E. Byron Anderson

Celebrating The 12 Days of Christmas

Preaching & Worship

“Chris Marchand’s Celebrating The 12 Days of Christmas is both inviting, challenging, and necessary. He helps us think critically about our Christmas traditions, offers gentle correction to some of our misconceptions, and proposes both new and old ways in which families and congregations might more fully celebrate the season.”

Engraved Upon the Heart

Preaching & Worship

“Moon ably demonstrates that we all come to Christian faith as children in Christ and as members of a covenant community. This theological foundation enables him to not only challenge the continuing separation of persons by age or cognitive ability into the separate worshiping communities, so prominent in Korean and Korean-American congregations, but also, and more importantly, to demonstrate the formative importance of the church's worship and sacramental life as intergenerational events.”

Mystery Manifest

Theology

“Praise for Mystery Manifest As I have come to expect of Gail Ramshaw’s writing, her use of language in Mystery Manifest is both graceful and provocative: graceful in her steady exploration of image and word; provocative in the many questions she poses but does not answer throughout the book. She gently but persistently presses us—and press she does—to a deeper reading of scripture, fuller engagement with its varied figures of speech, and humble awareness of the inadequacy of all language in describing who God is for us.”

Prophetic Liturgy

Preaching & Worship

“Tercio Junker's Prophetic Liturgy is a liturgical theology for the 99 percent, showing us how Christian worship both envisions a transformed world and gives us the means by which to participate in that transformation. While wide-ranging in his approach, Junker remains true to his own Methodist heritage, demonstrating not only how Christian worship can lead Christian communities to social holiness but why it must do so.”

Teaching That Transforms

Discipleship & Christian Education

“This is an important book! With a generous spirit and discerning eye, Murphy unmasks the ways in which the biblical and theological context of Christian education has been co-opted, on the one hand, by a focus on learning experiences and, on the other hand, by modernity's understanding of what it means to be human. She summons Christian education back to its integral relationship with Christian worship, drawing it out of the church basement and into the sanctuary where Christian persons and communities are most regularly formed and where the content of Christian formation -- Bible and Theology -- are 'practiced' by the church. Murphy's critique of contemporary religious education theory is provocative; her interpretation of the 'lessons' of the liturgy are prophetic. I will be recommending it to my colleagues in Christian education and liturgical studies alike.”

Worship at a Crossroads

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Quivik provides an honest, searching, and at times painful look at attitudes toward worship in the context of theological education, particularly in mainline Protestant seminaries. Many who teach and lead worship in these contexts will find her story familiar. Yet, in telling her particular story, Quivik invites others to undertake new conversations, to find new ways of hearing the diverse voices in our communities, and to the possibility for transformation.”