Christianity is not only about pain and death. It’s about life and joy.

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** We need a more robust theology of holy delight ([link removed])
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In The Princess Bride, the Dread Pirate Roberts says to the princess, “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” Does the Christian life offer us more? Can we risk delight?

by Debie Thomas


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"Katherine May’s book Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times is helping me to see how my stance toward winter has changed, and more: it’s reminding me of the heart of prayer."

by L. Roger Owens


** How playwright Tetsuro Shigematsu has transformed my homiletics classes ([link removed])
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“Tetsuro uses a unique vocabulary when he talks to my preaching students: he talks about things like the glass tube, the eruption of the real, the secret, the oasis, and the lighthouse. Each term illuminates the preaching vocation in new ways, through the eyes of someone who is a skeptic of the profession.”

by Jason Byassee
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** Living by the Word for February 13 (Epiphany 6C) ([link removed])
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Luke’s Beatitudes call us to live in the tension of a cross-shaped life.

by Amy Ziettlow

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** Stephanie Spellers’s bold, practical wisdom for American Christians ([link removed])
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“I highly recommend The Church Cracked Open for its relevance, readability, and practicality. Without a doubt, it will drive readers to self-reflection…Spellers reminds us that the beloved community formed in the book of Acts was not a fairy tale.”

review by Herman Baxter, Jr.


** Anya Silver’s heart-wrenchingly beautiful last poems ([link removed])
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"Anya Silver’s final book of poems was discovered on her computer by her husband on the day of her death from metastatic breast cancer. She expresses her great love, doubts, and longings while raging against the mystery of a silent God."

review by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner
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