Mark R. Schwehn

Baylor at the Crossroads

History & Biography

“With Baylor at the Crossroads, Don Schmeltekopf has provided a splendid record of how best to negotiate the tough choices all church-related schools face today. . . . Don's service is instructive to all of us who care deeply about the life of faith and its inextricable relationship to the life of reason.”

Eckhart Tolle’s Hall of Mirrors

World Religions

“Steven Heymans gives serious consideration to Tolle's highly popular understanding of the nature and purpose of human existence--and shows that this understanding obscures the realities of human experience and distorts the actual conditions of human flourishing. Drawing on close readings of Tolle, his forebear Plato, and key philosophers who challenge their assumptions, Heymans rejects Tolle's emphasis on detachment and transcendence. Instead, he crafts a persuasive invitation to embrace the embodied and storied, vulnerable and relational quality of the lives we actually live with one another, in all our particularity. This book brings rich philosophical analysis to matters of constant concern, including how to understand and address anxiety and affliction. Rarely do popular spiritualities undergo such thorough and much needed analysis.”

Neighbor Love through Fearful Days

Christian Living

“Jason Mahn has done something both rare and relevant. He has written about our callings in medias res, where all of us always find ourselves. The fresh, retrospectively sculpted journal entries that chart his own halting and continuing efforts to live a 'summoned' life of Christian, loving responsibility in 'fearful days' of multiple pandemics include many other stories as well. This book captures the vocabulary of vocation as well as any book we know.”

So That All May Flourish

Discipleship & Christian Education

“This book shows, more clearly than any other document, why and how the Lutheran tradition with its special vocabulary of vocation and neighbor-love, its commitment to musical intelligence, its integral connection from the beginning to free and open inquiry, and its care for creation, has been so specially impressive in strengthening higher education amid all the opportunities that pluralism and diversity offer to colleges and universities today. In many respects the NECU schools celebrated here are more like their Roman Catholic counterparts than they are like other Protestant schools; they are indeed 'rooted and open.'”

The Planet You Inherit

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Earth-honoring ethicist Larry Rasmussen pours out a lifetime of environmental knowledge, prophetic witness, and personal experience. His letters will inspire the rising generation--and the older folks reading over their shoulders--to ever-bolder love for this precious biosphere, its unjustly divided inhabitants, and the Living Presence that sustains all things and summons us to responsibility.”