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  • Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction

    Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction

    Longing for an Absent God unveils the powerful role of faith and doubt in the American literary tradition. Nick Ripatrazone explores how prominent American writers--including Flannery O'Connor, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Louise Erdrich--diverge into two major strands of Catholic writers--practicing and cultural--but when taken together form a rich and unique literary canon immersed in the full spectrum of doubt and faith in contemporary America.

    9781506451954

    $27.99

  • You Can Change: Stories from Angola Prison and the Psychology of Personal Transformation

    You Can Change: Stories from Angola Prison and the Psychology of Personal Transformation

    Can people make positive changes in their lives that really last? To answer this question, Dr. Mark W. Baker wound up interviewing inmates in the largest maximum-security prison in the United States, located in Angola, Louisiana. Baker uses stories from inside Angola, along with his decades of experience as a clinical psychologist, to show all of us how to change our lives for the better--no matter who we are or what we've done.

    9781506455648

    $18.99

  • Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color

    Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color

    The stories of girls of color are often overlooked and ignored rather than valued and heard. Instead of relegating these young women to the margins, minister and youth advocate Khristi Lauren Adams brings their stories front and center where they belong. Thought-provoking and inspirational, Parable of the Brown Girl is a powerful example of how God uses the narratives we most often ignore to teach us the most important lessons in life.

    9781506455686

    $18.99

  • Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms

    Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms

    We all carry sexual shame. Whether we grew up in the repressive purity culture of American evangelical Christianity or not, we've all been taught in subtle and not-so-subtle ways that sex (outside of very specific contexts) is taboo. Psychotherapist Matthias Roberts helps readers overcome their shame and determine their own definition of healthy sex. Define your sexual values on your own terms, overcome your shame, and start having great, healthy sex.

    9781506455662

    $16.99

  • Trains, Jesus, and Murder: The Gospel according to Johnny Cash

    Trains, Jesus, and Murder: The Gospel according to Johnny Cash

    In Trains, Jesus, and Murder, Beck explores the theology of Johnny Cash by investigating a dozen of Cash's songs. In reflecting on Cash's lyrics, and the passion with which he sang them, we gain a deeper understanding of the enduring faith of the Man in Black.

    9781506433769

    $18.99

  • Religion in The Handmaid's Tale: A Brief Guide

    Religion in The Handmaid's Tale: A Brief Guide

    From the significance of names to twisted uses of religion to the origins of the Ceremony, Religion​ in The Handmaid's Tale answers all the questions you might have about religion in Atwood's prophetic novel. For anyone who's ever googled a biblical precedent or religious phrase after encountering Atwood's dystopia, this essential guide explains it all and gives readers a fascinating look into the novel and its world. Read it and understand The Handmaid's Tale like never before.

    9781506456300

    $12.99

  • Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump

    Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump

    Donald Trump won more Evangelical Christian votes than any candidate in history on his way to winning the 2016 US presidential election. Veteran journalist Angela Denker set out to uncover why, traveling the United States for a year, meeting the people who support Trump, and listening to their rationale. A must-read for those hoping to truly understand how Donald Trump became president.

    9781506449081

    $26.99

  • Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US

    Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US

    Lenny Duncan is an unlikely pastor. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Shifting demographics and shrinking congregations make the headlines, but Duncan connects the church's lack of diversity to its lack of vitality. Part manifesto, part confession, and all love letter, Dear Church offers a bold new vision for the future of the church.

    9781506452562

    $16.99

  • Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What to Do About It

    Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What to Do About It

    We have a universal yearning, writes David Zahl, not to be happy or respected so much as enough--what religions call "righteous." Today, we look to all sorts of everyday activities--from eating and parenting to dating and voting--for the meaning once provided on Sunday morning. Seculosity takes a thoughtful yet entertaining tour of American "performancism." Ultimately, Zahl brings us to a fresh appreciation for the grace of God in all its countercultural wonder.

    9781506449432

    $26.99

  • Presumed Guilty: Why We Shouldn't Ask Muslims to Condemn Terrorism

    Presumed Guilty: Why We Shouldn't Ask Muslims to Condemn Terrorism

    All of us should condemn terrorism–whether the perpetrators are Muslim extremists, white supremacists, Marxist revolutionaries, or our own government. But it's time for us to...

    9781506420592

    $4.25

    $16.99Save 75%

  • Keeping Faith in Congress: Why Persistence, Compassion, and Teamwork Will Save Our Democracy

    Keeping Faith in Congress: Why Persistence, Compassion, and Teamwork Will Save Our Democracy

    In 1996, Walter Capps won a seat in US House of Representatives. Less than a year later, he suffered a massive heart attack at Dulles...

    9781506433745

    $22.99

  • The Last Blues Preacher: Reverend Clay Evans, Black Lives, and the Faith that Woke the Nation

    The Last Blues Preacher: Reverend Clay Evans, Black Lives, and the Faith that Woke the Nation

    One of America’s most famous gospel singers, civil rights heroes, and the godfather of Chicago’s black preachers, Reverend Clay Evans inspired a city and a nation to see, hear, and witness the dignity and value of black lives. Zach Mills’s lively and powerful biography, The Last Blues Preacher, brings the life and work of Reverend Evans into our time and examines how current national conversations on race, religion, politics, and popular culture can and should inform contemporary activism.

    9781506428178

    $26.99

  • Rising: The Amazing Story of Christianity's Resurrection in the Global South

    Rising: The Amazing Story of Christianity's Resurrection in the Global South

    Pundits regularly declare that Christianity is dying?its golden age of influence is long gone in Western Europe, and similar trends are happening in North America. But while it slowly dies in the West, Christianity has been coming to life in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Now immigrants, refugees, and missionaries from the Global South bring their vibrant faith to our shores. They are bringing the gospel back to us in new and surprising ways. Christianity is rising, you just have to look around. 

    9781506421827

    $16.99

  • A House United: How the Church Can Save the World

    A House United: How the Church Can Save the World

    By entering the culture wars, churchgoers in the United States have ushered the Left and the Right to even greater extremes. Allen Hilton believes that religion isn?t inherently divisive, and he suggests a new role for Christianity. Jesus prayed that his disciples might all be one, and this book imagines a proper answer to that prayer in the context of American polarization. Hilton promotes a Christianity that brings people together with their differences, creating a house united that will help our nation come back together.

    9781506401911

    $16.99

  • Faith in Action: A Handbook for Activists, Advocates, and Allies

    Faith in Action: A Handbook for Activists, Advocates, and Allies

    You want to make the world better. This book can help. Faith in Action offers quick dives into a range of topics, from racial justice...

    9781506432564

    $12.99

  • My Struggle to Become Human

    My Struggle to Become Human

    In this magnificent autobiography, Walter Wink, one of the most influential Christian intellectuals of our time, offers insight and perspective on his life and work?always...

    9781506438177

    $22.99

  • The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World

    The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World

    Brian Bantum says that race is not merely an intellectual category or a biological fact. It is a deeply theological problem, one that is central to the Christian story and that plays out daily in the United States and throughout the world. Our attempts to heal racism will not succeed unless we address a fallen understanding of our bodies. He examines the question of race, but through the lens of our bodies and what our bodies mean in the midst of a racialized world that perpetually dehumanizes dark bodies.

    9781506408880

    $19.00

  • Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career, Second Edition

    Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career, Second Edition

    For nearly thirty years, Luther the Reformer has been the standard Luther biography. Fair, insightful, and detailed without being overwhelming, Kittelson was able to negotiate a “middle way” that presented a more complete chronological picture of Luther than many had yet portrayed. For this revised edition, Hans H. Wiersma has made an outstanding text even better. The research is updated, and the text is revised throughout, with images, bibliographies, and timelines to enhance the experience. It’s a great volume, greatly improved.

    9781451488883

    $29.00

  • Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Since Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s death in 1945, he has continued to fascinate and compel readers as a theologian, witness, and martyr. In this new biography, Christiane Tietz masterfully portrays the interconnectedness of Bonhoeffer’s life and thought, theology and politics, discipleship, witness, and resistance, tracing the path from his childhood to his imprisonment and execution. Brief, lucid, and accessible, Tietz’s new account brings Bonhoeffer’s story and work to life in a vivid retelling, unfolding his important and widely read texts in the process. The volume also includes previously unseen pictures.

    9781506408446

    $32.99

  • Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted

    Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted

    The devil has fallen on hard times. Surveys say that even the majority of Christians doubt his existence. And burdened by doubts skeptical believers find themselves divorced from Jesus’ dramatic confrontation with Satan in the Gospels and the struggle that galvanized the witness of the early church. Reviving Old Scratch reintroduces the devil to the modern church with a biblical, bold and urgent vision of spiritual warfare where we resist the devil by joining the Kingdom of God’s subversive campaign to interrupt the world with love. 

    9781506401355

    $18.99

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