Back to School: Book Trailer for Ready and Waiting for You
We know, we know. . . . It hardly seems right even to mention the words “back to school” in the middle of this glorious July. But teachers everywhere know the truth without being told: summer is...
View ArticleBook Trailer for Wesley Granberg-Michaelson’s From Times Square to Timbuktu
In his new book From Times Square to Timbuktu, Wesley Granberg-Michaelson explores the consequences of world Christianity’s recent shift away from its traditional center of gravity in the West to the...
View ArticleBook Trailer for Cornelius Plantinga Jr.’s Reading for Preaching
In Reading for Preaching — one of this fall’s most anticipated new releases — Cornelius (Neal) Plantinga makes a singular claim: preachers who read fine writing will likely become deeper and defter...
View ArticleBook Trailer for Eugene Peterson’s Holy Luck
Have you heard? Eugene Peterson — acclaimed author, well-loved pastoral theologian, and professor emeritus at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia — has a brand new book out from Eerdmans! Holy...
View Article“Cradle” by Eugene H. Peterson
Cradle {She gave birth to her first-born son And wrapped him in swaddling clothes, And laid him in a manger. Luke 2:7} For us who have only known approximate fathers And mothers manqué, this child is a...
View ArticleBook Trailer (and More) Starring Jack Levison and Inspired
Eugene Peterson has called Jack Levison — author of Inspired: The Holy Spirit and the Mind of Faith — “the clearest writer on the Holy Spirit that I have known.” In his newest book Levison (whose other...
View ArticleBook Trailer for The War within These Walls
Earlier today, Aline Sax’s novel The War within These Walls was named a 2014 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book by the American Library Association at its annual Youth Media Awards. In the afterglow of...
View ArticleBook Trailer for Mary Newell DePalma’s Two Little Birds
For those of us living in the Midwest, this has been the coldest, snowiest, most brutal winter in a generation — and it just won’t quit. With days to go before the end of February, the only hopeful...
View ArticleBook Trailer for Annie M. G. Schmidt’s A Pond Full of Ink
Elderly otters. Tree-dwelling suburbanites. Singing tea kettles. Walking furniture. In the creative cosmos of beloved Dutch poet Annie M. G. Schmidt, anything is possible — and the more whimsical, the...
View ArticleBook Trailer for Katy Beebe and S. D. Schindler’s Brother Hugo and the Bear
Poor Brother Hugo can’t return his library book — the letters of St. Augustine — because, it turns out, the precious book has been devoured by a bear! Instructed by the abbot to borrow another...
View ArticleBook Trailer for Chuck DeGroat’s Toughest People to Love
People — frustrating, confusing, disappointing, complicated — are the most difficult part of any leadership calling. They challenge leaders everywhere, from the pulpit to the board room (and beyond)....
View ArticleBook Trailer for Linda Vigen Phillips’s Crazy
Laura is a typical fifteen-year-old growing up in the 1960s, navigating her way through classes, friendships, and even a new romance. But she’s carrying around a secret: her mother is suffering from...
View ArticleBook Trailer for J. Bradley Wigger’s Thank You, God
Thank You, God is a celebration of family and friends, of homes and food to share, and of the wonder of creation from the first light of day to the calm, peaceful night. This bright, lyrical new...
View ArticleBryant + Sweet = The Right Word (and P.S. . . . It’s Here!)
After years of working, waiting, and dreaming, the most highly anticipated children’s book of our Fall 2014 season — Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet’s The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus — has finally...
View ArticleBook Trailer for Douglas Campbell’s Framing Paul: An Epistolary Biography
All historical work on Paul presupposes a story concerning the composition of his letters — which ones he actually wrote, how many pieces they might originally have consisted of, when he wrote them,...
View ArticleA Thanksgiving Prayer
Thank You, God Praise for J. Bradley Wigger’s Thank You, God. “If there’s a class somewhere that teaches us what it means to be human, the centerpiece of the curriculum surely is the study of...
View ArticleBook Trailer for Manger
There is a legend that describes how, at midnight on Christmas Eve, all creatures are granted the power of speech for one hour. In Manger, Lee Bennett Hopkins and a dozen other poets imagine what...
View ArticleBook Trailer for Thomas Bergler’s From Here to Maturity
Many American Christians today are not sure what spiritual maturity is or how to get there. In From Here to Maturity: Overcoming the Juvenilization of American Christianity, Thomas Bergler provides an...
View ArticleBook Trailer for Charles Camosy’s Beyond the Abortion Wars
The abortion debate in the United States is confused. Ratings-driven media coverage highlights extreme views and creates the illusion that we are stuck in a hopeless stalemate. In Beyond the Abortion...
View ArticleBook Trailer for Wesley Granberg-Michaelson’s From Times Square to Timbuktu
From Times Square to Timbuktu In his new book From Times Square to Timbuktu, Wesley Granberg-Michaelson explores the consequences of world Christianity’s recent shift away from its traditional center...
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