Jim Wallis
A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“David Gushee is among the most important ethicists and theologians of our time. A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends: From Fear to Faith in Unsettled Times is an instant classic—a short book that persuasively cuts to the core of the most significant issues facing Christians in the United States today. I strongly recommend this book to anyone looking for a deeper understanding of our nation’s most contentious debates, and to all Christians who are seeking to square their feelings about this country with the tenets of their faith.”
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Christian Living
“With great honesty and insight, Don Miller issues a simple and profound challenge: live a better story. In A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Don opens up his life, struggles, triumphs, and insecurities and shows the reader how to do exactly that. The world is full of great challenges, terrible tragedies, and overwhelming joys—there is simply too much going on to be a part of a boring story. For anyone who knows that life should more than what we see on TV commercials and billboards, this is a book for you.”
Christian Living
“Kent Annan's writing is both reflective and purposeful. Searching for faith among the rubble of shattered homes and lives in Haiti, he lifts up lamentations of sorrow and stories of joy. This is a credible book for anyone who has ever wondered where God is in a world full of suffering.”
History & Biography
“For me and many others, the life and work of William Stringfellow were seminal in developing a biblical public theology. In what Anthony Dancer calls 'biographical theology,' this book lays out the social and political context that influenced and informed Stringfellow's theology of public discipleship. I commend it to anyone seeking for an authentic way of living faithfully, and enacting what Stringfellow called 'biblical politics.'”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This compelling, timely, tremendously important book is nothing less than the definitive origin story of the Religious Right. Balmer performs an essential service in definitively debunking the myth that the Religious Right was originally organized around opposition to abortion. The revealing and damning truth is that the Religious Right was initially organized in opposition to desegregating private Christian schools, which confirms that the Religious Right has always been racialized in its tactics and political aims. Their most recent embrace of Trumpism and all it represents is therefore the fruit of a poisonous tree of white supremacy and the Religious Right’s racial grievance politics nearly half a century in the making. You simply must read this book.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“As our society has become increasingly divided and polarized, one thing that has broken down is trust — both between individuals and between groups of people. One of the most trusted people in America, Martin Marty, persuasively suggests that the most promising way to change is by ‘building cultures of trust’ from the bottom up — from individuals to communities and beyond. With his characteristic depth and insight into American public life, this book is a vital resource for anyone who wishes to contribute to recovering a more ‘civil’ society and moral public discourse.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Tony Hall both understands and lives the application of faith to public life better than any other Member of Congress that I’ve known. From Ethiopia to Appalachia, he has demonstrated his deep commitment to changing the face of hunger. I highly commend this book to all who hunger for a new and more compassionate politics.”
Christianity for the Rest of Us
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Diana Butler Bass has debunked the myth that the only churches which are growing are Evangelical and Pentecostal. She finds life and renewal in the mainline churches--but it’s happening there for the same reasons as elsewhere: through a recovery of genuine faith and real spirituality. I recommend this well-researched and well-written book to all who care about the transformation of churches.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Taylor paints a vivid picture of the choice now facing us: Christ or antichrists (plural). As perilously present as our current crisis is, the core challenge is an old one: Gospel vs. empire. Power vs. love of neighbors and enemies, generous service, self-sacrifice, and solidarity with the least. Empires rise and fall, with great human cost, but the way of Jesus remains for us to follow. And we will.”
World Religions
“Harper is a gifted storyteller and one of the voices we need to listen to for America’s future. In telling the story of her ancestors and her personal story, she shows us a deeper way of understanding our nation’s difficult past and offers a way forward toward its diverse and equitable future.”
Rev.
“This is the most important book anyone can read about the future of the church. . . . Global Christianity is being transformed, from the bottom up, from South to North, and Wes Granberg-Michaelson understands how that will and should change the Western churches that will no longer be the dominant forces in the body of Christ. . . . From Times Square to Timbuktu shows all of us how we might overcome the church’s cultural conformity by letting the gospel transform our hearts, our minds, and even our societies. This book is a must-read for all who love the church, or are even interested in it.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“This is an extraordinary book–about the hopeful future of the global church and whether the American church wants to be part of that. It demonstrates that we are at a linchpin in Christian history. After hundreds of years of the church’s domination by white Western culture, the majority of Christians are now people of color in the global south. Their theology and lived faith is fundamentally different than the narcissistic American bubble of church that is less and less relevant to its society, gets less and less interest from young people, and has less and less members in its churches. But here is the good news, the global body of Christ is the most racially and culturally diverse human community on the face of the planet. And their Christian witness could literally transform the American churches if we were to listen to them. Wes Granberg-Michaelson offers us ten fundamental ways the global church could help save the American church.”
Rev.
How Change Comes to Your Church
Church Leadership & Ministry
“This book and its authors offer a wealth of wisdom and experience on what it takes to make a church, a community, and a denomination work. They highlight the intense hard work of cultivating and maintaining a community but show that true change comes from action-focused transformation. In formulating where we want our churches and our world to go, we must first reconsider the ways in which our communities need to reflect our truest beliefs and how to act on them. Wes Granberg-Michaelson and Pat Keifert offer a series of challenges that are at once inspiring, practical, provocative, actionable, and hopeful. This is a handbook for what is called the ‘missional church.’ It is a key resource for those pondering how they might actually put faith into action and contribute to communities that are radically transforming the world.”
Theology
“Ron Sider has long been an authoritative, faithful, and prophetic voice on issues of Christian faithfulness. If Jesus Is Lord creates a timely and compelling challenge to all Christians. His explication of Christian nonviolence, for both individuals and society, is one of the strongest I have seen and draws a clear picture of what it means to truly follow Jesus’s beatitude ‘blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.’ To live this, one of the most fundamental teachings of Jesus, is central to what it means to believe and follow Christ in our time.”
History & Biography
“Nicholas Wolterstorff has contributed so much over the course of his life, and this memoir, told with incredible grace, humility, and charm, gives us a fascinating look at how his faith, theology, and commitment to justice have been shaped and put to use. Nick’s emphasis on learning and listening has blessed him with an incredible wealth of knowledge, from which we can all learn something that will in turn deepen our own faith, understanding, and love for the world in which we live. His is a life worth reading about, and he is someone I deeply admire.”
Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me
History & Biography
“Ian Cron walks us through the drama of his life, making us laugh and cry with him every step of the way. His memoir is filled with everything from boyhood stories of celebrating communion in the woods with chipmunks and blue jays, to poignant reflections about growing up with an alcoholic father. Ian’s honesty, vulnerability, and humor will bring a measure of healing to all who go on the journey with him.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Thirty years ago, Ron Sider prophetically challenged the evangelical world with Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger. Now he raises the bar with a new challenge: to develop a holistic, biblically grounded political philosophy. If you’re wondering what it means to say Christ is Lord of our political life, Sider has, as always, credible and compelling answers. This book again establishes why Ron Sider is one of our most important public theologians.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“I believe that you have to love your people enough to preach the gospel to them—honestly, courageously, and, yes, prophetically right now to the very times in which we live. Will Willimon believes that, too, and says every pastor should lead by preaching. In these times, in particular, we need preachers who will preach the truth of Jesus Christ—all of it.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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