Jill Crainshaw

Embodied Hope

Preaching & Worship

“With wisdom and energy, Miles proclaims hope. She also encourages us to live hope. Miles has woven together with brilliant insights the concepts of ‘embodied hope’ and ‘culturally induced despair.’ . . . These pages resound with the assertion that culturally induced despair does not have the final word. . . . Embodied Hope is an extraordinary gift to anyone who wants to proclaim hope by infusing our everyday words and actions with hope.”

Reading the Two Books of God

“Reading the Two Books of God is an extraordinary gift to religious leaders and others who seek to hear God through the words of ancient poets and prophets and through the whispers, thunders, and ‘wow’-inducing ordinariness of canyons, deserts, oceans, mountains, and neighborhood backyards. Each sermon invites readers to proclaim ‘glory’ and then head outdoors to experience that ‘glory’ with Scripture in their hearts and minds and the sacred dirt of God’s good earth under their feet.”

The Pink Robe Chronicles

Women

“With courage and intimate beauty, Dr. Sampson shares her story and weaves it into ever-widening circles of communal truth-telling. Her prophetic voice invites us not only to listen, but to imagine ourselves speaking, chronicling, and embodying liberation alongside her.”

Worship with Gladness

Preaching & Worship

“Invites readers to reflect on worship's deepest meanings, meanings that go beyond matters of worship style and cut across denominational lines. . . . Zimmerman challenges us to consider again how worship stirs up and renews our baptismal identities as people who long for encounters with our Creator and who seek to live Spirit-filled, gospel-shaped lives.”