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Part-Time Is Plenty
G. Jeffrey MacDonald
$22.00
“Increasing numbers of mainline Protestant clergy are becoming part-time pastors. Jeffrey MacDonald reframes this phenomenon as more than a financial necessity; it’s a God-given opportunity. MacDonald gives practical advice for how pastors can move from being the sole source of pastoral care and leadership into the role of the pastoral team leader, uncovering and developing the God-given talents of the laity.” —Will Willimon, United Methodist bishop; Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry, Duke Divinity School; and author of Leading with the Sermon: Preaching as Leadership
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Neighbors
Deanna Ferree Womack
$17.00
"Neighbors provides readers with practical advice we so desperately need, offering hands-on tools for interfaith communication. . . . As a Pakistani Muslim woman living in America, this book is important, not only to me personally, but to my whole community as well." —From the afterword by Roshan Iqbal, Agnes Scott College
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Good White Racist?
Kerry Connelly
$17.00
“The work that needs to be done is white-on-white race talk. By that I mean, white folks talking to white folks about the ways white supremacy is internalized and therefore shows up in their social practice. Kerry endeavors to do just this, and I think we all should invest our time in this book!” —Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, author of Activist Theology
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The Last Pastor
Gail Cafferata
$22.00
"Gail Cafferata brings together the rigorous research of a professional sociologist, the experience of a devoted pastor who herself had to close a church, and the deep insight of a theologian in this significant book written for church leaders having to close churches. Strongly recommended for all who have any responsibility for congregations struggling with viability and for those who support or teach them." —William S. Stafford, Dean Emeritus of The School of Theology, Sewanee (Episcopal Church)
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Truth and Hope
Walter Brueggemann
$30.00
“‘There can be no hope until truth is told,’ Brueggemann states. He then tells us the truth about Daniel and difference, the Psalms and pastoral care, Proverbs and higher education, holy truth versus certitude—to name only a few of his numerous topics and texts—all the while injecting real and profound hope in us, the church, and the world amidst many anxieties, uncertainties, failures, and sins.” —Brent A. Strawn, Professor of Old Testament, Duke University
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Sexism and Sin-Talk
Rachel Sophia Baard
$35.00
“Bringing together resources from the Christian tradition and from global, intersectional feminism, this book proposes a rhetorical approach that brings to the fore not only feminist critiques of classic Christian understandings of sin, but also constructive feminist contributions for retrieving the concept of sin, especially the inner logic of the doctrine of original sin." —Lois Malcolm, The Olin and Amanda Fjelstad Reigstad Chair of Systematic Theology, Luther Seminary
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Materiality as Resistance
Walter Brueggemann
$15.00
“In clear and methodical prose, Brueggemann walks the reader through the materiality of money, food, body, time, and place, offering scriptural grounding for a life of faith that has implications for public policy as well as personal practice.”
—Lee Hull Moses, author of More Than Enough: Living Abundantly in a Culture of Excess
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