Lauren F. Winner
History & Biography
Foreword
“The point of hagiography is not blunt emulation—few of us will read A Heart Lost in Wonder, or indeed Hopkins himself, and take up writing verse. Rather, saints deepen our questions, and A Heart Lost in Wonder is a hagiography insofar as the experience of looking at Hopkins’s faithfulness moves us to ask about our own.”
Christian Living
“Ambition is a tensive topic for writers (and for women, and for Christians, and…). So this volume is not warm and cozy. Instead, it is stimulating, engaging, provoking, and by turns comforting and discomfiting. For anyone who lives, ambivalently, with desire and aspiration (and, really, isn't that everyone?), this should be required reading.”
An Introduction to the Desert Fathers
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“In this beautiful, informative, probing, and wise introduction to the spirituality of the desert, Byassee both immerses us in, and invites us to embrace, an older, sometimes alien, way of inhabiting our relationship with the triune God.”
World Religions
“When I put this wonderful and wise book down (having read it straight through), I felt an unusual feeling: stirred up, but contemplatively so. Chapters of the Heart is for anyone who wants to find the holy in the ordinary, for anyone who wants to read the sacred texts of her own life with more attentiveness, more generosity, and more curiosity.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Deep, stirring, luminous, even profound — if you are going to read one book about reading Scripture, it should be this one.”
Christian Living
“This book is beautiful, learned and wise. It will make you think, and it will make you want to say 'amen'—and, more important, it will enable you more fully to live as a body.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“What a rich devotional! Scripture—beribboned with trenchant questions, goading insights, invitations to sit, to pray, to write. Invitations to read Zora Neale Hurston and W. H. Auden. Yes, please!”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“What a rich devotional! Scripture—beribboned with trenchant questions, goading insights, invitations to sit, to pray, to write. Invitations to read Zora Neale Hurston and W. H. Auden. Yes, please!”
How Postmodernism Serves (My) Faith
Philosophy
“I never thought I'd describe a book about po-mo theory as exciting--but this book is. Crystal Downing not only explains where postmodern theory came from and what its aims are but, more important, shows how postmodern theory can help articulate a Christianity free from modernist assumptions. This is the single most helpful introduction to postmodernism I've read.”
“Protestants looking for a richer, thicker, more robust and enchanted way of living into the Christian story should not ignore this invitation into the rhythms and cadences of Benedictine spirituality. Indeed, only one kind of person should avoid this book: the reader who does not wish to be changed.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Living the Lord's Prayer is not, actually, about only the Lord's Prayer—it is about how we conceive of God, and what happens when we encounter God. Many of us have repeated the Lord's Prayer so often that we have ceased to notice what we're saying. Albert Haase's insights and reflections will help you not just understand the Lord's Prayer more deeply; this book will also help you pray those words that Jesus taught with more attentiveness.”
Christian Living
“God is love.’ ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ I want to embrace these biblical dicta, but so often I hear them as clichés. In a way equaled only by C. S. Lewis’s The Four Loves, Jacqueline Bussie’s dilation of love wakes me up so that I might see, practice, and receive love. In this moment when so many of us find it hard to love the neighbor with whom we disagree, Bussie’s work seems especially urgent.”
Christian Living
“Just one week into living with Make a List, I can already tell that this small book, which both invites me into a new practice and reframes one of my existing daily habits as a spiritual practice, will be life-giving and edifying.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“With this book, Isaac Villegas has taught me how to think theologically about migration, and how to think alongside migration about God. In so doing, he has transformed my understanding of Christian spirituality and of the practices that constitute Christian life.”
“This book is both practical and political, earthy and spiritual. It will help you think about not only your death. but also your life, with fearlessness and clarity.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Praying with beads has been a terrifically important practice to me over the last few years. How thrilled I am to discover Nan Doerr and Virginia Stem Owens’s wonderful introduction to this age-old practice. I know this book will shape my own devotional life, and I am excited about the many people who will discover prayer beads through these pages.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Praying with beads has been a terrifically important practice to me over the last few years. How thrilled I am to discover Nan Doerr and Virginia Stem Owens's wonderful introduction to this age-old practice. I know this book will shape my own devotional life, and I am excited about the many people who will discover prayer beads through these pages.”
Christian Living
“I have already read this book seven times. It’s about pursuing the present over the perfect—but it is nonetheless a nearly perfect thing, a nearly perfect book. Shauna speaks exactly to my condition.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In her brilliant exploration of the politics of the ecclesial calendar, Jennifer M. McBride shows us the different invitations each church season poses to those who would follow Jesus, and the different truths each season teaches about what following Jesus entails. McBride has named writing this book as an act of worship; in a way, reading it might be an act of worship, too.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Here, we have prose that snaps, practical suggestions coupled with deep wisdom, spirituality connected to politics, and, finally, not just an invitation to a single practice called Sabbath-keeping, but rather an invitation to a more faithful way of life.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
World Religions
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