• By Published On: May 2, 2024

    In A Journey Called Hope, author Rick Rouse shares the stories of immigrants from around the world to America — their successes, hopes, challenges, and dreams. He explores how we can share our planet with the understanding that it is a matter of human dignity for all people to have a safe place to call home. In sharing these inspiring stories and hope-filled futures, Rouse assures us the United States is still a nation of promise made richer by its diversity.

  • By Published On: May 2, 2024

    Abundant Lives: A Progressive Christian Ethic of Flourishing invites sociologically informed engagement in human well-being based on Jesus’ command to love God, our neighbors, ourselves, and our enemies.

  • By Published On: April 29, 2024

    Drinking Pure Light is an invitation to love and be loved more deeply. The inspirational poems are a waterfall of grace, a cascade of revelation, a ray of intimacy breaking through the cloud of fatigue with the good news: you are not alone.

  • By Published On: April 12, 2024

    Science and Religion should never be in conflict, as Dr. James, a Ph.D. scientist and Christian mystic, carefully demonstrates. He employs many personal experiences in the science realm and in the Christian realm to show how the two are wonderfully complementary—as long as each remains in their respective places.

  • By Published On: April 5, 2024

    Thomas Jay Oord and Tripp Fuller offer an open and relational vision of God. This vision makes sense, fits our experience, and is livable. The open and relational view aligns with our deep intuitions about love and freedom.

  • Another Permian-Triassic Extinction??

    By Published On: March 22, 2024

    Only an Economic, Social, Political, Philosophical, and Religious Mind-Change Can Save Us. How could the most clever and brilliant primate ever to evolve on Planet Earth be bringing this extinction dilemma upon itself?

  • By Published On: March 14, 2024

    A paradigm-shifting journey into God as Self and the World as Heaven on Earth.

  • by Robert P. Jones

    By Published On: March 12, 2024

    Native American racism, then goes even deeper to the historic Christian documents that have infected not only Christian teachings but also have been fundamental principles embedded in laws, policies, decisions, and cultures ever since to the present. His research and documentation are extensive, unnerving, and compelling reading.

  • by Judith Lewis Herman, MD

    By Published On: March 5, 2024

    Herman says every survivor she interviewed or worked with has wished above all for the following: Acknowledgment and vindication, apology and amends. Those 4 things are what justice looks like for the people directly affected.

  • by Sarah Augustine

    By Published On: January 25, 2024

    ince the Doctrine of Discovery undergirded everything about colonialism, its consequences are ongoing.

  • By Published On: January 18, 2024

    The cross, the symbol of the Christian faith, has been the subject of much theological discussion through the ages.

  • A Minister's Search For Faith In A Skeptical Age

    By Published On: December 12, 2023

    In this groundbreaking, inspiring book, Robin R. Meyers, the senior minister of Oklahoma City’s Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ, shows how readers can move from a theology of obedience to one of consequence.

  • By Carol Baker

    By Published On: November 1, 2023

    This book offers a treasure-trove of practical tools for grounding ourselves emotionally and spiritually amid both the long-term crises and the related challenges that confront us moment to moment as we navigate unprecedented events and their invariable consequences. 

  • By Published On: October 30, 2023

    The novel takes us through the racial struggles of the sixties, the horrible plague decimating gay men with AIDS in San Francisco in the ‘80s, and the devastating consequences of a Roman Catholic priest preying on a young boy.

  • By Published On: September 16, 2023

    The world is full of people promising ‘instant enlightenment’ or writing self-help books on ‘Happiness Now!’ Some claim to have a hotline to God which no one else possesses, or a special insight which no one else has received. Anyone who claims to know it all, probably knows very little.

  • By Published On: September 11, 2023

    This book will help you examine your beliefs--where they came from, whether they are still applicable today, how they have changed over the years--and decide what new directions you might want to pursue.

  • A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World

    By Published On: August 31, 2023

    We are living in a world divided. Race and ethnicity, caste and color, gender and sexuality, class and education, religion and political party have all become demographic labels that reduce our differences to simplistic categories in which “we” are vehemently against “them.”

  • Queer Icons from LGBTQ Life, Religion and History

    By Published On: August 30, 2023

    Heavenly LGBTQ+ highlights the role of LGBTQ+ people in the Russia-Ukraine war and puts it into a broader context.

  • Using Our Spiritual Gifts to Change the World

    By Published On: August 30, 2023

    Do you feel your spiritual life is dry, ineffectual, and lifeless? Ready for new, life-changing experiences? Take a deep dive into a life-changing book.

  • Tripping Across the Rubble of Old-Time Religion

    By Published On: August 30, 2023

    Why do relatively few people in the burgeoning psychedelic renaissance connect chemically induced  mystical states with their own religious traditions?

  • Our Politics Made Easy & Ready For Action

    By Published On: August 24, 2023

    It does not matter how Progressive or Lefty you are. One can have a very enjoyable conversation with the most Right-Wing of relatives or friends. It is all about the approach.

  • By Published On: August 12, 2023

    A rock star, atheist, Marxist, world-class theologian, African missionary, and a Greek Orthodox Bishop all in one lifetime? Bishop Themi is a beacon of hope and inspiration to millions of Christians.

  • The American Methodist Church and the Struggle with White Supremacy

    By Published On: August 10, 2023

    Our Hearts Were Strangely Lukewarm is a trustworthy guide into the church’s troubled history. It’s also a present-day call to action that finds inspiration in those Methodists who stood against the tide and those guiding the church today toward the horizon of racial justice.

  • By Ajay Parasram and Alex Khasnabish

    By Published On: July 4, 2023

    The book offers resources for our best intentions in order to make life easier for exhausted racialized people everywhere -- including a bibliography, an excellent glossary and 10 top principles for thinking about racial politics as a white person.

  • Daily Poems of Wisdom, Passion, and Peace

    By Published On: June 23, 2023

    Dancing through Fire: Daily Poems of Wisdom, Passion, and Peace is an invitation to deepen one's passion and peace through daily poetry. The reader can feel the sensuousness of each poem: how the words appear in the mind's eye, how they touch the skin of life, how they stir the spirit's heart.

  • A Journalist's Academic Report on LBGTQ and Christianity

    By Published On: May 25, 2023

    The book series provides solid arguments for inclusion of LGBTQ+ Christians in the world’s religious denominations. This book also examines the continuing exodus for those in the LGBTQ+ community and others who have no interest in being included in today’s mainstream churches.

  • By Published On: April 26, 2023

    Walking with the Spiritual but Not Religious takes a fresh look at being a spiritual companion for those who self-identify as something other than religious—SBNR, Nones, not religious, agnostics, atheists, people who have experienced something unexplainable, and those who have encountered the paranormal (religious or otherwise).

  • By Published On: April 26, 2023

    Saints and heroes of the LGBTQ community come alive through bold artwork in 'Heavenly Homos, Etc'. by Dutch priest Jan Haen. He paints diverse people of faith, courage, and love who can inspire readers with new models of queer holiness. The clear, concise style packs a whole pantheon of saints into a single user-friendly volume.

  • By Published On: April 11, 2023

    Omnipotence is dead. At least it should be. It has no biblical support. And it dies a death of a thousand qualifications in philosophy.

  • By Published On: April 11, 2023

    Is it "Christianity meets Burning Man," "Richard Rohr meets Russell Brand," or "Communion Wafers meet Psychedelic Spirituality"? Yes! This and more.

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