5 Essential Ebook Deals for Church Leaders – 25 January 2024

Here are 5 essential January 2024 ebook deals that are worth checking out: Madeleine L’Engle, Brene Brown, Matthew Dickerson, 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:

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Madeleine L’Engle

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“When I discovered Walking on Water years ago, my creative self underwent a sort of liberation. I had always sensed that there was a wonderful connection between spirituality and creativity, but Madeleine’s insights about both of those worlds helped me claim with more confidence my own creative gifts. This is a wise and inspiring book that should be in every artist’s library.”
–Vinita Hampton Wright, author of Grace at Bender Springs and Velma Still Cooks in Leeway

“There are those who write about art-making as if they’re detailing the techniques of a heart surgeon. Then there are those, like Madeleine L’Engle, who simply show you their heart. Like the words of Jesus to the fisherman brothers, the words of Madeleine are ‘follow me’ words. Through the pages of Walking on Water hungry, thirsty folks have been following for two decades–quickly recognizing that the reason Madeleine is worth following is that she follows Jesus.”
–Charlie Peacock-Ashworth, record producer and author of At the Crossroads

#2:

I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough”

Brene Brown

*** $2.99 ***

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“University of Houston researcher and social worker Brown believes shame underlies the spread of depression, anxiety, eating disorders and much more, and drawing on a study of hundreds of women, she constructs a method for overcoming it. Brown defines shame as “the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of acceptance and belonging” and believes its spread has been created by conflicting and competing expectations about who women should be… Brown quotes liberally from the women she has studied and, most enlighteningly, gives examples from her own experiences juggling motherhood, career and her social life. These revelations underscore her belief in the importance of exposing shame and, through empathy, helping oneself and others move past it.”
– Publishers Weekly

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#3:

Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis

Matthew Dickerson and David O’Hara

*** $2.99 ***

 
“The authors make their case in depth, revealing not only a detailed knowledge of Lewis’s fiction, but extensive familiarity with the critical literature surrounding it, as well as environmental literature in general. Narnia and the Fields of Arbol is both revelatory and a pleasure to read.”
―Robert Siegel

“Dickerson and O’Hara demonstrate convincingly that environmental themes play a much larger role in Lewis’s thought than has so far been recognized. And they show that Lewis’s “environmental vision” ― especially as expressed in his fiction ― can contribute to our current conversation more than today’s environmentalists have suspected. This is a fine addition to Lewis studies that also enriches our understanding of how to care for our world.”
― Alan Jacobs, author of The Narnian: the Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
 

#4:

Recovering Communion in a Violent World: Resistance, Resilience, and Risk

Christopher Grundy

*** $2.99 ***

 
“In this remarkable book, Christopher Grundy offers a bold new vision for Christian ritual life that honors the past, but sets a new course for a future where remembered violence gives way to remembered community, resistance to oppression, and boundless hope.”
–Stephen J. Patterson, Willamette University, author of The Forgotten Creed

“How to celebrate Holy Communion without profiting from the violence done to Jesus? Christopher Grundy’s book brings together deep engagement with recent scholarship on the biblical and historical roots of eucharistic meals, with a profound pastoral and social concern.”
–Andrew McGowan, Yale Divinity School, author of Ancient Christian Worship

#5:

Metamorphosis: Preaching after Christendom

Sarah Travis

*** $2.99 ***

“This is one of the best new books in preaching I’ve read in a while. Travis offers what she calls a homiletic ecclesiology, but even that description does not really do her book full justice. She is envisioning a gospel-up transformation of the mainline Protestant church in North America and a new, more porous identity for its life after Christendom. I will be using her book in my courses and in my own preaching, too.””
-David Schnasa Jacobsen, Boston University School of Theology “

“Sarah Travis envisions what preaching must become as the institutional church declines. Her provocative ideas are timely starters for a much-needed discussion. She calls for a confident and joyful exit from the empire of Christendom as a flawed form of Christianity. Preaching can lead the way by offering narratives of vulnerability, rooted in God’s promises, and centered in the gospel. Such preaching, with the Spirit’s help, will transform current fear and despair into faithful witness for a new age.”
―Paul Scott Wilson is Professor of Homiletics at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto
 

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