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Salem Witch Judge
The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts represent a low point of American history, made famous in works by Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne (himself a descendant of one of the judges), and...
Christianity After Religion
The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity’s leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new “spiritual but not religious” movement. Using evidence from the latest national polls and from her own cutting-edge research, Bass, the visionary...
Speaking Christian
Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power—And How They Can Be Restored
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
In Speaking Christian, acclaimed Bible scholar Marcus Borg, author of Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, argues that the very language Christians use has become dangerously distilled, distorted, and disconnected from the beliefs which once underpinned it.
Stating a case that will resonate...
by C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
The C.S. Lewis Bible pairs thought-provoking meditations from C.S. Lewis’s spiritual writings with corresponding passages from the authoritative NRSV Bible. This one-of-a-kind Bible for devotional reading, reflection, and inspiration is perfect for readers of Lewis’s Mere Christianity, The Screwtape...
Grounded
Finding God in the World-A Spiritual Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The headlines are clear: religion is on the decline in America as many people leave behind traditional religious practices. Diana Butler Bass, leading commentator on religion, politics, and culture, follows up her acclaimed book Christianity After Religion by arguing that what appears to be a decline...
Unbelievable
Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Five hundred years after Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses ushered in the Reformation, bestselling author and controversial bishop and teacher John Shelby Spong delivers twelve forward-thinking theses to spark a new reformation to reinvigorate Christianity and ensure its future.
At the...
Simply Good News
Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The bishop, Bible scholar, modern heir to C. S. Lewis, and revered author of Simply Christian and Simply Jesus offers a fresh look at the Gospel, explaining why Jesus’ message is “good news” and why it is more timely and transforming today than we know.
The Gospel means good news. But...
Convictions
How I Learned What Matters Most
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, the renowned scholar Marcus J. Borg shares how he formed his bedrock religious beliefs, contending that Christians in America are at their best when they focus on hope and transformation and so shows how we can return to what really matters most. The result...
Evolution of the Word
The New Testament in the Order the Books Were Written
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
By presenting the New Testament books in the order they were written, bestselling Bible scholar Marcus Borg reveals how spiritually and politically radical the early Jesus movement began and how it slowly became domesticated. Evolution of the Word is an incredible value: not only are readers getting...
Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy
A Journey into a New Christianity Through the Doorway of Matthew's Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A global and pioneering leader of progressive Christianity and the bestselling author of Why Christianity Must Change or Die and Eternal Life explains why a literal reading of the Gospels is actually heretical, and how this mistaken notion only entered the church once Gentiles had pushed out all the...
Grateful
The Subversive Practice of Giving Thanks
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The Wilbur Award-winning book Grateful is now available in paperback and with an updated subtitle.
If gratitude is good, why is it so hard to do? In Grateful, Diana Butler Bass untangles our conflicting understandings of gratitude and sets the table for a renewed practice of giving thanks.
We...
Days of Awe and Wonder
How to Be a Christian in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Showcasing some of his most enduring and insightful writings, including many previously unpublished works, a concise and illuminating introduction to Marcus J. Borg, the late spokesman for progressive Christianity and one of the most revered and influential theologians of our time.
In his acclaimed...
Living the Questions
The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Ministers David Felten and Jeff Procter-Murphy, along with an all-star cast of Bible scholars and top church teachers, provide a primer to a church movement that encourages every Christian to “live the questions” instead of “forcing the answers.” Based on the bestselling DVD course of the...
The Greatest Prayer
Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord's Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Every Sunday, the Lord’s Prayer echoes in churches around the world.
It is an indisputable principle of Christian faith. It is the way Jesus taught his followers to pray and distills the most essential beliefs required of every one of the world’s 2.5 billion Christians. In The Greatest...