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Receiving This Life: Practicing the Deepest Belonging
Receiving This Life offers devotional reflections, prayers, practices, and liturgies that seek the meaning inside experiences and create ways to embrace and rehearse meaning. Kara K. Root empowers the reader to embrace life as sacred and to practice receiving life as a gift by attuning to meaning in the ordinary.
$25.00
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Obstacles to Stillness: Thoughts, Hindrances, and Self-Surrender in Evagrius and the Buddha
This book compares the "obstacles" to prayer discussed by the 4th-century monk Evagrius of Pontus with similar "hindrances" found in the scriptures of Buddhist tradition. Offering a fresh approach to Buddhist-Christian dialogue, Geiman focuses on the difficulties faced, and tools used, by both communities in their forms of contemplative practice.
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Holy Friendships: Nurturing Relationships That Sustain Pastors and Leaders
Victoria Atkinson White in Holy Friendships: Nurturing Relationships That Sustain Pastors and Leaders offers hope, grace, and humor, inviting readers to invest in their own resilience, sustainability, and flourishing and to cultivate beloved community by nurturing holy friendships--mutual and sacred relationships deeply rooted in God's love.
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Life Unsettled: A Scriptural Journey for Wilderness Times
The metaphor of wilderness journeying and the biblical book of Numbers take center stage in Cory Driver's creative account of life in wilderness times, a hallmark metaphor for the life of faith. The author combines the study of biblical texts, ancient Jewish legends, modern theological insights, and his own personal journeys to provide a guide for moving forward when we feel lost and confused. It includes a discussion guide ideal for group use.
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Breathe Restlessness into Me: The Subversive and Inspired Poems and Meditations of Ted Loder
Ted Loder continues to inspire readers with his powerful prayers, sermons, and reflections. This compilation includes Guerrillas of Grace, Wrestling the Light, The Haunt of Grace, and Tracks in the Straw. Loder's words speak to the human experience, drawing out the beauty and struggle as we respond to the grace of God.
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Necessary Risks: Challenges Privileged People Need to Face
In Necessary Risks, Teri McDowell Ott explores her wrestling, as a privileged white Christian woman, with ten risks and the underlying systems and structures that need to be changed. Such risks, she argues, transform individuals and communities, creating a path toward a more equitable and just world.
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Neighbor Love through Fearful Days: Finding Purpose and Meaning in a Time of Crisis
Neighbor Love through Fearful Days is a reflection on the Covid-19 pandemic, the accompanying economic collapse, a summer of climate chaos, and the pandemic of white supremacy, as well as on the calling to "serve thy neighbor" and work toward the common good. Jason A. Mahn's real-time reflections take on the reality of life during these pandemics alongside perennial questions about purpose, faith, and vocation.
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Aging and Loving: Christian Faith and Sexuality in Later Life
In Aging and Loving: Christian Faith and Sexuality in Later Life, James Childs addresses the social, ethical, physical, and spiritual issues related to sexuality and aging. The book is written for various professionals who minister to the aged (pastors, chaplains, other care providers), for the aging and aged themselves, and for their families. The book provides an ethical account of Christian love that liberates as it engages the special issues of sexuality in later life.
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The Way of Peace: Christian Life in Face of Discord
In the spirit and style of Paul Tillich, theologian and ethicist James M. Childs Jr. argues that, for Christians, peace poses particular problems because of the...
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The Pastor: A Spirituality
Renowned liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop has composed a rich, meditative, and explicitly ecumenical spirituality for working pastors - whatever and...
$29.00
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Remorse: Finding Joy through Honest Apology
In Remorse: Finding Joy through Honest Apology, Episcopal priest and licensed therapist Stephen Crippen offers a path for those who long to experience the grace of remorse and need learn only how to begin. He also speaks to faith leaders who want to help people work with their burdens of conscience -- a difficult but rich and satisfying process.
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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.
$22.99
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Nurturing Hope: Christian Pastoral Care in the Twenty-First Century
Lynne Baab discusses seven trends in pastoral care with stories about Christian caregivers meeting those challenges in creative ways. Baab also presents four practical skills pastoral carers need: to understand common stressors, to listen, to pray with others, and to nurture their personal resilience. In each chapter, she offers discussion question as well as tips for readers who are training other pastoral carers.
Nurturing Hope brings readers hope for their caring role and their own spiritual journey.
$22.00
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The Word That Redescribes the World: The Bible and Discipleship
In the last several years, Walter Brueggemann's writings have directly addressed the situation of Christian communities in today's globalized context, with its...
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Living in the Kingdom: Reflections on Luther's Catechism, Revised Edition
This revised and updated classic by beloved theologian Alvin N. Rogness explores questions like, "What does it mean to be a responsible citizen of God's...
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Staging Luther: Four Plays by Hans Sachs
The book contains four previously untranslated plays written by Hans Sachs, a playwright, shoemaker, and important supporter of Martin Luther. Sachs' well-known poem "The Wittenberg Nightingale" is also included here in a new translation and the collection will be a boon for researchers and students who can now read them for the first time.
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Made, Known, Loved: Developing LGBTQ-Inclusive Youth Ministry
Made, Known, Loved: Developing LGBTQ-Inclusive Youth Ministry builds on experience and wisdom developed through The Naming Project, a ministry created at the intersection of youth, faith, and LGBTQ identity. Ministry cofounder Ross Murray shows congregations how to examine their values and create a program that affirms LGBTQ youth in their faith and their identity, accepts and welcomes diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, and equips future leaders for the church and the LGBTQ community.
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Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual
Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In Caring Liturgies...
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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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Psalms for Healing: Praying with Those in Need
Comfort patients, family, and caregivers with the beauty of the Psalms. When Rev. Person worked as a chaplain in a Mayo hospital, patients frequently asked her to read psalms and pray with them.
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