Marcia McFee

Barefoot in the Dust

Preaching & Worship

“Wren is one of the mentors whose work honed my life and vocational trajectory. In this book, memoir and wisdom are woven effortlessly together bringing us not only a glimpse of a hymn-poet’s journey over time but also reiterating in concise form the lessons he learned along the way about creativity, language, and music. It is an inspirational look at life and vocation passionately embraced. What a gift!”

Beguiled by Beauty

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Wendy Farley gently lures us into a world of wonder. We begin to sense the nuance of each detail, infused as it is with divine goodness. She pivots us from one scene to another, showing us ever more instances of inherent beauty even in heartache. She invites us to make a shift from a moral obligation to ‘do right’ to a deep desire for all beings to ‘be right’–whole and beloved. As we follow her lead into this theology of compassion, we finally come to notice that the world we have fallen in love with Is our own. We discover that the ‘rich, courageous, generous, and joyful’ life she describes can be our own. And she gives us tools to make it so, helping us into practices of contemplation to center and guide us, opening deep wells of respite in these times of grief. Dr. Farley’s writing style has wide appeal–theologians, philosophers, pastors, parishioners, and practitioners will find themselves ‘beguiled’ by the experience.”

Dangerous Songs

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Richard Bruxvoort Colligan offers the companionship of these ancient poets, we are gently given a tour of our own thriving, desolation, and uncertainty. He does it by gifting us turns of phrase that delight and widen our perspective on what is happening around us and inside us. His enthusiasm for a deep dive into the whoops and hollers, groans and teeth-gnashing, as well as the quietude and contemplation of the spiritual journey, is like being transplanted to a spot all our own near a stream of living water. Soak it up, friends.”

Table Talk

Preaching & Worship

“Graves’s voice is wonderful—appealing to lay persons of a diversity in age, but also one that will be appreciated by clergy and students. The historical and theological information is woven in a palatable way (to use a dining metaphor) that keeps us engaged and fascinated. It is—as it should be—conversational in a way that makes us want to chat with each other around a table (Eucharist and otherwise), break bread, look into each other’s eyes, and know we are better because we did.”

This Time with Feeling

Preaching & Worship

“Emotion and affect have a varying history in the Christian tradition, often held suspect by a post-Enlightenment reformed mindset. Tarolli gently and convincingly guides readers in allowing tradition and innovation to play together in a sensory-rich dance for the purposes of a more deeply felt, and thus transformative, experience of the Divine. In my view, the renewal of our churches depends in part on this conversation.”

Witch. Bitch. Heretic.

Arts & Literature

“We are taken on a ride that is part lamenting rant and part stubborn hope—all of it seared with a vulnerability that invites our own. It is plain spoken—an economy of words that pack in large amounts of poetic power on the impossibility of life and the possibility of new life. This is unabashed and honest dialogue with the Divine in their many forms about the heartbreak and insatiable lure of being a spiritual leader dwelling within institutionally defined margins.”