Nancy Elizabeth Bedford

A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence

Theology

“This is a wonderful survey of the many ways in which the gospel of peace has been interpreted and enacted nonviolently. I found the eight models helpful both for understanding varying approaches to nonviolence and as a tool for self-inquiry and spiritual discernment. I will be recommending the book to students and friends.”

Activist Theology

Theology

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Being Church

Theology

“In language and images distilled from decades of experience as a pastor and scholar, Pablo Andinach conveys the essentials of ecclesiology in a simple yet profound fashion. His approach is fueled by the conviction that the best thing the church can do today in, with, and for the world is none other than simply 'being church.'”

Caribbean Lutherans

History & Biography

“The book is a wonderful guide for gleaning the contribution of Caribbean Lutheranism--and beyond it, of mainline Latin American Protestantism--to decolonial possibilities for living out the Christian faith. Of particular interest is the careful attention to the contribution of women: from teachers, missionaries, and lay leaders to bishops. Without glossing over its complexities and ambiguities, Rodríguez shows how Lutheranism in the Caribbean has contributed to the gospel "giving more of itself" as good news.”

Doing Theology Latinamente

History & Biography

“Thanks to a tour de force of painstaking archival research, this book retrieves a key part of recent theological history that too easily could have been lost: the formative and transformative years of what the author calls the Protestant Latinx Academic Movement. By unveiling this inspirational story for us, Luis Rivera-Rodríguez provides us latinamente with timely inspiration for how to seek justice, imagine new options for theological education, and resist marginalization in our own time.”

Luteranismo en el Caribe

History & Biography

“Elogios al libro Luteranismo en el Caribe El libro es una guía maravillosa para recoger la contribución del luteranismo caribeño—y más allá de él, del protestantismo latinoamericano tradicional—a las posibilidades decoloniales de vivir la fe cristiana. De particular interés es la cuidadosa atención a la contribución de las mujeres: desde maestras, misioneras y líderes laicas hasta obispos. Sin pasar por alto sus complejidades y ambigüedades, Rodríguez muestra cómo el luteranismo en el Caribe ha contribuido a que el evangelio “dé más de sí” como una buena noticia.”

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Postcards from Egypt

Fiction

“What if the message and the life of Jesus were meaningful even without his death on the cross and his resurrection? Just as Christians once imagined the life of the young Jesus in the legends recorded in Pseudo-Matthew, Vena imagines the life of the mature Jesus in a novella we might call Pseudo-Mark, challenging us to ask: What is truly at the core of the Christian faith?”

Resurrected to Eternal Life

Theology

“This moving testimony of hope beautifully knits together the personal, communal, and cosmic implications of God's loving work of resurrection and new life. In the face of ecocide, abiding injustice, and traumatized communities, the book is a timely reminder of why and how we can practice resurrection in the here and now.”

The Community of the Weak

Theology

“"Geiser has written his book as a kind of musical score in which a great variety of contemporary theological voices are made to sing together in sometimes assonant, sometimes harmonious, but never boring ways. His exhaustive knowledge of different theologies produced in North America, as well as in other latitudes, serves him well, as he seeks to develop a flexible contextual theology. The deeply important question that drives his work is both existential and ecclesiological: what could or should ecclesial communities look like today?”

You Shall Not Condemn

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This beautifully written narrative theology of hope points us to the heart of the gospel, fleshing out the contours of repentance, forgiveness, transformation, resistance, and the struggle for God’s justice in the here and now.”