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...

Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann (Author), Edwin Searcy (Editor)

This thoughtful collection of prayers emerged from Brueggemann's thirty-five years of teaching in seminaries. Full of reflection, faith, and dialogue, they...

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.

Thirsty for God: A Brief History of Christian Spirituality, Third Edition

Bradley P. Holt (Author)

A landmark text on the history of Christian spirituality embarks on the journey afresh. This accessible and engaging history provides an excellent primer on the...

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.

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...

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...

Wholly Citizens: God's Two Realms and Christian Engagement with the World

Joel D. Biermann (Author)

Wholly Citizens addresses the relation between the church and the world in light of the Reformation teaching of the two realms—especially as presented by Luther. Rather than exploring again the usual texts of Luther from the 1520’s, this book begins with a careful reading of Luther’s Commentary on Psalm 81 (1531), and then considers subsequent interpreters of Luther, both faithful and otherwise, and the dubious legacy they have left the church.

To Love as God Loves: Conversations with the Early Church

Roberta C. Bondi (Author)

Being a Christian means learning to love with God's love. But God's love is not a warm feeling in the pit of the stomach. It has definite characteristics we...

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.

Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, 2nd Edition

Dennis A. Jacobsen (Author), Bill Wylie-Kellermann (Foreword by), Grant Stevensen (Introduction by)

Doing Justice introduces people of faith to congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to- day struggles and hopes of urban ministry. Drawing from the author’s decades of...

Jesus Wept: When Faith and Depression Meet

Barbara C. Crafton (Author)

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...

Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice

Stephanie Paulsell (Author)

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 a world that seems confused about both. What we need, she shows, are practices that honor the body.

Paulsell invites readers to explore how we might honor the body in daily activities, seeking wisdom from Scripture, history, and contemporary experience, in story and song and poetry/

Theology the Lutheran Way

Oswald Bayer (Author), Jeffery G. Silcock (Editor & Translator), Mark C. Mattes (Editor & Translator)

Rather than asking if theology is theoretical or practical—a question that reveals a fundamental lack of understanding about the nature of theology in general—it is better to ask "What exactly is theology?" It is this question that Oswald Bayer attempts to answer in Theology the Lutheran Way, clearing up misconceptions about the essence of theology. Along with Luther himself, Bayer claims that theology, rather than being something that we do, is really what God does. 

The Experience of God: Icons of the Mystery

Raimon Panikkar (Author), Joseph A. Cuneen (Translator)

In this beautiful meditation, Panikkar charts the paradoxes and possibilities of our experience of God. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from the Bible and...

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. 

Little Prayer Book, 1522 and A Simple Way to Pray, 1535: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

Mary Jane Haemig (Editor), Eric Lund (Editor)

This volume provides two of Martin Luther’s most significant writings on prayer. In Little Prayer Book, 1522, Luther seeks to reform the theology and practice...

Ordinary Saints: An Introduction to the Christian Life, Second Edition

Robert Benne (Author)

Theologian and ethicist Robert Benne addresses the Christian life in its religious and moral dimensions by writing about the vocation of the Christian in daily...

The Spirituality of Men: Sixteen Christians Write about Their Faith

Philip L Culbertson (Editor)

Dying to old roles and rising again... Sixteen men attempt to lay out what it means to be an adult male Christian. The authors move beyond old stereotypes of...