5 Essential Ebook Deals for Church Leaders – 25 July 2024

Here are 5 essential July 2024 ebook deals that are worth checking out: Diana Butler Bass, Lisa Sharon Harper, Scot McKnight, more…

Each week, we carefully curate a handful of books for church leaders that orient us toward the health and the flourishing of our congregations.

#1:

Grounded: Finding God in the World-A Spiritual Revolution

Diana Butler Bass

*** $1.99 ***

“In her excellent treatise, [Bass] declares the current state of religion as not dying but transforming…. Bass’s biblical and effusive style, always mixing the personal with the political and scriptural, finds a deeper, more profound register in this latest book.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Grounded is a wise and beautiful book. It is, in fact and in places, almost an anthem to the sacred unity of the physical and the spiritual in the formation of human faith and in the maturation of the human soul.” — Phyllis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence

“With her usual blend of plain-talking and sharp insight, Diana Butler Bass brings into focus the usually fuzzy realm of the spiritual but not religious, providing a much-needed guidebook for… the often-perplexing but growing turn away from organized religion.” — Religious Newswriters Association

#2:

Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World–and How to Repair It All

Lisa Sharon Harper

*** $3.99 ***

 *** PLUS, Buy the Ebook, and 
get the audiobook for $7.49!!!

“Harper has the rare gift of speaking honestly in ways that remind you of Tom Skinner, and of speaking intimately in ways that remind you of Maya Angelou.”
–Willie James Jennings, professor, Yale Divinity School

Harper has spent three decades researching ten generations of her family history through DNA research, oral histories, interviews, and genealogy. Fortune, the name of Harper’s first nonindigenous ancestor born on American soil, bore the brunt of the nation’s first race, gender, and citizenship laws. As Harper lights a path through national and religious history, she clarifies how and when the world broke and shows the way to redemption for us all. Fortune culminates with a powerful and compelling vision of truth telling, reparation, and forgiveness that leads to Beloved Community.

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#3:

The Bible Is Not Enough: Imagination and Making Peace in the Modern World

Scot McKnight

*** $3.78 ***

The rise of Christian nationalism has exposed how our imagination as Americans has been shaped by stories of conflict and conquest: might makes right. But what if our patterns of life were shaped instead by the whole of Scripture? What if we confronted evil with peaceable means to make peace? Scot McKnight’s insightful book takes us into the heart of God’s agenda in Scripture as it propels us along the path of living out a peaceful imagination. –Joel B. Green, Senior Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Fuller Theological Seminary

Scot McKnight is gentle, but he insists on peace as a Christian essential. Having baptized us in the ocean of the Bible’s peace message, he raises us to a peaceful imagination that transcends narrow proof-texting. McKnight’s pressing logic, gracious disposition, and passionate advocacy place us “aspiring” pacifists under gospel conviction. –Greg Carey, professor of New Testament, Lancaster Theological Seminary

McKnight teases out a vision from Scripture in which the peace of the world to come is breaking through in the present, and one which we are called to join. It is a world in which the peace of God brings neighbors and nations together in the peace of Christ. And it’s the kind of world I want for all Christians to take part in. –Myles Werntz, associate professor of theology, Abilene Christian University, and coauthor of A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence

#4:

A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter

Nikki Giovanni

*** $1.99 ***

Plainspoken, moving, and direct, the multi-award-winning poet Giovanni draws a revealing line between heart and history…This collection sometimes looks forward, sometimes back, and sometimes hovers in the moment. A warm invitation to sit beside Giovanni as she meditates on (her) life and the people who shaped her.
-Library Journal (starred review)

As energetic and relevant as ever, Nikki now offers us an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. In A Good Cry, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents’ marriage and her early life. She pays homage to the people who have given her life meaning and joy: her grandparents, who took her in and saved her life; the poets and thinkers who have influenced her; and the students who have surrounded her. Nikki also celebrates her good friend, Maya Angelou, and the many years of friendship, poetry, and kitchen-table laughter they shared before Angelou’s death in 2014.

#5:

The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

Jonathan Franzen

*** $1.99 ***

 *** PLUS, Buy the Ebook, and 
get the audiobook for $7.49!!!

The award-winning author of Freedom examines topics like the future of the planet, public discourse, and himself in this provocative essay collection. Whatever his subject, Franzen’s essays are always skeptical of received opinion, steeped in irony, and frank about his own feelings. Calm, poignant, carefully argued, full of wit, The End of the End of the Earth provides a welcome breath of hope and reason.

“The work of a writer at the top of his game–limber and lovely, delivering deep insights with delicacy and grace.” ―Sarah Crown, The Guardian

“Franzen, unlike many, listens. It’s what makes him one of the best living writers of fictional dialogue, and it’s what makes his arguments productively provocative.” ―Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post

“[Franzen’s] turning over rocks along the shore and finding noteworthy details beneath.” ―Bill McKibben, The New York Times Book Review

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Prices and availability are subject to change at any time. These deals may or may not be available outside the United States.