Will D. Campbell

A Simplicity of Faith

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“In this stirring chronicle of death within community, grief becomes the somber flippancy of the clown and the account of mourning Promethean entertainment. Through it all we learn of the Word.”

Corpse Care

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Corpse Care is a deep dive into the history and present practices of how we relate to and treat the physical remains of humans. It is fascinating how culture, philosophy, and theology have shaped these practices and how the practices can also affect our relationship with the natural world. The book shows that seeing the corpse as a part of the web of life can help end our destructive assault on that web. I read most of it in one sitting. While I have read death studies for decades, I still found this book revelatory and intensely interesting.”

Courage to Bear Witness

“Gene Davenport was a seventeen-year-old Alabama pastor when he came into my life. He had taken on a segment of the Klu Klux Klan and was threatened with federal imprisonment. This is an important volume and belongs on the shelves of every library in America.”

Into the Darkness

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Lay Me in God's Good Earth

“People are usually surprised to hear that the majority of the services at our conservation burial grounds are for committed Christians. Lay Me in God's Good Earth makes a compelling biblical case for natural burial.”

Mere Discipleship

Christian Living

“You will find here nothing of America’s pop religion. Nothing of what some are calling electronic soul molesters, hurling to hearth and household a gospel to ‘take up your cross and relax,’ or ‘take up your cross and get rich.’ I found myself frightened at times, yet exulting in the knowledge that I was exposing myself to tough truth about the faith I claim. An uncommon experience not to be rushed.”

Radical Christian and Exemplary Lawyer

History & Biography

“This volume is more than a tribute. In it we hear again William the prophet proclaiming the beauty and harshness of the gospel.”

The Bible and The New York Times

Preaching & Worship

“How quaint! A preacher so revolutionary as to be heard by many as reactionary. But those who have ears to hear . . .”

The Fall of the Prison

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Jesus said he had come to proclaim release to prisoners. In The Fall of the Prison Lee Griffith makes what Jesus meant altogether clear. Now it is for us who have ears.”

The Word on the Street

“The Word on the Street? I'm not sure the Word can be proclaimed anywhere else. My response to this account is one of awe--and awe does not lend itself to our frail language.”