Melissa Florer-Bixler

A Revolutionary Jesus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“With careful attention to Scripture and historical context, Jesse Nickel offers a thorough account of the Jesus whose life, witness, and teaching are peace. As the church grows increasingly comfortable with violence, Nickel turns us back to the center of our faith--the redemption of all things.”

Being Christian After the Desolation of Gaza

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“A bold, clear-eyed, and timely intervention at a moment of catastrophe for the Palestinian people. Exploring the theological props and political narratives that uphold genocide, ethnic cleansing, and occupation, the authors of Being Christian After the Desolation of Gaza convict the church to declare ‘no more.’”

Beyond Welcome

Theology

“With powerful and evocative stories about her life as an immigrant to the United States, González opens our eyes to new perspectives on ancient stories. Her book presses into the complex hope and resilience of people who leave home only to face threats of assimilation and racialized myths. In Beyond Welcome, González pushes us past sentimentality and into the fleshy good news of God’s border-crossing, transgressive love.”

It's Not You, It's Everything

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“In It's Not You, It's Everything, Eric Minton presents a compassionate and uncompromising assessment of the forces driving our spiritual anxiety and guides us toward questions that peel back the source of our discontent. In this book for people who can't take much more, Minton offers us a hope with weight--hope we can hold on to.”

Jesus and the Abolitionists

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Jesus and the Abolitionists hums with freedom. Terry Stokes testifies to a robust vision of an anarchist future grounded in Black experience--a future both practical and realizable. Stokes introduces readers to political life beyond coercion and to a faith outside the reaches of violence. Weaving together political theory, scriptural insight, and theological rigor, Stokes's accessible book is a gift to anyone who has looked at a world devastated by the vapidity of statecraft and wondered, 'Is there another way?'”

United States of Grace

History & Biography

“Lenny Duncan weaves together history and memoir in a book rooted in journeys across the beautiful and bruising landscape of the United States, where the pointed stare of a Black mama at the Greyhound station and a voice whispering sobriety at a Grateful Dead show become ciphers of ordinary grace. In this astounding book that is both fierce and generous, jagged and hopeful, Duncan makes space for the thorny topography of addiction, freedom, sexuality, despair, and race, refusing to flatten the path for our comfort. Instead, he invites us to walk with him, to see what he sees, to inhabit the adventure and heartbreak of a Black life in a country built for Blackdestruction. A book written with tenderness and joy, United States of Grace points us toward prophetic signposts of what is possible for America, if we have the courage to imagine it together.”