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Food and faith podcasters Derrick Weston and Anna Woofenden invite you into a kitchen where a passion for food, sharing meals, showing hospitality, and understanding cultures, and local foodways collide. Answer the call of a just kitchen, where meal preparation is as much an act of resistance against injustice as are marches and protests.

What if our dreams could offer spiritual insight for personal growth and social transformation? Leading dream expert Kelly Bulkeley brings us time-honored methods to stimulate our innate dreaming capacity, including the latest research on dreaming and strategies from seasoned, vivid dreamers.

Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all, from gunshot wounds to traumatic brain injuries. In The Bodies Keep Coming, Williams ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. Black bodies will continue to be wracked by violence, racism, and healthcare inequities until we enact changes of policy and law.

"For many, the season leading up to Christmas is a time of expectations, busyness, joy, and often grief. Ordinary Blessings for the Christmas Season helps us access the deeper meaning of holidays, connect to the ancient story of Christmas, and pause to recognize the sacred ordinary in the season"--

What do you do with BIG feelings? This activity book helps kids identify, understand, and use creative ways to work through big emotions.

When Rosie visits her abuela, they find a way to connect despite speaking different languages.

Kaia relates the different emotions she faces in everyday life to the traits of different species of cats.

"What better way to celebrate than by donning homemade costumes andgoing to the local apple orchard? A boy and his family will enjoy doing just that and more."--

A story of self-empowerment at a martial arts studio.

Mae is frustrated that everything her little sister does is somehow science--until Mae realizes that she can do science too.

"A lyrical Christmas story about animals coming from around the Middle East to visit baby Jesus, bringing their individual gifts and singing him a lullaby"--

A little girl reflects on the difficulty of explaining God, even for grownups, but concludes that maybe it does not matter if she can not put the nature of God into words.

In this tour de force, a premier Old Testament Scholar provides the reader with a grand overview of biblical theology: tracing the developments, critiquing the major contributions (e.g., Gese, Childs, Brueggemann), and providing his own provocative theological implications of the various constructions. In his usual bold manner, he examines the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic contexts of biblical theology and their implications for our reading of both testaments in the modern world. Some of the key issues Bar addresses are typologies for doing biblical theology and Old Testament theology, the Apocryhpha and Pseudepigrapha, the relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament, the history of religions versus theological approaches, and the Biblical Theology Movement.

This book boldly articulates an open theology--progressive approaches that promote unorthodox theological reflection and the creation of inclusive communities. Brad Braxton outlines Christianity's capacity to foster healing, hope, and restorative justice through embracing pluralism and radically inclusive love.

Leading Faithful Innovation offers a practical, hands-on approach to addressing the challenges of change in the church and our culture. This three-step process is not another program or add-on to what readers are already doing. It is an ongoing way of following God that allows the Spirit of God to drive the energy among the people of the church.

Households and Holiness provides a clear overview of the religious lives of Israelite women. Carol Meyers stresses the diversity of religious practices in ancient Israel and argues we must examine practices as well as beliefs. The book explores anthropology, archaeological evidence, ethnographic data, and textual sources.

Cain Hope Felder shows the ancient ambiguity in the Bible about what we call race. He uncovers misuses of the biblical text and shows how the Bible has been used to trivialize Black people in many ways. The book, a critical essay from Stony the Road We Trod, challenges readers to a more honest engagement with the biblical text.

The Bible offered a language-world through which African Americans have negotiated the strange land into which they were thrust. Vincent Wimbush outlines six African American readings that correspond to history and how they helped shape a collective self-understanding. When their voices were taken away, the Bible offered a way to speak again.

Charging Interest explores the explosive tract written by Martin Luther which summarizes his views on poverty caused by an economic system that stopped caring for the well-being of God's children. Luther exhorts clergy to ex-communicate those causing poverty through their ruthless economic behavior or risk God's judgment alongside the perpetrators.