Frederick W. Schmidt

Cancer Is Funny

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Some authors impose order and hidden blessing on suffering at a distance from the experience, unmoved by its weight. Others surrender to it with thinly veiled fatalism. Stripped of artifice and excuse, Jason Micheli invites us to plumb its depths with telling honesty, where we discover a God whose enemy is misery, whose pain is forever joined to ours, and whose name is hope.”

Evangelical Zen, Second Edition

World Religions

“In a world of what they call ‘gated affinity groups,’ Paul Louis Metzger, an evangelical theologian, and Kyogen Carlson, a Zen Buddhist priest, enter into a dialogue about their understandings of God, reality, culture, religion, and the world around them. Read this book, not just for the insights it offers, but the way in which it models the kind of conversation our world desperately needs.”

Palliare

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Chaplains often live 24-7 at the hard edges of life. Recognizing the potential for an experience of the holy in the midst of the mundane and tattered places in life is another matter. In a series of powerful vignettes, Marci Pounders explores that potential. These stories can be explored for inspiration and mined for hope.”

Stewards of God’s Delight

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Stewards of God's Delight offers the church a vision of God's work that is enchanted by the triune God, in conversation with lost portions of the Christian tradition, and engaged with the needs of the world. Mark Clavier's inspirational work delivers the delight that its title promises and invites the reader to live out of God's generosity in new and life-giving ways. Read it for inspiration, vision, and a renewed sense of calling.”