Shannan Martin
Biography
Shannan Martin wrote The Ministry of Ordinary Places, Falling Free, and Start with Hello.
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Christian Living
“Brandon Hatmaker flips our smudged lens of stale religion to a crystalline view of the expansive, transformative Good News. A Mile Wide is a guidebook on walking the Jesus-way of love and community. This is a must-read for every neighbor.”
A Mother's Guide to Raising Herself
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“Sarah Bragg shows up like a friend in the thick of our hardest days, and we find ourselves breathing again. Gentle, funny, and unflinchingly honest, this book is a bouquet of vital truths and timely reminders.”
Christian Living
“Ashley's words awaken us to our present, particular lives, where showing up needy is our most important work. Here we taste and see and feel the wind on our faces. 'Love exposes us,' Ashley writes. This book is an invitation to that sort of love; a road map for finding our way home.”
Evangelism & Missions
“As a daughter of the American, evangelical church, I was raised on the meat of ‘being a witness’ and the potatoes of ‘setting an example.’ I was told to love people. I was told to behave. But no one prepared me for what to do when my efforts lost steam and I found myself requiring grace I had not learned to offer. D.L. Mayfield’s honest sojourn through the wilderness of Saving the World and into the expansiveness of God’s gracious, no-matter-what affection is a raw and lovely reminder of what really compels us to walk in the weird way of Jesus. Assimilate or Go Home is a book I will reach for again and again, not just for its pitch-perfect story-telling or its stripped-down theology, but because it’s a postcard of where I’ve been, where I’m headed, and the innumerable times I will circle back, begin again, and find myself loved in spite of it all.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Church Camp peels back the nostalgia and shines light on both the fruit and the flaws of an evangelical rite of passage. Through personal experience and detailed research, Cara Meredith points toward faith formation that refuses shame, squashes fear, and embraces hope in the mystery. This book is for every camper who fought to belong or started asking better questions. It is for anyone who wants to sit in the warmth of God's unconditional goodness.”
Christian Living
“Bri takes the best of life--neighbors, good food, the hope of Christ--and cooks it down into an invitation to reach for the solace of community. I'll be holding on to Come and Eat , both for the go-to recipes and for the reminder that God's love for me is a feast best shared with those around me.”
History & Biography
“What does it look like to love one other after we’ve been stripped of pride and certainty, or knocked down by exhaustion and grief? In Deconstructed Do-Gooder, Britney Winn Lee invites us into her journey from bright-eyed optimism to holy hustle, and ultimately, to the acceptance that she is spectacularly human. Her story vibrates with tension and sparkles with ordinary life. In the end, she reminds us that surrendering to the gospel can only mean surrendering to mercy. I wish I’d read this decades ago.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“better way” guide for community ethics we’ve been waiting for. Gustine and Humphreys take us out into the streets, where the abundant, generous, generative heart of God is vibrantly at work. Pastors and nonprofit leaders are sure to find this a fresh, imperative text. Even more, this blessedly practical book is for ordinary people who understand that “neighbor” is part of our spiritual DNA and simply need a nudge in the right direction. Ecosystems of Jubilee is a true place-changer. I cannot recommend it highly enough.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Everywhere You Look is the manifesto on church and community I have been waiting for. Revolutionary in its simplicity and pulsing with possibility, this book got its hooks in me and won't let go. "God is up to something," Soerens writes. May our dusty ideas and duct-taped plans crumble as we wake up, link arms, and head out to the streets to see it for ourselves.”
Faithfully Dissident Daughters
Women
“Chelsea is an author and thinker to watch. With Faithfully Dissident Daughters , she delivers a wise, accessible guide to carry and share as we reclaim our God-given freedom. This book redeemed decades of bad, broken, and lazy theology. It is a must-read for all who long for a faith that does not inflict harm.”
Christian Living
“Not just for suburbanites, this book is for anyone who wrestles against competition or control. Finding Holy in the Suburbs inverts our suburban sensibilities, nudging us away from self-preservation and toward the beautiful catastrophe of kingdom living. Masterfully weaving personal reflection, research, and robust theology, Ashley Hales takes our hand and walks us home.”
Christian Living
““In her stunning debut, Alia Joy peels the shame from weakness and lights a campfire with the husks, inviting us to gather around and warm our hands. Her vivid, lyrical writing paints a place of solace where longing makes way for belonging and sorrow is a hidden passageway to wonder. I devoured every word. Read this book if you want to believe God is even bigger than you need him to be. There’s room for all of us in this wide circle of hope.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“What should have been a collective rush to compassion and care for the LGBTQ community instead became a screaming match over theological fine points. Heavy Burdens cuts through the noise so that we can truly see. This manifesto rings out in the key of love, the kind that disrupts our judgment, fear, and oppression. Rivera is a prophet for the ages, calling us to the clear-eyed way of Jesus and igniting our shared imagination imagination for the lightness of Christ, alive and at work in all of us.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Setting our hearts on God's unwavering character is the only thing that will get us through this age of fracture and disorientation. This book is our blueprint. With clarity, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Jessica Thompson invites us to lay down our striving and simply abide in God's love. What might happen if we truly remembered who God is? A revolution of goodness. A shared hope.”
Christian Living
“In a world searching for connection, Alexandra Kuykendall takes us by the hand and walks with us through the uncertainties, anxieties, and inevitable neighbor fails of learning to belong to the people near us. This book is full of practical ideas for anyone longing for true community but too nervous to open the door. Where do we start? Right here.”
My Body and Other Crumbling Empires
“I'm inspired by Lyndsey Medford's deft mix of gentleness and fire. She speaks the truth we crave and manages to do so with the voice of a trusted friend.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“This book is a feast: beautiful, nourishing, healing, and celebratory. Joy Prouty is a lifelong artist who invites mothers to live artistically simply by showing up to witness the wonder of the present moment. Full of stories and advice, images and vulnerability, Joy’s book is the embodiment of her own name: a light in darkness. If you, too, are seeking more light, Practicing Presence will help unleash your creativity and your”
Christian Living
“Evans’s inclusive, communal perspective on motherhood is an invitation to shuck off cultural constraints and explore the women we’ve been all along. Weaving the sacred with the ordinary, Evans is our sister-guide for this journey of discovery. We are free to reconsider. Free to be mad. Free to embrace. Free to pray. Free to love from a place of wholeness. Rewilding Motherhood is the anthem we’ve long needed; this is a must-read for all who mother.”
Christian Living
“Manda Carpenter courageously models how to bare our hearts in broad daylight and helps pave the way to freedom. Hold on to this one with both hands as you step out of hiding and reclaim the wholeness that awaits.”
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