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Abbey of Gethsemani Retreat House

Abbey of Gethsemani

A silent, unstructured retreat house at the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, open to guests of all faiths.

Across All Worlds

C. Baxter Kruger

C. Baxter Kruger presents a relational and participatory account of salvation grounded in the Trinity and Christ's union with humanity. Sin appears as alienation, wounded perception, and life inside fear rather than actual separation from God; Christ enters human darkness to reveal and restore participation rather than persuading a distant or hostile Father.

After You Believe

N. T. Wright

N. T. Wright presents Christian ethics as the formation of character for God’s promised new creation. Rejecting both rule-only morality and the idea that authentic action should simply feel spontaneous, he retrieves virtue language: repeated choices, communal practices, worship, Scripture, and the Spirit gradually form people able to act with wisdom. The Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love orient this training toward humanity’s vocation within renewed creation.

Angels and Demons

Data Over Dogma

Examines what biblical texts call angels and demons and contrasts those texts with later popular images.

Angels and Demons: Introducing Lord of Spirits

The Lord of Spirits

Introduces an Eastern Orthodox account of angels, demons, and the spiritual world from within that tradition’s scriptures and theology.

The Ascent of Mount Carmel

John of the Cross

John’s extended account of detachment, prayer, spiritual perception, and the path toward union with God.

Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine

Andrew Davison

A systematic theological study of how possible life elsewhere bears on creation, angels, the image of God, sin, incarnation, Christology, revelation, and salvation.

Belief in God in an Age of Science

John Polkinghorne

Physicist and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne argues that science and theology are distinct but intellectually related searches for truth. Drawing on the intelligibility and relational structure of the physical world, quantum theory, cosmology, divine action, and critical realism, he proposes that Christian belief can be rationally warranted without competing with scientific explanation or being reducible to a proof derived from nature.

The Beloved Community

Charles Marsh

A history of how theology, organizing, interracial community, and institutional conflict shaped the American civil-rights movement.

The Benedict Option

Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher argues that Christians who hold traditional doctrines should respond to secularization not chiefly by winning elections but by building communities capable of sustaining belief and practice. Inspired loosely by Benedictine life, he urges thicker formation through worship, education, family, work, discipline, hospitality, and local institutions so that orthodox Christianity can endure what he sees as an increasingly hostile cultural environment.

Beyond Shame

Matthias Roberts

A therapist offers an affirming Christian approach to sexual shame, desire, values, and embodied wholeness.

The Bible and Homosexual Practice

Robert A. J. Gagnon

Robert A. J. Gagnon makes a long, detailed traditionalist case that biblical texts consistently reject same-sex relationships. He examines ancient context, creation, Israel’s laws and stories, Jesus, Paul, and the larger question of how Scripture should guide Christian ethics. The book became a major academic reference for the conservative side of this debate.

The Bible and the Believer

Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns, and Daniel J. Harrington

Three biblical scholars—a Jew, a Protestant, and a Catholic—describe how their communities can receive scripture religiously while also using historical and literary criticism. Their essays clarify where the traditions share problems, where their interpretive authorities differ, and how each author personally negotiates tensions between inherited belief and modern scholarship.

The Bible Doesn't Say That

Joel M. Hoffman

Biblical linguist Joel Hoffman examines forty familiar claims that he believes depend on mistranslation, missing cultural context, or later assumptions imposed on the text. Written for nonspecialists, the examples show why knowing what English words appear on a page is not always the same as understanding what an ancient Hebrew or Greek text communicates.

The Bible Is Black History

Theron D. Williams

A pastor’s accessible argument for recognizing Africa and Black presence within biblical geography, genealogy, and interpretation.

The Bible Made Impossible

Christian Smith

A sociologist’s critique of biblicism from inside evangelical Christianity and an argument for a more Christ-centered authority.

The Bible Tells Me So

Peter Enns

Biblical scholar Peter Enns argues that the Bible’s diversity, ancient cosmology, morally troubling narratives, and internal tensions are features readers must engage rather than problems to conceal. Using Israel’s stories, wisdom literature, the Gospels, and Paul, he challenges modern expectations of error-free factual reporting and proposes a Scripture shaped by ancient human authors through whom communities continue wrestling with God.

The Bible, Disability, and the Church

Amos Yong

Theologian Amos Yong develops a Christian theology of disability by bringing biblical interpretation, disability studies, Pentecostal experience, and ecclesiology into conversation. He revisits healing narratives, creation, the image of God, the body of Christ, hospitality, and the Spirit, challenging churches that define normalcy too narrowly or imagine disabled people chiefly as recipients of cure, care, or charitable ministry.

Bible, Gender, Sexuality

James V. Brownson

James Brownson compares 'gender complementarity' and 'kinship' frameworks across Scripture, then applies the larger biblical moral logic to same-sex relationships. It adds a dense theological map for readers who have outgrown introductory arguments.

The Bible: A Very Short Introduction

John Riches

Biblical scholar John Riches introduces the Bible's varied writings, the worlds in which they arose, the formation of Jewish and Christian scriptures, and the many ways these texts have shaped—and been reshaped by—later cultures. The second edition also attends to newer scholarship and the Bible's continuing political and global influence.

Biblical Time Machine

Helen Bond; Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Working historians make current biblical scholarship approachable without pretending historical method resolves theology.

The Blue Parakeet

Scot McKnight

Scot McKnight argues that Christians do not simply read and obey the Bible without interpreting it. Every church follows some teachings directly, adapts others, and decides how Scripture’s story speaks in a different time. Using women in church leadership as his main example, he invites evangelical readers to make that process more honest and thoughtful.

Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?

Nancey Murphy

Philosopher and theologian Nancey Murphy argues for ‘nonreductive physicalism’: human beings are wholly physical creatures whose complex capacities for reason, morality, relationship, and spirituality need not require an independently separable soul. Engaging neuroscience, philosophy of mind, biblical interpretation, and Christian theology, she asks how agency, identity, ethics, resurrection, and divine action can remain meaningful without substance dualism.

The Body Knows: Ignatian Discernment and Felt Sense

God In All Things

Somatic noticing makes discernment audible and immediately testable in nine minutes. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.

Bonus Episode: Everything is Still Falling Apart

Mike Cosper

The series steps sideways from one church to rootlessness, loneliness and the institutional conditions that reward charisma. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.

The Book of Common Prayer

The Episcopal Church

The authorized Episcopal liturgical book of daily prayer, Eucharist, rites, psalms, and pastoral offices.

Brain Science 15th Annual Review Episode

Ginger Campbell

A single review compares Anil Seth, Antonio Damasio, Mark Solms and others, revealing disagreement within neuroscience of consciousness. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD

Ginger Campbell

Brown Church

Robert Chao Romero

Historian Robert Chao Romero traces a five-hundred-year tradition of Latino Christian social justice across colonization, missions, labor, civil rights, immigration, and contemporary church life. He names this tradition Brown Church, centering figures, movements, and theologies through which Latina and Latino Christians have resisted racial hierarchy while drawing on Scripture, Catholic and Protestant faith, community memory, and public action.

The Call

Os Guinness

A Christian account of calling as response to God rather than career fit, achievement, or self-expression.

Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?

Ian Hutchinson

MIT nuclear scientist Ian Hutchinson answers questions students commonly ask about Christianity, science, evidence, miracles, natural law, prayer, consciousness, Genesis, evolution, and the resurrection. Written in a conversational question-and-response form, the book argues that modern science does not require scientism and that belief in divine action can be intellectually responsible when miracles are understood as unusual acts of God rather than violations caused by ignorance.

The Catholic Scientist

Society of Catholic Scientists

Working scientists describe how research, vocation and Catholic belonging coexist, adding lived professional voice to concept-heavy science shelves.

Celebration of Discipline

Richard J. Foster

A modern ecumenical map of inward, outward, and corporate Christian disciplines.

Changing Our Mind: Definitive 3rd Edition of the Landmark Call for Inclusion of LGBTQ Christians with Response to Critics

David P. Gushee

Christian ethicist David Gushee narrates and defends his movement from traditional evangelical teaching toward full LGBTQ inclusion. He engages Scripture, sexual ethics, covenant, church practice, pastoral consequences, and responses from critics, presenting change as a matter of Christian discipleship rather than departure from biblical or ecclesial concern.

Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information

Sean Carroll's Mindscape

A leading consciousness researcher and a physicalist host expose live evidentiary disagreement inside science rather than pushing the traveler toward a spiritual metaphysics. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.

A Church Called Tov

Scot McKnight; Laura Barringer

New Testament scholar Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer describe how church cultures become toxic and contrast them with a ‘tov’ culture shaped by goodness, empathy, grace, truth, justice, service, and Christlike leadership. Using institutional patterns and the aftermath of abuse, they focus less on identifying a single bad leader than on the habits, incentives, loyalties, and silences that allow harm to be protected.

The Color of Compromise

Jemar Tisby

Historian Jemar Tisby traces white Christian complicity in American racism from slavery and segregation through the civil-rights era and contemporary institutions. Written as a narrative history with an explicit Christian moral call, it shows how churches and leaders repeatedly chose compromise, silence, paternalism, or active support for racial hierarchy.

Come As You Are

Emily Nagoski

Listener questions and sex research make embodied consent, desire and pleasure discussable without purity-culture assumptions.

Common Prayer

Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, and Enuma Okoro

A year-round collection of daily prayer, song, Scripture, saints, and justice-oriented remembrance for communities and individuals.

The Connection Between Racism and Greed

Malcolm Foley with Pete Enns and Jared Byas

Malcolm Foley connects racial injustice with economic self-interest and asks what solidarity, truth-telling, and a less exploitative Christian life could require.

Consent and “Enthusiastic Maybe”

Emily Nagoski

A real couple tests consent language where desire is willing but not emphatic, adding nuance beyond slogans. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.

Consolation and Desolation

God In All Things

A compact explanation lets listeners recognize movement over time before attempting a major decision. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.

Cosmic Plinko

Wonderology

Fine-tuning questions are heard as scientific limits and philosophical possibilities rather than a proof text. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.

Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose?

Denis Alexander

Denis Alexander surveys genetics, evolution, Genesis, and divine action to argue that Christians need not choose between creation and evolutionary science.

Creative Resistance & the Joy of Nonviolence

Drew G. I. Hart and Jarrod McKenna with Pete Enns and Jared Byas

A lively conversation about love, power, shalom, and creative nonviolence, with attention to what resistance can look like in ordinary communities.

The Cross and the Lynching Tree

James H. Cone

James H. Cone places the crucifixion of Jesus beside the lynching of Black Americans, arguing that the two symbols interpret one another and expose white Christianity's failure to confront racial terror. Through theology, history, spirituals, blues, literature, and the witness of figures including Ida B. Wells and Martin Luther King Jr., he asks what the cross can mean when Christians ignore crucified people.

The Crucifixion

Fleming Rutledge

Fleming Rutledge treats the crucifixion as God's action against sin, death, and enslaving powers, drawing together biblical motifs rather than reducing the cross to one formula. It gives the Jesus shelf serious theological depth.

Curveball

Peter Enns

Peter Enns uses memoir, biblical scholarship, humor, and constructive theology to describe faith after inherited explanations of God and Scripture stop accounting for lived experience. Rather than resolving each disruption, he explores how unexpected turns can expose the limits of a tightly managed God and open a less certain, more spacious Christian trust. The book gathers themes from Enns's earlier work into a personal account of change rather than a systematic theology.

Dark Night of the Soul

John of the Cross

A Carmelite account of the purifying “nights” of sense and spirit through which attachment and familiar spiritual consolation are transformed.

Dark Night Podcast

Andrew Nemr; Mike Freeman

A bounded series reads John of the Cross slowly while one artist tests the text against lived spiritual disorientation.

Dear Church

Lenny Duncan

Lenny Duncan writes a love letter and prophetic manifesto to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the wider white mainline church. Drawing on his life as a Black, queer Lutheran pastor, he confronts white supremacy, institutional self-protection, respectability, tokenism, policing, and the distance between public welcome and actual redistribution of power.

The Deepest Place

Curt Thompson

A Christian psychiatrist connects suffering, hope, attachment, and community through interpersonal neurobiology.

The Demon Haunted Bible

Data Over Dogma

Traces biblical demon language while asking how supernatural explanations can become harmful when applied to mental distress.

Demonic Foes

Richard Gallagher

A psychiatrist recounts cases he interprets as genuine demonic possession and explains how his clinical skepticism gave way to belief.

Demons and Spirits in Biblical Theology

John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton

Examines biblical language about demons and spirits within its ancient cultural and literary worlds rather than using the texts as a direct catalogue of invisible beings.

Demons, Ghosts, and Satan; What the Bible Says About Things That Go Bump in the Night

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

Explores how biblical and later Christian ideas about demons, ghosts, and Satan developed rather than appearing as one unchanged system.

Destined for Joy

Alvin F. Kimel

This collection develops a Christian case for universal salvation through figures including Isaac the Syrian, Julian of Norwich, George MacDonald, Sergius Bulgakov, and David Bentley Hart.

The Diary of a Country Priest

Georges Bernanos

A novel of an ill, isolated young priest whose apparent failure and hidden grace expose the loneliness of vocation.

The Disabled God

Nancy L. Eiesland

Nancy Eiesland's foundational disability theology begins with the image of the resurrected Christ as a disabled God whose wounds remain. Drawing on sociology, Christian theology, interviews, Eucharist, and disability activism, she critiques ideals of cure, passive suffering, inaccessible worship, and churches that treat disabled people only as recipients of care.

Discernment

Henri J. M. Nouwen

Drawn from Henri Nouwen’s writings and course materials after his death, this volume presents Christian discernment as sustained attention to God through Scripture, prayer, community, desire, memory, relationships, suffering, and events. Rather than promise a private code for extracting divine instructions, it asks readers to notice recurring interior movements and to interpret a life’s direction within practices of patience, gratitude, compassion, and faithful action.