John Pavlovitz’s "Worth Fighting For" is a stirring playbook for Christians who strive to ensure that kindness triumphs over toxicity. Pavlovitz has an uncomfortable truth to... Read More

Impelled by a lifelong fascination with the ties between spirituality and travel, Lori Erickson has visited and written about holy sites across the globe. In "Every Step Is... Read More

John Pavlovitz’s If God Is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk issues a passionate, timely plea for Christians to return to a faith of love and service. Organized religion has missed the... Read More

In "The Soul of the Family Tree", Lori Erickson traces the “spiritual DNA” of her Norwegian ancestors, investigating how their heritage influenced their cultural practices... Read More

A helpful reminder that no one escapes this life alive, Lori Erickson’s "Near the Exit" is a travel text and an act of religious exploration, presenting spiritual meditations... Read More

For LGBTQ Christians, especially those in evangelical churches, the decision to come out can mean being shunned, dismissed from church leadership or service positions, and made... Read More

Barbara Melosh’s "Loving and Leaving a Church" is a deeply personal memoir that provides fresh insight into the struggles of small mainline congregations in America. Both a... Read More

In this interactive compilation of 150 stories from the Christian Bible, children are prompted to hear, see, and act through a series of thought-provoking questions. Over a... Read More

In Elisabeth Zartl’s sweetly profound "Where Are You Hiding, God?", a little girl looks for God between the clothes in her dresser, among the garden flowers, and all around,... Read More

Three well-known parables from the New Testament Gospel of Luke come together in a remarkable way in Who Counts? 100 Sheep, 10 Coins, and 2 Sons, by biblical scholar Amy-Jill... Read More

"UnClobber" is a breath of fresh air in the often swampy religious conversations on homosexuality. Colby Martin’s "UnClobber" is an honest personal look at the way Christians... Read More

“If money, success, and beauty don’t make people happy, what does?” This question, asked by a wealthy, successful, beautiful, but obviously unhappy congregant, led Martin... Read More