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Mae is frustrated that everything her little sister does is somehow science--until Mae realizes that she can do science too.

New York Times bestselling author Nikki Grimes and illustrator Michelle Carlos bring together a captivating tale of awe, wonder, and imagination that is sure to become a holiday classic.

A story of self-empowerment at a martial arts studio.

God is mysterious and difficult to explain. And that's actually okay!

In this tour de force, a premier Old Testament Scholar provides the reader with a grand overview of biblical theology: tracing the developments, critiquing the major contributions (e.g., Gese, Childs, Brueggemann), and providing his own provocative theological implications of the various constructions. In his usual bold manner, he examines the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic contexts of biblical theology and their implications for our reading of both testaments in the modern world. Some of the key issues Bar addresses are typologies for doing biblical theology and Old Testament theology, the Apocryhpha and Pseudepigrapha, the relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament, the history of religions versus theological approaches, and the Biblical Theology Movement.

This book boldly articulates an open theology--progressive approaches that promote unorthodox theological reflection and the creation of inclusive communities. Brad Braxton outlines Christianity's capacity to foster healing, hope, and restorative justice through embracing pluralism and radically inclusive love.

Leading Faithful Innovation offers a practical, hands-on approach to addressing the challenges of change in the church and our culture. This three-step process is not another program or add-on to what readers are already doing. It is an ongoing way of following God that allows the Spirit of God to drive the energy among the people of the church.

Households and Holiness provides a clear overview of the religious lives of Israelite women. Carol Meyers stresses the diversity of religious practices in ancient Israel and argues we must examine practices as well as beliefs. The book explores anthropology, archaeological evidence, ethnographic data, and textual sources.

Cain Hope Felder shows the ancient ambiguity in the Bible about what we call race. He uncovers misuses of the biblical text and shows how the Bible has been used to trivialize Black people in many ways. The book, a critical essay from Stony the Road We Trod, challenges readers to a more honest engagement with the biblical text.

Charging Interest explores the explosive tract written by Martin Luther which summarizes his views on poverty caused by an economic system that stopped caring for the well-being of God's children. Luther exhorts clergy to ex-communicate those causing poverty through their ruthless economic behavior or risk God's judgment alongside the perpetrators.

The Bible offered a language-world through which African Americans have negotiated the strange land into which they were thrust. Vincent Wimbush outlines six African American readings that correspond to history and how they helped shape a collective self-understanding. When their voices were taken away, the Bible offered a way to speak again.

These imagined dialogues between the elders on freedom, liberation, and more offer rich reflection and a unique vantage point for understanding the luminaries of liberation through the generations. An important resource for the contemporary task of Black liberation.

With sixteenth century Germany experiencing the ravages of the Bubonic Plague, Martin Luther was asked to comment on whether Christians could flee home and labors on account of the plague. Anna Marie Johnson introduces and comments on Luther's 1527 treatise "Whether One May Flee the Deadly Plague," still surprisingly relevant with the pandemic.

In The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, Second Edition, Ryan P. Burge gives readers a nuanced, accurate, and meaningful look at the growing number of Americans who say they have no religious affiliation. This second edition includes substantial updates.

Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517. In the three years after, he clarified and defended his position in numerous writings. Chief among these are the three treatises written in 1520. In the writings Luther framed his ideas in terms that are comprehensible to clergy and people from all backgrounds.

Presented independently are the two loci by the author from Christian Dogmatics. In The Triune God, Jenson examines the Doctrine of God and in The Holy Spirit, he undertakes Pneumatology. For students and scholars alike, this assembly of Forde's early work will broaden the impact of his thought for a new generation.

Presented independently are the two loci by the author from Christian Dogmatics. In The Work of Christ, Forde examines "what God did in Jesus Christ" In Christian Life, he undertakes justification and sanctification. For students and scholars alike, this assembly of Forde's early work will broaden the impact of his thought for a new generation.

Is it possible for human beings to have authentic relationships with an AI? How does the increasing presence of AI change the way humans relate to one another? In pursuing answers to these questions, Herzfeld explores what it means to be created in the image of God and to create AI in our own image.

The book provides an entryway to the discussion between theological interpretation of Scripture and contextual theology (i.e., tribal theology). It argues for the need to consider the importance of reading the Bible with multiple contexts in mind, while addressing the tension between church and academy.

This book examines Christianity in China by building a constructive theology for the distinctive realities of Chinese culture, society, and politics. It proposes Christian public responsibility to identify the moral problems in Chinese public life and proposes a public face of Christianity in China theologically and ethically.

Next to the philosophical tradition, ancient medical texts represent the most important systematic reflection on the components, aspects, and dimensions of the person and embodiment. Until now, these sources and their relation to the philosophical tradition have received little attention in biblical scholarship.

It's no wonder modern Christians have trouble with the truth after living for so long with lies about the Bible. This book aims to set the record straight and encourage honest conversation about the Bible and ourselves. It explores a number of big topics through the lenses of truth and faith.

The book contains four previously untranslated plays written by Hans Sachs, a playwright, shoemaker, and important supporter of Martin Luther. Sachs' well-known poem "The Wittenberg Nightingale" is also included here in a new translation and the collection will be a boon for researchers and students who can now read them for the first time.

Sacred Pregnancy is a retrospective on evolving feminist discourse of motherhood, a sociological study of religious demographics and experience in the U.S., and an exploration of the spiritually guided reproductive health services. The book allows readers to more deeply understand the life-changing experiences of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.

The Community Rule is an important document to emerge from Qumran. For fifty years after its discovery scholars relied predominantly on the well-preserved Cave 1 copy. Since the early 1990s, ten additional copies have become available. This is the first commentary to treat all the manuscript and the first in English since A. R. C. Leaney's in 1966.

Justice commitments can and must be integrated into all of a church's financial practices. So argues Sheryl Johnson in Serving Money, Serving God: Aligning Radical Justice, Christian Practice, and Church Life. She offers a positive and constructive approach with inspiring examples and a sense of hope-filled adventure for churches of all sizes.

Through conversations and deep attention to the lived experience of leaders, Torrance Jones explores the intersectionality of these three worlds--Black, Christian, and leader--and inspires Black Christians to lead from the context of all that they are.