Deanna A. Thompson

Always On

Christian Living

“Our increasingly digitized lives provide both profound brokenness and opportunities for our shared humanity to be diminished. However, they also provide glorious possibilities to be more present with those who suffer from the ills and injustices of the world. In this inspiring new work, Angela Gorrell offers a compelling Christian vision of the good life within the landscape of new media. Incisively attentive to malformed visions of the good life offered by various kinds of new media, Gorrell contrasts those visions with the life and ministry of Jesus in ways that equip and empower Christians to engage in intentional practices that align with Christ’s transformative and healing vision for a new social order. Gorrell demonstrates that the new media landscape is neither simply life-negating nor simply life-affirming and that it’s possible to nurture a Christian hybrid existence that reflects God’s nonviolent and compassionate love for creation today and into the future.”

Awe and Expectation

Theology

“Rather than relegating stewardship to a capital campaign or a special Sunday service, Jorgenson makes a compelling case for reclaiming a theology of stewardship that permeates Christian life. Rich with scriptural insight and sacramental wisdom, Jorgenson uncovers the awe and expectation at the heart of our lives as stewards--not just of money but of all of God's creation.”

Chance, Necessity, Love

Science & Faith

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Feminism and Christianity

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Riswold's talent as a teacher comes shining through as she confronts the suspicions Christians and feminists hold of one another, calling for appreciation of the complexity and diversity in both traditions. Rather than simply reviewing past interactions between Christianity and feminism, she boldly takes the conversation into the twenty-first century by engaging the pressing issues of race, ecology, sexuality, and interreligious understanding. A must-read for students, book groups, and scholars alike.”

Following

Christian Living

“Into this place the church is speaking through the real-time, ongoing conversation that is Following: Embodied Discipleship in a Digital Age. Jason Byassee and Andria Irwin speak into the space between digital utopians and digital skeptics, modeling biblically grounded, theologically informed wrestling with how the church and Christians live out our mission and vocations amid the current technological revolution. Affirming that Christian faith is an inherently mediated one, Byassee and Irwin provide pathways for us all to draw on some of the best resources of our tradition to live faithfully in the present moment.”

God Meets Us in Our Suffering

Christian Living

“This book is a gift, not just for those impacted by cancer but for all who suffer and try to know and love God in the midst of it all. Three Lutheran pastors—two brothers and one best friend—invite us into their journeys with cancer in order to tell the bigger story of God’s faithfulness to us and our faithfulness to God and to one another, even unto and beyond death. Beautiful, heartrending, hope-filled, and laugh-out-loud funny.”

Joyful Defiance

Christian Living

“Madsen speaks powerfully and inspirationally to lives upended by the coronavirus and current political and social upheaval, offering a master class in embodying joyful defiance amid all that threatens to undo us. Drawing from deep wells of Lutheran and liberation theologies as well as from the brutalizing grief of losing her husband and almost losing her young son in a 2004 car accident, Madsen testifies to the essential place of personal and communal lament within Christian life and practice. Learning from Madsen about not taking the beauty, grace, love, and joy for granted in our Holy Saturday existence is just the balm we need to face these uncertain days.”

Learning Theology

Theology

“Amos Yong’s newest work introduces students to theology through a Spirit-infused Wesleyan quadrilateral approach. Yong engages the sources of Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience in an accessible, conversational way that’s simultaneously grounded in sophisticated historical and theoretical work. While he offers a creative model for doing academic theology, Yong also demonstrates that theology is always a spiritual practice—whether it’s in the academy, the church, or one’s personal life. This book invites readers to become persons who live out the liberating faith made possible through Jesus Christ.”

Ordinary Blessings for the Christmas Season

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“These blessings honor the sacred moments of the season alongside the raw emotions that surprise and unnerve us, and they name the complicated beauty of our lives and loves that fills this time of year. Carlson's blessings make more visible God-with-us, Emmanuel, and unearth the holy wisdom found in honoring blessing in each day.”

Psalms

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Who is God? Who are we in light of God? Where is God in the midst of suffering, injustice, and trauma? What does it mean to be a people whose lives take the form of interrogation, lament, and praise of the One who creates and redeems the world? This fresh, incisive commentary invites readers into the question-laden lyrical world of the Psalms, not only mining centuries of theological engagement with the Psalter and its impact on Christian liturgies, worship, and doctrine but also modeling how and why Jewish perspectives on this shared Scripture are theologically necessary for Christian engagement today. Through wide-ranging conversation with theologians, biblical scholars, musicians, activists, and more, this commentary creates a compelling case for Christians continuing to sing and pray the Psalms today, illustrating how to serve as a mirror and a lamp in deepening our relationship to God, to one another, and to the precarious and breathtaking world in which we live.”

Recovering Protestantism’s Original Insight

Theology

“Here Paul Capetz makes a provocative argument about untapped resources of the Protestant Reformation and how they can be utilized by contemporary Christians to transcend trenchant liberal/conservative divides in order to proclaim the gospel. Returning to Luther’s original insight that proclamation of the gospel is not synonymous with proclaiming Scripture, Capetz demonstrates, can counter anti-intellectual tendencies in contemporary American Christianity and speak in more compelling ways to the issues of our day.”

Songs in My Head

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Post's eloquent journal entries from her year with cancer will no doubt become traveling companions for others navigating similar terrain, for she offers clues on how the soundtrack of our lives--the ballads, the psalms, the liturgies, the hymns, even songs of praise--help make it more possible to face life's awfulness as well as its moments of grace.”

The End Is the Beginning

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Rev. Fleming invites readers into Revelation by beginning with the ending, the promise that God is building a new heaven and a new earth, a place beyond all suffering and sorrow. Weaving his own story and stories of our current context together with stories from Revelation, Fleming illustrates how knowing the ending shapes all that comes before it, especially in terms of taking on the beasts, the monsters, and the dragons that try to thwart God's promised vision to which we all ultimately belong.”