Lore Ferguson Wilbert
Biography
Lore Ferguson Wilbert wrote A Curious Faith and The Understory, and provided the foreword to Get Over Here.
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Preaching & Worship
“Taylor has curated the story of the body throughout church history in a clear, concise, and compelling way. This book is for both lay leaders and the academic, with rigorous research that gives both a macro- and microperspective on what it means to live as bodies in a world aching for the redemption of all things. The collective minds and hearts of Christians need this book as we learn and relearn what the body has known all along.”
Christian Living
“A spacious life is an integrated life, and Ashley Hales has woven together the forms an integrated life takes. From the physical to the spiritual to the emotional to the intellectual, Ashley intersects all the aspects of our humanness, our limitations, to show us how submitting to the skin in which we live can lead us to greener pastures than we imagined.”
Children & Youth
“Jasmine Holmes dusts off the lives of ten Black women in history, placing their contributions to the world and the Church squarely in our current climate and circumstances. I was convicted, comforted, and challenged by Jasmine’s strong, wise, and informed voice. Carved in Ebony is a treasure that belongs on every shelf of American history.”
Christian Living
“Trillia Newbell, one of the most joy-filled people I know, bares her struggles with fear and the well-worn path she's found to faith. As a chronic fearer, I was much encouraged by Fear and Faith.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Direct questions are the way to an Enneagram Nine's soul. That doesn't mean they make us comfortable or we necessarily enjoy them, it just means we need them to get to the soul of who we are, what our motivations are, and how to grow. In Forty Days on Being a Nine, Marlena Graves gives us exactly what we need by both revealing her own Nine-ish characteristics and then probing with gentle questions until we can both name our motivations and see past the stagnancy of our sloth to the path of action. I need books like this in my life on a regular basis to keep me continually asking inward questions so I can look outward in all of life.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“How do you cultivate a theology of place when the place you practice theology keeps changing? It's a question I ask often because I have spent my adult life living in almost a dozen different states. When asked, I am never from around here. Brandon O'Brien has captured this sense of alien homelessness in an acute way as he moves his readers through his transient life in the country, the suburbs, a small city, and an urban place. He gives his readers some handrails to hold onto in an ever-changing terrain, and reminds us where our true home really is.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“With impeccable research and long-lived experience, Daniel Reinhardt is winsome in his words about policing and peace. No matter where you land on issues of policing, systemic racism, justice, and the way to peace, there is something to learn in Rethinking the Police. Part confessional and part plea, Reinhardt's book refuses to demonize any one entity and puts forth a realistic pathway to reform in our communities and world.”
Christian Living
“It takes a special kind of courage to face ourselves and see what truly is instead of what we’ve pretended to be or had to be or others believe us to be. Aimee Byrd has that courage, and Saving Face is the result of this deeply personal and spiritual work. One never gets the sense that this is a finished journey for her, but instead now, at midlife, she is truly making peace with the ongoing work of a storied life and the ways we are continually shaped and formed until we meet Christ face-to-face. A beautiful and tender book.”
Christian Living
“There is no one else I would rather see write a book on paradox than Jen Pollock Michel. Her writing is full of tension, cadence, wisdom, and beauty. She is a rare gift to the world of Christian publishing and Surprised by Paradox is unsurprisingly worthy of her writing and wisdom. She carefully draws out her readers while drawing them into the greater narrative of Scripture and God himself, showing us faith is in its nature, strange, surprising, and unequivocally beautiful. Each one of Jen's books becomes my favorite of hers and this one surpassed them all.”
Talking Back to Purity Culture
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Impeccably researched, gently written, and a timely word for those who grew up kissing dating goodbye, wearing purity rings, attending abstinence rallies, and waiting (perhaps waiting still) for their 'one.' Welcher is deft in her exploration of what went right and what went wrong for the lives of millions of Christians—before marriage and after it—and she is careful in her admonition to future leaders and lovers. A needed and healing work.”
Christian Living
“Here is a tender and helpful book with a pastoral voice. Summer teaches her readers the essential elements of attachment theory and then helps them partner with God for their healing. This book will bless all who read it.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Like a contemporary Augustine, Casey Tygrett confesses his way through restlessness in his spiritual life and physical life. He makes us feel a little less alone in our moments of desperation or boredom, or even the absence of both. He asks us to pay attention to the absence of what we want or the absence of what we think we need, and to trust that in that liminal space, God is there still.”
Christian Living
“Praise for The Gift of Thorns As a human with a cacophony of desires clamoring for attention all the time, I am grateful for the words within this book by A. J. Swoboda. Swoboda not only helps us face the mirror of our own desires—and the thorniness of them at times—he comforts us with the One who is in the work of redeeming each and every one of them.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Zack Eswine has done it again. In The Imperfect Pastor, he extends the hand of brotherhood to every minister of the gospel. Too many weary soldiers guard the front lines; Eswine reminds us all that Christ is our guard and defender, and that strength in him is our strongest place.”
The Mission of the Body of Christ
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Russ is a modern-day scribe, taking his cues from the words of Scripture to reimagine stories, narratives, and scenes for his readers. He doesn't embellish or exaggerate. He tells and retells familiar narratives with a new perspective. Ordinary Christians living ordinary lives need The Mission of the Body of Christ, which is written to be read during ordinary time. We need to reimagine, relive, and see God's mission for the church afresh, to be reminded there is nothing ordinary about the story in which we live. Russ does this beautifully as always.”
Men
“Sam Jolman is tender with the topic and nuanced in his care, envisioning a better story of sexuality for those who dare to believe in its possibility. A book written for men that encouraged and challenged the heart of this woman as well.”
When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“On my thirty-fifth birthday I witnessed the close-range shooting of a police officer by a felon. My story is not the same as Taylor's, not as tragic for me nor as potent to tell, but it became a story that changed my life in more ways than I can count. In the months and years after my experience, I wanted to find comfort and solace in the church, and I couldn't. Most church folks I knew had only thoughts and prayers for survivors but no plans, personally or politically, to reconsider any Second Amendment reform. I needed allies like Taylor, who understands what only victims of gun violence understand: something must change.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Offering pastoral words from a pastoral presence, Your Jesus Is Too American is a book we need today. With echoes of Bonhoeffer’s prophetic call to Christians from nearly a century ago, Steve Bezner draws us with tenderness and strength to the One in whom we find our identity. A beautiful book.”
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