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  • Once Upon a Time There Was a Three-Year-Old Grandpa

    A Kaleidoscope of Farmer-Boy Stories with Reflections on Character, Wisdom, and Community

    by David Janzen ...
    This eccentric title recalls a collection of tales first told to grandchildren at bedtime. Each chapter begins with a fun-to-read farmer-boy story from the 1940s, an era before industrial farming when horses, cows, and chickens were still members of the family. These anecdotes each launch a theme that splashes down with further development in later decades of life. Diverse topics include ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Liberation of Method

    The Ethics of Emancipatory Biblical Interpretation

    by David Janzen ...
    The field of biblical studies has championed the historical-critical method as the only way to guarantee objective interpretation. But in recent decades, women, people of color, scholars from the Two-Thirds World, and members of the the LGBTQIA+ community have pursued hermeneutical approaches that provide interpretations useful for marginalized communities who see the Bible as a resource in their ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Remember

    Bonded Labor, Quicksand, and Good News for Thousands

    by Das Maddimadugu ...
    With simple, heartbreaking detail, Das Maddimadugu recalls the joys and tragedies of his childhood in a destitute family of the untouchable caste, nearly sold into slavery, and "adopted" by a single Mennonite missionary woman. In her care, he was taught about Jesus' love and given the opportunity to discover his gifts for wide-ranging study, loyal friendship, community organizing, and dreaming ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seven Radical Elders

    How Refugees from a Civil-Rights-Era Storefront Church Energized the Christian Community Movement, An Oral History

    by David Janzen ...
    Series Book 14 - New Monastic Library: Resources for Radical Discipleship
    Many young idealists, after a few failures, burn out and return to status quo lives. Not so with the seven radicals in this book, who met in an interracial house church and intentional community on Chicago's West Side during the civil rights era. Here you will make the acquaintance of a Church of the Brethren pastoral couple who tried to bring communal life to the black ghetto; a fashionable ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching Peace

    Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts

    by Denny J. Weaver, Gerald Biesecker-Mast, Glen H. Stassen, Michael L. Westmoreland-White, J Denny Weaver, David Janzen, John Kampen, Perry Bush, James H. Satterwhite, Daniel Wessner, Susan Biesecker-Mast, Jeff Gundy, Cynthia L. Bandish, Melissa Friesen, Mark J. Suderman, James M. Harder, Jeff Gingerich, Pamela S. Nath, Ronald L. Friesen, Angela Horn Montel, W Todd Rainey, Stephen H. Harnish, Darryl K. Nester, Gayle Trollinger, George Lehman, Gregg J Luginbuhl ...
    This book opens a new frontier in understanding nonviolence. Discussions of peace and nonviolence usually focus on either moral theory or practical dimensions of applying nonviolence in conflict situations. Teaching Peace carries the discussion of nonviolence beyond ethics and into the rest of the academic curriculum. This book isn't just for religion or philosophy teachers-it is for all educators ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Storycatcher

    Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story

    by Christina Baldwin ...
    Story is the heart of language. Story moves us to love and hate and can motivate us to change the whole course of our lives. Story can lift us beyond our individual borders to imagine the realities of other people, times, and places. Storytelling — both oral tradition and written word — is the foundation of being human. In this powerful book, Christina Baldwin, one of the visionaries who started ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Reason for God

    Belief in an Age of Skepticism

    by Timothy Keller ...
    A New York Times bestseller people can believe in—by "a pioneer of the new urban Christians" (Christianity Today) and the "C.S. Lewis for the 21st century" (Newsweek).Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics, and even ardent believers, have about religion. Using literature, philosophy, real-life conversations, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Unsettlers

    In Search of the Good Life in Today's America

    by Mark Sundeen ...
    “An in-depth and compelling account of diverse Americans living off the grid.” —Los Angeles TimesThe radical search for the simple life in today’s America.On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound for a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Voices from the Rust Belt

    by Anne Trubek ...
    “Timely . . . [the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.”—BooklistThe essays in Voices from the Rust Belt "address segregated schools, rural childhoods, suburban ennui, lead poisoning, opiate addiction, and job loss. They reflect upon happy childhoods, successful community ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Making Sense of God

    Finding God in the Modern World

    by Timothy Keller ...
    We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives?In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Believers

    Making a Life at the End of the World

    by Lisa Wells ...
    "An essential document of our time." —Charles D'Ambrosio, author of LoiteringIn search of answers and action, the award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells brings us Believers, introducing trailblazers and outliers from across the globe who have found radically new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate changeWe find ourselves at the end of the world. How, then, shall we ... Read more

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  • Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments

    A Stone Reader

    Edited by Peter Catapano, Simon Critchley ...
    From the editors of the widely influential The Stone Reader comes the most thorough and engaging guide to modern ethical thought available.Since 2010, The Stone— an enormously popular column in the New York Times— has interpreted and reinterpreted age-old inquires that speak to our contemporary condition. Having done for modern ethics what The Stone Reader did for modern philosophy, this portable ... Read more

    $13.99 USD