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Featured Books
A new downloadable online resource:

Eco-Footsteps to the Cross
A Lenten Resource
Ian Macdonald and Barbara Tunnicliffe

A complete resource, Eco-Footsteps to the Cross will help congregations grow and manifest their love for God and creation.

Click here to download a sample of Eco-Footsteps to the Cross, including the introduction, terms of use, table of contents, and Chancel Drama for Lent 1.


Go Deep
Spiritual Practices for Youth Ministry
Doris Kizina

Go Deep offers inspiration and practical tools to youth leaders. It is designed to open hearts and minds to an all-encompassing wonder of the Holy One, and to engage and mentor youth on the path of Christian spirituality.
Also available on disk and as downloadable pdf!
ORDER ONLINE and save 20%. Most prices on the website are marked at 20% off the regular price. Receive FREE SHIPPING on book orders of $50 or more (North America only).
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New Titles & Recommendations
feature product Lectionary Story Bible Set
An essential resource for today’s Christian educators and leaders. Not only are these delightful, faithful versions of the biblical texts, but they open up the Bible story for our own creative imagination. And that is really when faith begins to grow!
LISTEN to stories read by Ralph Milton!
Ralph   Milton , Author
feature product The Spirituality of Sex
This book embraces a more holistic view of sex and human spirituality. With evocative prose and beautiful images, the authors invite people to recognize sex and sexuality as inherently sacred – as a divine way of being, as a potential window and way to know God.
Michael   Schwartzentruber , Author
Lois   Huey-Heck , Author
Mary   Millerd , Author
Charlotte   Jackson , Author
feature product Meg Hickling on DVD
This 2-DVD set (4 hours total) is perfect for parents and grandparents who want easy access to Meg Hickling’s amazing, age-appropriate sexual health presentations, as their children grow and mature.
Meg   Hickling , Author
feature product A Clergy Guide to End-of-Life Issues
This book provides even experienced clergy with more tools to help families navigate end-of-life issues and a graceful death.
Martha   Jacobs , Author
feature product Forgiving Yourself
Robert and Jeanette Lauer pave the way for the reality that self-forgiveness is an act of love toward yourself. They show how you can rid yourself of destructive and unwarranted anger and guilt in order to restore your sense of self-worth as a child of God.
Robert H.   Lauer , Author
Jeanette C.   Lauer , Author
feature product Water Bugs and Dragonflies - Large Hardcover
Looking for a meaningful way to explain the death of a five-year-old friend to neighborhood children, Stickney adapted a graceful fable about a water bug that left its pond and was transformed into a dragonfly. This bestseller is now in available a full-trim, full-color edition.
Doris   Stickney , Author
feature product Worship in the Shape of Scripture
First published in 2001, this is a practical resource for worship planners and leaders that provides guidelines for applying homiletic concepts to all areas of worship planning. The revised and updated version now includes a two-part DVD.
F. Russell   Mitman , Author
feature product 52 Ways to Ignite Your Congregation. . .
52 Ways to Ignite, a new series, provides pastors and church leaders with 52 practical ideas in each volume to motivate discipleship in their congregations.
William C.   Green , Author
feature product Equipping the Saints
Jenkins and Rogers present 13 treatises from a 2007 conference of selected professors on contextual education programs in divinity schools across the United States.
David O.   Jenkins , Editor
P. Alice   Rogers , Editor
feature product Toward a Hopeful Future
Snider and Bowen provide a much-needed emerging resource that will benefit both progressive mainliners who value inclusivity, diversity, and social justice as well as emergents seeking a point of entry into progressive mainline traditions.
Phil   Snider , Author
Emily   Bowen , Author
feature product The Indispensable Guide to God's Word
The Indispensable Guide series offers tightly focused, relatively brief, accessible, and practical books for students in seminary and programs for alternate paths to ministry and lay ministry. Each book introduces core concepts, provides ample illustrations, and includes a helpful resource list.
Donald J.   Brash , Author
feature product Learning to Talk Sheep
Learning to Talk Sheep uses the common biblical image of the people of God as sheep, and the pastor or layperson as their shepherd, to describe the major types of personalities and church members that every pastor will encounter.
Christopher   Perry , Author
C. Wayne   Perry , Author
feature product Our Money, Our Values
Explores three critical steps for churches, community leaders, and individuals to effectively and fundamentally transform their relationship with money into a positive tool for advocacy, building community and increasing social values.
Holley   Ulbrich , Author
Catherine   Mobley , Author
feature product The Shining Light
A collection of positive, original stories and lessons, with activities for clergy and lay leaders to use in preaching to children from kindergarten through upper-elementary school.
Randy   Hammer , Author
feature product Racing Across the Lines (REVISED & UPDATED)
A robust combination of the author’s personal experiences and insights, shared stories, and findings from focus groups, this revised and updated version of Racing Across the Lines demonstrates how cross-racial friendships can improve race relations.
Deborah L.   Plummer , Author
feature product Provoking the Gospel of John
The final volume in the Provoking the Gospel storytelling commentary series, Provoking the Gospel of John spurs efforts to provoke pastoral leaders and religious educators to look for new and lively readings of John, and challenges them to experiment with interpretive tools such as embodied ensemble exploration.
Richard W.   Swanson , Author