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  • The Path of Celtic Prayer: An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy, By Calvin Miller
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    The Path of Celtic Prayer

    An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy

    by Calvin Miller

    Discover an ancient way of prayer that leads us to new union with God. "Long ago," Calvin Miller writes, "when the Celts built their own rustic kingdom of God in what would later be the British Isles, their fervor in prayer washed their world in a vital revival." In uncertain and dangerous days of high infant-mortality rates, leprosy and plagues, the Celts breathed candid prayers out of the reality ...

  • Birth of the Chosen One: A First Nations Retelling of the Christmas Story, By Terry Wildman
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    Birth of the Chosen One

    A First Nations Retelling of the Christmas Story

    by Terry Wildman
    Illustrated by Hannah Noel Buchanan and Holly Buchanan

    A Classic Holiday Picture Book from the Pages of the Bestselling First Nations Version!

    Adopted from the Gospel of Luke, The Birth of the Chosen One is a unique retelling of the birth of Jesus told in the tradition of native oral storytellers.

    Featuring stunning Native American art, The Birth of the Chosen One is a powerful picture book that illuminates ...

  • The Smell of Sin: and the Fresh Air of Grace, By Don Everts
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    The Smell of Sin

    and the Fresh Air of Grace

    by Don Everts

    An old man saws through his right ankle. A smooth-skinned boy lies to his father's face. Fetid tombs, harsh slavery, fatal choking . . . these images come right from the words of Jesus! They are word pictures Jesus asks listeners to imagine. But why? Why did Jesus paint such vivid pictures when he talked about sin? And why did he make them so sobering—and downright gory at times? In The ...

  • Practicing the Way of Jesus: Life Together in the Kingdom of Love, By Mark Scandrette
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    Practicing the Way of Jesus

    Life Together in the Kingdom of Love

    by Mark Scandrette

    Take a casual survey of how people practice their faith, and you might reasonably conclude that Jesus spent his life going door to door offering private lessons, complete with chalkboard and pop quizzes. We think about God in the comfort of our own minds, in isolation from one another; meanwhile the world waits for a people to practice the way of Jesus together. Mark Scandrette contends that Jesus ...

  • Reading the Bible Around the World: A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics, By Federico Alfredo Roth and Justin Marc Smith and Kirsten Oh and Alice Yafeh-Deigh and Kay Higuera Smith
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    Reading the Bible Around the World

    A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics

    by Federico Alfredo Roth, Justin Marc Smith, Kirsten Oh, Alice Yafeh-Deigh, and Kay Higuera Smith

    Parish Clergy Award

    It's an exciting time to be reading the Bible. As we increasingly encounter readers with perspectives, experiences, and cultures different from our own, we can incorporate new ideas and approaches to interpreting Scripture. When diverse interpretations from various social locations are gathered together, we gain new vistas and a fuller ...