Dorothy C. Bass
Christian Theology in Practice
Theology
“In essays that portray major turns in practical theology's recent past and provide cutting-edge analysis of its current state, Miller-McLemore lays the groundwork for ongoing work in this dynamic field. Christian Theology in Practice is essential reading for practical theologians -- and for their colleagues across the theological curriculum.”
Eckhart Tolle’s Hall of Mirrors
World Religions
“Steven Heymans gives serious consideration to Tolle's highly popular understanding of the nature and purpose of human existence--and shows that this understanding obscures the realities of human experience and distorts the actual conditions of human flourishing. Drawing on close readings of Tolle, his forebear Plato, and key philosophers who challenge their assumptions, Heymans rejects Tolle's emphasis on detachment and transcendence. Instead, he crafts a persuasive invitation to embrace the embodied and storied, vulnerable and relational quality of the lives we actually live with one another, in all our particularity. This book brings rich philosophical analysis to matters of constant concern, including how to understand and address anxiety and affliction. Rarely do popular spiritualities undergo such thorough and much needed analysis.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Christians today struggle to live faithfully amid complexity, cultural pressures, and, often, isolation. Christian Scharen offers a brilliant analysis of why this is so — and also a vivid theological account of the way of abundant life Christ promises and provides and a persuasive portrait of the difference pastoral leadership can make as persons and communities embrace that way. This book is both down-to-earth and immensely inspiring. I heartily recommend it to pastors and also to those who support and rely on them.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Charles Foster's ecclesial imagination, cultural insight, strategic savvy, and experience as an educator make him the best possible guide for congregational leaders committed to revitalizing Christian belief and practice in the twenty-first century. Congregations face no challenge more crucial than this one. This book will allow them to face the challenge with practical wisdom and well-founded hope.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“This book will help us to live with and care for children with greater understanding, compassion, and respect.”
Neighbor Love through Fearful Days
Christian Living
“Jason Mahn has done something both rare and relevant. He has written about our callings in medias res, where all of us always find ourselves. The fresh, retrospectively sculpted journal entries that chart his own halting and continuing efforts to live a 'summoned' life of Christian, loving responsibility in 'fearful days' of multiple pandemics include many other stories as well. This book captures the vocabulary of vocation as well as any book we know.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Resurrecting Excellence provides a profoundly moving picture of what it means to be a Christian and a pastor today. Greg Jones and Kevin Armstrong celebrate faithful ministry already taking place while boldly summoning the church to renew its efforts to call and support gifted pastors capable of leading Christian communities in practicing passionate service and witness in the world. This book bears wisdom and challenge for all who care about the church and seek to live as Christ's disciples.”
Teaching and Christian Imagination
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Imagine this, teachers, and experience it through reading this book: Set aside, for a moment, the fast pace and quantitative judgments that shape so much of contemporary education. Encounter biblical texts, poems, and works of art that help you to see what you do every day with new eyes. Hear down-to-earth stories from other teachers. Let your imagination of what it means to teach and to learn deepen and expand. Find renewal in the indispensable, beautiful, and difficult vocation to which God has called you.”
Teaching and Christian Practices
Discipleship & Christian Education
Foreword
“If you want to see great teaching in action, read this book. If you believe that college classes can be communities of learning where knowledge of self, others, and the world is sought in response to God’s call and the world’s need, read this book. If you yearn for pedagogical wisdom capable of sustaining resistance to consumerist and instrumentalist pressures on teaching and learning, read this book. . . . This excellent book is one of the best we have ever read on the subject of pedagogy. It is also one of the best we know on the subject of Christian practices.”
The Biblical Psalms in Christian Worship
Preaching & Worship
“Worshiping communities that accept John Witvliet's invitation to read, sing, pray, study, and share the Psalms more deliberately will find themselves on a path to deep formation in biblical faith. . . The rich array of helpful resources gathered here will equip worshiping communities to walk that path with attentiveness, creativity, and gratitude. An inspiring and informative book, especially for those who are called to lead congregations into the treasures of the Psalter as pastors, worship leaders, musicians, and educators.”
The Child in Christian Thought
Theology
“This pathbreaking book provides a superb account of Christian theologians' and leaders' views of children across the centuries. The authors combine urgent concern for the well-being of children with impressive knowledge of a wide range of thinkers and historical periods. The Child in Christian Thought will both awaken theologians to a heretofore neglected topic and provide those who care for children with a wealth of insights, images, warnings, and resources. I am grateful to have a book of historical theology of such great relevance, passion, and excellence—and especially to have it on this most important of topics.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“This beautifully written book is filled with love but devoid of sentimentality--richly affirming of grandparents while also challenging us to keep growing and learning as we seek to be helpful to today's children and their parents. Here you'll find renewal, inspiration, and genuine help as you respond to a beloved and important calling.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Earth-honoring ethicist Larry Rasmussen pours out a lifetime of environmental knowledge, prophetic witness, and personal experience. His letters will inspire the rising generation--and the older folks reading over their shoulders--to ever-bolder love for this precious biosphere, its unjustly divided inhabitants, and the Living Presence that sustains all things and summons us to responsibility.”
Christian Living
“Reading this engaging book, and pondering it alone or with others, can help each of us to hear and respond to God's calling, wherever we may be on life's journey.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“As Travis Scholl invites readers to join him in walking the labyrinth, he guides them not only along a spiraling path on the ground but also on a journey into the heart of Christian faith. Read and walk with him through these pages and discover new paths into Scripture and prayer.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
Marriage, Family & Relationships
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