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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 19h
Wisdom isn't found in final answers but in questions that "have" us. David Patterson retrieves 26 inherited questions from Jewish and other traditions—each one shaping meaningful life and remaining open to deeper questioning, as all genuine wisdom must be.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What God do we confess at the table? Ralph McMichael argues the Eucharist and Triune theology are one reality—reuniting practice and doctrine by reimagining Father, Son, and Holy Spirit through the church's most ancient and central act of worship and remembrance.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Insider yet outsider: William E. Pannell's prophetic voice on racial justice within white evangelicalism remains urgent. His memoir offers vital perspective on evangelicalism's continuing complicity with racism—especially critical as Christian nationalism captures segments of the faith.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From ecstatic joy to spiritual depression: George Herbert modeled honest faith for centuries. Suzanne McDonald's devotional guide pairs his poems with Scripture and prayers, inviting readers to bring their whole selves before God and grow in knowledge and love of the Triune God.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A life of love in France, tested by disease and loss. Christopher Seitz's "Le Grand Voyage" traces voyages together while facing mortality—ultimately revealing how Christ's defeat of death transforms grief into love's deepest and most enduring form.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Matthew's Gospel speaks across centuries. Sheila E. McGinn uses contemporary biblical approaches to help readers encounter Jesus's life and message with fresh clarity—revealing how ancient testimony continues speaking to believers, seekers, and skeptics today.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No intellectual argument finally answers why the innocent suffer. Owen F. Cummings reveals a spiritual and mystical answer instead—inviting believers to encounter God's presence within suffering and move through darkness with faith in unconditional love.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Over 1,100 entries. More than 1,500 bibliographic works. Timothy D. Finlay's "Genres and Formulas" glossary covers narratives, laws, wisdom, psalms, lamentations, prophetic speech—providing essential reference for understanding every passage in the Hebrew Bible.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Complicated loves, unexpected encounters, and a haunted past: Mark Allan Powell turns to short fiction in Kindness Stones: Stories for Melissa. wipfandstock.com/979838524593...
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What do integrity, mercy, and trust ask of us in daily life? John H. Timmerman explores the practice of quieter virtues in Testament of Virtue. wipfandstock.com/979838524917...
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
How do national stories shape religious conviction? David M. Crump examines Israel’s founding narratives and Christian Zionism in The Power of Myth. Foreword by Brian Zahnd. wipfandstock.com/979838524305...
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
After Oxford, William Franke took to the roads of Europe. The Vagabond Scholar gathers early poems shaped by travel, literature, and religious reflection. wipfandstock.com/979838526476...
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What might a return to Narnia teach us about belonging to creation? In Green Worlds of C. S. Lewis, John Gatta explores the ecological imagination of Aslan’s realm. wipfandstock.com/979838524359...
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Care does not end with a last breath. In On the Threshold of Worlds, Joseph Orso reflects on his father’s Alzheimer’s, a home funeral, and the community that helped his family grieve. wipfandstock.com/979838527997...
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Black church as beacon of empowerment amid oppression. Dana Carson's Kingdom theology positions Black Pentecostal/Charismatic traditions as catalyst for community transformation—where Holy Spirit power addresses racism, sexism, classism through prophetic witness and justice work.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Modern anthropology fragments without answering who we are. Joseph Terry's "Human, All Too Human" grounds human identity in Mary as archetypal person—showing what humanity can become when radically receptive to God, fully embodied, and perfectly united to the divine.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Conflict resolution agreements pause disputes but don't resolve them. Darrell Puls's "Small Wars" draws 50 years of intervention wisdom to show how true resolution requires intentional relationship rebuilding—techniques accessible to anyone seeking to become a genuine peacemaker.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
God is love—but human experience offers conflicting understandings of love. Cameron B. Crickenberger draws on major theologians to integrate kenotic and plerotic love into coherent trinitarian theology, addressing the paradox of unity and plurality in divine life.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
People hunger for beauty in Disneyland, Gothic cathedrals, baroque palaces. Katie Kresser reveals why: modernity has divorced religion from beauty, spiritually wounding us. "Church Beautiful" shows how our ancestors healed through sacred art and how we might recover this lost bridge to transcendence
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Sacramental preaching enables encounter with the risen Christ—prophetic in nature, incarnational in manner, transformative in effect. Gary Tyra shows how preachers cooperate with the Holy Spirit to cultivate environments where genuine spiritual presence is encountered during proclamation.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Biblical hospitality as spiritual discipline: Tiffani Cox Harris equips churches to respond to immigration crisis with grace. Drawing on theology and one congregation's journey, she shows how prophetic welcome challenges both nationalism and indifference.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Scripture's power can transform toward justice or toward domination. Spaulding's "Between Two Gileads" exposes authoritarian Bible readings while reclaiming Scripture as grace-filled resource—contrasting Atwood's dystopian theocracy with Robinson's compassionate vision of faith and politics.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The real Jesus embodied antipatriarchal love and equal relationship. David A. J. Richards reveals how patriarchal Christianities obscured this vision while heterodox traditions recovered it—advancing justice, human rights, and democracy rooted in genuine freedom from domination.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Holiness reduced to private piety? The Spauldings' "The Rhythm of Grace" reclaims it as public witness—God's liberating grace shaping communities and cultures. Political theology, aesthetics, and ecclesiology weave sanctified imagination for fragmented times through decades of scholarly reflection.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Where Pentecostal/charismatic tradition meets analytic theology lies untapped fruit. "In Spirit and in Truth" brings rigorous thinking to experiential faith, showing how precision illuminates spiritual practice and how Spirit's life renews abstract reflection into lived theology.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Too often the cross is wrapped in a flag. Graham Joseph Hill calls Christians back to Jesus' countercultural way, exposing Christian nationalism while offering God's kingdom vision: justice, humility, reconciliation, and love as the alternative to political idolatry and confused power.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The epic of Beowulf speaks across centuries, but Anglo-Saxon language creates distance. Sung-Il Lee's verse translation transfers rhythm and alliteration into modern English, making the original's verbal music accessible to new generations while preserving the hero's enduring resonance.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
You can learn any language—you just need to understand how it works. Annette R. Harrison's "Linguistic Bits for Language Learners" covers sounds, writing systems, words, and sentences while connecting language to memory, meaning, and culture for deeper, confident learning.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The real Jesus embodied antipatriarchal love and equal relationship. David A. J. Richards reveals how patriarchal Christianities obscured this vision while heterodox traditions recovered it—advancing justice, human rights, and democracy rooted in genuine freedom from domination.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The kingdom of God means freedom from domination and violence, not political chaos. Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch explores the radical Christian tradition—from early church to present—that critiques power and embodies nonviolence as faithful response to God's kingdom vision.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Addiction is spiritual crisis rooted in disordered loves. Graham Joseph Hill's "Unshackled" offers raw, redemptive narrative of faith and recovery: eight transformative stages showing how God's grace reaches into the deepest brokenness toward genuine freedom, wholeness, and purpose.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Alien franchise isn't fractured—it's a theological meditation. Sarah Welch-Larson shows how seven films explore evil through Catherine Keller's cosmology of chaos and relationship, with each movie expanding and complicating what preceded it into unified vision.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Classical Christology entails compatibilism. Randall K. Johnson demonstrates how Christ's two natural wills, his righteousness, and impeccability require that free agency be compatible with determinism—making ancient doctrine speak to contemporary philosophy of free will.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The Trinity was revolutionary in 325 CE. Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch shows how Nicaea's rejection of subordinationism transformed understanding of God's nature, human dignity, and salvation—pointing toward egalitarian community rooted in trinitarian equality.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Teaching is harder than syllabus prep. Nancy Lynne Westfield's "Thinking Teaching" offers storied essays that honor both the art and struggle—addressing what typical teaching guides ignore: the humanity, vulnerability, and complicated dynamics of real education.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
People hunger for beauty in Disneyland, Gothic cathedrals, baroque palaces. Katie Kresser reveals why: modernity has divorced religion from beauty, spiritually wounding us. She shows how our ancestors healed through sacred art and how we might recover this lost bridge to transcendence.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The real Calvin wasn't an austere logician but a man of reverence and love. Dennis Ngien shows how piety animates the Institutes—shaping doctrine on revelation, providence, justification, and prayer into a unified vision of loving God as Father and fearing God as Lord.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What if the Moses story wasn't about certainty but about doubt? JD Lyonhart's "Zeus Was an Atheist" is philosophy, mythology, comedy, and spiritual wrestling all at once—a genre-defying retelling that refuses easy answers and invites genuine struggle with ultimate questions.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Christianity for an ecological age: Heup Young Kim's "Christodao" hears Christ as the embodied Dao, understands Trinity as relational harmony, recognizes Spirit as cosmic breath calling all creation toward renewal and restoration through right resonance.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The American Dream at its best is an ethical ideal and moral compass. John K. Roth's "Saving the American Dream" offers meditations for dark times grounded in the Constitution—drawing on philosophers, historians, poets, and religious thinkers to guide reflection and action needed now.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Born during the pandemic as an elegy of communal loss, Najeeba Syeed's "Dreaming Lost Bodies Back" expands to embrace losses of war and hunger across our globe. Poetry that names grief honestly while honoring how ancestral lineages bear fruit of hope and resilience.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Paul's most common phrase is "in Christ," yet he never defines it. What does union with Christ truly mean? Ben Pugh explores how Paul's vision offers "the lifted life"—genuine, lasting flourishing rooted in Christ, not the Epicurean happiness our culture promises.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Why are Americans so kind yet so cruel? Fumitaka Matsuoka takes up Carlos Bulosan's haunting question, arguing Americans desperately need "counter-habits of the heart" learned from "minority" communities. Only honest acknowledgment of contradiction can reclaim America's soul.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Can open theism be reconciled with Anselmian perfect being theology? Benjamin H. Arbour's analytic study navigates the tension between divine omniscience and human freedom with philosophical rigor, revealing why this ancient puzzle matters for prayer, ethics, and divine providence.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Thirty-nine books intimidating you? Keith Bodner's "The Old Testament in 48 Hours" is your practical companion—clear overviews, major plot movements, pivotal characters, and fresh translations. Follow the Hebrew Bible's story without getting lost in details.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Humility has become a casualty of our age. Yet this book retrieves an ancient Christian vision far richer than modern counterfeits—a Christ-shaped humility that's profoundly powerful, grounded in spiritual realism, and liberating. Learn from early Christians who faced our same questions.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What if pastoral theology flowed from the worshiping life of the church? This work connects worship, theology, and ministry—showing how God's presence in common worship actively shapes pastoral care and compassionate practice across all traditions.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
For decades, French philosopher Aimé Forest remained virtually unknown to English readers. Now, this first translation of "Consent to Being" introduces a Christian philosopher of remarkable originality—one who grounds metaphysics not in abstraction but in our fundamental consent to existence.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Thirty-nine books intimidating you? Keith Bodner's "The Old Testament in 48 Hours" is your practical companion—clear overviews, major plot movements, pivotal characters, and fresh translations. Follow the Hebrew Bible's story without getting lost in details.
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wipfandstock.bsky.social @wipfandstock.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
After 32 years teaching, David Rhoads reveals how to create classrooms as communities ripe for transformation—through dialogue, radical hospitality, intercultural engagement, and the power of silence. Education that changes lives. Order today: wipfandstock.com/978162032879...
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