him at the unsafe edges of human life where true joy is found.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“At the moment, I cannot think of a better tonic for the spirit than this new collection from Sojourners, which has been in the business of encouragement for as long as some of us have been alive. Whether you are ready for refreshment from some of your favorite authors or on the lookout for new sources of inspiration, you will find them here.”
Living the Questions of the Bible
Christian Living
“Luke Powery has been a pastor long enough to understand that the human journey into God is fueled by lasting questions, not final answers. By choosing instead to explore what we most need to ask, Powery invites us into the kind of holy uncertainty that keeps faith supple and keeps people of faith talking to one another late into the night. At his most daring, he insists it is our questions, not our answers, that make us like God.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“I cannot think of another book on making peace with the earth that does so much in so few pages--grounding its case with theological care, describing the causes of 'ecological amnesia' so clearly that they are impossible to disown and offering a vision of practical response that appeals to hope instead of guilt, and all of this while telling stories that make the book difficult to put down! Here is a book for anyone who is ready to trade ecological despair for practical action, in the company of two men who know what it means to be 'married to the land.'”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“The best translations of spiritual classics are not those that sound familiar but those that strike the ear in a whole new way, because they offer proof that the teachings are still alive and evolving in our own day. Whether you love the teachings of Brother Lawrence or have never encountered them before, you can trust Carmen Acevedo Butcher to offer you a fresh hearing that is in tune with the lives we are living right now.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Clergy who read this book will wonder how Jim Dittes knows all about them without ever having met them. Congregations who read it may better understand the moodiness of their clergy. By telling the truth about the guaranteed griefs of parish ministry, Dittes seems to be describing a vocation gone wrong. Instead, he makes a case for how right it is to yield to a calling that will bring pain to the soul. This is rock-bottom good news for all who have done just that and ample reason for others to join them.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“If you do not recognize yourself in the first few pages of this compelling, sage, and down-to-earth book, trust me: Rademacher is going to call your name before she is through. I cannot think of another book that makes a better case for wedding faithful activism to equally faithful rest.”
Christian Living
“Even those with no dirt under their fingernails may find comfort and challenge in this testament to the resilience of divine life.”
“Brian McLaren has written a great many life-changing books, but this may be the most significant. He uses a new voice here to describe his own life-changing voyage. I found myself reading him in a whisper, if such a thing is possible, for fear of interrupting the flow of his gorgeous, intimate, and brilliant prose. My only caveat is this: do not read this book unless you are ready for your life to change too, for you will never see your place in the universe the same way again.”
Preaching & Worship
“This is the book I have been waiting for—to give to seekers who are wary of pious language, to believers who have dozed off in their pews, to pastors who want to know how to speak in fresh ways of old truths, to anyone who asks me why I am still Christian. This is the book I have been waiting to give, but it is also the book I have been waiting to read. In it, Nora Gallagher does just what holy communion does: she folds sacred life and ordinary life together like a sandwich, holding it out to me so that I suddenly remember how hungry I am. There is not a trite or phony word in this book. It is full of real people, real life, real food—and above all a real Jesus, who keeps dying and rising into this world God so loves.”
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Preaching & Worship
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