Walter Brueggemann

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“This marvelous source book by Foster and Beebe invites us to a pilgrimage toward God. It takes us deeply and slowly into the old trusts of our fathers and mothers in faith. The book will be a valuable detailed reminder that the journey is not an easy one, and that we are not the first ones who have walked that way. The book meditates on the old habits whereby one may break from the present rush in order to be refreshed and transformed by a holiness that is beyond every quick fix and every surface offer.”

Looking at Life through a Biblical Lens

Preaching & Worship

“In this collection of sermons, we witness Tannehill’s thoughtful, well-informed move from his study to the pulpit. His sermons are singularly text based, large spirited, and linked to contemporary reality. . . . He offers straightforward expositions of biblical texts, precisely the kind of preaching that may empower the church to recover its missional life. Bob’s sermons will be welcomed by fellow preachers and attentive church laypeople.”

Losing My Religion

History & Biography

“William Mills has gone honest and intimate with us in telling his story of the travail of ministry. His drama of mean-spirited betrayal in the congregation and the late unexpected reassurance of support replicates our best story of crucifixion and resurrection.”

Low-Back, Ladder-Back, Cane-Bottom Chair

Bible Studies & Devotionals

Foreword

“'Lowry has a keen sense for the right word at the right place in the sentence, a right placing that weaves midst the listeners a place of truth, a summons to justice, an offer of love, a risk of honesty, and a wonder of healing.'”

Lydia Hosto Niebuhr

History & Biography

“John Helt is himself a wise and discerning son of the German Evangelical Pietistic tradition of which he writes. Here he narrates the centrality of Lydia Niebuhr, mother of Reinhold and Richard, as a key force in the nurture of that Evangelical tradition in the United States. Helt invites appreciation and gratitude for this strong woman of faith who bore lifelong energetic witness to the life-giving force of the gospel.”

Making Love with Scripture

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In a breezy, laid-back way, Jacob Myers offers a resolutely post-modern reading of scripture with an accent on openness and pluralism. His suggestive phrasing makes many contact points with current pop culture. Myers will give access to the biblical text in a fresh and interesting way.”

Maps and Meaning

“Here is a book that is fresh, ambitious, and inviting about the book of Leviticus . . . of all things! Wiener and Hirschmann bring to this study their competence in neuroscience discussing human 'wiring' as reflective of being in or out, pure or impure, near or far; they make their case with a pastoral sensibility that focuses on the lives of real people, and they discern a genuine pastoral ministry in the tradition of Leviticus. They suggest the ways in which Leviticus is designed and functions that fit none of our caricatures of this material. Attention will be well invested in this imaginative study.”

Matthew 25 Christianity

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Heinz brings his passion and erudition to the famous manifesto of Matthew. His exposition insists that his ethic that pays attention to ‘the least of these’ is a summons to community practice. Heinz is interested in the ways in which this ethic might empower a social movement that refuses the sway of capitalism and its cynical individualism. . . . This is practical thinking that is hope filled, local, and grounded in neighborly reality, a compelling manifesto that faithfully echoes the manifesto of Matthew.”

Memories of Asaph

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Karl N. Jacobson has written a solid critical study that gives access and illumination to the Psalter. He has two goals. First, to help us read the Psalms of Asaph knowingly. Second, to let us better understand the dynamics and strategies at work in cultic remembering. He has accomplished both goals effectively. He calls us to attend to the work of remembering that requires imaginative, constructive engagement.”

Minority Reports

Theology

“Mark Klitsie has written a bold probe into the nature and character of God in the Bible. In protest against the flattened 'omni-God' of much modern rational thought, he exposits a God with whom serious disputatious engagement is possible. Klitsie happily appeals to Jewish interpretation, most especially that of Abraham Heschel. The result is a God who is a match for the complexity and ambiguity of human life.”

Missional Economics

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

Foreword

“In this uncommonly urgent book Michael Barram aims at nothing less than a shift of lens through which we read Scripture. . . . Barram’s compelling study is a wake-up call and a summons away from the pseudo-gospel of self-indulgence at the expense of the more vulnerable in the neighborhood.”

Missouri Memories, 1934–1947

History & Biography

“This book is a wondrous memory of rural religious America that was marked by authenticity, economic realism, unaffected piety, and strong hope for betterment. Many readers of older vintage will love this reading for its familiar cadences. Many younger readers will cherish these 'olden days.' My thanks to Tom for such a vivid story so compellingly told to us.”

Moses, 2nd ed.

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Mystery Without Rhyme or Reason

Arts & Literature

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Neighbor Love through Fearful Days

Christian Living

“This book is such a compelling read because two things happen as we read. We find our own vexed thinking echoed; at the same time, we find ourselves led in generative ways beyond our own thinking. This book is a deep gift for any reader who wants to engage our present circumstance as chance for fresh faithful, generous, emancipated obedience.”

No Gods But One

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“—author of Theology of the Old Testament”

Nurturing the Prophetic Imagination

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“The juxtaposition of 'prophetic' and 'imagination' refigures both terms. 'Prophetic' ensures that imagination is not facile fantasy, but concerns bodily reality that pushes toward justice. 'Imagination' ensures that prophetic is not one-dimensional social advocacy, but opens up the unutterable that must be spoken and acted. This collection of essays exhibits a wondrously generative perspective that links biblical faith to contemporary social reality. It is a welcome exposition of an urgent accent point in contemporary faith.”

Onslaught against Innocence

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Among Scripture interpreters, Andre LaCocque is a singular force because of his generative and restless mind that always seeks a new angle on the text. Here he continues his close reading of the early Genesis materials-this time the Cain and Abel narrative. LaCocque is an urbane intellectual who knows the world of myth and the critical claims of psychology. He is, at the same time, a most able and cunning reader of texts. The outcome of his interpretation is a vigorous fresh reading of Genesis 4 as a primal statement of failure and possibility in Western culture. This book is an offer of his rich, suggestive interpretation and an example of how to connect what is ancient and thick to contemporary life.”

Opening the Sealed Book

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Joseph Blenkinsopp brings his enormous learning to the use of the book of Isaiah in a later generation of Jewish and Christian reading. His particular interest is in the 'sectarian' communities of Qumran and Matthew ? thus the term 'sealed book' in his title. This important book makes two immense contributions to our learning. First, it greatly illuminates our historical understanding of formative Jewish and Christian communities in their use of Scripture; Blenkinsopp is a first-rate historian. Second, it makes clear how relentlessly pluralistic is our long-term reading of Scripture that resists any single reductionist reading. As usual with his publications, Blenkinsopp has served us well and placed us, yet again, in his debt.”