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Living In Sin: Making Marriage Work Between I Do and Death

Pastor Jason Micheli had performed dozens of weddings when he was diagnosed with incurable cancer. Suddenly, his own marriage came into sharp relief.

Micheli chronicles his love for his wife, Ali, in Living in Sin. Their marriage is pushed to the brink, but Micheli's illness shows what really matters in marriage: forgiveness, laughter, and more forgiveness. Living in Sin will be an inspiration and challenge to any married couple.

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Landscapes of Prayer: Finding God in Your World and Your Life

Prayer is often perceived as a difficult, "place-less" exercise in which we close our eyes and seek God beyond our everyday experience in an invisible,...

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Sacred in the City: Seeing the Spiritual in the Everyday

The sacred is all around us, all the time. It is the reality in which we live and move and have our being. But it...

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Chosen: A Journey of Faith

Michele Guinness was brought up to love and live out her family's Jewish heritage. However, in her teens, she felt something lacking. Searching for answers...

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One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins

Emmy Kegler has a complicated relationship with the Bible. As a queer woman who grew up in the church, she knows too well how Scripture...

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Holy Grounds: The Surprising Connection between Coffee and Faith—From Dancing Goats to Satan’s Drink

From the coffee bean's discovery by ninth-century Ethiopian Muslims to being condemned as "Satan's drink" by medieval Christians, to becoming an integral part of Passover...

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Sexuality and Holy Longing, 2nd Edition: Embracing Intimacy in a Beautiful, Broken World

In this newly revised edition of Sexuality and Holy Longing, author Lisa Graham McMinn beautifully describes how people are created by God for relationship, and our sexuality guarantees that we will long for and be drawn toward others. McMinn provides a blueprint for understanding sexuality--and our longing to be loved--at all stages of life (childhood, teen years, early adulthood, midlife, and old age).

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The Last Word and the Word After That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity

Book Three in The New Kind of Christian Trilogy In the final installment of The New Kind of Christian Trilogy, Pastor Dan Poole and his...

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The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian

Book Two in The New Kind of Christian Trilogy The Story We Find Ourselves In is the sequel to Brian McLaren?s award-winning book A New Kind of...

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A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey

The Book That Launched a Movement The first installment of Brian D. McLaren?s trilogy recounts a lively and intimate conversation between fictional characters Pastor Dan...

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Jesus Wept: When Faith and Depression Meet

Jesus Wept, Barbara C. Crafton?s best-selling and brilliant reflection on faith and depression, is now released in its tenth-anniversary edition. Religious belief can make depression...

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Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice

In Honoring the Body, Stephanie Paulsell speaks to those who have ever wondered how to celebrate the body’s pleasures and protect the body’s vulnerabilities in...

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A Song to Sing, A Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice

In A Song to Sing, A Life to Live, Don and Emily Saliers help readers see the connections between Saturday night music and Sunday morning...

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Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People

Practicing Our Faith offers help to Christians who are asking how our faith can help us discern what we might do and who we might become. Practices are shared activities that address fundamental needs of humankind and creation and that, woven together, form a way of life. The twelve practices explored in this book are practices that human beings simply cannot do without, particularly at this time in history.

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The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier

Following on the questions raised by Brian McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written an engaging exploration of what this new...

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Let the Children Come: Reimagining Childhood from a Christian Perspective

In Let the Children Come, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore explores the question, What does faithful parenting look like today? As she addresses this query, she updates outmoded and distorted assumptions about and conceptions of children in popular US culture. She also shows important insights and contributions religious traditions and communities, Christianity in particular, make as we examine how to regard and treat children well.

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Hearing with the Heart: A Gentle Guide to Discerning God's Will for Your Life

In Hearing with the Heart, popular writer and retreat leader Debra K. Farrington leads you through a gentle process for discovering how to invite God's...

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Fat and Faithful: Learning to Love Our Bodies, Our Neighbors, and Ourselves

J. Nicole Morgan grew up fat and loving Jesus. But she was forever burdened by what she saw as her biggest spiritual flaw: her weight. In Fat and Faithful, she shares her journey from body shame to fat acceptance and shows us how to care for the image of God found in every body--including our own. When the world tells us that our bodies are too much, J. Nicole Morgan reminds us that all people--no matter their size or ability--are beloved of God.

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Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith

God's love for us breaks every boundary. So should our love for each other. Mihee Kim-Kort is a wife, a mom, and a Presbyterian minister....

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Holy Rover: Journeys in Search of Mystery, Miracles, and God

Holy Rover is about the transformative power of travel. If you’ve ever been curious about the ancient spiritual practice of pilgrimage, come along with Lori Erickson as she explores a dozen holy sites around the world. Travel writer, Episcopal deacon, and author of the Holy Rover blog at Patheos, Erickson is an engaging guide for pilgrims eager to take a spiritual journey. Both irreverent and devout, Holy Rover describes travels that changed her life—and can change yours, too.

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