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The Midnight Mom Devotional: 365 Prayers to Put Your Momma Heart to Rest

Author: 
Becky Thompson (Author), Susan K. Pitts (Author)

Midnight Mom Devotional is a yearlong book of prayers to bring nightly hope and a sense of connection to mothers who feel alone. Each night offers a different prayer for mommas in all circumstances of life, including:

Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility

Author: 
Ellen J. Langer

In it, author Ellen Langer wrote about how “opening our minds to what’s possible, instead of presuming impossibility, can lead to better health — at any age.” This sounds a lot like God’s purpose for us.

Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It

Author: 
Brian D. McLaren
List Price: 
23.24
Type: 
Hardcover

Using his own story and the stories of a diverse group of struggling believers, McLaren, a former pastor and now author, speaker, and activist shows how old assumptions are being challenged in nearly every area of human life, not just theology and spirituality.

The Way of Gratitude - A New Spirituality for Today

Author: 
Galen Guengerich
List Price: 
$13.99
Type: 
Paperback

Galen Guengerich, the charismatic, brilliant leader of one of the nation’s most prominent Unitarian Universalist congregations, All Souls in New York City, shares with readers his wisdom on how to lead a purposeful and joyful life through the practice of gratitude. When Guengerich was in his midtwenties, he left the Conservative Mennonite Church, the faith of his upbringing. The prospect of venturing out on his own was daunting, but he needed to find the way of life that was right for him.

Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges

Author: 
John Swinton
List Price: 
$25.00
Type: 
Paperback

People living with mental health challenges are not excluded from God’s love or even the fullness of life promised by Jesus. Unfortunately, this hope is often lost amid the well-meaning labels and medical treatments that dominate the world of mental health today. In Finding Jesus in the Storm, John Swinton makes the case for reclaiming that hope by changing the way we talk about mental health and remembering that, above all, people are people, regardless of how unconventionally they experience life.

Hope in Disarray: Piecing Our Lives Together in Faith

Author: 
Grace Ji-Sun Kim
List Price: 
$16.95
Type: 
Paperback

With practicality and vulnerability, author and public theologian Grace Ji-Sun Kim reflects on the practice of sustaining hope during turbulence and injustice. Hope in Disarray is a collection of essays that invite a conversation on culture and faith, creation and identity, as the author appeals to readers to engage life’s troubles with the conviction of God’s goodness. Hope in Disarray takes the world’s pain seriously in order to ignite our intentional, revolutionary, and integrated living.
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Beautiful and Terrible Things: A Christian Struggle with Suffering, Grief, and Hope

Author: 
Christian M. M. Brady
List Price: 
$17.99
Type: 
Paperback

Bible scholar Christian Brady, an expert on Old Testament lament, was as prepared as a person could be for the death of a child--which is to say, not nearly well enough. When his eight-year-old son died suddenly from a fast-moving blood infection, Brady heard the typical platitudes about accepting God's will and knew that quiet acceptance was not the only godly way to grieve.

Sanctuary: Being Christian in the Wake of Trump

Author: 
Heidi Neumark
List Price: 
$24.99
Type: 
Hardcover

“Through the pages of this book, I invite you into various spaces of sanctuary—not as places of retreat, but for the deepened resistance, vision, and transformation that these days, and the gospel, require.”

Rest in the Storm: Self-Care Strategies for Clergy and Other Caregivers

Author: 
Kirk Byron Jones
List Price: 
$14.00
Type: 
Paperback

Are You Overdosing on Overcommitment? Even the most committed and competent ministers suffer enormous physical, mental, and spiritual strain. Too many remain in denial about the severity of pastoral stress, even as they are deteriorating emotionally and physically. Drawing from biblical, theological, and sociological sources as well as personal experience, author Kirk Jones discusses the fundamental importance of self-care for clergy and other professionals engaged in helping people.

Liturgies from Below: Praying with People at the End of the World

Author: 
Cláudio Carvalhaes
List Price: 
$29.99
Type: 
Paperback

It’s been said that prayer is the vocabulary of faith. This book offers a wealth of resources from forgotten places to help us create a new vocabulary for worship and prayer, one that is located amidst the poor and the major issues of violence and destruction around the world today. It is a collection of prayers, songs, rituals, rites of healing, Eucharistic and baptismal prayers, meditations and art from four continents: Asia-Pacific Islands, Africa, Americas, and Europe.

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