Celebrating Christmas in the dark and finding joy in the unexpected. Aidan's city is hit with an ice storm just days before Christmas, causing the electrical grid to go down. All their Christmas plans are ruined! One disappointment piles on another: Grandma and Grandpa cannot travel, the Christmas pageant is canceled, there are no Christmas ......
A groundbreaking, justice-oriented storybook Bible for children and families. In a bold and inspiring new storybook Bible for children, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis and Rev. Dr. Shannon Daley-Harris join a long line of sacred storytellers and question-askers. For thousands of years, people have told stories, sung songs, asked hard questions, and shared ......
A Womanist Theology of Communal Abundance for the Black Church
The Black church often maintains an allegiance to white, Western approaches to wealth and material acquisition. In doing so, it can ignore Jesus's teachings on poverty, wealth, and materialism. The church's ambivalence toward Jesus's understandings of poverty and wealth uniquely impacts the spiritual and material well-being of Black women and the ......
In a world of imperfect-at-best and bad-at-worst dads, what is the ideal of fatherhood we aspire to? Why does this ideal exist? What is it about fathers and father figures that looms so large in the lives of so many? So wonders Patton Dodd in this intimate reflection and memoir in which he wrestles with a dad-sized hole, the gap between the ......
Resist grind culture and discover the joy of dabbling. From Karen Walrond, author of The Lightmaker's Manifesto and Radiant Rebellion, comes a delightful jaunt into how to be a total amateur--by doing the things you love even if you're not any good at them. In today's grind culture, hobbies become side hustles. Work creeps into leisure time. ......
Deep in the forest, where giant pines grow . . . Eager, young Sapling stands covered in snow. Every winter solstice, one evergreen is crowned Tree of the Year, and this year, Sapling wants nothing more than to win. Her chances are as small as her stature, but when she befriends an overlooked neighbor, she wonders if they might reach new heights ......
What makes you unique? While helping her mama collect empty cans, old newspapers, and other recyclable treasure to sell, Lina discovers a wall of graffiti with the words UNICO COMO TU, UNIQUE LIKE YOU. This discovery sends her on a quest through Bogota, Colombia, to find treasure where she least expects it, and to discover what makes her unique. ......
The student debt crisis is a civil rights issue, and it's time we start treating it like one. Based on extensive interviews with students, college administrators, policymakers, and other leaders, The Student Debt Crisis illuminates one of the nation's most urgent and pressing civil rights questions of the last three decades: Who gets to go to ......
In this powerful reframing of the stories that make us, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, and fiction to ask: What worlds do books written by marginalized people describe and invite us to inhabit? When a friend asked what books could help them understand Indigenous lives, Patty Krawec, ......
