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C. S. Lewis and Friends
Faith and the Power of Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
C. S. Lewis is one of the best-loved and most engaging Christian writers of recent times, and he continues to be a powerful defender of the faith. It is in his imaginative fiction that his genius finds its fullest expression and makes its most lasting theological contribution. Famously, Lewis had...
Post-Christendom
Church and Mission in a Strange New World. Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Western societies are experiencing a series of disorientating culture shifts. Uncertain where we are heading, observers use "post" words to signal that familiar landmarks are disappearing, but we cannot yet discern the shape of what is emerging. One of the most significant shifts, "post-Christendom,"...
by John W. de Gruchy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
"If my life and experience is of some interest, it is chiefly so because I have lived through interesting times, in an interesting country, traveled to many interesting places, and been accompanied along the way by interesting folk." John de Gruchy is a renowned South African theologian...
by Richard Stoll Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Dick Armstrong was thoroughly committed to his promising future as a major league baseball front-office executive until something happened that completely changed his life and steered him in a totally new direction. In A Sense of Being Called, Armstrong tells the story of what he calls his Damascus...
The Negro Church
With an Introduction by Alton B. Pollard III
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
W. E. B. Du Bois was editor and principal author of The Negro Church, first published in 1903. A groundbreaking study, this volume is the first in-depth treatment of African-American religious life. It is the first sociological book on religion in the United States. It is the first empirical study...
America Moved
Booth Tarkington’s Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869–1928
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
America Moved: Booth Tarkington's Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869-1928 brings together for the first time all of the autobiographical writings of Booth Tarkington, one of the most successful and best-loved writers in American history. These are the memoirs of one of America's greatest literary figures--and...
When I Go
Selected French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Rilke's French poetry appears here for the first time in readable, musical versions. Largely unknown and rarely collected, these poems were written during the euphoria Rilke felt after having completed his greatest German works, the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus. At the same time, Rilke...
by Walter Wangerin
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible is a volume of poems divided into three parts. The three parts are bound together by a brace of persistent and developing themes, as well as by the repetition (and the development) of language, metaphor, and imagery. Part 1 presents various characters (mostly...
Less is More
A Collection of Ten-Minute Plays
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Less is More is a collection of eight ten-minute plays. These tiny dramas speak to the necessity to say what is essential in a small number of words. As Shakespeare said, "Brevity is the soul of wit." The first play, "The Dissolution Mask," is by the well-known playwright Nancy...
No Word for the Sea
A Professor and His Wife Face Alzheimer’s
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
No Word for the Sea is built on several layers of questioning: What is language? What is memory? Where does the mind go when the circuits shut down? The novel covers seven years in the lives of Solome and Stephen Savard in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stephen is provost at Cobson College, and Solome has raised...
The Collector of Bodies
Concern for Syria and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A 1994 trip to Syria and Jordan as an Arts America Speaker for the United States Information Agency began the group of poems for The Collector of Bodies. The manuscript stayed in a file until the Civil War began in Syria, March 18, 2011, the author's 70th birthday. The poems were retrieved, and the...
by Diane Glancy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Love in one form or another is the commanding force of this new collection of short fiction. The Servitude of Love holds the revelations of love in different manifestations--love of work, love of another, love of journey, love of mission, love of justice, of foolishness, of duty. These thirteen stories...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Between the world of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Christianity there appears to be the widest difference. Coates's brief comments on Christianity in his highly acclaimed Between the World and Me make clear that religious faith is alien to his own experience. Still, Christian audiences from congregations to...
Freeing the Oppressed
A Call to Christians Concerning Domestic Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
When Jesus spoke at his local synagogue he boldly proclaimed that he was the one sent to free those who were oppressed. He came to provide hope, peace, and safety to those suffering in the world. When he left this earth, his followers were left with the task of continuing this ministry. Statistics...