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Unraveling Religious Leadership: Power, Authority, and Decoloniality
Unraveling Religious Leadership invites readers to reconsider foundational assumptions in Christian communities. Drawing upon decolonial frameworks and realities beyond white, eurowestern, modern ideals of who leaders are and what they do, this work pulls on the threads of colonialism and empire to create new possibilities for religious leaders.
$29.00
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Women Called to Catholic Priesthood: From Ecclesial Challenge to Spiritual Renewal
Callahan and Rodriguez explore the contexts, calls, journeys, spirituality, and theology of women called to priesthood in the Roman Catholic church in this compelling and carefully crafted ethnographic work. The authors encourage readers to thoughtfully engage the ecclesial challenges and spiritual renewal uncovered in these womenpriests' stories.
$32.00
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Picking Up the Pieces: Leadership after Empire
Kathleen McShane and Elan Babchuck argue that empire-inspired leadership models hollow out faith institutions and exhaust their leaders. In Picking Up the Pieces, the authors offer a leadership model based on the conviction that power shared is power multiplied. The book offers a hopeful, practical, and sustainable way forward for all God's people.
$24.00
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The Art of Spiritual Care across Religious Difference: Revised Edition
The Art of Spiritual Care across Religious Difference equips spiritual caregivers to offer competent care amid religious pluralism. This book presents theory and practices to help caregivers think reflexively about their own religious locations and how these locations impact relational dynamics with care seekers across diverse cultural contexts.
$43.00
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Preaching the Gospel of Justice: Good News in Community
The call to holistic preaching has many dimensions. Are we called to preach the good news of God's grace? Advocate for justice? Is preaching worship? A prophetic act? "Yes," Ackerman answers--to all of the above. Through personal stories, biblical examples, and concrete advice, readers will learn how to join gospel and justice in community.
$19.99
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Luther for Everyone: Who He Was and Why He Still Matters
Luther is for everyone. In this book, renowned scholar and theologian Hans Schwarz traces the many connections and influences between Luther's world and our own. The result is a compelling account of Luther that can instruct both contemporary Lutherans and the broader public in the life and legacy of one of the makers of the modern world.
$28.00
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Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods
Our Trespasses uncovers how race, geography, policy, and religion have created haunted landscapes in Charlotte, North Carolina, and throughout the United States. By carefully tracing the intertwined fortunes of First Baptist Church and the formerly enslaved North family, Jarrell opens our eyes to uncomfortable truths with which we all must reckon.
$30.00
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Physician of Souls: Ministry as Medicine
The book explores the concept of "physician of souls," emphasizing the interconnection of body-mind-soul-culture and the importance of community in the healing process. Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner advocates for a more prominent role for religious professionals in health care and aims to bridge the gap between medical and religious professions.
$27.00
Available June 11, 2024
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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.
$35.00
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Youth Beyond the Developmental Lens: Being over Becoming
Wesley Ellis exposes the harmful impact of developmental psychology in youth ministry, proposing a theological anthropology that frees us for deeper relationship with young people. Propelled by the conviction that we must see youth as beings rather than becomings, Ellis reorients us toward relational inclusion and away from rigid developmentalism.
$28.00
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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.
$32.00
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Funding Forward: A Pathway to More Sustainable Models for Ministry
Funding Forward provides a path to help a congregation discern God's mission, reconnect with the neighborhood, and find a more economically sustainable model for ministry. This book can help ministries walk through the funding forward process from start to finish, paying special attention to the leadership challenges and pitfalls along the way.
$26.00
Available September 17, 2024
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A Gospel for Workers: Cho Chi Song, Yeongdeungpo Urban Industrial Mission, and Minjung
This book introduces the life story of Cho Chi Song, from whom emerged three critical elements in Korean mission and theology: valuing workers, the urban industrial mission, and the platform for Minjung Theology. The subjects of this book were the sparks for Minjung Theology, which is still best known within Korea.
$32.00
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Leading with Love: Spiritual Disciplines for Practical Leadership
The first principle of ministry leadership is love: love that emerges from life rooted in God. Healthy leadership requires a spirituality that enlivens us to move beyond rigid, dualistic frameworks. Robinson provides practical tools for cultivating spiritual practices that lead ministers into the world as agents of faith, hope, love, and justice.
$24.00
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The Gift of Small: Embracing Your Church’s Vocation
Most church leadership resources focus on membership growth as an indicator of ministry success, notes Allen T. Stanton. However, The Gift of Small argues that small-membership churches are well-fit for the faithful work of the church. Stanton offers a critical understanding of these churches' roles in vocational discovery and community leadership.
$26.00
Available October 22, 2024
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Trauma and Race: A Path to Wellbeing
This book lives at the intersection of trauma, race, and counseling. African (Black), Latino/a/x, Asian, and Native (Indigenous) Americans (ALANAs) experience trauma in the context of systemic, institutionalized, and cultural racism. Any work by trauma-informed professionals must take into consideration the intersection of race and trauma.
$26.00
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Bearing Witness: The Wounds of Mass Trauma at Memorial Museums
Bearing Witness is a poignant account of the global movement to commemorate the dead at memorial museums. Dr. Stephanie Arel offers an insightful look into the professional lives of those who remember and an inspiring argument for tenderness when tending the wounds of mass trauma.
$28.00
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Dementia and the Church: Memory, Care, and Inclusion
Churches have a vital role in helping people with dementia and their caregivers, and much to learn from them too. Cail pairs poignant stories with strategies, lesson plans, and advice for ministries that compliment community needs and church resources. Readers will find here tools for preparing their congregations to engage this important work.
$24.00
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Hear Us Out: Six Questions on Belonging and Belief
Sue Pizor Yoder and her team of scholars and ministry leaders interviewed over two hundred people under age forty in search of the lessons they might teach about belonging, adversity, legacy--and faith. Through collaborative storytelling, Hear Us Now illustrates the ways Millennials and Gen Z are navigating life and making meaning.
$24.00
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