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PaperbackMy Vertical Neighborhood
How Strangers Became a Community
by Lynda J MacGibbon
Foreword by Michael FrostTop World Guild Awards Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
What if our neighbors were our friends?
When Lynda MacGibbon moved from a small city in eastern Canada to a high-rise apartment in Toronto, she decided to follow Jesus' famous commandment to "love your neighbor" a bit more literally. In the past, she would have looked first for friends at her new ...
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PaperbackA Week in the Life of Rome
A Week in the Life Series
by James L Papandrea
In first-century Rome, following Jesus comes at a tremendous social cost.
An urbane Roman landowner and merchant is intrigued by the Christian faith—but is he willing to give up his status and lifestyle to join the church? Meanwhile his young client, a catechumen in the church at Rome, is beginning to see just how much his newfound faith will require of him.
A Week ...
PaperbackLiturgical Mission
The Work of the People for the Life of the World
by Winfield Bevins
Foreword by Justo L. GonzálezModern missional movements have often viewed the historic Christian traditions with suspicion. The old traditions may be beautiful, the thinking goes, but they’re too insular, focused primarily on worship and on the interior lifeof the church, and not looking outward to evangelism and good works.
In Liturgical Mission, Winfield Bevins argues that the church's liturgy ...
PaperbackA Week in the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman
A Week in the Life Series
by Holly Beers
In first-century Ephesus, life is not easy for women.
A young wife meets her daily struggles with equanimity and courage. She holds poverty and hunger at bay, fights to keep her child healthy and strong, and navigates the unpredictability of her husband's temperament. But into the midst of her daily fears and worries, a new hope appears: a teaching that challenges her society's ...
Board bookJesus Loves the Little Children, All the Children of the World
Fresh Lyrics for a Beloved Song
by Tara Hackney
2026 Independent Press Favorite—Childrens–Religion Nonfiction (Board Book)
Updated lyrics for a new generation!
Discover a timeless message of love updated for today in Jesus Loves the Little Children, All the Children of the World. The classic song "Jesus Loves the Little Children of the World" has been heard in homes and churches for over ...
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Richard B. Steele
Richard B. Steele is Professor of Moral and Historical Theology and Associate Dean of the School of Theology at Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA where he currently resides. He is the author of "Gracious Affection" and "True Virtue" According to Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley and the editor of "Heart Religion" in the Methodist Tradition and Related Movements. His articles have appeared in numerous theological magazines and reviews.
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Katie Schnack
Katie Schnack is a writer and book publicist. Her articles have appeared in Relevant, Today.com, Hello Giggles, Romper, and Scary Mommy. Katie and her family live in West Palm Beach, Florida, and she is the author of The Gap Decade: When You're Technically an Adult but Really Don't Feel Like it Yet.
PaperbackLife After Church
God's Call to Disillusioned Christians
by Brian Sanders
Life without church. It's getting easier to imagine.And maybe you already left. A leaver, then. Committed to Jesus, not an institution. Perhaps you've left your church in spirit, remaining in the pew. Outwardly silent. Secretly bored. Ineither case, Brian Sanders has a word for you.Out of his own experience as a leaver, Brian distills the complex problem into two viable options:
- Stay. ...
PaperbackThe Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era
Exploring the Background of Early Christianity
by James S. Jeffers
What was life like for first-century Christians?
Imagine a modest-sized Roman home of a well-to-do Christian household wedged into a thickly settled quarter of Corinth. In the lingering light of a summer evening, men, women and children, merchants, working poor and slaves, a mix of races and backgrounds have assembled in the dimly lit main room are are spilling into the central courtyard. ...
