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We tend to remember hymns one at a time. We forget that the reason we can do so is because they have been made available throughout the centuries in hymnals. This edited collection explores the 500-year tradition of Lutheran hymnal production, illustrating how these books have influenced Lutheran faith and worship practice over time.

Work Out Your Salvation demonstrates how participation in markets forms our moral character, perceptions, actions, and ideas. It argues that such formation varies based on market designs and our interactions within them. Undermining simplistic ideas about capitalism, Butler lays bare which features of markets make us better and which make us worse.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated such advancement that people ask if it should be granted the moral status of personhood. This book argues that this view assumes that personhood corresponds to how well one's thinking mirrors the biases, worldview, and intelligence of the middle class, relegating the poor to the status of "nonhuman."

Faithful Exchange offers a careful review of the biblical and historical materials and a critical appraisal of the current debate about capitalism versus socialism. The book suggests perspectives from Christian theology that provide both prophetic critique of and missional engagement with various economic structures.

Infused with hope, laughter, and advice, this book curates personal experience with priceless learning from interviews with cancer survivors around the country. Cancer Sucks will equip you with the non-medical tools and tips needed to make it through cancer treatment sanely.

You know what you don't believe: about the Bible, the church, and God. But what if someone asked: "What do you believe?" Bruce Reyes-Chow helps us consider what it means to choose faith and how to create one's own "faith montage." What if we could articulate the gospel of love, humility, and justice? What if everything good about God is true?

The first book to center the voices of sexual abuse survivors while rethinking key Christian beliefs. Readers will discover new ways of thinking about God that are surprising, challenging, inspiring, and empowering, leading to deep healing for individuals and a transformed church that no longer contributes to the devastation of sexual abuse.

Uplifting and authentic, My Divine Natural Hair helps Black women embrace the God-created beauty of natural hair through inspirational readings and salon chair guidance on how to heal, consistently care for, and grow their coils.

With wit and practical guidance, spiritual coach Kevin Miguel Garcia helps us create a new spiritual practice after our faith has fallen apart. Garcia shows us how we can connect with the Divine already inside us and cultivate meaningful spiritual practices that help us heal from the past, tap into the present, and imagine a delicious future.

The Rise of Rage explores the nature of anger and conceptualizes it as a primary emotion triggered by frustrated attempts to achieve one's ends. Counselor and psychotherapist Julie Christiansen walks us through a ten-step process to effectively and safely resolve our angry feelings, helping to free us from this much misunderstood emotion.

Leanne Friesen thought she knew a lot about bereavement, but only when her own sister died from cancer did she learn what grieving people need. In these pages, Friesen writes with vulnerability, wisdom, and even wit about stark and sacred lessons learned in the face of death. When we lose someone, what we need most is grieving room.

Contemplative author Christine Valters Paintner explores seven unique fasts tied to spiritual practices--for Lent or a time of focus--to discover our truest hungers and our deepest spiritual reserves. Drawing on desert wisdom and contemplative practice, Paintner helps us enter into our own journey of spiritual growth, both for Lent and beyond.

A powerful and needed collection of essays by accomplished women writers on violence and injustice toward Black men. The catalyst for a national conversation, this book shines a new light on the dangers Black men face daily, and the emotional toll anti-Black violence takes on the women who love them, casting a vision for future activism.

American Imam explores the contemporary Black Muslim narrative by tracing Taymullah Abdur-Rahman's story, from child to pop performer to convert. Imam Abdur-Rahman takes us inside his work as a prison chaplain and beyond, asking us to consider our biases against Islam, the Black American experience, interreligious dialogue, and abolition.

In this compelling exploration of what it means to be a Black woman pursuing higher education, Dr. Jasmine Harris moves beyond the "data points" to examine the day-to-day impacts of racism in education on Black women as individuals, the longer-term consequences to our personal and professional lives, and the generational costs to our families.

In an era when our relationships with our families of origin are more complicated than ever, pastor T. C. Moore shows us how following the way of Jesus can lead us to a new kind of family--a forged family--and to a faith community that rejects hierarchical structures in favor of inclusive and loving friendships that last.

Challenging the dominant, white-led theology and politics that deny the liberative ancestor voices of others, Rev. William H. Lamar IV insists on honoring those wise voices of life-giving influence. For when we integrate the voices we call on for ethics, moral courage, and community, we transform our personal and national narratives.

Daily, 66 million poor white people pay the price for failing whiteness. In Trash, activist and chaplain Cedar Monroe introduces us to the poor residents of a small town in Washington, who grapple with a collapsing economy and their own racism. Trash asks us to see the peril in which poor white people live and the choices we all must make.

Disillusioned by narrow theology and constricted dogma, people are leaving Christianity in droves. But Jesus describes the reign of God as a house with many rooms. What if there are nooks and crannies of faith we have yet to explore? In A Faith of Many Rooms, Debie Thomas claims that the space where God dwells is expansive and full of belonging.

When Buddy gets mad, sometimes he is like hot lava! Fortunately, he knows some mindful breathing techniques to help himself cool down.

A young girl finds it easy to be brave when she has her lion by her side. But when a classmate points out that her lion is only in her imagination, the world feels a lot scarier . . . until the little girl tries a roar of her own.

A humorous story about getting out of your comfort zone and discovering the wonder of the world.

Cordelia may look like a goat, but on the inside she knows she is a tugboat--or tuggoat--no matter what anybody tells her.

When Elinor McGrath decided she wanted to be a veterinarian, the world told her no. But she was determined to prove that accepting women wasn't the only change the profession needed.

In this lyrical account of a monarch butterfly's life cycle and environmental impact, rhythmic prose and intriguing facts bring this beautiful insect flying right off the page.

Mara is tired of having to constantly explain her hearing aids to her new classmates, until one encounter turns strangers into friends.

Discover the extraordinary life of Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian American female astronaut.

Walter Brueggemann's The Prophetic Imagination emerged seemingly out of nowhere in 1978. Its appeal took even the author by surprise. But its message and relevance, and the enigmatic prophet from Missouri, were just what the American church needed. This book addresses the mystery of a prophetic breakthrough that remains relevant and necessary.

In the US, Black children are twice as likely as white children to be removed from their parents and adopted out to strangers. The Ethics of Protection responds to this dire reality with a liberationist approach to child welfare ethics. This book reframes child welfare by centering the stories, challenges, failures, and victories of Black families.