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Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead
This volume develops robust, constructive, practical ethics of corpse care that address economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns for caring for the dead.
$26.00
Available January 3, 2023
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Freedom and Imagination: Trusting Christ in an Age of Bad Faith
Freedom and Imagination recovers faith as the theological heart of the human being's participation in the life of God, and imagination as faith's interpretive lens. Three areas of ministry and life are explored through the imagination of faith: biblical interpretation, proclamation, and Christian freedom.
$26.00
Available April 25, 2023
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Honestly: Telling the Truth about the Bible and Ourselves
It's no wonder modern Christians have trouble with the truth after living for so long with lies about the Bible. This book aims to set the record straight and encourage honest conversation about the Bible and ourselves. It explores a number of big topics through the lenses of truth and faith.
$23.00
Available January 24, 2023
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4D Formation: Exploring Vocation in Community
In 4D Formation: Exploring Vocation in Community, Drew Tucker builds on his definition of vocation as "meaningful, life-giving work for the world" to equip vocational explorers with the confidence and skills to examine, clarify, and affirm their purpose and identity, and ultimately to experience God's presence in and purpose for their lives.
$21.99
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Sacred Anthropology: Prophetic Radicalism for Pulpit and Pew
Sacred Anthropology aims to equip pastors to lead congregations in times of social crisis. Tyshawn Gardner envisions the pastor as a "sacred anthropologist," argues for prophetic radicalism as a pastoral paradigm, and challenges churches to be engaged in the political and social transformation of their community.
$22.99
Available October 25, 2022
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Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation
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.
$23.99
Available December 15, 2022
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The Holy and the Hybrid: Navigating the Church's Digital Reformation
In The Holy and the Hybrid: Navigating the Church's Digital Reformation, Ryan M. Panzer helps church leaders develop hybrid ministries through aligning the shared mission of the church with the shared values of our tech-shaped culture. The goal is to build communities that serve as the hands and feet of Christ simultaneously online and offline.
$21.99
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Blessing and Beseeching: Seventy Prayers Inspired by the Scriptures
Collected here are seventy new prayers that grew from Gail Ramshaw's close reading of the Bible in the quietest months of the pandemic. Surprises and riches are found on every page. By turns bold and humble, universal and deeply personal, Ramshaw's poetry in prayer will inspire individual reflection and enrich public worship settings alike.
$19.99
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Sustaining While Disrupting: The Challenge of Congregational Innovation
In Sustaining While Disrupting: The Challenge of Congregational Innovation, Frederick Douglas Powe Jr. and Lovett H. Weems Jr. show church leaders how to sustain and strengthen the churches they serve while guiding the critical innovation required to address a context vastly different from the one that current assumptions and behaviors fit.
$21.99
Available October 18, 2022
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The Visual Preacher: Proclaiming an Embodied Word
In The Visual Preacher: Proclaiming an Embodied Word, Steve Thomason's winsomely illustrated text shows preachers basic principles and visual techniques to create and use images that will make them even more effective communicators than they already are. Preachers need not be skilled artists or technological wizards to apply Thomason's ideas.
$19.99
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Lay Pastoral Care: A Narrative Approach
Pastoral Care: A Narrative Approach offers guidance for care companions across a spectrum of care. Grounded in narrative theory, Joretta L. Marshall and Christie Cozad Neuger describe practices--based on mutual learning, deepening spiritual growth, and collaborative support--that inform lay care companioning. Curriculum support is included.
$29.00
Available November 1, 2022
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The Art of Leading Change: Ten Perspectives on the Messiness of Ministry
The Art of Leading Change is all about people. We can't do the work God has called us to do without people, but it's those very people that make change difficult and messy. The book offers ten vital perspectives for leading change in churches and ministries. The path to change is never easy, but learning the art of change can improve the journey.
$22.99
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Joyful Singing: A Story of Lutheran Sacred Music in Texas
In this volume, Kolodziej presents the story of the Lutherans who undertook the daunting and uncertain work of carving out a new life in a new land, and of the music that accompanied them. This is the tenth in a series of monographs--Shaping American Lutheran Church Music--published by the Center for Church Music, Concordia University Chicago.
$21.00
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Divine Laughter: Preaching and the Serious Business of Humor
The authors look closely at both the cultural phenomenon of stand-up comedy and theories of humor, asking what preachers can learn from both. Divine Laughter brings the task of preaching into conversation with both the comedic parts of the Bible and the theological parts of the comedic in order to bring a new kind of life to preaching.
$19.99
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A Path to Belonging: Overcoming Clergy Loneliness
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.
$22.99
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For Every Matter under Heaven: Preaching on Special Occasions
In For Every Matter under Heaven: Preaching on Special Occasions, Beverly Zink-Sawyer and Donna Giver-Johnston offer a process for creating biblically grounded, relevant sermons for events that arise from calendars, celebrations, or circumstances by considering the occasion, the gathered listeners, and the ways God is at work in that season.
$19.99
Available December 8, 2022
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Called: Recovering Lutheran Principles for Ministry and Vocation
Called: Recovering Lutheran Principles for Ministry and Vocation traces Lutherans' views on ministerial call and constructively reorients the call to Luther's doctrine of vocation. The book provides insights to those considering the office of ministry and encourages all believers to live their spiritual priesthood in response to neighbors' needs.
$21.00
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Preaching to Those Walking Away
Preaching to Those Walking Away explores approaches to preaching typically not taught in seminaries and that reach the spiritual but not religious. N. Graham Standish integrates insights from postmodernism, multiple-intelligences and marketing theories, spiritual formation, counseling, brain research, TED Talks, and other disciplines.
$21.99
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Joyful Defiance: Death Does Not Win the Day
Joyful Defiance encourages readers to reflect on experiences of anxiety, anger, exhaustion, and grief, emotions not always welcomed in the Christian tradition. Lament is an act of faith in God that acknowledges pain and protests death. Joy is a counterstory and a truer tale, less a feeling than a way of being for the self and for the world.
$19.99
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The Cross in the Midst of Creation: Following Jesus, Engaging the Powers, Transforming the World
The Cross in the Midst of Creation asserts that the crucifixion is ongoing as institutional powers diminish human life and destroy creation, and that the resurrection is ongoing as faith overcomes despair and the Spirit equips people to follow Jesus and to struggle for a transformed world.
$26.00
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