"Taking Flight" is an anthology focused on living in right relationship with each other in inclusive, Christ-centered communities through forms of mutual submission and blended authority, based on gifting and humility (rather than gender) which restores dignity, achieves balance, and empowers all. How that is modeled authentically in personal, professional, local, and global settings will inspire others and have a lasting impact on the human family and the planet. Featuring Frank Viola, President Jimmy Carter, Jonathan Brink, Becky Garrison, and Anna Clark. Published by Wikiklesia Press in association with Samizdat Creative.

Taking Flight: Reclaiming the Female Half of God's Image Through Advocacy and Renewal

Caleb J. Seeling Cynthia La Grou

History

Samizdat Creative

We crave God's prosperity, abundance, and delight for ourselves; it is only right that we crave it for others as well. God wants to prosper us economically, in order to heal the world. Far from the gospel of prosperity, discover how justice and mission are fed by abundance and delight. Learn how to get on your feet financially. Use your financial freedom to serve and prosper others. Cultivate a heart of gold and free yourself from the hidden alchemy transforming your heart into a heart of greed.

Heart of Gold: The Joy of Generous Living

Religion & Spirituality

McDonald, David

Christian Books & Bibles

"Shadowing God" is about how to follow God inside us. It's about how to sort out which impulses are His and which are from Oprah, Deepak, Mark, Brian, or Rob. It's about figuring out what it means to be spiritual - not to have spirituality, as if it were something we could paste into our scrapbook or add to the collection of our consciousness - but to live in such a way that our very actions, thoughts, and verbs work like performance art, saying: I am human being, that matters, I house what's Holy, and I make sacrifices for the good of the world, because I belong to God.

Shadowing God: Living with Dignity and Humility in God's Image

In the Valley of Dry Bones, amid the carnal confetti of shattered dreams and unremembered aspirations of people long dead, God says I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live again. McDonald expounds on the promises that things can be better, that God does not abandon his people, and that the future contains more than despair.

Bleached: Hope for the Desolate

Our spirituality is not forged in the exceptional, but in the average. It's not founded on the extraordinary, but the ordinary. The infinite truths of God are most often expressed in the everyday. Based on the life of Christ between Baptism and Transfiguration (the traditional scope of Common Time), we gain insight into who we are as the people of God and what we're collectively supposed to do as the church. During this time we live the life of Christ until it finally becomes our own. Learn how to experience healing and reconciliation in your relationships with God, with others, with the world around you, and with yourself. Learn how to respond humbly to God, how to show compassion to those who are different, how to witness the movement of God in Creation, and how to live life at its most vibrant and beautiful.

Common Time: Living the Life of Christ Until It Becomes Our Own

Have you ever felt uncomfortable with conflicting versions of God? Have you ever struggled with God's anger and violence? Have you ever wondered what God wants from you? If you have wrestled with any of these ideas of God, then this book is for you. Understanding God the Father is important. In fact, you cannot appreciate Jesus fully without knowing something about the nature of his Father. Nahum will require you to wade deep into some very tough issues, but it will give you the opportunity to explore who God is and what really matters to Him. God is not who you have imagined Him to be. He is more...much more.

The Comfort Of Vengeance: A Commentary on Nahum

Redmond, Ben

Relationships are like records. Remember those things? Vinyl? Larger than a CD? Some would argue the purest audio recordings are vinyl records. But, they are fragile. Records require special care. you can't toss them around, leave them in the sun, or let them get dusty. Still, they develop hisses, pops, and scratches. It's inevitable. And, because life is what it is, our relationships get hisses, pops, and scratches--it's the nature of the beast. This book is about the records we have saved for and purchased, the ones we have been entrusted with. It's about properly taking care of them and playing them over and over again until they become part of us. Become a relational audiophile. Learn to listen carefully to the music, to appreciate it beyond the initial, most obvious instrumentation. Fall in love with it, maybe all over again.

Broken Record: Enjoying the Music of Relationship Through the Hisses, Pops, and Scratches

Voelz, John

Throughout the scriptures, diverse species of monsters appear--false gods, cryptozoological fiends, apocalyptic beasts, and idols--and as they appear, they strike terror in the hearts of God's people. These biblical monsters bear a strong resemblance to our contemporary monsters--fear, anxiety, depression, worry. What we need, more than techniques or tools or time-honored prayers, is a grounded understanding that "greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world." We need to know that God is with us, and that Jesus keeps the monsters away. That's what Monsters is about--eventual and persistent fearlessness, and immediate and lasting courage.

Monsters: The Imagination of Faith and Fear

The Book of Psalms contains a wonderful collection of songs known as the "Kingly Psalms." The Kingly Psalms inspire people with hope and encourage us in our faith, give us a window to the past and a connection with our brothers and sisters of long ago, and connect the worlds of the First and Second Testaments as we see a people praising a King and longing for the Messiah-Jesus-who has revealed himself to us. This book is a musical and poetic journey. It's a little bit of a history lesson. But more than anything, it's an invitation into the throne room of a living King who has an invitation of His own to hand out.

King Me

This book explores the reason, the anticipation, and the hope of Advent--though it must be said, there is not one advent, but three: He came in a manger, incarnate; he will come again, glorified; but he also comes to us now, to live in us, to guide and lead us, and to help us change from the people we are into the people we were designed and destined to become. He came. He comes. He is coming again...Discover the real theme and meaning behind this liturgical season. Learn about the new beginning you've been given with God. Dream once again about the life you want and the ways you can cooperate with God to begin living that life now.

Advent: Preparation, Anticipation, & Hope in Christ's Coming

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