• The Soul of Desire: Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community, By Curt Thompson
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    The Soul of Desire

    Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community

    by Curt Thompson
    Foreword by Makoto Fujimura

    A Spiritual and Neurobiological Redemption of Desire

    We are people of desire.

    In The Soul of Desire, psychiatrist Curt Thompson suggests that underneath all our longings is the desire to be known—and what's more, that this fundamental yearning manifests itself in our deep need to make things of beauty, revealing who we are to others. Desire and beauty go hand ...

  • A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers, By Ethan J. Brue and Derek C. Schuurman and Steven H. VanderLeest
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    A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers

    by Ethan J. Brue, Derek C. Schuurman, and Steven H. VanderLeest

    Our technology shapes the way we live, interact, work, play, and even worship. Technology and its power are both old and new—as is the wisdom we need to envision, design, build, and use it well. For Christians passionate about developing technology, it's not always clear how their faith and work intersect. How can designing and using technology actually be a way of loving God and ...

  • Called to Care: A Christian Vision for Nursing, By Judith Allen Shelly and Arlene B. Miller and Kimberly H. Fenstermacher
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    Called to Care

    A Christian Vision for Nursing

    by Judith Allen Shelly, Arlene B. Miller, and Kimberly H. Fenstermacher

    Nursing is a vocation: a calling from God to care for others. The role of the nurse originally grew out of a holistic Christian understanding of humans as created in the image of God. Yet as nursing and healthcare continue to change, the effects have proven disorienting to many. Now more than ever, we need nurses who are committed both to a solid understanding of their profession ...

  • Science and the Doctrine of Creation: The Approaches of Ten Modern Theologians, Edited by Geoffrey H. Fulkerson and Joel Thomas Chopp
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    Science and the Doctrine of Creation

    The Approaches of Ten Modern Theologians

    Edited by Geoffrey H. Fulkerson and Joel Thomas Chopp
    Afterword by Alister E. McGrath

    Can Christians take seriously the claims of modern science without compromising their theological integrity? Can theology contribute to our understanding of the natural world without reducing the doctrine of creation to a few flashpoint issues? While there is no shortage of works that treat the intersection between science and religion, little attention has been paid to the theological ...

  • Hurting Yet Whole: Reconciling Body and Spirit in Chronic Pain and Illness, By Liuan Huska
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    Hurting Yet Whole

    Reconciling Body and Spirit in Chronic Pain and Illness

    by Liuan Huska

    What if the things we most fear about our bodies—our vulnerability to illness and pain—are exactly the places where God meets us most fully?

    As Liuan Huska went through years of chronic pain, she wondered why God seemed absent and questioned some of the common assumptions about healing. What do we do when our bodies don't work the way they should? What is healing, when one ...

  • Analog Church: Why We Need Real People, Places, and Things in the Digital Age, By Jay Y. Kim
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    Analog Church

    Why We Need Real People, Places, and Things in the Digital Age

    by Jay Y. Kim
    Foreword by Scot McKnight

    Outreach Resource of the Year
    The Gospel Coalition Book Award

    What does it mean to be an analog church in a digital age?

    In recent decades the digital world has taken over our society at nearly every level, and the church has increasingly followed suit—often in ways we're not fully aware of. But as even the culture at large begins to ...

  • Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation: Ancient Wisdom for Current Controversy, By Gavin Ortlund
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    Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation

    Ancient Wisdom for Current Controversy

    by Gavin Ortlund

    How might premodern exegesis of Genesis inform Christian debates about creation today?

    Imagine a table with three people in dialogue: a young-earth creationist, an old-earth creationist, and an evolutionary creationist. Into the room walks Augustine of Hippo, one of the most significant theologians in the history of the church. In what ways will his reading of Scripture and ...

  • Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says About the Environment and Why It Matters, By Sandra L. Richter
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    Stewards of Eden

    What Scripture Says About the Environment and Why It Matters

    by Sandra L. Richter

    ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

    Biblical Foundations Book Award Winner

    Sandra L. Richter cares about the Bible. She also cares about creation.

    An expert in ancient Israelite society and economy as well as biblical theology, she walks readers through passages familiar and not-so-familiar, showing how significant environmental theology ...

  • Embracing Evolution: How Understanding Science Can Strengthen Your Christian Life, By Matthew Nelson Hill
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    Embracing Evolution

    How Understanding Science Can Strengthen Your Christian Life

    by Matthew Nelson Hill
    Foreword by J. Richard Middleton

    Christians often have a complicated relationship with science—especially when it comes to evolution. In recent years there has been an explosion in scientific understanding of evolutionary theory and its implications for human nature. Yet many Christians still see evolution as at best irrelevant to their faith and at worst threatening to it. Is it possible that adopting an evolutionary ...

  • How Reason Can Lead to God: A Philosopher's Bridge to Faith, By Joshua Rasmussen
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    How Reason Can Lead to God

    A Philosopher's Bridge to Faith

    by Joshua Rasmussen

    Do you seek the truth? Do you value reason, science, and independent thinking? Are you skeptical of beliefs that people maintain merely "on faith," yet you remain interested in the big questions of life? Do you hope there could be a greater purpose to the universe, if only that were realistic? If so, then philosopher Joshua Rasmussen can encourage you in your journey. Beginning ...

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