An exploration of what it means to be human in a technological age. Like it or not, tech is part of the air we breathe. New technologies are everywhere, and they're breathlessly marketed to us as good, even while almost every sociological measure says we're not doing well. Figuring out how to navigate--to use, not to use, how to use--new ......
On the shortest day of the year, people reach out for light--and one another--in this luminous, lyrical winter solstice story. Today we stretch the daylightas much as we can, trying to make it last. On the shortest day of the year, when daylight slips by like sand through one's fingers, people savor the light. As night falls, a community ......
Grieving the loss of a loved one is an experience with many seasons and stages. Winter Grief, Summer Grace helps readers navigate the phases of emotion through the four seasons of the year: winter, spring, summer, and fall. With quotes, poetry, and suggestions, author James E. Miller provides gentle guidance and comfort for those who mourn.
How can Christians contribute to the debates about climate change and global warming? What ethical criteria do they bring to the conversation? How does the Bible figure in their deliberation? Carol Robb brings together the several dimensions of this one overarching issue of our lifetimes: hers is an ecological ethics in theological perspective, ......
Deep in the Caribbean Sea lived a tiny, timid whale named Will. Will wants nothing more than a friend. But she is so teeny-tiny that no one ever seems to notice her. She is ignored at finball practice, never chosen to play in the orca-stra, and always forgotten in a game of shell-and-seek. After plucking up all her courage, she sets out to find ......
A Footnote, the Desert, and My Quest for an Elusive Saint
In the dusty corner of a library, journalist Amy Frykholm discovers a footnote that leads her on a decades-long search for Mary of Egypt--runaway, prostitute, holy desert dweller, saint, and archetypal wild woman. As their storylines crisscross maps and centuries, both become more fully revealed--in the embrace of the sacred.
"Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark." Dantes Inferno begins with imagery of the wilderness marked by darkness, fear, and the unknown
How the Unsettling Presence of Newcomers Can Save the Church
In Wide Welcome, Jessicah Krey Duckworth presents the stark differences between the established congregation, which cares for current members and congregational identity, and the disestablished one, intentionally equipped to facilitate the encounter between new and established members.The disestablished congregations, she says, gains purpose and
Lessons Learned from Hard Conversations about Sex, Gender, Identity, and the Bible
Why Churches Need to Talk about Sexuality is for congregational leaders and others who want to understand the debates about human sexuality and who desire to follow a process to discuss the topic and make decisions about how congregations and individuals will respond to these issues.
