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Contemplative Witnessing: BIPOC-Centered Spiritual Direction
Cindy S. Lee calls for spiritual directors to serve as contemplative witnesses to injustices when BIPOC people's sacredness is dismissed. Contemplative Witnessing equips spiritual directors who want to help BIPOC people cultivate a liberating spirituality so we can encounter restorative, divine movements in and around ourselves.
$22.00
Available April 29, 2025
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Spiritual Care First Aid: An All-Hands Approach for Church and Community
Cody J. Sanders's Spiritual Care First Aid provides instruction in the basics of spiritual care in a way that nearly anyone can use. A field guide to serving as a spiritual-care first responder whenever and wherever help is needed, the book offers an accessible approach of hearing, helping, and healing.
$35.00
Available April 15, 2025
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Refilling the Reservoirs: Spiritual Care for the Exhausted Caregiver
Life as a caregiver is hard. There are no easy answers, and hope can feel elusive. Bos, a Lutheran pastor and a fellow caregiver, shares a spiritually grounded message of solidarity steeped in the conviction that God meets us in the hard places--even when it's difficult to see beyond our pain.
$24.00
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Mystery Manifest: The Triune God, Figuratively Speaking
Ramshaw mines treasures of the Bible, patristic sermons, theological treatises, mystical reveries, liturgical texts, hymns, and poetry to craft a richly textured collection and framework for thinking about language used to describe the triune God. Liturgists, ministers, and theologians will find it an invaluable source of wisdom and inspiration.
$35.00
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Reframing Trauma: A Psychospiritual Theory and Theology
As awareness of the widespread presence of trauma grows, popular culture can name everything stressful "traumatic." Yet, diagnostic definitions of trauma overlook cultural understandings that refine our concept of trauma. In Reframing Trauma, M. Jan Holton and Jill L. Snodgrass offer a theory and theology of trauma to navigate such complexities.
$40.00
Available April 8, 2025
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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
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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 fitted for the faithful work of the church. Stanton offers a critical understanding of these churches' roles in vocational work and community leadership.
$26.00
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My Jams: Reflections on the Relationship between Music and Religion
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.
$39.00
Available May 20, 2025
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Disenfranchised Grief: Ministry That Breaks the Silence
Thirty years ago, Kenneth J. Doka coined the term "disenfranchised grief" to name people's losses that are not socially sanctioned, openly recognized, or publicly mourned. In Disenfranchised Grief: Breaking the Silence, Doka now empowers clergy and ministry caregivers to gain the insights and skills to better care for disenfranchised grievers.
$35.00
Available June 3, 2025
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Tangible Grace: Ministry Interventions for Teen Dating Violence
Evelyn L. Parker's Tangible Grace offers professors of homiletics, Christian education, pastoral care, and worship resources to help equip students with an interventionist lens toward teen dating violence. The book also is for religious leaders in congregational settings who want to integrate such interventions in their ministries.
$21.00
Available June 17, 2025
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Base Ecumenism: Latin American Contributions to Ecumenical Praxis and Theology
This book deals with base ecumenism, a practice that originated in Latin America but has ramifications for the broader ecumenical movement. It focuses on initiatives that emerge from the people in conversation with interchurch work. The book highlights the agency of women, racially minoritized groups, and youth in Latin America.
$60.00
Available June 24, 2025
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ReEngaging ELCA Social Teaching on The Church in Society
Childs contextualizes this foundational statement, helping us think creatively about how we are called to be the church today. Grounded in scripture and Lutheran theology, he charts the history of Lutheran public witness, deftly connecting it with our present. How are we guided to speak today? Exploring this book will spark generative conversation.
$11.99
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What a Fellowship: Remembering Augsburg Seminary and the Lutheran Free Church
Grindal weaves personal memoir and the history of Norwegian Lutheranism in the United States into a lively and insightful account of the Lutheran Free Church and its seminary. Readers will come away from What a Fellowship with a stronger understanding not only of American Lutheran history, but of ongoing conversations in the contemporary church.
$60.00
Available July 29, 2025
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ReEngaging ELCA Social Teaching on Abortion
Riswold calls us to think together about the ELCA’s 1991 social statement on abortion. Our social, political, and legal context has changed drastically since this statement was written, but one thing remains the same: we as Lutherans are called to compassionate community. Riswold’s engaging prose invites readers into thoughtful conversation.
$11.99
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Cultivating Competence: The Ministry of Leadership Development
The challenges of leadership in the early twenty-first century require an all-hands-on-deck approach to ministerial leadership. The days of "born leaders" are behind us in this complex and fraught cultural season. Ministers must know how to grow in their leadership and to foster growth in others.
$26.00
Available August 19, 2025
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Illuminating Sermons: Curating Illustrations That Inspire
Good sermon illustrations are among a preacher's greatest needs. However, Carlos E. Wilton argues that where to find good illustrations is the wrong question. In Illuminating Sermons, Wilton offers practical wisdom about how preachers can curate their own materials that extend beyond sermon illustrations.
$29.00
Available September 9, 2025
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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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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
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Abiding in Amen: Prayer in a Secular Age
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.
$29.00
Available October 14, 2025
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That Divine and Most Excellent Gift: Martin Luther, Music, and the Arts
How is music a "divine and most excellent gift" of God, as Martin Luther called it in his preface to a 1538 music collection? This posthumous compilation of writing by scholar, teacher, and musician Mark P. Bangert explores Luther's theological views on music and how they might be both inspiration and model for believers today.
$29.00
Available October 28, 2025
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