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Confucius: The Secular as Sacred by philosopher Herbert Fingarette was a milestone in the study of the ancient Chinese sage Confucius when it was published fifty years ago, and it remains required reading for anyone interested in Chinese or comparative philosophy today. This modern classic of Confucian interpretation by Fingarette, one of the most eminent philosophers of his day, sparked an intellectual revolution and has inspired generations ...

Do you feel your spiritual life is dry, ineffectual, and lifeless? Ready for new, life-changing experiences? Take a deep dive into a life-changing book. Many Christians are hungry for more power in their spiritual life. Come Holy Spirit is an invitation to believers at any level of maturity to journey with the animating, life-giving Spirit. This book intends to launch you, the reader, into the midst of the Spirit's transforming life. And once ...

At the conclusion of the 2021 COP 26 climate summit with its disappointing outcomes, inhabitants of planet Earth are confronted with the reality that by 2050, or sooner, large parts of the Earth could be uninhabitable. We are indisputably living in the Sixth Great Extinction. We know that countless humans are reeling with climate anxiety and experiencing fear, anger, grief, despair, dread, and understandably attempting to cope with the reality...

Will democracy in America prevail, or will it be usurped by a confluence of fascism and evangelical Christianity? This book traces the history of this unholy alliance and invites those recovering from the influence of fundamentalist religions to excise the toxic influences of religious authoritarianism from politics and personal life. Readers from all backgrounds will be enlightened and inspired by Baker's clear and incisive snapshot of thi...

It's alive. Oh God, it's alive. Can a monster pray? The creature invented by Mary Shelley was not the shambling mumbling monster from the movies (apologies to Mr. Karloff). Shelley's creature learned to reason and speak with his ear to the cabin wall of a family who lived in the woods. He learned to read when he discovered a leather satchel full of books in that same forest. What if one of those books was a Bible? He had no memories, no sen...

Want to meet the two great Christian founders who never met each other? Jesus' words and Paul's words have changed millions of lives, and will change yours. The Bible records their teachings separately, so we must join them afresh as one. This book will open your ears and your heart to their shared work. Both teachers challenged commonplace religious talk, and launched faith communities that spread worldwide. The Roman state executed both: h...

In recent years, the term polycrisis has emerged to describe the tangled relationship between myriad crises on our planet and how they invariably intersect to create a predicament that is not solvable but can only be responded to. This book offers a treasure-trove of practical tools for grounding ourselves emotionally and spiritually amid both the long-term crises and the related challenges that confront us moment to moment as we navigate unpr...

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A priest, a scientist, and a psychologist walk into a bar... This isn't the beginning of a joke. It's the start of a long-overdue conversation about how mainstream religion has handed down a God that only a sadomasochist could love. How are we supposed to worship a deity who wantonly slaughters innocents to assuage His own bloodthirsty rage? Thank the loving God revealed in the pages of Setting God Free that Seán ÓLaoire has finally unpacke...

Hilarious, heart-warming, faith-enlarging ... "I don't love God." Little did Gen-Z seminarian Katie Westcott know that when she made that confession to English professor Martin Bonham one fine summer day it would throw the quiet campus of Cupperton University into an uproar. Nothing would be the same again. Together, this unlikely pair of oddballs poses this question: What if students could major in "loving God"-not religion or theology, but ...

In the old Celtic Traditions, and even in more recent, historic times, interaction between humans and spirit beings was not an unusual occurrence. Even in more recent, historic times, interaction between the realms of human and faery was not a rare event. Faery Healing: The Lore and the Legacy is about the traditions of Faery Healing among the Celtic peoples of the British Isles, as evidenced in faery lore and folk healing customs. The focus i...

Even in the warmest and most welcoming evangelical churches, patriarchy looms as an ever-present force... ...suppressing women's possibilities and debilitating whole communities. Well-intentioned churchgoers and church leaders have bought into deeply-entrenched male-dominated mindsets, power structures, and theologies that are not working-not for women, and really not for anyone. Part memoir and part faith-based feminist manifesto, Nice Ch...

Who wants to live forever? Learn about how people have sought physical immortality since the beginning of time, what means are employed to escape death, how various religions promise you eternal life, and about the men and women who are said to have already become immortal. The history of immortality is a tale about salvation and eternal misery, extreme diets and children put in the fire, healing and cannibalism, alchemy and sex with gods....

Are you surrounded by so much junk and clutter in your life that you can't find the things that matter? What do you need to let go of, and what do you need to keep? The Monk, the Trunk, & the Junk is a parable about how to hold on to the things that matter, how to let go of the things that no longer serve you, and how to tell the difference between the two. Adapting a 1, 500-year-old Benedictine practice of creating and living by your own pe...

Have you ever heard, "No self, no problem?" Discover just how empowering and liberating it is to let go of the idea of self. Having spent many years reading and studying the sacred texts from the world's major traditions such as Buddhism, Zen, Christianity, Taoism, Advaita Vedanta, Hinduism, and Judaism, Scott Moss perceived a pattern and unity in all of these traditions in their speaking in one way or another of the ultimate illusion of a s...

In God on Psychedelics, veteran journalist Don Lattin trains his eye on some previously unexamined questions. Why do relatively few people in the burgeoning psychedelic renaissance connect chemically induced mystical states with their own religious traditions? Can sacred plant medicines be a source of renewal for Christians, Jews and other people of faith? Some clergy and laity think they can. Judaism and Christianity each have centuries-old...

Queer people have bravely faced conflicts with church and society throughout history and around the world, including during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Heavenly LGBTQ+ highlights the role of LGBTQ+ people in the Russia-Ukraine war and puts it into a broader context. Illustrated biographies tell the stories of seventeen diverse international LGBTQ figures from Alvin Ailey to Xenia of St. Petersburg. They include saints, activists, martyrs, mi...

The Psalms are not fluffy poetry read by a Shakespearean actor in tights and a puffy shirt. Picture David as the old bluesman in a smokey New Orleans bar. A whiskey and cigar beside him as he makes his instrument weep. Picture David in the dark eyeliner screaming out emo lyrics. Picture David on the back of a flatbed truck stage in the county fair parking lot. Some are from a dancer so filled with joy he can't help but move his feet. Some are...

Are you fed up with an activism that isn't truly transformative? Discover a practice that revolutionizes oppressive social arrangements into ones that truly sets people free...including the activist you! An activist and community organizer for 55 years, Tim Stevenson has been involved in anti-war and civil rights campaigns, a community newspaper collective, an alternative childcare arrangement, and an activist commune. He has been involved i...

Uneasy about religion but not sure why? A God of Our Invention will make it clear. Daniel Kohanski has spent decades working on problems of religion. Starting from a solid background in Conservative Judaism, he has studied law, Talmud, history, philosophy. He has researched the sources and pored over the scholarship and gotten much help from scholars along the way. Kohanski has achieved a book that historians of religion are calling "a wide-...