Karen An-hwei Lee

Academically Speaking

History & Biography

“With a historian’s eye for seasons of change, Academically Speaking is a reflective memoir about Rick Ostrander’s three decades in a network of faith-based colleges and their consortium partners. From the cadence of bike riding to his wife Lonnie’s music lessons, Ostrander is a relational storyteller who values the spiritual formation of students in authentic community. A scholar and traditionalist at heart—yet futuristic and visionary in his optimism—Ostrander is one of our most important cultural translators and advocates for Christian higher education in the twenty-first century.”

Cultivating Mentors

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Cultivating Mentors illustrates multiple ways to establish a healthy ecosystem for relational mentoring in an increasingly diverse academic landscape. With a focus on faculty flourishing and student success in the contexts of rapidly changing academic and professional environments, this timely volume directs educators to practical tools for cultivating faith and vocational discernment in tandem with fostering a powerful sense of faith-based community on their university campuses.”

Ending Human Trafficking

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“A guide for church organizations and the Christian academy, this powerful handbook sets forth well-informed strategies for community-wide partnerships in the fight against modern slavery. Ending Human Trafficking includes first-person stories, interviews, and action-step questions to help readers study the issues, understand the ethical concerns at stake, and identify their own appropriate roles in a community-wide model of collaboration. This timely book is a must-read for Christian educators and church leaders who aim to partner with licensed, trained sectors of society—such as law enforcement—with the goal of empowering each survivor's personal dignity.”

Full Worm Moon

Arts & Literature

“In a lyric voice infused with Julie L. Moore’s own enduring faith, this collection mines the ruins of a longtime marriage and a woman’s solo journey towards restoration. These marvelous poems return to the locus of changing seasons, marital strife, and love—in the darkness of the fallibly human overturned by the eternal brightness of the divine. . . Here is a remarkable book, in all its graceful beauty and savagery, to savor one syllable at a time: ‘Dusk lifts the light from view/I know this first-hand/then hides it like a key beneath a stone.’”

Heart Fiat

Arts & Literature

“Desmond Kon’s Heart Fiat displays his signature grace and erudition at its best. The truth shimmers on these pages with an “eternal echo” in praise of Christ, the giver of all good gifts, and ultimately, our salvation.”

Madonna, Complex

Arts & Literature

“Celebrating the mineral wonder of blood and miracle waters of birth, Fueston portrays the lives of women splayed by transfiguration, blinded by light ‘as we are caught / and reeled, held taut in the sweetening air.’ Hymns of quiet awe, Fueston’s contemporary psalms sing in the cityscapes of Istanbul to the high desert of Taos, flaming with savage beauty and holy desire.”

The Hope of the Gospel

Discipleship & Christian Education

“The Hope of the Gospel by Mark S. Young invites our next generation of theological educators to carve out a process of transformation within our institutions, a movement of intellectual spiritual renewal he characterizes as ‘orthodoxy on fire.’ Young encourages us to create hope-infused spaces for institutional growth and change beyond the status quo of American evangelicalism and highlights the urgent need to articulate a meaningful public theology. By calling for a renewed vision of theological education, Young challenges us to examine our prevailing values and assumptions to embrace more fully God’s redemptive mission for the church and society. Asking us to recalibrate our historical narratives and inherited frameworks, Young’s book is a highly relevant, insightful, and timely read for current and future generations of theological educators.”

Winds of Santa Ana

“Narrated with the salty wisdom of a storytelling sailor and the seasoned eye of a historian, Winds of Santa Ana offers an abundance of riches for the reader. With a revitalizing, evangelical consciousness—distinctively Californian and dynamically erudite—Kennedy’s journey as a sailor-scholar aboard his beloved boat, Boethius, is a hopeful consolation for our generation, and a good reminder of our theological roots. This book is both timely and delightful.”