Mystic Sketches, the fourth installment of The Beadle Files, begins during a sweltering August heatwave in Chicago. A body is fished out of Lake Michigan. Detective Joe Bower, combating the bile of...
In this book, Brian Bishop simply pauses to look at fifty-seven beautiful images that feature the life and death of Jesus and the supper at which he appeared three days after his burial to two b...
In The Boiler Room Boys: An Underground Story of Science, Religion, and the Faith that Fuels Both, Tim Smith describes how from too-young an age he followed two seemingly alternate paths, religion ...
Barbara Crooker's eighth book of poetry, The Book of Kells, focuses on the illuminated medieval manuscript with a series of meditations on its various aspects, from the ink and pigments used by the...
This book is the first full-length literary study of the book of Judges in its finished form as a narrative work with its own distinctive structure and themes. Two basic questions control the analy...
In a recent essay ""The Unmarked Way"" Harvard scholar Oscar Handlin wrote: ""At some point, midway into the 20th century, Europeans and Americans discovered that they had lost all sense of directi...
The call of the Lord Jesus in the Scriptures for sanctification goes out to the churches and catches at the heart of all believers. The Head of the church commands holiness not only for his people ...
Jesus stepped into this world, seemingly weak and foolish, demonstrating the heart of a Father with a transformational perspective. His goal was to bring many sons and daughters to glory--to invite...
Who was Jesus of Nazareth? Buried beneath two thousand years of theology and dogma lies a real historical person who founded a movement that evolved into the largest religion in the history of the ...
Living system ministry is an approach to Christian ministry in the Western world that recognizes the differences between cats, the world God created, and toasters, the world we create using our tec...
The world is full of people who are very certain--in politics, in religion, in all manner of things. In addition, political, religious, and social organizations are marketing certainty as a cure al...
Taking as his starting-point Jesus' saying in Matt 8:22, ""Let the dead bury the dead,"" Professor Hengel subjects Jesus' discipleship sayings to a rigorous historical scrutiny. The sharp break wit...