Dear Church is a series of letters from a twenty-something to the global church she's not always sure she wants to be a part of. The author's story awakens the voice of a younger generation whose attendance in the church is dropping, yet she encourages the church that their Christian faith is still alive and well. In the end, Dear Church tells a story that will be familiar to every age group: the story of overcoming disillusionment and staying the course.

Dear Church: Letters from a Disillusioned Generation

Religion & Spirituality

Cunningham, Sarah Raymond

Christian Books & Bibles

Zondervan

Sarah Cunningham, a moderate middle-class white girl who grew up in the Michigan countryside, speaks about God with humor and honesty more characteristic of liberal west-coast writers. In this warm and witty memoir, she describes finding and keeping a personal faith in the quirky settings of her ultra-Christian childhood. Whether recounting living next to a cemetery, teaching at-risk high schoolers, or listening to her grandmother's stories about being a British 'war bride,' the author weaves faith into down-to-earth metaphors of growth and renewal, planting and reaping, greenery and weeds. In the end, Cunningham succeeds in sifting through the dysfunctions and flaws of human life and discovering pockets of God's original Eden goodness for both herself and for you. Picking Dandelions is a candid and personal account of outgrowing laissez-faire Christianity, moving into mature faith, and realizing that a God-following person is a changing person ... and you just might follow suit.

Picking Dandelions: A Search for Eden Among Life's Weeds

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Beyond the Broken Church is a collection of heartfelt learnings from Sarah Cunningham, a young adult raised in the faith, about the church she's not always sure she wants to be part of. The book engages concerns of a disillusioned generation head on and offers hope and honest, practical ideas for moving beyond one’s frustrations.
In the end Beyond the Broken Church tells a story that will be familiar to many: the journey of overcoming disillusionment and staying the course. 
This revised and expanded version of the popular book Dear Church revisits the existing book with additional chapters, fresh statistics, new insights into why people are leaving the church, and a resource guide for those who care about the disillusioned and want to understand them better. Beyond the Broken Church will be a breath of fresh air to others who have experienced frustration in church as well as an insider’s guide for those seeking to understand current trends in church attendance, particularly among the younger generation.

Beyond the Broken Church: How to Leave Church Problems Behind Without Leaving the Church

The Donkey in the Living Room: A Tradition that Celebrates the Real Meaning of Christmas

Check out the video at http://www.amazon.com/author/sarahcunningham or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxWz6J3B6OM to hear the author read a sample story and explain how to use the book with your family.  A clever tradition for use with any manger scene, this is the "Elf on the Shelf" for people trying to inject deeper meaning into commercial-driven,toy-heavy holidays.  ABOUT DONKEY IN THE LIVING ROOM   If you watch Christmas specials, bake holiday cookies, hang twinkle lights or cut down a tree as a family, this is another "keeper"--a simple yearly tradition that emphasizes meaning over commercialism.  The Donkey in the Living Room is a timeless Christmas classic in the making, especially for those who wish to keep the story of Christ at the center of the winter holiday season.   Illustrations in the book include light and dark-skinned, male and female figures in order to welcome a diverse range of readers.  The book can be used with any manger scene--ceramic, wood, plastic or otherwise.  A CLEVER NEW CHRISTMAS TRADITION  When I was a little girl, a donkey arrived exactly nine days before Christmas. But it wasn’t just any donkey.  Every morning after my brothers and I rolled out of bed, we would scramble out to the living room where a tiny package wrapped in Christmas paper would be waiting on our mantle. When our little fingers ripped through the wrapping, we’d uncover a figurine from the family Nativity scene: a donkey or Joseph . . .  or perhaps, as we neared Christmas day, an angel.   After we uncovered the figurine, our dad would tell us an enchanted holiday story from a manger scene long, long ago.  And he would tell it from the point of view of the figurine we placed in his hands. Every day, we would unwrap a new figurine, gradually collecting the pieces of Christ’s birthday story.    When my brothers and I were young, we repeated this tradition several years in a row. And when we got old enough, Dad began to let us tell the parts of the stories we knew. Now, we have children of our own and we are still telling this all-important story.    I want to invite you and your family into this tradition, to have your children unwrap the manger figurines along with us each day leading up to Christmas. And to teach your children and grand children to tell and re-tell this story as well, so that the world will always remember the real meaning of Christmas. 

The Donkey In the Living Room: A Tradition That Celebrates the Real Meaning of Christmas

Common Good Books

In gentle rhyming text, Sarah Raymond Cunningham explores the curiosity and wonder of a child's life from the playroom to the playground, dinnertime to alone time, all with a recurring chorus: May God bless you and keep you... Perfect as a gift for baptisms, baby dedications, showers, First Communions or graduations, May God Bless You and Keep You will give encouragement and blessing to kids at any stage in the wonderous journey of growing up.

May God Bless You and Keep You

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Beaming Books

Here is the church, here is the steeple . . . This update to the classic children's rhyme is an introduction to church for a new era, a whirlwind tour through all the wonderful things church can be and do and mean. From megachurches to little chapels to underground meetings, from welcoming to helping to feeding the hungry, church can be and do a lot of things. But ultimately that old rhyme said it best: the church is the people! With gently rhyming text by Sarah Raymond Cunningham and the vibrant and diverse illustrations of Ariel Landy, This Is the Church is an ideal gift for baptisms, confirmations, or any occasion in which children are welcomed into the life of the body of Christ.

This Is the Church

Religions

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