Fortress Press

My Jams: Reflections on the Relationship between Music and Religion

Anthony B. Pinn (Author)

Over the years, Anthony Pinn has explored the intersection between religion and music, shaped by academic inquiry, personal reflection, and an evolving understanding of the world. My Jams offers insights into the diverse ways in which music shapes our understanding of the sacred and the profane.

Abiding in Amen: Prayer in a Secular Age

Wesley W. Ellis (Author)

We live in a world of commodities and optimized results.It is only normal that prayer, too, becomes a means to an end--and yet, reducing this mysterious encounter with the living God to a "spiritual discipline" to "master" substitutes anxiety for relationship and striving for abiding. Ellis helps us relax into the resonant relationship God intends.

They Don't Come with Instructions: Cries, Wisdom, and Hope for Parenting Children with Developmental Challenges

Hollie M. Holt-Woehl (Author)

Hollie M. Holt-Woehl offers insights for the journey with a developmentally challenged child. As the mother of a son with an autism diagnosis, she also offers ways to keep hope.

The book focuses on the challenges of parenting children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD), and/or Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).

Readers who seek to understand what it is like to live with a developmentally challenged child will appreciate Holt-Woehl's down-to-earth and compassionate approach.

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...

Dignity and Grace: Wisdom for Caregivers and Those Living with Dementia

Janet L. Ramsey (Author)

Whether a diagnosis of dementia--for you or for someone you are accompanying--arrives suddenly or gradually, this illness reorganizes a family's entire life. Drawing on her own experience, as well as interviews with eight family and professional caregivers, Janet L. Ramsey helps caregivers and those with impaired memories learn as they listen to each other. She also shows them how the Holy Spirit can awaken their imagination and understanding while they discover how to live with dementia.

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...

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.

Refugia Faith: Seeking Hidden Shelters, Ordinary Wonders, and the Healing of the Earth

Debra Rienstra (Author)

In Refugia Faith, Debra Rienstra explores nature's refugia--places where life endures in a crisis--and applies this model to faith. Drawing from theology, nature writing, and science, she examines how Christian spirituality and practice must adapt for a climate-altered planet.

Jobs Lost, Faith Found: A Spiritual Resource for the Unemployed

Mary C. Lindberg (Author)

Jobs Lost, Faith Found is for those who feel alone due to job loss. It is also for those who offer respect, companionship, guidance, and resources to the unemployed. Mary C. Lindberg draws on her family's experience of unemployment and the wisdom of many others to help readers discover a sense of worth and purpose on their way to a new job. Prayers, insights, stories, and reflections take readers from uncertainty to hope.

Waiting for Good News: Living with Chronic and Serious Illness

Sally Wilke (Author)

Sally Wilke has lived with and through the serious chronic illness of someone she cared deeply about. And she has provided pastoral care to individuals and families in similar situations. Waiting for Good News captures her hard-won, helpful, and hope-filled wisdom. Wilke also offers tools, tips, ideas, and resources for obtaining or providing additional support.

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...

A Graceful Life: Lutheran Spirituality for Today

Bradley C. Hanson (Author)

The author understands spirituality to be the attitudes, convictions, and practices that give a definite shape to religious faith. Further, he asserts that...

Christianity in Blue: How the Bible, History, Philosophy, and Theology Shape Progressive Identity

David A. Kaden (Author)

Christianity in Blue shows how liberal values and progressive attitudes are the fruits of taking seriously both the Bible and Christian tradition. But rather than treating these sources as the final word, Kaden argues that they are places to start exploring how to be a Christian in the world. Christianity in Blue helps both progressive and conservative Christians better understand the importance of the Bible, theology, history, and philosophy for building a loving church for everyone.

Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation

Cindy S. Lee (Author)

In Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation, Cindy S. Lee proposes that the church needs to reimagine spiritual formation--to unform the ways Western-dominated church leaders have understood formation and to create a more robust spirituality, one that will hold the complexities of a multicultural God and the God-human relationship.

Modern Chinese Theologies Volume 1: Heritage and Prospect

Chloë Starr (Editor), Chen Yongtao (Contributor), Li Qu (Contributor), Stephanie Wong (Contributor), Yun Zhou (Contributor), Jesse Sun (Contributor), Meng Jane (Contributor), Boyun Liu (Contributor), Tim Yung (Contributor), Christie Chui-Shan Chow (Contributor), Chris Payk (Contributor), Tak Leung Yim (Contributor), Joseph Tse-Hei Lee (Contributor), Zhifeng Zhong (Contributor), Michel Chambon (Contributor), Benoit Vermander (Contributor)

Chinese Theologies introduces the vibrant development of Chinese theology in its many forms across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also challenges prevalent narratives regarding the lack of Chinese theologies and engages questions of the construction of theology in their own traditions/nations.

Just Traveling: God, Leaving Home, and a Spirituality for the Road

Jaco J. Hamman (Author)

Just Traveling celebrates moving at the speed of being present to one's experiences, bridging distance and difference through acts of care. Following the scriptural witness of God as the Earthroamer, the book explores the liminal qualities of traveling through six movements: anticipating, leaving, surrendering, meeting, caring, and returning. Whether leaving home serves our wanderlust and curiosity or has personal or spiritual purposes, when we travel, we explore a beautiful, yet complex and troubled world.

Jesus the Harmony: Gospel Sonnets for 366 Days

Gracia Grindal (Author)

Author and poet Gracia Grindal has written 366 sonnets based on the life and ministry of Jesus to inspire meditation and reflection. Each poem entry is based on a specific biblical connection and relates to a holy day or season. The book's introduction provides historic background on Gospel harmonies, tells the story of how the author created the sonnets, and offers suggestions for using this unique devotional volume.

Literary Companion to the Lectionary: Readings Throughout the Year

Mark Pryce (Compiler/Editor)

This beautiful book offers poems and literary pieces for Sundays and principal feasts throughout the liturgical year. Each selection relates to an aspect of...

No Greater Jewel: Thinking about Baptism with Luther

Kirsi I. Stjerna (Author)

Luther writes in his Large Catechism: "No greater jewel, therefore, can adorn our body and soul than baptism, for through it we become completely holy and...