John A. Nunes

Broken Hallelujahs

Church Leadership & Ministry

“In a world like ours, brokenness lurks within everything that’s beautiful. But since it’s a God-created world, in everything that’s broken, something beautiful can be revealed. With riveting and raw storytelling, Neal Anthony traces the hand of God’s love amidst psychic pain, alcoholic rages, tribalistic identitarianism, prairie tedium, dissolute lust, and, frankly, the manure of ministry.”

The Quiet Ambition

Christian Living

“Numerous resources help people build back their faith when broken by failure. Ryan P. Tinetti tackles an opposite crisis: how achievement can also break church workers, especially as we lionize leaders with a celebrity-like limelight. A veritable overachiever himself, Tinetti is well-qualified to address success's meretricious traps. Self-effacingly confessing his own fumbles and stumbles, Tinetti offers biblically anchored insights from an ecumenical array of theological thinkers, spiritual writers, and cultural observers. Tinetti's insights refresh the Christian tradition with practical wisdom.”

These Words We Speak

Theology

“Like many others, I've long been disturbed by the multifarious ways US Lutheranism seems riddled with divisions--sometimes confessional, often cantankerous, always unfortunate. Whether addressing differing interpretations of doctrinal content, biblical authority, or divine intent, my former student Matthew Borrasso teaches all with ears to hear. For the church to enjoy a more robustly unified, evangelical-catholic future, we need to know what lurks beneath the breach.”