Fortress Press

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.

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.

Holy Friendships: Nurturing Relationships That Sustain Pastors and Leaders

Victoria Atkinson White (Author), L. Gregory Jones (Foreword by)

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.

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.

Neighbor Love through Fearful Days: Finding Purpose and Meaning in a Time of Crisis

Jason A. Mahn (Author)

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.

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

Don E. Saliers (Author), Emily Saliers (Author), Krista Tippett (Foreword by)

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...

Aging and Loving: Christian Faith and Sexuality in Later Life

James M. Childs Jr. (Author)

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.

Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual

Susan Marie Smith (Author)

Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In Caring Liturgies...

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.

The Divine Art of Dying, Second Edition:Living Well to Life's End

Karen Speerstra (Author), Herbert Anderson (Author), Ira Byock (Foreword by)

The Divine Art of Dying aims to empower people who are dying to live as fully as they can until life's end. The book includes reflections from Karen Speerstra's hospice journal and essays written jointly by Speeratra and Herbert Anderson on learning to wait, letting go, giving gifts, and telling stories. Each chapter has suggestions for caregivers.

Touched: For Survivors of Sexual Assault Like Me Who Have Been Hurt by Church Folk and for Those Who Will Care

Shanell T. Smith (Author)

Touched, by Shanell T. Smith, makes visible the often silenced or ignored narratives of survivors of sexual violence. It tells the author's story of her personal traumatic experience with sexual violence by a church leader and focuses on the responses that she received from people in the church (clergy and lay folk) once she "sounded the alarm."Touched helps readers learn how to respond to those who seek refuge and care.

The Daily Prayer of the Church

Philip H. Pfatteicher (Editor)

This is a complete prayer book in the ancient way of offices including text and music for Morning, Evening, and Compline Prayer for each season of the Church year, Forms for Prayer during the Day, Proper antiphons and Psalm prayers, and both ancient and modern hymns. Based on the two-year lectionary, this prayer book offers an ecumenical course of collects, an enriched calendar of festivals and commemorations, as well as intercessions and devotional prayers.

Uncovering Spiritual Narratives: Using Story in Pastoral Care and Ministry

Suzanne M. Coyle (Author)

Drawing on both theological approaches and real life experiences, Coyle creates a contextual pastoral theology that helps caregivers find the power of God in people's stories.

The Way of Peace: Christian Life in Face of Discord

James M. Childs Jr. (Author)

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...

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.

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.

A Path to Belonging: Overcoming Clergy Loneliness

Mary Kay DuChene (Author), Mark Sundby (Author)

Fifty percent of Americans, including clergy, are lonely, according to leadership development consultants Mary Kay DuChene and Mark Sundby. In A Path to Belonging: Overcoming Clergy Loneliness, they offer research, tools, and remedies for clergy to embark on the path toward a healthy sense of contentment and belonging and more effective leadership.

True Connection: Using the NAME IT Model to Heal Relationships

George Faller (Author), Heather P. Wright (Author)

From their years of counseling individuals, couples, and families, George Faller and Heather Wright show how to repair conflict and discover God's movement in our life and relationships.

Using the NAME IT (Notice, Acknowledge, Merge, Embrace, Integrate, and Thank) model, first we connect with our own hearts and stories, then understand the other person's position, and finally merge those two truths (or versions of what is happening), giving birth to a new connection.

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...

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.