Barbara Brown Taylor

Women

“With characteristic wit and spitfire, Joan Chittister tells the story of Ruth for anyone challenged by loss, change, aging, or invisibility. Basing her reflections on the lives of two marginal biblical women, she reveals their central roles as mothers of faith and dares all their descendants ? both daughters and sons ? to follow their lead.”

The World of the Parables

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“One of the biggest temptations for a lover of Jesus’s parables is to make them all about us—postmodern human beings living in a world so different from his that it’s easy to make him more like us instead of the other way around. Alan Culpepper’s new book offers a way around this problem. By walking us through the most relevant realities of Jesus’s day, Culpepper opens familiar texts to fresh readings, reminding us that good scholarship isn’t just a hedge against misinterpretation; it’s also a door to new revelation.”

To Begin at the Beginning

Christian Living

“Copenhaver has done a bold thing well. Working patiently with the formidable bulk of Christian faith and thought, he has untangled its denser matters and smoothed them out.”

Unteachable Lessons

Christian Living

“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. In this book 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 on the unknown way.”

Wake Up Running

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Take a deep breath before you begin this book, and expect to burn some calories while you read it, because Walter Fluker is counting on you to keep up. Like the sower in Jesus's famous parable, he has a bag full of good seed that he flings with gracious abandon. There is shamanic storytelling in one handful and broad scholarship in the next; stirring hymnody in one swing of his arm and taut prophecy in the next. Fluker won't calm down and he won't be contained--which is what he asks of his readers as well--because his mission is too urgent: to seed the field with new, nonlinear leaders of faith who are willing to make a way out of no way at the crossroads of madness and hope.”