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Tightropes and Teeter-Totters: Finding Balance in the Ups and Downs of Life

Lisa Pennington - David C Cook
Format: Print book

Lisa Pennington knows how to get up after losing her balance, even with a full house, a not-so-full bank account, and never enough energy. In her latest book, she offers readers: Strategies for finding balance in marriage, motherhood, and bad moodsPlayful yet biblically based tips for turning...
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Strength to Love

Martin Luther King Jr. - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

The classic collection of Dr. King's sermons that fuse his Christian teachings with his radical ideas of love and nonviolence as a means to combat hate and oppression.As Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength...
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They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty

John G. Turner - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

An ambitious new history of the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, published for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's landing In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve...
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Jesus People

Danny Gokey
Format: Audio CD

Jesus People is a record that speaks to and welcomes ALL people. The album features previously released songs and includes collaborations with Christine D'Clario, Koryn Hawthorne and Angie Rose. Jesus was a figure with a longstanding voice throughout history who brought the broken and hurting...
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Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World

ALEC RYRIE - VIKING
Format: Print book

Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk in 1517. Now it covers the globe and includes almost a billion people. On the 500th anniversary of Luther's theses, a global history of the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world Five hundred years ago an obscure monk challenged...
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To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa

JIM TOWEY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes an extraordinary firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint.Mother Teresa was one of the most admired women of the 20th century, and her memory continues to inspire charitable work around the world. She believed...
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Be Still and Know: A Study of Rest and Refuge

DEB BURMA - Concordia Publishing
Format: Paperback

When our Lord says, "Be still, and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10) , what does He mean? God's Word promises that in whatever kind of storm we find ourselves in, Jesus always comes to us.In Be Still and Know, unpack the promises found in Psalm 46 that are fulfilled in Christ....
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Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother

Kate Hennessy - Scribner Book Company
Format: Print book

The life and work of Dorothy Day - the iconic, celebrated, and controversial Catholic whom Pope Francis called a "great American" - told with illuminating detail by her granddaughter.Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a prominent Catholic, writer, social activist, and co-founder of a movement...
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Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

Anne Lamott
Format: Hardcover


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A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

Timothy Egan - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed account of his pilgrimage will have you wondering whether we should all embark on such a journey, either of the body, the soul or, as in Egan's case, both." --Cokie Roberts"If this book doesn't quite settle...
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