Debbie Blue
Christian Living
“Mark Stenberg is a brilliant theologian. In 51% Christian he makes some of the most graceful and beautiful theology you could ever imagine extremely accessible without sacrificing depth and complexity. There is nothing bland or trite here. He fills me with hope. He is also hilarious. You have found a treasure here. Enjoy.”
Women
“Alice Connor is so friendly, funny, and adept at making biblical scholarship accessible. Reading it felt more like taking a long walk with a wise woman than undertaking some gnarly challenge to overturn centuries of male-centric commentary. And yet she gracefully does some immensely valuable overturning. Connor writes as a pastor with a clear heart for those longing for a spark of freedom to become more fully themselves.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Centered-Set Church is an immensely practical book brimming with eloquent theology and a lively hope in the loving spirit of Christ active in the world. It's not often that you find the practical and the lyrically beautiful so entwined. Baker embodies the traits he suggests the church needs to embrace to maintain a centered approach. Though clear about his vision, he presents his case with humility and vulnerability—something you don't often find in church manuals. I wish I'd had this book when I planted a church years ago. I highly recommend it to anyone involved in Christian community—church planters, lay leaders, and anyone who longs to glimpse the gracious love at the center of Christian faith.”
Women
“Defiant is a profoundly hopeful and deeply inspirational exploration of the extraordinary women in Exodus as well as the brave, imaginative, justice-seeking, coalition-building, truth-speaking women and girls of today. Nikondeha has given us a great gift to help us through these troubled times.”
Fiction
“If you have never met the characters in the Bible or if you have read about them a thousand times, I promise you will be drawn into Roberts’ vivid, engaging, and artfully troubling retellings with deft insight and good humor. Read this book to ignite your imagination.”
Philosophy
“At a time when the church is in the midst of transition, Roberts calls out the passionate, ironic, scathing, beautiful voice of Kierkegaard to help us imagine faithful ecclesiological alternatives. It's a brilliant move--hopeful, generative, insightful, and instructive.”
Christian Living
“Even if you don't trade your car for a bike (which you might), reading this book will help you cultivate an awareness that the presence of God is among us—not just in the bright shiny moments but on the pavement, in the mundane, the gritty and the fragile. This intelligent, witty, and thoroughly engaging book will help you remember to practice seeing. Everett is a wise teacher. This is a wonderful book.”
Christian Living
“We need Alice Connor's calm, vulnerable wisdom to help us cross the deep chasms that are tearing our world apart--to learn to be curious about those we disagree with, to take them seriously, to listen intently.”
Women
“"This book lovingly messes with the basic narrative of evangelical experience. Instead of the usual before and after testimonies, we get to hear interesting, funny, wild, and sweet stories of real women with bodies and un-conforming minds--women who slink and slide through the muck; free to raise their hands (or not) in worship, free to rethink what "Holy" even means. If you grew up in the evangelical subculture, you should read these stories. They'll make you wince and smile. They'll make you hopeful about the grace of God.”
Work, Money & Leadership
“Not only does Snyder reenvision a theology of vocation that fits with our present ways of working; he gives life to a way of doing theology that involves listening to people's stories with openness and humility. I love the room Snyder leaves to say, 'I don't know.' I love his suggestion that theology needs to learn the art of improvisation. Lived Vocation inspires the reader to author their own narrative rather than submit to scripts imposed from the top down. A compelling and excellent read.”
Arts & Literature
“The psalms are strange and beautiful old prayers. Gray knows them intimately. She inhabits them fully--and with her own fine skills as a poet, resurrects them in language a 21st century person might use to pray. This is a book to be savored and cherished by anyone looking for new life in Scripture and by anyone struggling to pray.”
Christian Living
“Wow. A beatnik Tolstoy who makes 'overcoming temptation' seem like a potentially playful enterprise. This book is full of examples of how a community might embody faith. It's immensely practical and inspiring.”
Theology
“Without glossing over criticism of Barth from both the left and right, Boesel brilliantly captures the particular beauty of Barth’s theology—that enormously spacious YES. This is an excellent, thorough, surprisingly enjoyable, and even occasionally humorous read. I highly recommend it for students, pastors, and the general reader who wants to be reminded of (or hear for the first time) Barth’s enduringly provocative and inspiring work.”
Christian Living
“Room to Grow takes on the difficult, daily, and most important stuff of our lives — love, grief, losing our memories, saying good-bye — with tremendous grace, wit, and wisdom. Reading it made me feel hopeful for the possibility of small and significant transformation. I highly recommend this book for pastors and anyone who is trying to live like a Christian.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Advent is often a time filled with attempts to be holly and jolly, making cookies and shopping. With this book, Kelley Nikondeha rescues the season from the saccharine and oversimplified to give us hope--a hope that absolutely has to do with our present day, challenging us to engage in the slow and beautiful process the incarnation set in motion: the disarming practice of restorative justice, peace, and compassion. The author deftly weaves enlightening historical material concerning the political and economic landscape Jesus was born into with moving and beautifully written accounts of her own contemporary experiences among fascinating characters in the Holy Land and beyond. It is a pleasure to read, a call to attention, and a much needed reimagining of what Advent can be.”
The Great Wall of China and the Salton Sea
“Because Russell Rathbun clearly loves the human race even as he hilariously unravels tales of our folly, you'll come out of this book feeling more hopeful than you thought possible in the throes of environmental crisis and the reign of the machine. In Rathbun's deft and observant meditations, mercy always wins.”
Christian Living
“I loved reading all these wise, honest, and funny people writing about eating--the conundrums and efforts and delights involved in our relationship to food, and God, and God-as-food. It's a beautiful and inspiring collection of essays. I've been praying and eating better since reading it.”
Why Christians Should Be Leftists
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“To love one’s neighbor as oneself, to trust mercy, to reject idolatry, to know oneself as a sinner in need of grace: this is the path of a Christian. In Why Christians Should Be Leftists, Phil Christman convincingly argues—sometimes with great gentleness and reason, sometimes with passion and irascible wit—that if you take the Sermon on the Mount seriously, that path should veer left. Beautifully written, rich with history, humor, and compassion, this book is a joy to read. I can’t imagine a more urgently important book for Christians—or anyone interested in religion, politics, human beings, or the planet—to read at this time in the life of the world.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
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