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RELIGION

APRIL 2026

A Dream Eclipsed

The Fractured Quest for Greater Lutheran Unity

From his “front-row seat” as the ELCA’s first secretary, Lowell G. Almen tells the story of the ELCA’s birth, life, and growing pains as it sought to promote and embody Christian unity. A Dream Eclipsed is a memoir of the ELCA’s first three and a half decades told from the wealth of Almen’s personal and professional experience.

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Release Date: February 2025

9798889832058

226 pages

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Lutheran Study Bible 2/e

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

This Worship Matters handbook by Rev. Craig Mueller offers helpful guidance for preparing worship in your congregation, whether that preparation is done by a large worship committee, a small staff, or a group of volunteers. As worship leaders look ahead to worship next week or next year, Preparing the Assembly's Worship offers practical ideas and handy checklists, as well as questions for deeper reflection.

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Lutheran Study Bible, Second Edition, features the NRSVue translation and introductions, notes, and articles written by more than seventy Lutheran pastors and teaching theologians. Explore the Bible and its message through solid background material, unique Lutheran insights, and questions for reflection and discussion.

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Release Date: September 2025

2048 pages

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88 pages

AUD$: 28.99

Lutheran Study Bible 2/e

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

Lutheran Study Bible, Second Edition, features the NRSVue translation and introductions, notes, and articles written by more than seventy Lutheran pastors and teaching theologians. Explore the Bible and its message through solid background material, unique Lutheran insights, and questions for reflection and discussion.

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Bread for the Day

Daily Bible Readings and Prayers 2026

Bread for the Day is a daily-use devotional resource filled with rich treasures and is dated January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026. A brief scripture reading (NRSV Updated Edition texts) for each day following the daily lectionary developed by the Consultation on Common Texts and presented in Evangelical Lutheran Worship.

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Release Date: November 2025 B&W THROUGHOUT

9798889835936

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The Wounds Are the Witness

Black Faith Weaving Memory into Justice and Healing

Field Guide to Church of the Wild

In The Wounds Are the Witness, Yolanda Pierce, dean of Vanderbilt University Divinity School, weaves together her own memories, vignettes from Black life, and scenes from scripture, especially the passion of Christ. To work for liberation in a broken world, we cannot look away from crucified flesh. Bones from the Middle Passage, GI Bill benefits denied to Black veterans, women inmates shackled while giving birth: we must take all such wounds seriously.

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From Victoria Loorz, author of Church of the Wild, and Valerie Luna Serrels, spiritual guide and wild-church leader, comes a guide for all who long to reconnect their spirituality with the rest of the living world. Field Guide to Church of the Wild serves as a companion to a movement committed to restoring sacred relationship with Earth.

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Release Date: March 2025

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208 pages

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Disciples of White Jesus

The Radicalization of American Boyhood

White boys and men are dangerous. White boys and men are struggling.Disciples of White Jesus is a comprehensive look at the rise in radicalization among young white men in America, especially focused on the role of right-wing Christianity in the increase of religious-based hatred and violence. A must-read for parents, grandparents, educators, faith leaders, researchers, and all who care about the state of American families, boys themselves, and the safety of American society at large.

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The Prayer of Unwanting

How the Lord's Prayer Helps Us Get Over Ourselves--and Why That Might Be a Good Thing

With stories from scripture, whimsical anecdotes, and pastoral wisdom, Williams guides us into profound interaction with each line of the Lord’s Prayer. Questions and ideas for ways to experience the Lord’s Prayer can facilitate and deepen group conversation and individual prayer. There’s power in the Lord’s Prayer, Williams testifies, even if it’s a power we have yet to understand.

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Letting Go, Finding You

Uncover Your Truest Self through the Enneagram and Contemplation

A More Perfect Union A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community

Hunter Mobley has been an Enneagram teacher for years, working with people who have read all the books and completed all the programs, only to find they are still getting caught in the same patterns of behavior. Too many of us are stuck on the treadmill of consumer spirituality, clinging to the illusion that we are in charge of our own spiritual growth and development.

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America is at a pivotal crossroads. The soul of our nation is at stake and in peril. In A More Perfect Union, Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, reimagines a contemporary version of the Beloved Community that will inspire and unite Americans across generations, geographic and class divides, racial and gender differences, faith traditions, and ideological leanings.

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Church Camp

Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation

In Church Camp, longtime camp speaker Cara Meredith exposes the ways in which white Evangelical camps sold individualized versions of Jesus to impressionable youth. Campers were forced to “sit with their sin” so they could fully understand God’s conditional love. Camp life emotionally coaxed campers into making a formative commitment to Christ (and therefore to white Evangelical subculture).

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Read the Bible like a Mystic Contemplative Wisdom and the Word

The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism, reminds us that there is an ancient “third way” of approaching the Bible: reading scripture like a mystic. This contemplative approach to the Bible understands that much of the sacred text was never meant to be taken literally, yet this approach maintains that spiritual wisdom, guidance in prayer, and encouragement for meditation are encoded throughout the sacred text.

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Veracity and Verse

A Preacher's Reflections and Poems on Faith and Truth

The Secret Despair of the Secular Left

Our Fraying Connections with Our Communities, Our Bodies, and the Earth

As the first Black senior minister at Riverside Church in New York City, James A. Forbes Jr. shattered barriers of Black leadership in mainline Christian denominations. Through his powerful sermons, Forbes brought the rich preaching styles of the African American church to white pulpits, leaving an indelible mark on the landscape of progressive Christianity.

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What is lost when we lose our religion? Our traditions? Connection and community? In The Secret Despair of the Secular Left, Ana Levy-Lyons seeks to find out. Levy-Lyons, a rabbinical student with a previous 18-year career as a Unitarian Universalist minister, shares insights into what goes missing when we lose our religious underpinnings and deeply held beliefs and practices.

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The First Advent in Palestine

Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexity of Hope

Trusted theologian and community organizer Kelley Nikondeha brings a much-needed cultural perspective on the Advent story and the call for justice in the Middle East. This paperback edition includes questions for reflection and discussion as well as a new afterword from the author, which offers updates on the lives of those featured in the book and on the war in Gaza and the Middle East.

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The Missionary Kids

Unmasking the Myths of White Evangelicalism

As sidekicks to their parents’ and churches’ ambitions, missionary kids (MKs) face questions many white Christians eventually ask: about God’s calling, sacrifice, faith, privilege, racism, abuse, and what belonging means. In The Missionary Kids, Fletcher reveals how MKs have intimate access to the movement’s logic, longings, and ideals.

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Souvenirs of the Holy Encountering God Through Everyday Objects

We Pray Freedom

Liturgies and Rituals from the Freedom Church of the Poor

In Souvenirs of the Holy, Brock helps us see everyday items not merely as objects gathering dust but as keepsakes from the literal and spiritual journeys we have taken. With pastoral presence, humor, and poetic grace, she helps us tap into the unseen realms underneath the things we take for granted: a coin from our father holding complex yearnings for love, the scar on our arm speaking of survival, the quilt on the bed holding scraps we’ve inherited

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Prayer has long sustained movements for social change. Ritual gives shape to our desire for justice, and liturgy lends power to our work. In We Pray Freedom, we learn from activists and movement builders the songs, stories, and ritual practices that keep them going for the long haul.

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Lost, Hidden, Small

Finding the Way of Jesus Where We Never Think to Look

Living faithfully in a culture of violence, hierarchy, and supremacy, Murphy maintains, means following Jesus into weakness, loss, and even despair. But this is not some bitter prescription for a dying church. It’s the story of how sometimes what seems undesirable actually satisfies. Sometimes what looks as if it will diminish you ends up being what saves.

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Embracing the Old Witch in the Woods

Liberating Feminine Wisdom from Christian Patriarchy

Embracing the Old Witch in the Woods is a road map for readers to challenge limiting beliefs, confront systemic injustices, and reclaim their inherent worth and wisdom. When we reclaim feminine wisdom, we liberate ourselves, our communities, and our souls, gaining strength and resilience through our connection to ourselves and to each other.

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Serving Up Scripture

How to Interpret the Bible for Yourself and Others

Light for the Way Seeking Simplicity, Connection, and Repair in a

Broken World

For five decades, Sojourners magazine has been deeply engaged with the world while calling its readers to a new kind of life and faith rooted in justice and peace. This legacy stands in stark contrast to our culture, which too often links a person’s value to the amount they produce or consume, pushing each of us to do and be more, fraying our connections and deadening our souls

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You don’t have to rely on other people’s biblical interpretations that may feel wrong or questionable. Serving Up Scripture puts the Bible squarely back in the hands of anyone who’s ever felt it’s been abused or its message mischaracterized. Which is to say, in the hands of up-and-coming chefs, or interpreters, just like you.

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The Way of the Desert Elders

How the Wisdom of Ancient Christians Sustains Us Today

For all that bewilders and bedevils us, the desert mothers and fathers can help us face our circumstances and ourselves. In The Way of the Desert Elders, Lisa Colón DeLay asks: What if desert elders from more than a millennium ago could walk beside us and nourish our spirits now?

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Understanding Karma

Rethinking Destiny, Reincarnation and Free Will

Although belief in karma is widespread today, found in the teachings of established religions and New Age groups alike, it is often misunderstood by both critics and believers. It is seen by some as fatalistic and lacking in compassion when confronted with suffering and misfortune, and by others as a way of indulging their curiosity about past lives. But is it possible to explore karma in a way that avoids these extremes, whilst also taking seriously the idea of individual freedom? In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Jens Heisterkamp draws on the work of Rudolf Steiner to present an old idea in a new way. He looks at how the idea of karma has developed in eastern and western cultures and the challenges it poses to our modern scientific outlook, and he rejects the view that karma can be a form of punishment.

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The Calendar of the Soul

An Inner Journey through the Year

A combined edition of Karl Koenig's The Calendar of the Soul and An Inner Journey Through the Year. Karl Koenig meditated intensely on the 52 weekly verses of Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul. He often encouraged his colleagues to find inner strength from the verses, and wrote The Calendar of the Soul, which forms part one of this new combined volume, as a guide for them, drawing out the patterns through the course of the year. There are also some lecture notes and additional essays covering the Winter and Christmas Verses, Forgetting and Losing, and more. Part two comprises 52 naive, full-colour artistic sketches that Koenig created in 1940 to accompany each verse during his internment on the Isle of Man. For each weekly verse of the Soul Calendar, there's a picture which describes an experience of the inner situation.

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The Heartbeat of the Year

The Epistles of the Act of Consecration

The epistles of the Act of Consecration are special prayers that are heard at the beginning and end of the communion service of The Christian Community. They follow the path of the Christian year and, through subtle changes in mood and tone, reflect the changing seasons and the accompanying festivals. In this profound book, retired Christian Community priest Gunther Dellbrugger gathers these prayers together for the first time. Dellbrugger uses a range of sources from the Bible and poetry to examples taken from real life to bring fresh perspectives to the epistles that help readers become more alert to the delicate changes of these prayers as they progress throughout the year.

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The Age of the Archangel Michael Reflections on the True Spirit of Our Time

Emil Bock, one of the founders of The Christian Community, was well known for his lectures on the age of the archangel Michael. This idea, found in the work of Rudolf Steiner, describes how periods in human history are guided in turn by seven archangels, with each period lasting for around 350 years. Since the end of the eighteenth century this responsibility has passed to the archangel Michael.

This engaging book brings together seventeen of Bock’s lectures, most of which are presented for the first time in English. In them he discusses the challenges facing humanity in the age of Michael: the need to develop greater selflessness, to cultivate a broader and more inclusive view of humanity, and the importance of spiritualising our thinking in order to deepen our relationship to Christ.

Spanning the period from 1923 to 1957, the lectures reflect the difficulties faced by The Christian Community before and after the Second World War, and Bock’s efforts to awaken in his audience courage and confidence in the true spirit of the age. Their significance, however, extends beyond their historical context and speaks to many of the same challenges that we face today.

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The

Incarnation of Christ A Spiritual Embryology

In a series of lectures that he gave on the incarnation of Christ, Rudolf Steiner compared the period of Christ’s life between his baptism and crucifixion to that of prenatal human development. But what did he mean by this, and how can an understanding of human embryology help us to understand the incarnation of Christ?

Retired Christian Community priest Pearl Goodwin is uniquely qualified as a student of both embryology and the work of Rudolf Steiner to expand on this intriguing insight. In this fascinating book, Goodwin outlines the stages of a spiritual embryology and goes beyond the crucifixion to argue that the creation of a physical human body is mirrored in the creation of Christ’s resurrection body.

This original approach reveals a process that embraces both the spiritual and earthly aspects of our existence. It will be of interest to members of The Christian Community and those wanting to deepen their understanding of this important aspect of Christ’s life.

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Gospel as Letter

A Commentary on 1 Thessalonians

Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians enacts a historical paradigm shift by unfolding in written form that which was previously only performed orally in early Christianity. This media revolution in Christianity begins about 50 CE and will lead successively to the collection of twenty-seven writings in the New Testament.

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Faithful Exchange

The Economy as It's Meant to Be

Old Words for a New World

Debates about capitalism versus socialism reflect a deep divide in American society, in both the broader culture and the church. While those attracted to liberation theology, radical orthodoxy, and some kinds of Anabaptist theologies support forms of socialism, many others continue to believe capitalism is the best real-world option.

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Walter Brueggemann has been so effective for so long precisely because he has consistently called upon the church to see beyond the taken-for-granted realities it confronts by imagining God’s alternative reality; to recognize that the bars of its entrapment were social constructs and could just as easily be deconstructed so we could be once again enchanted by God’s good news.

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Love in a Time of Climate Change Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice,

Revised Edition

In the revised edition of Love in a Time of Climate Change, Sharon Delgado offers hope amid the urgency and magnitude of the rapidly advancing climate emergency. Delgado guides readers on a faith journey inspired by love of God and neighbor, equipping them to respond to the climate emergency that wreaks havoc on humanity, especially the poor; threatens future generations; and devastates creation.

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Organizing Life Leadership and Human Flourishing

The explosion of literature on leadership is also because effective leadership is a complex and difficult task that requires understanding the organization one is seeking to lead, understanding its people, understanding its mission and goals, understanding one’s self and others, and understanding the dynamic relationships among all of these as they change over time.

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God's Most Earnest Purpose

Luther on Fearing, Trusting, and Loving God

Your Soul Is Required

The Theology and Sermons

of

Ngien probes the depths of Luther’s writing on the primary texts of the Small and Large Catechisms, uncovering a Trinitarian grammar of faith grounded in the Creed and further explicated in the Ten Commandments and the Lord’s Prayer. “God’s most earnest purpose is to be our God,” Luther writes in his commentary on the first commandment.

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Scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. argues that we often view the women and men who surrounded Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. too narrowly–primarily as followers of King’s lead. Yes, they were deeply committed disciples of the movement. Yet, they were far more. The collected sermons of Cordy Tindell “C.T.” Vivian remind us that Vivian stood among the impactful figures of the civil rights era as a deep thinker of Christian theology and activist-faith.

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Curious Characters

Old Testament Figures Who Still Speak to Us Today

Curious Characters helps us get to know Noah, Sarah, Joseph, Ruth, Naomi, Saul, Jonathan, Michal, and Jonah. By setting their stories in dialogue with Jewish, Christian, and secular novels, poems, and plays, the author leads us to a deeper understanding of the biblical stories.

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God in Translation

The Theological Gifts of Exploring Biblical Languages

Hebrew scholar and pastor Doreen M. McFarlane probes beneath the surface of familiar Bible passages, exploring how the original Hebrew allows us to recognize deeper truths about the nature of God and our relationships with God and each other.

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The World of the New Testament Encountering Texts in Context

Doing Well by Doing Good

The Missional Benefits of

Church-Based Economic Enterprises

Doing Well by Doing Good combines theological analysis with case studies of four congregations, each of which has addressed the challenges of reimagining mission and finance in distinctive ways. Barnicle guides readers through the contextually grounded experiences of each congregation, offering insight into how very different approaches share similar themes.

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The World of the New Testament is a concise, up-to-date textbook on the historical, literary, social, and religious world(s) in which the New Testament writings were produced. A study tool for students of biblical studies, theology, and religious studies, the volume gives an overview of pertinent information needed to understand the various worldviews of New Testament writings, as well as guidance and resources for more in-depth study.

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Power and the Powers

ower and the Powers is divided into three parts. Part 1 addresses the many powers that oppress; part 2, the powers that stand with the oppressed against the oppressors; and part 3, God as the one Power who overcomes all others. This is an arbitrary business, to say the least, for Walter Brueggemann has never really been concerned about the lowercase-p powers.

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The

Freedom of a

Christian Luther Study Edition, Revised and Expanded

Perhaps no work of Martin Luther so captures the revolutionary zeal and theological boldness of his vision as does The Freedom of a Christian. Yet, prior to the initial publication in 2008 of Mark Tranvik’s new translation of this treatise, it was not easily accessible. Now, this revised and expanded edition of Tranvik’s eminently accessible work brings alive the social, historical, and ecclesial content of Luther’s treatise.

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Disciplinary Tensions in World Christianity

Methodology, Power Dynamics, and the History of Religions

Interpreting the Self Dimensions of Conversion in Augustine's Confessions

Reflecting on these strains, antagonisms, and impasses in the academic study of World Christianity, this volume probes the tensions involved in Christian interactions with other religions, the power dynamics implicated in Christianity’s spread, and the field’s evolving set of methodologies for addressing these issues.

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Interpreting the Self addresses these issues by reading Confessions through the lens of Bernard Lonergan’s dynamic account of the self as the subject of ongoing conversions–an understanding that emerged in large part through Lonergan’s lifelong dialogue with Augustine’s thought.

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These Words We Speak

Law and Gospel in Contemporary Conversations

Through careful analysis and a clear-eyed view of the Lutheran landscape from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Borrasso demonstrates how important it is to ground all our words in the work of the Holy Spirit

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Listening for Liberation Sound

Practices of Intercultural Spiritual Care

Pastoral and spiritual care is shifting toward intercultural and decolonial models. However, Mindy McGarrah Sharp argues that the field’s resources to help practitioners develop skills for doing decolonial work are lagging behind. In Listening for Liberation, McGarrah Sharp helps fill the gap so that practitioners can engage with more expansive care models, using the foundational practice of listening.

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A Home for All

Embodied Reconciliation

Congregational Healing as Pastoral Care

In A Home for All, Laura Stivers helps readers imagine a world where housing is accessible, affordable, and life-giving. Part of the Building a Moral Economy series, this book equips readers for generative action toward ecological, equitable, and democratic forms of economic life that promote housing justice.

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Leanna K. Fuller notes that conflict is a pervasive feature of contemporary churches. Faith communities today face increasingly complex and difficult dynamics such as same-sex marriage, immigration, church-state relationships, and many more–both internally and in the surrounding culture.

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An African Introduction to the New Testament

An African Introduction to the New Testament, written by a wide array of scholars from across Africa, is the first of its kind to engage every book in the New Testament from the African context. Each of the chapters offers a thematic engagement of the book in light of sociocultural and religious heritage.

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Enough Is Enough

Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology

Capitalism's excessive patterns of production and consumption are fueling the biggest existential threat to humanity: climate change. The central assumption of our current economic system puts economic growth before all other values. But infinite growth on a finite planet is fundamentally impossible. We must embrace the idea of degrowth. With a name like "degrowth," misunderstandings are easy to come by, like assuming degrowth is about austerity or population control; on the contrary, degrowth means rejecting economic growth as the measure for social progress, such that we might grow other parts of our social life and ourselves. The problem isn't too few resources or too many people; it's capitalism's system of growth.

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Shalom Ethics

Loving Your Neighbor as Yourself

Obedience to Jesus's second love command yields a life characterized by such practices as voluntary poverty, communal living, shared life with marginalized people, Gandhian nonviolence, and refusal to participate in the violence of the state. Shalom Ethics offers an exposition of the second love command. The command is best read as an injunction to pursue neighbor inclusion in shalom, the state of a community in which the sustenance, safety, freedom, and dignity of all are secure. Thomas Crisp takes up the question of what normative ethical theory is suggested by the command and related love teachings in the Jesus tradition, the investigation of which yields the book's focal love ethic.

American Christians and Poverty Myths

Beyond the Veil of Meritocracy

As a sociologist, Mark T. Mulder argues that evangelicals too often misunderstand the fundamental causes of poverty. Many believe that the way out of poverty is for people to behave differently. However, such understanding fails to acknowledge the structural impediments that haunt millions. Yet, progressive Christians, who tend to recognize such structural factors, often implement similar responses as evangelicals. Either way, Mulder argues that many Christians hamper their attempts to foster justice as part of a Christian response to poverty. American Christians and Poverty Myths offers a vivid, yet data-based, portrait of causes of poverty in the United States. Mulder crafts a rich tapestry of historical trends that helps evangelical and progressive Christians alike better understand the complex matrix of factors and respond more effectively.

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The Social Challenge

‘What underlies the entire thrust and direction of these lectures is that we are not dealing with some arbitrary programme or scheme; we are not dealing with the intentions or opinions of this or that social class. Rather, it is a matter of tapping into what prompts the deepest, most realistic impetus for the coming decades in human evolution…’

In the shadow of a war-torn Europe, philosopher and spiritual thinker Rudolf Steiner offered a radical and human-centered alternative to the political and economic upheaval of his time. In this seminal lecture series, Steiner introduces the concept of social threefolding – a visionary framework that perceives society as consisting of three interdependent realms, encompassing cultural freedom, legal equality and economic solidarity.

With clear-eyed critiques of both capitalism and socialism, Steiner proposes a path that honours individual dignity, principled cooperation and true social renewal. From fair wages and educational reform to property ethics and global cooperation, his insights remain strikingly relevant to the modern world. Rooted in anthroposophy and born out of the post-World War I crisis, these lectures are a clarion call for a humane, just and spiritually conscious society – a contemporary guide for those seeking new answers to today’s challenges.

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The Riddle of Humanity

The Spiritual Background to Human History

In these foundational lectures, Rudolf Steiner presents a bold and spiritually alive understanding of human evolution and our deep connection to the cosmos. Far more than a philosophical inquiry, this work is a challenge to the assumptions of materialism and an appeal to reawaken to our spiritual tasks.

Speaking to members of the Anthroposophical Society, Steiner explores the dual nature of the human being – cosmic and earthly – and the subtle interplay between past incarnations and the transformation of the body. He offers profound insights into the evolution of the senses, the creative power of aesthetics, and how human life is interwoven with cosmic forces.

Through vivid metaphysical descriptions and rigorous esoteric thought, Steiner outlines how the soul evolves across lifetimes, shaped not only by earthly experiences but by celestial rhythms and spiritual laws. He emphasizes the vital role of inner development – meditation, moral striving and self-knowledge –as the pathway to freedom and true understanding.

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The Destinies of Individuals and Nations

Amid the darkness of World War I, Rudolf Steiner offered a profoundly spiritual response to the tragedy of global conflict. With compassion and clarity, each of these lectures begins with a reverent verse honouring the fallen, before unfolding a deeper perspective on the unseen forces shaping human destiny. Steiner reveals the workings of spiritual beings, karmic patterns and the guiding influence of the Christ Impulse and Michaelic Spirits - forces he saw as central to both individual lives and the destiny of nations. From the prophetic nature of dreams to the cosmic significance of our thinking, feeling and willing, these lectures illuminate how the spiritual and material realms intertwine. Steiner explores the stages of spiritual perceptionimagination, inspiration and intuition - and their role in awakening human consciousness.

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Rosicrucian Wisdom

These inspirational lectures offer a compelling introduction to a modern path of spiritual development rooted in esoteric Christianity. Rather than drawing solely from historical traditions, Steiner presents a renewed spiritual science - anthroposophy - based on firsthand research. Rudolf Steiner outlines the Rosicrucian path as a spiritual approach suited to the consciousness of our time - one that engages both the heart and the intellect while remaining deeply practical. He guides us through seven stages of initiation, exploring the evolution of human consciousness, karma, reincarnation, and the hidden dimensions of Christian mysteries. At the centre of this path lies a profound understanding of Christ as a cosmic being, whose sacrifice at Golgotha represents a pivotal moment in both human and cosmic history. Steiner emphasizes that spiritual knowledge should not remain abstract or purely contemplative.

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The Inner Nature of Music and the Experiences of Tone

7 lectures in various cities, December 3, 1906 – March 16, 1923 (CW 283) "A tone is at the foundation of everything in the physical world." This is one of many astonishing statements made by Rudolf Steiner in this collection of seven lectures on the inner realities of music. These lectures are an unusual treasure, since they are the only two groups of lectures that Steiner gave primarily on music, other than the lecture cycle for the tone eurythmy course, Eurythmy as Visible Music. In the first group of three lectures, given in 1906, Steiner explains why music affects the human soul so powerfully. Music has always held a special position among the arts because it is the only art form whose archetype, or source, lies not in the physical world, as with architecture, sculpture, and painting, but purely in the spiritual world-the souls true home.

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Necessity and Freedom

Abounding in lively anecdotes and fresh insights, these lectures draw the reader into a rich contemplation on the nature of necessity and freedom in human life and in the world. Rudolf Steiner weaves together seemingly disparate elements while resolving contradictions into a higher unity, showing us that, far from being mutually exclusive, necessity and freedom are intimately interwoven in the intricate tapestry of life.

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Angels Speak

The

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Contemplative Beholding A Way of

Life and Love

A year after the burning of the first Goetheanum, during the eight days of the Christmas Conference 1923⁄24, Rudolf Steiner, together with the 800 people present, laid the Foundation Stone “in our hearts” as a meditation. Every day at ten o’clock in the morning, and on the last day also in the evening nine times in total he spoke the verses, invoking the angelic hierarchies, allowing their voices to sound for us in the spirit.

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Joel Upton isn’t interested in presenting a theory or argument. Instead, he invites readers to accompany him on a journey of encounter, engagement and reflection. On this path readers will find ways to focus, intensify and deepen a shared capacity for contemplative beholding (the act of being still and quiet) not only with works of art, but as a way of life.

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Earthly and Cosmic Man

CW 133

Vistas of primordial cosmic happenings, of ages of gray antiquity in human history which, nevertheless, shed clearest light upon our present age, are opened up with particular vividness in these lectures given to members of the Anthroposophical Society–wit h certain interruptions, but in constantly recurring rhythm–in Berlin, where Rudolf Steiner made his home for many years between continual traveling.

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The Seasonal Festivals as Soul Experience

The Human Being in Relation to Individual Spiritual Beings

“The true value of the Anthroposophical Society can only be assessed by verifying whether it understands not only dead anthroposophy, which concerns itself with what is past, but whether it also understands living anthroposophy. Living anthroposophy can also be a sum of flaming sparks! But these sparks of fire will be inside a temple that is not made of external material.

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From the History of the Dornach Hill...

Marie Steiner-von Sivers and the Development of the Arts at the GoetheanumReminiscences, Biography, Documentation -1902-1948

Focusing on Marie Steiner-von Sivers’ distinctive collaboration with Rudolf Steiner, From the History of the Dornach Hill… offers an engaging, lively narrative of the early decades of the anthroposophical movement. Utilizing eye-witness accounts and primary sources, Angela Locher creates vivid images of the developing arts at the Goetheanum – in particular eurythmy, speech formation and the dramatic arts

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Seraphim of Sarov

Discover the beauty, power, and sacrifice of a Russian Orthodox Saint. Margarita Woloschin’s narrative of the life of Seraphim of Sarov, translated into English here for the first time, was published in Moscow in 1913, just ten years after Sarov’s canonization by the Russian Orthodox Church in July of 1903.

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Living Renewal

Studies in Liturgy, Number and John's Gospel (1925-1982)

Building on his existing works of contemporary Christian research, Living Renewal gathers Rudolf Frieling’s previouslyuntranslated articles and essays on the nature and practise of Christian worship and the mysteries of John’s Gospel. This original publication – essential reading for anyone interested in modern theology – is a welcome addition to Christian Community literature.

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Love

The Mysterious Logic of the Heart

The word love has become so hackneyed that it can mean almost anything. Yet the concept or idea of love remains one of most unfathomable mysteries of human life. Here, in five carefully sculpted chapters, Pietro Archiati takes up the challenge to illuminate and expand upon our understanding of this most fundamental and unique quality of human existence, beginning with the great themes of ‘Love and Hate’

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The Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century

An Imagination, The Occult Significance of the 12 Years from 1933 to 1945 in the Light of Spiritual Science

On the eve of the 33rd anniversary of its publication, The Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century remains an exceptional work. On the one hand, the author offers a pioneering, firsthand testimony of Rudolf Steiner’s prophetic statements regarding the ‘new Christ Revelation’. On the other, he presents his own findings, based on Imaginative consciousness, of ‘the Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century’.

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Angel Thinking Consciousness, Meditation and Human Destiny

There is a tradition, traceable to Aristotle and leading to Rudolf Steiner, that seeks to establish metaphysics as a science. Connecting with this noetic practise, Steffen Hartmann argues that the sure path of personal development begins with pure thought and meditation. Only then, under the right conditions, does it lead to spiritual experience.

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Jesus and Christ

How can we meet the real Jesus today? Friedrich Rittelmeyer (1872-1938) – a well-known Protestant preacher of his day who helped found The Christian Community – presents us with the modern seeker’s path. A thoroughly revised translation of his Jesus (1912) traces the story of mankind’s longing. On the way, Nietzsche’s trenchant critique of Christianity is answered as intellectual honesty demands

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Hermann Beckh, A Celebration

Items from Professor Beckh's Literary Estate with Essays and Appreciations

The universal scholar Hermann Beckh (1875-1937), Orientalist and Christian priest, 'carried in his soul love for the Word, love for the stars, and love for music'. A long-overdue reassessment of his life's work is presented here, marking the completed publication of his Collected Works in English. Featuring previously unknown items from his literary estate, appreciations by contemporary colleagues and results of current research, this celebration significantly contributes to our understanding of Beckh's achievements. Such a comprehensive 'Renaissance man' as Professor Beckh is rare in an age of specialists.

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Sophia: Goddess of WIsdom and Guardian of the Earth

Over time I realized that Sophia has long since united herself with the human being. It became apparent to me that her sphere of being has become the sphere of the human soul. With a strong emphasis on personal inquiry, Karsten Massei provides a unique guide to inner pathways that lead to Sophia, using spiritual writings, meditations and imagery. He reveals Sophia as a goddess who embodies diverse aspects of ancient creative deities - such as Isis, Gaia, Athene and Persephonewho have accompanied humanity through the ages. Though each journey toward her is personal, they share a common goal: to deepen our understanding of life and infuse it with wisdom.

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Supersensory Perception

Foundations, Methods, Applications

Is there such a thing as a supersensory world? If so, can it be exploredand how can the findings of such spiritual research be verified? Frank Burdich, a trained scientist and longtime schoolteacher, began developing subtle perceptions of supersensory realities through dedicated meditation and spiritual practice. His personal experiences led him to recognize the limits of a strictly materialist worldview - limits, he argues, that we impose on ourselves but can transcend. In Supersensory Perception, Burdich offers a systematic investigation of spiritual worlds and processes, enriched with vivid anecdotes and personal insights. He presents accessible entry points into supersensory experience - such as the atmosphere in a church or hospital, or the differing effects of various foods - and connects them to subtle bodies, elemental beings, angels, and even the souls of the deceased.

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