Fortress Press

Addiction and Recovery: A Spiritual Pilgrimage

Martha Postlethwaite (Author)

In Addiction and Recovery: A Spiritual Pilgrimage, Martha Postlethwaite—pastor of The Recovery Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a person in recovery—reflects on her pilgrimage...

When Trauma Wounds: Pathways to Healing and Hope

Karen A. McClintock (Author)

In When Trauma Wounds, psychologist Karen A. McClintock combines psychological approaches with faith resources to improve trauma recovery. Whether you have experienced trauma or are a caregiving pastor, church member, or friend to a survivor, this book will familiarize you with trauma symptoms and healing strategies.

McClintock shows readers how to create a sanctuary to shelter a wounded soul. She helps trauma survivors find acceptance, hope, and healing.

Carrying Them with Us: Living through Pregnancy or Infant Loss

David M. Engelstad (Author), Catherine A. Malotky (Author)

Carrying Them with Us: Living through Pregnancy and Infant Loss is a reflection on what pastors David M. Engelstad and Catherine A. Malotky have learned...

Delivering the Sermon: Voice, Body, and Animation in Proclamation

Teresa L. Fry Brown (Author)

Teresa L. Fry Brown introduces preachers to the effective use of voice and body in the animation of the word in the preaching moment. Suggestions and exercises...

A Grief Received: What to Do When Loss Leaves You Empty Handed

JL Gerhardt (Author)

In A Grief Received, JL Gerhardt offers a personal, authentic, and practical approach to weathering grief with hope. She draws on the loss of her younger brother when she was twenty-one and other experiences of grief. Through nine practices grieving people can adopt to position themselves to receive the gifts of grief, Gerhardt sheds light on a path to transformation. Readers will feel comforted, directed, and inspired to seek God's shaping in their grief.

Preaching at the Crossroads: How the World—and Our Preaching—Is Changing

David J. Lose (Author)

David Lose takes preachers on a tour of the major cultural influences of the last century, exploring how they offer opportunities to cultivate a more relevant faith in the twenty-first century.

In the Midst of Chaos: Caring for Children as Spiritual Practice

Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore (Author)

In the Midst of Chaos, by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, explores parenting as spiritual practice.

Both honest about the difficulties and attentive to the blessings present in everyday life, it explores how parents might use seven daily practices, such as play, reading, chores, and saying goodbye or goodnight, as rich opportunities to shape both parent and child morally and spiritually.

Transforming Leadership: New Vision for a Church in Mission

Norma Cook Everist (Author), Craig L. Nessan (Author)

Transforming Leadership sets forth the core values and leadership practices that can bring fundamental transformation to the life of the local church. Based on...

Thinking Theologically

Eric D. Barreto (Editor)

Thinking theologically is not just a cerebral matter; thinking theologically invokes an embodied set of practices and values that shape individuals and communities alike. In a collection of brief, readable essays, this edited volume—as part of the Foundations for Learning series—emphasizes the vital skills, practice, and values involved in thinking theologically.

The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Author), Isabel Best (Editor)

Preaching, according to Bonhoeffer, is like offering an apple to a child. The gospel is proclaimed, but for it to be received as gift depends on whether or not the hearer is in a position to do so...

John: Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries

Karoline M. Lewis (Author)

With attention to both liturgical interpretation and exegetical analysis, Lewis provides a unique preaching resource that will build biblical literacy by assisting both preachers and listeners in understanding John's Gospel as a whole.

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

Dorothy C. Bass (Editor)

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.

Planetary Solidarity: Global Women’s Voices on Christian Doctrine and Climate Justice

Grace Ji-Sun Kim (Editor), Hilda P. Koster (Editor)

Planetary Solidarity brings together leading Latina, womanist, Asian American, Anglican American, South American, Asian, European, and African woman theologians on the issues of doctrine, women, and climate justice. The book creatively engages Christian doctrine with the purpose of addressing the myriad ways climate change impacts the health and livelihood of women around the globe. The contributors focus their reflections around the following doctrines: creation, the triune God, anthropology, sin, incarnation, redemption, the Holy Spirit, ecclesiology, and eschatology. 

The Large Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther, 1529: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

Kirsi I. Stjerna (Editor)

With great detail, Kirsi I. Stjerna introduces and annotates Luther's Large Catechism, in which the reformer set out to offer a new compass for religious life. He believed all Christian people—laity and clergy—needed a guide to comprehend the basic biblical, creedal, and sacramental teachings.

Determining the Form

O. Wesley Allen Jr. (Author)

This fifth title in the Elements of Preaching series offers preaching students and clergy an overview of some of the most common sermonic forms and provides...

Preaching from the Old Testament

Walter Brueggemann (Author), Rolf A. Jacobson (Foreword by)

Walter Brueggemann shows Christian preachers how to consider the faith witnessed in several Old Testament traditions and to help them discover rich and suggestive connections to our contemporary faith challenges. He claims that sustained engagement with the Old Testament is worth the effort for the preacher. This volume is part of the new Working Preacher Books series designed to provide timely and compelling books on biblical preaching. God uses good preaching to change lives.

A Documentary History of Lutheranism: Volumes 1 and 2

Mark A. Granquist (Editor), Eric Lund (Editor)

This unique collection of excerpts from Lutheran historical and theological documents—many translated here for the first time—presents readers with a full picture of how the...

The Small Catechism, 1529: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

Timothy J. Wengert (Author), Mary Jane Haemig (Editor)

Timothy J. Wengert provides detailed background into the development of Luther's popular Small Catechism, which began with Luther's early sermon series on the Ten Commandments,...

Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities

Jeanne Hoeft (Author), L. Shannon Jung (Author), Joretta L. Marshall (Author)

Small towns and rural areas have particular challenges, and in seeking to live out the Christian life in the midst of those, local churches have unique and useful insights into what it means to care for one another.

Saving Images: The Presence of the Bible in Christian Liturgy

Gordon W. Lathrop (Author)

The Protestant Reformation emphasized the centrality of Scripture to Christian life; the twentieth-century liturgical movement emphasized the Bible's place at the heart of liturgy. But...