We live in a pharmaceutical age where drugs contribute to and are a potential solution for many personal and societal problems. But instead of serious ethical inquiry into these substances' role in our lives, we've embraced harmful political and cultural trends of wholesale rejection of "evil" drugs while searching for "miracle" cures. But for ......
America's Love Affair with Political Demons from the Revolution to Today
From the founding fathers to the rise of Christian nationalism, Devils of Democracy reveals how America's centuries-long obsession with evil has shaped--and endangered--our democracy. Americans love political demons. From the Revolutionary War to today, in fact, America has been steeped in the demonic and the devilish. Demons populate the spaces ......
A meditation and manifesto on democracy, faith, and the race for belonging in a divided America. Walter Earl Fluker--renowned scholar, preacher, and ethical leadership consultant--offers this powerful meditation on leadership, democracy, and spiritual resilience, using the metaphor of running. Running becomes more than motion--it becomes a ......
A hair love book for Christian kids that celebrates the joy of Black hair My Curls Bounce Back is a story about how much a little African American boy loves and accepts his God-given coily, gravity-defying, bouncy hair. He tells his story in the form of a prayer. At the park, while he plays basketball, and as he watches his big sister and ......
Why Women Quit Church and What It Means for the Future of Religion
In this landmark account of American women leaving the church, award-winning journalist Sarah Stankorb, author of Disobedient Women, asks why they leave--and where they land. Ordinarily, women are more religious than men. But these are no ordinary times. In America, where Christianity is still the most common religion, women are vacating ......
A Mooncake Festival story about a family celebrating a holiday together, even when miles apart Pearl is eager to welcome loved ones to her house for the traditional Mooncake Festival dinner. But her family is spread far and wide, and this year they won't be able to travel to reunite over the special dinner. Her big sister is away at college, her ......
A breakthrough work of spiritual formation that gives us a fresh vocabulary to experience an ineffable God. What if God is not just above us but also beneath and between, alongside and among? What if God comes into us, and is thus within and throughout and around--all while yet beyond? In lush and literary prose, writer Varina Buntin Willse ......
Gather around for a story where being not okay is welcome, and all feelings are acceptable during the Christmas season--even grief. Sparrow eagerly anticipates Christmas and tries to invite each of his friends to do fun Christmas activities with him. But each one is feeling blue, anxious, or lonely and is struggling to get into the Christmas ......
How to Escape the Echo Complex and Reclaim Your Sense of Self
A clear path back to the self for every person who feels they have become lost in their relationship. People enter relationships looking for love, safety, and fulfillment. But sometimes closeness takes a dark turn. One partner fears intimacy and mistreats the other, first subtly, then openly. The hurt partner, confused and in pain, adopts ......
