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Emma Austin
Emma M. Austin (PhD, Alphacrucis University College) is a lecturer in Old Testament studies and Biblical Hebrew at Alphacrucis University College in Queensland, Australia, where she is also the program director for the Master of Theology degree.
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Ryan P. Tinetti
Ryan P. Tinetti is a pastor who now serves as a professor of practical theology at Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis). He is the author of Preaching by Heart and writes the regular column "The Preacher's Toolbox" on 1517.org. Prior to his call to Concordia Seminary, Ryan served for fourteen years in parish ministry. Ryan lives with his wife, Anne, and their four children in St. Louis on the campus of the seminary.
PaperbackAn Extra Mile
A Story of Embracing God's Call
Sensible Shoes Series
by Sharon Garlough Brown
Christianity Today Book of the Year Award
The women of Sensible Shoes are navigating both deep joy and devastating loss. Can they find equilibrium in the midst of all that has changed?
Mara: While faced with the turmoil of divorce and chaos at home, she is also listening for a call to serve others with courage and creativity.
Hannah: ...
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Award-winning author Ruth Haley Barton has signed a six-book contract with InterVarsity Press. Barton, president of the Transforming Center, a spiritual formation ministry to pastors and Christian leaders, will release Invitation to Transforming Community, the first of six books in the Transforming Church series, in Fall 2014.
PaperbackYearning
Living Between How It Is and How It Ought to Be
by M. Craig Barnes
Does God want us fulfilled?
Popular psychology says we should be fulfilled. Advertisements tease us with dozens of ways we can be fulfilled. Many preachers and book promise Christian fulfillment.
But in this surprising (and surprisingly liberating) book, Craig Barnes suggests we weren't created to be whole or complete. With a fresh reading of the early chapters of Genesis, he says that ...
PaperbackThe Para subir hay que bajar
Olvidándote de ti mismo, llegas a ser tú mismo
by Marlena Graves
Translated by Ruth Goring“Ahora, con la ayuda de Dios, seré yo mismo.”
Estas palabras del filósofo danés Søren Kierkegaard impactan profundamente a Marlena Graves, una escritora, profesora y activista puertorriqueña. En estas páginas ella describe el proceso de vaciarse a sí misma que le permite subir hacia Dios y convertirse en la verdadera yo a que Dios la llama. Haciendo uso de las profundas tradiciones ...
PaperbackThe Self-Aware Leader
Discovering Your Blind Spots to Reach Your Ministry Potential
by Terry Linhart
Foreword by Carey NieuwhofParish Clergy - Top Ten Books
Effective ministry begins here.
You've studied what you think you need to know before entering a career in ministry. Is there anything that is more important than knowingabout hermeneutics, homiletics, theology, exegesis, and everything else you have likely learned in seminary and church ministry so far?
Yes, there ...
PaperbackBuried Talents
Overcoming Gendered Socialization to Answer God's Call
by Susan Carol Harris Howell
Foreword by Mimi HaddadReader's Choice Award Winner
If God is calling women to lead, what's holding them back? Susan Harris Howell has spent years helping students investigate this question. In Buried Talents, she makes clear how gender disparity in leadership is directly connected to a larger, less overt issue: gendered socialization. Howell examines gendered messages ...
PaperbackBlood From a Stone
A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back from the Dead
by Adam S. McHugh
Men's Journal Best Wine Books 2023 and André Simon Food and Drink Book Award Longlist
"This is the story of how wine brought me back from the dead."
Thus begins Adam McHugh's transition through the ending of one career—as a hospice chaplain and grief counselor—into the discovery of a new life in wine among the grapevines of the Santa Ynez Valley of California.
"This ...
PaperbackWhen We Stand
The Power of Seeking Justice Together
by Terence Lester
Foreword by Gregory BoyleIt's easy to feel overwhelmed by all of the injustices that we see in the world. We don't know what to do and might think that we don't have anything to offer. But by using our gifts in collaboration with others, we can do more together than we ever could on our own.
Activist Terence Lester knows it's hard to change the world. But mobilizing and acting together empowers us ...
