Walter Brueggemann

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Epp-Teissen's commitment to literary artistry and his unabashed readiness for 'the final form of the text' permit him to open for us a text often neglected in current interpretation. I anticipate this book will be a durable reference point, both for future work on this body of texts and for the vexing, contemporary issue of false prophecy that still transpires among us.”

Congregations at the Crossroads

Church Leadership & Ministry

Foreword

“It has long been recognized that Ronald Vallet possesses peculiar gifts and acute sensitivity in the vexed arena of Christian stewardship. This volume moves well beyond his previous contributions in terms of fresh expression and serious rethinking and presents a coherent, comprehensive statement of a theology of stewardship that is geared to the real life and practice of the church.”

Connecting to the Gospel

Bible Studies & Devotionals

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Conversations at the Edges of Things

“John Goldingay is arguably our most compelling point person at the interface between evangelical faith and critical study. These essays in his honor reflect the breadth and depth of his influence and offer suggestive reflections on text and culture. They will serve to summon serious evangelicals to think well and critically . . . The outcome is a fitting tribute and welcome read.”

Creation Untamed

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Who better than Fretheim to take up the hard contemporary question concerning the destructive forces on exhibit in creation! The author has spent his life thinking about these issues and reading these old texts forward toward our time and place. He begins with the conviction of the goodness of God's creation, and from there he launches into the dangers of reality and takes us with him.”

Crisis and Care

Work, Money & Leadership

“This set of bold, compelling essays—written by smart, well-informed people—invites the church to take a big leap for the sake of the future. It is a huge leap out of the box of conventional assumptions into new modes of glad missional obedience. The focus is on the money resources of the church, and the invitation is to generosity that meets the needs of our society. Readers will find here a welcome practical, accessible invitation to fresh perception and fresh inventive action. It is all on point for the church, deciding yet again to be a faithful church engaged in transformative mission.”

Cup My Days Like Water

Arts & Literature

“This rich poetic collection is overwhelming in its rich imagery, its simplicity of wording, and its unflinching witness to the reality and goodness of God. Abigail Carroll is fixed on the concreteness of life as she sees it, even as she makes winsome linkages to the specificities of Scripture. If you love poetry, get this book! If you do not yet love poetry, get this book and you will promptly learn to love poetry—along with the honest knowing faith of this poet.”

Decolonizing Evangelicalism

Theology

“Postcolonial interpretation is the capacity to think, imagine, know, and act outside the administrated knowledge of the empire. This move ‘outside’ is an urgent but difficult one for those of us who are safely ‘tenured’ in (American!) imperial certitude and security. This readily accessible book helps us to understand the urgency of this move outside and provides categories through which we may reframe and resituate our theology. It is a most welcome starting point for a way of interpretation that is not a fad but a path to more responsible faith.”

Deeper Waters

Preaching & Worship

“In the midst of so much preaching that is timid, innocuous, and loaded with kitsch, these sermons by Nibs Stroupe strike a very different note. They lack the conventional frills of fancy introductions and entertaining "illustrations." They move directly and swiftly to the text; as a result they move directly and inescapably to contemporary assurances and challenges for obedient faith. Nibs has lived the stuff he preaches. We are moved by what he says. More than that, many preachers will be instructed by these sermons in the fresh, dangerous, compelling work of proclamation, and away from custodial safety.”

Defining the Church for Our Time

Theology

“Peter Schmiechen wades into the current crisis of the church. He is peculiarly equipped to do so, deeply grounded in the ecumenical theology of Mercersburg and long situated in the matrix of dispute in his (and my) own church. He reflects upon the ways in which our pet notions have often reduced the gospel to manageable ideology, and the capacity and readiness of the gospel to take many forms, formulations, and practices. This is a sober and realistic, but powerfully hopeful invitation to rethink the faithfulness of the church in its great diversity.”

Desert Spirit Places

World Religions

“Brad Karelius has invested his well-lived life in an engagement with the Southwest desert. From that life experience he articulates deep respect for the native Americans who live there and their traditions, deep awe at the mystery of the place that he knows to be haunted in holy ways, and deep faith as he mediates between the Christian gospel and native American religious traditions. The outcome of his writing is testimony to the ‘otherwise’ he finds there, an alternative to the self-destructive ways of our dominant culture.”

Desert Spirituality for Men

Men

“The buoyant narrative style of Brad Karelius carries us along. His mode of writing permits him to gives us his passion as a priest, his deep embrace of the desert, and the specificity of his rich lived encounters. . . . In his compassion, Brad is wise; more than that, he offers transformative vision and transformative practice. As with all his work, this book is a gift to be treasured.”

Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word

Theology

“Jacques Ellul is a gift who keeps on giving. The great French sociologist has seen clearly (and before the rest of us) the toxic dangers of modern technological development. . . . This book is an important probe into Ellul, and a shrewd discernment about what serious faith requires and makes possible when we are woke to the undercurrents of the power of death that are all around us.”

Deuteronomy for the Church

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Veteran interpreter that he is, Eugene Boring has been prepping his entire life for the writing of this remarkable book. He begins with Israel’s most important Scripture, the book of Deuteronomy. And then he writes an expansive, breathtaking, mind-bending, life-redefining exposition. His own wheelhouse in New Testament studies leads to important extensive linkages to the books of Romans and 1 Corinthians. The book teems with contemporaneity through an appeal to Ricoeur and Gadamer. In the end this is a winsome, accessible biblical theology that soars well beyond critical issues to what matters for lives lived faithfully. We have nothing else like this book; it merits close and sustained engagement.”

Discovering Genesis

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Iain Provan has made a significant contribution to our ongoing interpretation of Genesis. Readers will find this a fresh and suggestive entry into the book of Genesis.”

Disputed Temple

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In his ambitious, erudite, and thorough study, John Barker has significantly advanced our understanding of the book of Haggai. He exposes for us the deep ideological struggle staged in the book. By his careful attention to both method and context Barker has contributed in important ways to the broader work of recovering and reassessing our understanding of the Persian period Judaism. His book is an example of the way in which careful study can notably promote our common learning.”

Disrupting Time

Preaching & Worship

“Stanley Hauerwas is a man of many gifts. These include wide and deep learning, passion about the issues of the day, a pastoral heart, a love of the Lord Jesus, and a puckish humor that permeates everything he does. Hauerwas has forged these gifts into a vocation as a daring, candid, imaginative ethicist in the service of the Gospel. All of these gifts are richly on exhibit in this book. In turn, the preacher in these sermons is critical, self-reflective, outrageous, passionate, and wise--all of the practices that constitute 'Stanley Hauerwas' which this writer performs so well. Beyond the sermons, the prayers show a vigorous faith. The concluding interviews are mesmerizing in Hauerwas's capacity to make connections. The cumulative effort of it all is breathtaking--just what Stanley intends--or he would not be Stanley.”

Divine Laughter

Preaching & Worship

“Perhaps we are so solemn in church because we suspect there is so little at stake that we must dignify with soberness and somberness. The brothers Jacobson know better. They know that there is so much at stake--so outrageous and so risky for God and for the world--that we need both the relief and the side-angle of humor. They bring to their work a deep reading of Scripture, deep rootage in the tradition, and a deep love for the church. It does not matter if the name of the 'older brother' was Karl or Rolf. Both are invited to the party of hilarious fun. You will not want to miss it either!”

Down to Earth

Theology

“Floyd has written a superb study of the vexed interface between Christian hope and the reality of the creation in crisis. He has provided a most helpful critical taxonomy of voices that constitute the current discussion, and framed our thinking about the environment in useful ways. He has a deep sense about the materiality (dirt!) of our faith and invites us to rethink both our reductionism about the environment and our escapist temptations in faith.”

Drinking from the Wells of New Creation

Theology

“The nexus of the argument here is the way in which 'imagination' is a defining practice of the Spirit, the capacity to receive, visualize, invest in, and enact a world other than the one we take for granted. Dearborn gives substance and passion to our ancient prayer, 'Come, Holy Spirit.'”