Mae and Gerty and the Mater with Mater
By Jane Yolen, Ariel Stemple, John Ledda"I want to be strong for the right reasons." Kiki has watched her mama prac�ce karate for a long �me, and now she wants to learn too. She wants to become strong and steady like a mountain. The bullies at school are strong for the wrong reasons. They make Kiki feel small.
But today at her first karate lesson, everything changes. Awardwinning author Jane Yolen joins forces with debut author Ariel Stemple in this picture book about reclaiming strength, confidence, and peace through mar�al arts.
This lyrical story of self-empowerment at a mar�al arts studio is woven around the poe�c lines of Yolens well-known poem "Karate Kid," used by educators and librarians for decades. Backmater includes personal notes from the authors about how this story came to be and how mar�al arts helped save Stemple who was bullied as a child.
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By Elaine Vickers, Erica SalcedoMae is fed up with her parents thinking her younger sister, Gerty, is a science genius.
But as Mae learns that science is all about asking ques�ons and trying new things, she realizes that she can be a scien�st too and joins her sister to explore all types of mater.
A humorous and hear�elt introduc�on to the science of mater.
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The Star in the Christmas Play
By Lynne MarieThis endearing Christmas story for ages 4 to 8 will resonate with children who are s�ll learning to be comfortable in their own skin.
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Violet and the Jurassic Land Exhibit
By Jen MaliaThe Infinity Rainbow Club is volunteering at the local natural history museum where Violet's parents work.
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Lullaby for the King
By Nikki Grimes
With glitering poetry and stunning watercolor artwork, Lullaby for the King ushers readers into the awe and wonder of the Christmas story.
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What If I Can't Explain God?
By Jennifer GrantGod is mysterious and difficult to explain. And that's actually okay!
Brown Girls Rule
By Ashok BankerAn empowering acclama�on for girls bearing melanin of all kinds, Brown Girls Rule centres and upli�s girls of colour in an inspiring poem
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Violet and the Jurassic Land Exhibit
By Jen MaliaThe Infinity Rainbow Club is volunteering at the local natural history museum where Violet's parents work.
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Remembering Sundays with Grandpa
By Lauren H. KersteinRemembering Sundays with Grandpa illustrates how even when someone is no longer part of the physical world, their love lives on forever.
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Peg Gets Crackin'
By Jo RenfroA humorous story about ge�ng out of your comfort zone and discovering the wonder of the world.
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Searching for Home
By Chantal Bourgonje
Milkweed for Monarchs
By Christine Van ZandtAUD$: 39.99
When Noa can't find any friends in his home, he goes off in search of a new home one with friends.
Every year, monarch buterflies migrate to warmer climates for overwintering months.
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Journey to the Stars
By Laurie Wallmark
A powerful story of hope about a woman who fought against all odds to become the first Indian American female astronaut.
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Connor and the Taekwondo Tournament
By Jen MaliaPerseverance, thought Connor. To not give up even when it is hard to keep going.
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What Makes You Bloom
Cul�va�ng a Prac�ce for Connec�ng with Your Divine Self
By Kevin Miguel Garcia, Jacqueline J. LewisGet ready to heal from your past, get real about the present, and imagine a delicious future by rebuilding a living prac�ce that actually works for you. So many of us are leaving conserva�ve faith tradi�ons behind, rightly saying goodbye to toxic theology, bigotry, and harm. But in the process, we o�en lose our rhythm of gathering, prayer, and worship. We may even lose our sense of connec�on to God. And we think it's our fault.
What
Makes
You
Bloom is a guide to crea�ng your new spiritual prac�ce a�er your life or faith has fallen apart. When going to church, praying, and reading your Bible just doesn't cut it or outright disturbs you, this book will show you how to cul�vate new, meaningful spiritual prac�ces like s�llness, presence, breath, and movement that will help you overcome the pain of your past and root yourself in the present. Through stories, insights, and guided medita�ons, Garcia explains how the goal of every spiritual prac�ce should be about the atainment of peace about finding what truly makes you bloom.
Grieving Room
Making Space for All the Hard Things a�er Death and Loss
By Leanne FriesenWhen we lose someone we love, we are forever changed. When our person dies, our grief needs room. People long to reduce the enormity of our grief. In Grieving Room, Friesen writes with vulnerability, wisdom, and somehow even wit about the stark and sacred lessons learned at deathbeds and funerals. When someone dies, we need room for imperfect goodbyes, she writes, and room for a changing faith. We need room for regret and room to rage at the world. Room for hard holidays and room in our schedules. In this poignant account of a sister's mourning and a pastor's journey, Friesen pushes back against a world that wants to minimize our sorrow and avoid our despair. She helps those of us walking with the grieving figure out what to say and what not to say, and she offers prac�cal ways to create ample space for every emo�on and experience. Reflec�on ques�ons, prac�ces, and prayers at the end of the book offer guidance and ideas for individuals and groups. In a world that wants to rush toward closure and healing, Grieving Room gives us permission to let loss linger.
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Holy Runaways
By Matthias RobertsPsychotherapist Mathias Roberts reaches out to those who, like him, want to understand the religion they’ve run from and erect a new faith on firmer founda�ons.
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The Spirituality of Transforma�on, Joy, and Jus�ce
By Patrick Saint-JeanDiscover how roo�ng our beliefs and prac�ces in rela�onship leads us to transform ourselves and the world.
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The Just Kitchen
By Derrick WestonJoin the call of a just kitchen: where meal prepara�on is as much an act of resistance against injus�ce as marches and protests.
Radiant Rebellion
By Karen WalrondJoin Karen Walrond, author of The Lightmaker's Manifesto, in this intriguing inves�ga�on into how we can reclaim aging, cul�vate joy, and resist ageism.
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God's Monsters
By Esther J. Hamori
The Bible is teeming with monsters. Giants tromp through the land of milk and honey; Leviathan swims through the wine-dark sea.
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Accidental
By David W. PetersAccidental injury is the leading cause of death for Americans under forty-five.
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We Become What We Normalize
By David DarkA book that is both a cultural cri�que of the state of our country and a robust summons to resist complicity.
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The Spirituality of Dreaming
By Kelly BulkeleyEnhance your dreaming with groundbreaking research and wisdom from vivid dreamers throughout history, sacred texts, and the present day.
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A Different Kind of Fast
By Christine Valters PaintnerFas�ng is not just the physical prac�ce of giving up food. Fas�ng can also be a way to combat our culture of endless distrac�ons and busyness.
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Hun�ng Magic Eels
By Richard BeckWe live in a post-Chris�an world characterized by doubt and skep�cism.
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Winter Grief, Summer Grace
By James E. MillerGrieving the loss of a loved one is an experience with many seasons and stages.
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Psalms of My People
By lenny duncanIf you want to understand the Black experience in the US, you have to understand hip-hop.
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Black Women, Ivory Tower
By Jasmine L. HarrisA first-of-its-kind compelling explora�on of what it means to be a Black woman in higher educa�on.
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Everything Good about God Is True
By Bruce Reyes-ChowYou know what you don't believe: about the Bible, the church, and God.
The Rise of Rage
By Julie A. Christiansen
Of all the human emo�ons, anger is probably the most misunderstood.
Forged
By T.C. MooreFollowing the way of Jesus should lead us into authen�c and life-giving rela�onships.
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Cancer Sucks, but You'll Get Through It
By Michelle RapkinInfused with hope, laughter, and advice, this book curates personal experience with priceless learning from interviews with cancer survivors around the country.
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Surviving God
By Grace Ji-Sun KimWho is God when we see God through the eyes of survivors? Many books have dealt with sexual abuse scandals in the church and the role of pastoral care for survivors.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels and Miracles Coloring Book
By Amy NewmarkRelax, de-stress and be inspired by this unique collec�on of stories and illustra�ons from Chicken Soup for the Soul.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
By Amy NewmarkChicken Soup for the Soul solicits and publishes stories from the LGBTQ community and from people of all ethnici�es, na�onali�es, and religions.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Time for Christmas
By Amy NewmarkGet into the holiday spirit with these magical stories of family and friends... giving and sharing... joy and blessings!
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Chicken Soup for the Soul 30th Anniversary Edi�on
By Amy NewmarkRediscover the power of inspira�on with �meless stories about the everyday miracles that illuminate the best of the human spirit.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels and the Miraculous
By Amy NewmarkThese true personal stories of angels, miracles, answered prayers, and the unexplainable will deepen your faith and strengthen your hope.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: All You Need Is Love
By Amy NewmarkAll You Need Is Love - it's a common cliche and a popular, iconic song. But is it true?
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Chris�ans and War A Brief History
By A. James ReimerReligion, and specifically Chris�anity, has o�en been blatantly invoked to support or oppose war and violence of all kinds. Chris�ans are deeply divided over whether and when such violence is jus�fiable. James Reimer offers a fair presenta�on of these controversial standpoints, including the classical Chris�an a�tudes toward war: crusading or holy war, just war, and pacifism.
His though�ul survey of Chris�an teachings and prac�ces on issues of war, violence, and the state takes readers from classical Greco-Roman �mes to postmodernity. Arguing that the churchs responses to war can only be understood through the churchs changing rela�onship to culture, Reimer concludes with an analysis of the contemporary debate and proposes criteria for legi�mate and illegi�mate use of force by na�on-states.
Through confron�ng the Chris�an churchs history, which is complex and some�mes difficult to endure, Reimer encourages readers to think cri�cally and come to hold their own posi�on that promotes both peace and jus�ce.
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How to Think Theologically 4/e
By Howard W. Stone, James O. DukeDecades of use and refinement have solidified the place of How to Think Theologically as the indispensable guide to helping students of theology realize their call to be theologians.
By focusing not on thinkers or thoughts, but on thinking, Stone and Duke induct readers into those habits of mind that lead to understanding all things social, cultural, and personal in rela�on to God.
The new edi�on includes Expansions of exis�ng chapters, an annotated bibliography of recommended reading, an appendix of theological labels, an expanded glossary, key points highlighted in callouts throughout, updated case studies, discussion ques�ons and more.
Both experienced teachers and beginning students will benefit from Stone and Dukes latest revision of their classic text.
90 pages
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Crucified
The Chris�an Inven�on of the Jewish Execu�oners of Jesus
By J. Christopher EdwardsHistorians of early Chris�anity unanimously agree that Jesus was executed by Roman soldiers. This consensus extends to members of the general popula�on who have seen a Jesus movie or an Easter play and remember Roman soldiers hammering the nails. However, for early Chris�ans, the detail that Jesus was crucified by Roman soldiers under the direc�on of a Roman governor threatened their desire for a stable existence in the Roman world. Beginning with the wri�ngs found in the New Testament, early Chris�ans sought to rewrite their history and shi� the blame for Jesus's crucifixion away from Pilate and his soldiers and onto Jews. During the second century, a narra�ve of the crucifixion with Jewish execu�oners predominated. During the fourth century, this narra�ve func�oned to encourage an�-Judaism within the newly established Chris�an empire.
Good Book
How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves
By Jill Hicks-KeetonGood Book interrogates how white evangelical Chris�ans in the US make the Bible the "Good Book." An inanimate object with a contested table of contents ripe for mul�ple meanings and uses, the Bible cannot be a moral agent on its own. People must make it so, as indeed they have. As prevailing social norms change, evangelical Chris�ans confront intellectual and interpre�ve challenges as they quest to make an ancient book newly relevant and ever benevolent, especially for historically oppressed popula�ons. While histories show us that white Chris�ans in the US have frequently appealed to their Bibles in support of issues now judged to be on the wrong side of history, including racism, sexism, and colonialism, contemporary white evangelical figures have in recent years worked steadfastly to defend the Bible against charges of complicity in harm.
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Unborn Bodies
Resurrec�on and Reproduc�ve Agency
By Margaret D. KamitsukaThe a�erlife con�nues to influence Chris�an faith and is a concern during fragile moments of reproduc�ve loss. However, a doctrine of resurrec�on that speaks to death in the womb has yet to be considered. Ignoring fetal death began early in Chris�an history. The church has struggled for setled meaning regarding issues of personhood in the womb and whether unbap�zed infants are saved. Believers today deserve to know the basis for a Chris�an hope of heaven. They deserve a nontoxic eschatology that sustains an embodied sense of self, which is fractured by the experience of reproduc�ve loss. They deserve to know whether assen�ng to the resurrec�on of the body-including unborn bodies requires them to sacrifice their reproduc�ve self-determina�on.
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Walter Brueggemann's Prophe�c Imagina�on
A Theological Biography
By Conrad L. KanagyThe story behind Walter Brueggemanns theological imagina�on. In this theological biography of the most prolific Old Testament student of the twenty-first century, Conrad Kanagy portrays Walter Brueggemann within the historical and cultural landscape of his forma�on. Kanagy follows Walter from his childhood home in Blackburn, Missouri, to Elmhurst College, Eden Theological Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary. Kanagy introduces us to the teachers who most influenced Brueggemanns personal and theological development. We observe Walter Brueggemanns unflappable energy as he moves toward the publica�on of The Prophe�c Imagina�on, which will land him on the theological map of biblical studies and the American church. This breakthrough will define the rest of Brueggemanns life as he pivots among the biblical text, classroom, church, and world.
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Ero�c Defiance Womanism, Freedom, and Resistance
By Courtney BryantConsiders the ethical and theological dimensions of Black womanhood and how divine energy manifests love. The West fears desire. It fears ecstasy. It fears flesh. It copes with its fears by deploying its intellectual, poli�cal, and religious instruments to regulate, discipline, and punish. Western fear of the ero�c has led to its regimes of racial and gender hierarchies, ins�tu�ons of repression, and dehumaniza�on of large por�ons of the human family. In the face of an�-ero�c hegemony, Black women have too o�en yielded to Western Chris�anity’s an�-ero�c culture, its misnaming of the ero�c as evil, and its denial of the ero�c’s rela�onship to the divine. But they have also resisted. They have also defied. This book is rooted in that tradi�on of defiance.
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Israel
A Chris�an Grammar
By Paul J. GriffithsIsrael: A Christian Grammar proposes an understanding of Israel for Chris�ans. The book's central claim is that Israel properly includes both the synagogue and the church, which is the same as to say that Israel properly includes both Chris�ans and Jews. This, the book proposes, makes beter sense of twen�eth- and twenty-first-century developments in Chris�an doctrine about the Jewish people than other, rival construal’s of the same mater: if Chris�ans and Jews share a lineage, worship the same God, have the same purpose, and are each given an irrevocable promise by that God of the con�nua�on of their condi�on as God's beloved community then they share a form of life, and that form of life is Israel. Such an understanding requires addressing what separates church and synagogue (theologically, liturgically, halakhically), how the differences between them came about, and the condi�on and meaning of those differences now.
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bell hooks' Spiritual Vision
Buddhist,
Chris�an, and Feminist
By Nadra NittleWhen Black feminist and scholar bell hooks died in 2021, she was widely remembered for wri�ng more than three dozen books across genres including memoir, poetry, theory, and cri�cism. However, it was her book Ain't I a Woman, in which hooks examines how Black American women have historically faced gender, class, and racial oppression, that catapulted her to prominence as a leading feminist thinker. Nadra Nitle makes it clear that hooks iden�fied not only as a feminist but also as a Buddhist Chris�an. In bell hooks' Spiritual Vision, Nitle recounts how hooks kept her spiritual prac�ce private for years, fearing there was no room to discuss her faith in the feminist movement or in the academy.
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Befriending the North Wind
Children, Moral Agency, and the Good Death
By Robyn BoereThe death of a child horrifies. We recoil at its men�on. Images of dead or dying children impose themselves on our aten�on in ways that challenge us to change. Yet the topic of dying children is studiously avoided. When we do take no�ce, we paint children as vic�ms, innocent of both blame and agency, passive in the face of suffering. Children die secluded in homes and hospitals, allowing society to carry on as though it were not happening. Befriending the North Wind is about the moral lives of children and their agency in decisions about death. Our failure to be honest and open about the death of children hinders us from addressing their needs and confron�ng the sources of their suffering. This failure only adds to their suffering. Dying children o�en feel ignored, overlooked, and unable to exercise their agency to ameliorate their situa�on.
A Gospel for Workers
Cho Chi Song, Yeongdeungpo Urban Industrial Mission, and Minjung
By Seo Deok-Seok, Jione HaveaThis book tells three overlapping stories: first, the life story of Rev. Cho Chi Song, a pioneer of urban and industrial missions, which served Korean society's working popula�on; second, the Urban Industrial Mission (UIM) in Korea, which Cho Chi Song pioneered; and third, the story of how UIM provided the roots for Korean Minjung Theology. Owing to Cho Chi Song, UIM became the birthplace of missions for the working popula�on and an enduring haven of a worker's right to life and dignity. Cho shared both tears and laughter with workers. At �mes moved by righteous anger, he worked to bring "healing to a sick society."
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Enfleshing Freedom 2/e Body, Race, and Being
By M. Shawn CopelandBlack women’s experience and what it means to be human. The achievement of our humanity comes about only through immersion in concrete, visceral, embodied rela�onal experience, yet for many human beings, that achievement is stamped by the struggle against oppression in history, society, and religion. In this incisive and important work, dis�nguished theologian M. Shawn Copeland demonstrates with rare insight and convic�on how Black women’s historical experience and oppression cast a completely different light on our theological ideas about being human. Copeland argues that race, embodiment, and rela�ons of power reframe not only theological anthropology but also our no�ons of discipleship, church, Eucharist, and Christ. Enfleshing Freedom is a work of deep moral seriousness, rigorous specula�ve skill, and sharp theological reasoning.
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Faithful Teaching
Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue XII
By Lowell G. Almen, Denis J. MaddenFor more than fi�y years, Lutherans and Catholics in the United States have listened to the word of God in dialogue with one another. The conversa�on has borne great fruit in overcoming past misunderstandings, prejudices, and even at �mes enmity between the two communions. It has fostered mutual apprecia�on, respect, and significant agreement on what were once thought to be irreconcilable doctrinal differences. But as major changes in church and society accelerate, the process by which communions make judgments and teach them to the faithful is of vital importance. Faithful Teaching is the twel�h dialogue of the U.S. Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue. It seeks greater mutual understanding of the two communions' respec�ve processes of faithful teaching.
Vast as the Sea
Hebrew Poetry and the Human Condi�on
By Samuel HildebrandtThe poetry, imagery, speeches, and emo�ons readers encounter in texts like Job, Psalms, and Jeremiah are abundant resources for ar�cula�ng the painful experiences of the human condi�on. These composi�ons are sacred scripts that normalize and ar�culate the anxiety, loneliness, and despair that mark life on earth. In Vast as the Sea, Samuel Hildebrandt presents an accessible, exege�cal study of these scripts that demonstrates how the Bible's ancient poetry speaks today. In conversa�on with current psychological research, Hildebrandt's poe�c analyses invite readers to discover the personal and expressive contours of the biblical text, as well as its libera�ng and healing poten�al.
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The Mys�fied Leter
How Medieval Theology Can Reenchant the Prac�ce of Reading
By Craig TichelkampReading has become a problem not just of aten�on, comprehension, or growing rates of illiteracy, but of poli�cs, society, and religion. The ques�ons of how and what to read are not just maters of taste. Answers are o�en indica�ve of one's en�re view of culture, church, and the cosmos, as well as the impasses of religion, reason, and moral vision. As a result, reading has become divisive and uninspiring. Reading has become a drag. The Mystified Letter offers a hopeful alterna�ve to this malaise a theology of reading centered on mys�cal encounter. It retrieves medieval Chris�an reading culture to build a construc�ve case for a mys�cal theology of literature.
Experiencing Gospel
The History and Crea�vity of Mar�n Luther's 1534 Bible Project
By Gordon A. Jensen, Robert KolbGordon Jensen's careful analysis of the 1534 Luther Bible uncovers the central truth of Mar�n Luther's prodigious transla�on efforts: Luther's commitment to producing this physical object was founded in his desire that receiving the Gospel might become a lived experience. Contrary to popular percep�on, Luther's works were not the first, the freshest, or even the most user-friendly German biblical transla�ons of the �me. Rather, their power came in Luther's uter commitment to crea�vely sharing the Word "so that people would encounter Christ within the pages of scripture and through scripture, thus driving Christ into their hearts and lives." Jensen locates proof of Luther's commitment in his deliberate decision to highlight seven specific words and phrases in the text of his 1534 transla�on.
Obstacles to S�llness
Thoughts, Hindrances, and Self-Surrender in Evagrius and the Buddha
By Shodhin K. GeimanIn the fourth century, the Chris�an monk Evagrius of Pontus iden�fied a group of "obstruc�ve thoughts" that hindered individuals from s�lling their minds in communion with God. Ranging from sadness and anger to glutony and lust, Evagrius' list would later form the basis for the Church's "seven deadly sins." Notably, early Buddhist scriptures described a similar set of mental "hindrances" to libera�ng insight, which included problems such as sloth and sensory desire. Chris�an and Buddhist tradi�ons thus pinpointed similar obstacles for the prac��oner who is pursuing contempla�ve prac�ce. In Obstacles to Stillness, Shodhin Geiman provides a comparison of these Chris�an and Buddhist approaches to iden�fying, and overcoming, hindrances to religious contempla�on.
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Receiving This Life
Prac�cing the Deepest Belonging
By Kara K. RootAmid a fran�c pace of life that o�en leaves us feeling disconnected and ungrounded, Receiving This Life helps the reader engage with life and become atuned to their belonging to God and each other. Kara K. Root empowers the reader to embrace life as sacred and receive it as a gi�. The book offers reflec�ons on living a life of presence and recep�vity that seeks meaning and responds to God's promp�ngs. It invites and models a stance of atonement that orients us toward receiving life's ordinary, holy moments as a gi�, returning us to our deepest belonging. It includes prayers and liturgies that can be used by individuals, families, or congrega�ons over and over again.
Picking Up the Pieces
Leadership a�er Empire
By Kathleen McShane, Elan BabchuckWhile the exodus dates back thousands of years, religious organiza�ons con�nue to operate in the shadows of the pyramids the symbol of empire that the Israelites once toiled to build. The reason is understandable, given that pyramids are remarkably stable structures. Pyramids lend an orderliness to organiza�onal rela�onships in our churches and synagogues. However, Kathleen McShane and Elan Babchuck argue that such leadership models reflect syncre�c cultural tradi�ons more than our theological convic�ons. These paterns elevate the structure of the pyramid above the people. They reward the consolida�on of power at the top at the expense of the freedom of those below. They constrain crea�vity and elevate efficiency at the cost of human dignity. In Picking Up the Pieces, McShane and Babchuck argue that these leadership models are not the way of the gospel. Therefore, today's religious leaders need a more generous model.
The Emancipa�on of God Postmarks on Cultural Prophecy
By Walter Brueggemann, Conrad L. KanagyUnderstanding the gospel as emancipa�on has been central to Walter Brueggemann's biblical interpreta�on. This book illustrates the theme's centrality, addressing the emancipa�on of God from our atempts to control, the emancipa�on of the church to be the people of an emancipated God, and the emancipa�on of the gospel to be a cultural prophecy. This volume divides into three parts: "The Emancipation of God," "The Emancipa�on of the Church," and "The Emancipa�on of the Neighborhood." What the three parts hold in common is the kingdom of God.
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Author Bio:
Tim Dowley is editor of the highly acclaimed and successful Introduc�on to the History of Chris�anity, now in its second edi�on (Fortress Press, 2013), and author of The Chris�ans: An Illustrated History (2008), and Chris�an Music (Fortress Press, 2011), among many other �tles on history of Chris�anity and the Bible.
