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How Beautiful the World Could Be Christian Reflections on the Everyday Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt Meditations on life and faith from the author of The Love That Is God. “In an age where our theology often either wilts or bludgeons, we’re desperate for faithful, artful voices that speak into the grit of our world without adding to the clamor. We need words that pierce while carrying the lilt of love. We need true poets in the pulpit. Thankfully, we have Bauerschmidt’s haunting, holy sentences beckoning us toward the God of beauty and thunder.” — WINN COLLIER
pastor, director of the Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination, and author of Love Big, Be Well
“By setting these winsome and memorable homilies out as poetry, Frederick Bauerschmidt highlights that every word counts and that the secret lies in the delivery. To read these homilies and commentaries is to clothe oneself with wisdom and grace.” — SAMUEL WELLS
vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London
“This beautiful collection couldn’t come at a better time. Deacon Bauerschmidt looks at our world with compassion, eloquence, and something all too rare these days: hope. These homilies reflect all the challenges of our age—from a lethal virus to heartbreaking violence—but reassure us that we are not alone. Grace abounds. God is near. Open these pages and you’ll truly appreciate how beautiful the world could be.” — GREG KANDRA
deacon, journalist, blogger, and author of A Deacon Prays
Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt is professor of theology at Loyola University Maryland and a permanent deacon of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, assigned to the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. His other books include The Love That Is God: An Invitation to Christian Faith. 978-0-8028-8021-5 • Paperback • 242 pages • $22.99 US $30.99 CAN • £17.99 UK • AVAILABLE NOW
Hope A User’s Manual MaryAnn McKibben Dana What hope is, what hope isn’t, and how to find it in hopeless times. Hope is not optimism. It’s not toxic positivity. It’s not a promise of future success or progress. And it’s definitely not something that can be reduced to a scripty-font platitude on an Instagram post. So what is it? One thing is certain: real hope demands that we do something with it. That we live it out. That we use hope to participate in a bigger story playing out behind the bleak world we see on the news or in our social media feeds every day. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a person of faith, or someone disillusioned with faith, or someone who hardly ever thinks about faith: if you’re a human being who longs for a spiritual counternarrative to live by, this book points to one resilient enough to endure crises and crushing defeats. If you’re tired of hearing about some heavenly hereafter amid the pressing need for justice here and now, this is a book about hope for this world—not the next. After exploring what hope isn’t and then what it is, MaryAnn McKibben Dana reflects on the surprising place where hope is often found—in the messiness of our imperfect, flawed, beautiful human bodies. In the second half of the book, she talks about making hope real: sharing hope through stories, cultivating hope through simple practices, and nurturing hope in hopeless times— when only real hope can persevere. MaryAnn McKibben Dana is a writer, pastor, speaker, and ministry coach living in Virginia. She is the author of God, Improv, and the Art of Living and Sabbath in the Suburbs. Her writing has appeared in Time, the Washington Post, Huff Post, the Christian Century, Religion Dispatches, and Journal for Preachers, and was featured in a monthly column for Presbyterians Today for three years. She was profiled on PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly for her work on Sabbath and was recognized by the Presbyterian Writers Guild with the 2015–2016 David Steele Distinguished Writer Award. 978-0-8028-8231-8 • Paperback • 160 pages • $16.99 US $22.99 CAN • £13.99 UK • AVAILABLE AUGUST 2022
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Make a List How a Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts Marilyn McEntyre What if writing lists could literally change your life? “Goes well beyond the to-do list to invite new and creative ways of thinking and doing. . . . Readers of all kinds, from type A veteran list-makers to those whose blood pressure rises at the thought of making a list, will find much useful information here.” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“You do not have to go too far into the book to discover that McEntyre has created a whole new paradigm shift, moving lists out of being simply to-do taskmasters and into being a tool to help us delve deeper into our lives and indeed into our very souls.” — THE PRESBYTERIAN OUTLOOK
“A perfect book for yourself or to give as a gift.” — SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW
“Brings lively attention to the way words can open multiple doors of memory, imagination, and reflection.” — RICHARD ROHR “Marilyn McEntyre reminds me of the power of language—to heal and instruct us, to challenge and shape us.” — SHAUNA NIEQUIST “Just one week into living with Make a List, I can already tell that this small book, which both invites me into a new practice and reframes one of my existing daily habits as a spiritual practice, will be life-giving and edifying.”
— LAUREN F. WINNER
“Encourages, guides, and directs. . . . Marilyn McEntyre embodies simple, patient kindness in her writing.” — MICHAEL CARD Marilyn McEntyre is a dedicated list-maker and the author of several books on language and faith, including What’s in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause (winner of a Christianity Today 2015 book award in spirituality), When Poets Pray, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict, and Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. 978-0-8028-8225-7 • Paperback • 202 pages • $16.99 US $22.99 CAN • £13.99 UK • AVAILABLE NOW
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