Discipleship in an Instant Society

This revised and expanded version of Eugene H. Peterson's classic for modern pilgrims who want to learn to live in communion with God now includes the Songs of Ascents in The Message translation, as well as a new epilogue.

Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith

Now available in a paperback edition!We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in the church. Not since the Reformation five centuries ago have so many Christians come together to ask whether the church is in sync with their deepest beliefs and commitm...

Experiencing God Through Our Senses

This five-session group study explores each of the five senses as a doorway to deepening our faith and encountering God. Use it for a midweek group or a week-long focused study. Touch God through a hug from a friend, hear God in the laughter of a chi...

A Christian Heretic Speaks

In this captivating book, Robert Thompson opens a window into the soul and lets the welcome breeze of his writing freshen many of our traditional perspectives on Christianity. Using humour and a light and accessible tone, he challenges religious orth...

Divine Encounters in Unlikely Places

J. Marshall Jenkins believes that irony under girds the ordinary. Through the ironies of God's presence and absence, and human life and death, he feels the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Through the eyes of faith, one can catch glimpses of Christ.

A Spiritual Memoir

Called to Question is Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Each chapter is an engaging dialogue between the author and many different wisdom sources about such topics as God's existence and call, experience, struggle, justice,...

Focusing especially on Christianity but including other religions, Karen Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion during a time when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith.

A New Look at Ancient Wisdom

For millions of people today, the accumulated weight of centuries of outdated religious doctrine and tradition has become too much to carry. For these people, Christianity has grown irrelevant and untenable. In Christianity: A New Look at Ancient Wis...

Written by an anonymous English monk during the late fourteenth century, this sublime expression of what separates God from humanity is widely regarded as a hallmark of Western literature and spirituality. A work of simplicity, courage, and lucidity,...

Popular author Ben Campbell Johnson discusses how the will of God relies on the depths of the human psyche. He addresses in specific terms how one may use intuition, imagination, and memory to ascertain the leading of God's will. Johnson claims that ...

Narratives of Care among Lesbians and Gays

In a prejudiced society, the experiences of lesbians and gays can provide powerful resources for all people to help shape their images of God. Larry Graham has interviewed lesbians and gays across the country and has discovered a new sense of God at ...

Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God

Dallas Willard explores a revolutionary way for Christians to experience God. Offering a practical plan for discipleship, Willard challenges Christians to become truly Christlike in a world of remote and lukewarm faith. Includes a foreword by Richard...

Christian Faith in Turbulent Times

In this helpful introduction, the authors focus on the basic issues of Christian Faith as filtered through contemporary experience: the mystery of faith, justification and sanctification, salvation, sin, the sacraments, hope, and joy. Ideal for group...

Praying the Psalms in Times of Depression

In this small yet immensely helpful guide, pastor Thomas Lewis offers spiritual resources for the many persons today suffering from depression. By turning his readers toward praying the Psalms, as he did in his own battle with depression, Lewis assis...

A Biography

Is it possible to approach God not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and ambiguities of a Hamlet? This "brilliant, audacious book" (C...