Here’s a selection of titles added in the past week
A chaplain’s expertise: a new paradigm /by Rev. John Skanse, MDiv., COL ILANG (Retired), BCC. Skanse seeks to develop a simpler, universal language to talk about spiritual care. He seeks to simplify the language of chaplaincy into a functional common language that allows patients, their families, the medical team, hospital administrators and even society at large to understand and converse with the chaplain. This language creates a more unified and effective response to the questions of what chaplains do beyond their own religious or denominational offerings and how can they speak about their value to everyone involved in the trauma of medical need. Whether one is exploring the field of chaplaincy for the first time or has worked in chaplaincy for a many years, this new perspective provides a framework from which everyone on the medical team can begin their evaluation with common goals for spiritual care.
A church called Tov: forming a goodness culture that resists abuses of power and promotes healing /Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer. Respected author and theologian McKnight and former Willow Creek member Barringer wrote this book to paint a pathway forward for the church. In this book, McKnight and Barringer explore the concept of a mysterious and beautiful little Hebrew word, tov, that we translate as good, unpacking its richness and how it can help Christians and churches rise up to fulfill their true calling as imitators of Jesus
A field guide to grad school: uncovering the hidden curriculum /Jessica McCrory Calarco. In this comprehensive survival guide for grad school, McCrory Calarco walks you through the secret knowledge and skills that are essential for navigating every critical stage of the postgraduate experience, from deciding whether to go to grad school in the first place to finishing your degree and landing a job.
A Liberal-Labour lady: the times and life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith /Veronica Strong-Boag. A Liberal-Labour Lady restores British Columbia’s first female MLA and the British Empire’s first female cabinet minister to history. Mary Ellen Smith demanded a fair deal for deserving British women and men in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her death in 1933 ended an experiment in extending democracy that was both brave and deeply flawed. A Liberal-Labour Lady sheds light on a Canadian suffragist undeservedly neglected by scholars and forgotten by posterity. It also illuminates a half a century of political history, first-wave feminism, immigration, and labour history set in a broad context of shifting ideas, ideologies, and strategies. Smith is revealed to be a key figure in early Canada’s compromised struggle for greater justice, who helped set the contours of a modern Canada.
A long way to paradise: a new history of British Columbia politics /Robert A.J. McDonald. A Long Way to Paradise traces the evolution of political ideas in the province from 1871 to 1972, exploring British Columbia’s journey to socio-political maturity. McDonald explains its classic left-right divide as a product of common sense liberalism that also shaped how British Columbians met the demands and challenges of a modernizing world. This lively, richly detailed overview provides fresh insight into the fascinating story of provincial politics..
A short history of Christian Zionism: from the Reformation to the twenty-first century /Donald M. Lewis. With a fair-minded, longitudinal study of this dynamic yet controversial movement, Lewis traces its lineage from biblical sources through the Reformation to various movements of today
Academic irregularities: language and neoliberalism in higher education /Liz Morrish and Helen Sautson. This volume serves as a critical examination of the discourses at play in the higher education system and the ways in which these discourses underpin the transmission of neoliberal values in 21st century universities. Situated within a Critical Discourse Analysis-based framework, the book also draws upon other linguistic approaches, including corpus linguistics and appraisal analysis, to unpack the construction and development of the management style known as managerialism, emergent in the 1990s US and UK higher education systems, and the social dynamics and power relations embedded within the discourses at the heart of managerialism in today’s universities. This important work is a key resource for students and scholars in applied linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, sociology, business and management studies, education, and cultural studies.
Amish voices: a collection of Amish writings /Brad Igou, compiler. In Amish Voices, Amish writers share news and advice from their communities and reflect on their daily lives, work, and faith. Igou, publisher of Amish Country News, gives readers a behind-the-scenes tour of Amish life by compiling writing from Family Life, a popular monthly magazine that thousands of Amish people read.
As I recall: discovering the place of memories in our spiritual life /Casey Tygrett. According to Tygrett, how we hold and carry our memories–good and bad–is a part of what forms us spiritually. In these pages Tygrett explores the power of memory and offers biblical texts and practices to guide us in bringing our memories to God for spiritual transformation.
Bead by bead: constitutional rights and Métis community /edited by Yvonne Boyer and Larry Chartrand. In Bead by Bead, contributors address the historical denial – at both federal and provincial levels – of outstanding Métis concerns and Aboriginal rights claims, in particular with respect to land, resources, and governance. Tackling such themes as ongoing colonial policies, the invisibility of Métis women in court decisions, identity politics, and racist legal principles, they uncover the troubling issues that plague Métis aspirations for a just future. By raising critical questions about self-determination, colonization, kinship, land, and other essential aspects of Métis lived reality, these clear-eyed essays go beyond legal theorizing and create pathways to respectful, inclusive Métis-Canadian constitutional relationships.
Becoming curious: a spiritual practice of asking questions /Casey Tygrett ; foreword by James Bryan Smith. In this engaging and interactive book, Tygrett explores the benefits of a healthy curiosity in our spiritual lives.
Beyond colorblind: redeeming our ethnic journey /Sarah Shin. Shin reveals how our brokenness around ethnicity can be restored and redeemed, for our own wholeness and also for the good of others. Showing us how to make space for God’s healing of our ethnic stories, Shin helps us grow in our crosscultural skills, manage crosscultural conflict, pursue reconciliation and justice, and share the gospel as ethnicity-aware Christians
Biblical and ancient Greek linguistics. Volume 6 /Senior editors: Stanley E. Porter, Matthew Brook O’Donnell. Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics (BAGL) is an international journal that exists to further the application of modern linguistics to the study of Ancient and Biblical Greek, with a particular focus on the analysis of texts, including but not restricted to the Greek New Testament.
Called to care: a Christian vision for nursing /Judith Allen Shelly, Arlene B. MIller and Kimberly H. Fenstermacher. Offering a historically and theologically grounded vision of the nurse’s call, this thoroughly revised third edition of a classic text includes practical features for educators, students, and practitioners.
Canada 1919: a nation shaped by war /edited by Tim Cook and J.L. Granatstein. With compelling insight, Canada 1919 examines the year following the Great War. This book offers a fresh perspective on the concerns of the time: the treatment of veterans, including nurses and Indigenous soldiers; the place of children; the influenza pandemic; the rising farm lobby; the role of labour; Canada’s international standing; and commemoration of the fallen. Canada 1919 exposes the ways in which war shaped Canada–and the ways it did not.
Churchfails: 100 blunders in church history (& what we can learn from them) /David K. Stabnow, general editor. Laugh, maybe cry, but certainly learn from those who have gone before in this eye-opening collection of 100 churchfail moments in church history. Each churchfail recalls the choices and actions of people who claim to be Christians doing foolish things.
Clues to Africa, Islam, and the Gospel: insights for new workers /Colin Bearup. Drawing on decades of engagement in Africa, Bearup has compiled a collection of questions, insights, and narratives to guide the reader into a deeper appreciation for the nuances of African Islamic worldviews. Clues to Africa, Islam, and the Gospel is destined to become a go-to resource for those working on the continent.
Culture care: reconnecting with beauty for our common life /Makoto Fujimura ; foreword by Mark Labberton. Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship, in which we become generative and feed our culture’s soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity. This is a book for artists, but artists come in many forms. Anyone with a calling to create–from visual artists, musicians, writers, and actors to entrepreneurs, pastors, and business professionals–will resonate with its message. This book is for anyone with a desire or an artistic gift to reach across boundaries with understanding, reconciliation, and healing. It is a book for anyone with a passion for the arts, for supporters of the arts, and for creative catalysts who understand how much the culture we all share affects human thriving today and shapes the generations to come.
Ethics and moral reasoning: a student’s guide /C. Ben Mitchell. Mitchell equips Christians to offer biblically faithful, theologically nuanced, and historically informed answers to the most pressing moral questions facing our world today.
Exploring hope in spiritual care: a practical theological guide for chaplains /Laura Shay. This book enables those who provide spiritual care to cultivate hope in patients, beyond hope for a cure. Using a framework of the different dimensions to hope, the book suggests creative spiritual care that can help patients prepare for the best possible end of life.
Faces of Muhammad: Western perceptions of the prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to today /John V. Tolan. Faces of Muhammad reveals a lengthy tradition of positive portrayals of Muhammad that many will find surprising. The book shows that Muhammad wears so many faces in the West because he has always acted as a mirror for its writers, their portrayals revealing more about their own concerns than the historical realities of the founder of Islam.
Faith-based development: how Christian organizations can make a difference /Bob Mitchell. Mitchell posits that, contrary to popular perception, church organizations have long been major players in international development work, and that many of these organizations do take the relationship between their work and the faith that underpins it very seriously. Instead of apologizing for their faith roots and expression, they should celebrate them and recognize the value they bring to every development enterprise, secular or not.
Fragments: the existential situation of our time : selected essays. Volume 1 /David Tracy. This volume gathers Tracy’s most important essays on broad theological questions-notably the problem of suffering and the category of the Infinite. The title of volume I, Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time, refers to the potential of fragments (understood both as concepts and events) to shatter closed systems and open us to difference and Infinity. The range and erudition of Tracy’s essays arc breathtaking. Issues addressed in volume I alone include the invisible as employed in mathematics, physics, philosophy, myth, religion, and theology; the relation of psychoanalysis to religion in the work or Freud (which Tracy reads as prophetic) and Lacan (construed as mystical); and the category of sunyata (emptiness) as a central contemplative category in Buddhism.
Generation Y, spirituality and social change /edited by Justine Huxley. This collection of stories and interviews with young adults and their allies explores the new landscape, reflecting both the energy and inspiration of the next generation and the tremendous challenges they face. It points towards an exciting evolution in the way we are relating to the sacred.
George MacDonald in the age of miracles: incarnation, doubt, and re-enchantment /Timothy Larsen. In this volume Larsen explores how George MacDonald sought to counteract skepticism and herald the reality of the miraculous.
God with us and without us. Volume two, The beauty and power of oneness in Trinity /Imad Shehadeh. This second volume of God With Us and Without Us demonstrates the beauty and life-transforming power of Oneness in Trinity. Shehadeh elucidates through careful argumentation and detailed critical thinking, why Oneness in Trinity is to be prized and what God would look like if He were not triune. By addressing the beauty and power of Oneness in Trinity, this book deepens our understanding of the Trinity as the solid foundation of all other doctrines. He also addresses the theological debate concerning the eternal generation of the Son and the eternal procession of the Holy Spirit.
Health equity and nursing: achieving equity through policy, population health and interprofessional collaboration /Margaret P. Moss, Janice M. Phillips, editors. This textbook consists of 18 chapters divided into three sections. Each chapter includes learning objectives, key terms, key objectives and related resources. Although there are many nurse leaders who have contributed to this text, we included interprofessional examples and contributors, as well.
Holy disunity: how what separates us can save us /Layton E. Williams Williams proposes that our primary calling as humans is not to create unity but rather to seek authentic relationship with God, ourselves, one another, and the world around us. By analyzing conflict and rifts in both modern culture and Scripture, Williams explores how our disagreements and differences—our disunity—can ultimately redeem us.
Human forms: the novel in the age of evolution /Ian Duncan. A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary science. Duncan reorients our understanding of the novel’s formation during its cultural ascendancy, arguing that fiction produced new knowledge in a period characterized by the interplay between literary and scientific discourses–even as the two were separating into distinct domains. The first book to explore the interaction of European fiction with the natural history of humanity from the late Enlightenment through the mid-Victorian era, Human Forms sets a new standard for work on natural history and the novel.
Intercultural church: a biblical vision for an age of migration /Safwat Marzouk. Marzouk offers a biblical vision for what it means to be an intercultural church, one that fosters just diversity, integrates different cultural articulations of faith and worship, and embodies an alternative to the politics of assimilation and segregation. Marzouk surveys numerous biblical texts from the early ancestor stories of Israel to the Prophets, to the Gospels and Acts, the letters of Paul, and Revelation. Discussion questions are provided to encourage conversation on this complex and important topic.
Kids and kingdom: the precarious presence of children in the Synoptic Gospels /A. James Murphy. Kids and Kingdom challenges the traditional view that Jesus was deeply concerned over children. Instead, it is argued that despite the Synoptic authors’attempts to convince us that children are fully included in the kingdom of God–that “Jesus loves the little children”–their presentations fail to conceal images of household disruption and alienation of children brought about by Jesus’ eschatological movement. Murphy scrutinizes prominent healing narratives involving children, and teachings involving children such . Fundamentally, this study does not seek to resolve but to highlight the tensions in the Synoptic Gospels between attempts at child inclusivity and the radical demands of discipleship.
Laws and the land: the settler colonial invastion of Kahnawà:ke in nineteenth-century Canada /Daniel Rück. An original and impassioned account of the history of the relationship between Canada and Kahnawà:ke, reveals the clash of settler and Indigenous legal traditions and the imposition of settler colonial law on Indigenous peoples and land.
Losing the good portion: why men are alienated from Christianity /Leon J. Podles. Explores the causes and consequences of the almost millennium-old disparity between the participation of lay men and lay women in the churches of Western Christianity. Podles considers both the anecdotal and statistical evidence for the lack of men. He sees the intellectual roots of lack of men in the Aristotelian understanding of male and female as active and passive He makes suggestions for possible outreach to men.
Love and quasars: an astrophysicist reconciles faith and science /Paul Wallace. Wallace shows how faith and science are pitted against one another, and he explains how the standard ways of reconciling them don’t work. He then proposes a reasonable, thoughtful approach that will appeal to Christians and students of science alike. Readable and wise, Love and Quasars is an indispensable resource for people who wonder if faith and science can coexist.
Misreading scripture with individualist eyes: patronage, honor, and shame in the biblical world /E. Randolph Richards and Richard James. Combining the expertise of a biblical scholar and a missionary practitioner, this essential guidebook explores the deep social structures of the ancient Mediterranean, stripping away individualist assumptions and helping us read the Bible better.
Missionaries, mental health, and accountability: support systems in churches and agencies /editors: Jonathan J. Bonk, J. Nelson Jennings, Jinbong Kim, Jae Hoon Lee. Missionaries, Mental Health, and Accountability opens with stories of scriptural saints who struggled. Then, global contributors-comprised of both Korean and Western writers-reach into the complexity of missionary mental health with the added component of accountability in church and agency support systems.
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream: the Crusades, apocalyptic prophecy, and the end of history /Jay Rubenstein. Rubenstein maps out the steps by which the social, political, economic, and intellectual shifts occurred throughout the 12th century, drawing on those who guided and explained them. Rubenstein examines how those who confronted the conflict between prophecy and reality transformed the meaning and memory of the Crusades as well as their place in history
New perspectives in philosophy of education: ethics, politics and religion /edited by David Lewin, Alex Guilherme, Morgan White. New Perspectives in Philosophy of Education seeks to build a bridge between philosophical reflection and socio-political action by developing a range of critical discussions in the areas of ethics, politics and religion. This volume brings together established authorities and a new generation of scholars to ask whether philosophy of education can contribute to political and social discourse, or whether it is destined to remain the marginal gadfly of mainstream ideology. This book provides contemporary responses to philosophical issues that bear upon educational studies, policies and practices, contributing to the debate on the role of philosophy of education in an increasingly fractured intellectual milieu.
Not your white Jesus: following a radical, refugee messiah /Sheri DiGiacinto Rosendahl. Rosendahl takes a look at important social issues in our society, the responses of American Christians, and the true ways behind the red letters. Not Your White Jesus addresses the need to reexamine the true ways of Jesus that we find clearly in the red letters, enabling readers to discover what it truly means to follow the ways of Jesus in contrast to following the ways of the American Christian elite.
Of games and God: a Christian exploration of video games /Kevin Schut ; foreword by Quentin J. Schultze. TWU AUTHOR Schut, a communications expert and an enthusiastic gamer himself, offers a lively, balanced, and informed Christian evaluation of video games and video game culture. He expertly engages a variety of issues, encouraging readers to consider both the perils and the promise of this major cultural phenomenon.
Personhood, illness, and death in America’s multireligious neighborhoods: a practical guide /Lucinda Mosher. Mosher investigates different understandings of destiny, loss, death, and remembrance in America’s many religions. By looking at multireligious America, this book provides an essential exploration of different attitudes to death, helping members of all faith communities to become more literate with each other’s religious traditions.
Philosophy, science, and religion for everyone /edited by Mark Harris and Duncan Pritchard. Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone brings together these great truth-seeking disciplines, and seeks to understand the ways in which they challenge and inform each other. This book is designed to be used in conjunction with the free ‘Philosophy, Science and Religion’ massive open online course created by the University of Edinburgh, and hosted by the Coursera platform (www.coursera.org ). This book is also highly recommended for anyone looking for a concise overview of this fascinating discipline.
Planning sabbaticals: a guide for congregations and their pastors /Robert C. Saler. This guide for congregations and their pastors draws on nearly two decades of wisdom from the Lily Endowment Clergy Renewal Program and helps draw the conversation away from a pastor-centric model and towards a holistic congregational framework for thinking about how the entire community can benefit from a pastor’s sabbatical.
Plantation Jesus: race, faith, & a new way forward /Skot Welch & Rick Wilson, with Andi Cumbo-Floyd. Through their shared passion for Jesus Christ and with an unblinking look at history, church, and pop culture, authors Welch and Wilson detail the manifold ways that racism damages the church’s witness. Together they take on common responses by white Christians to racial injustice, such as “I never owned a slave,” “I don’t see color; only people,” and “We just need to get over it and move on.” Together they call out the church’s denials and dodges and evasions of race, and they invite readers to encounter the Christ of the disenfranchised. With practical resources and Spirit-filled stories, Plantation Jesus nudges readers to learn the history, acknowledge the injury, and face the truth.
Portraits of battle: courage, grief, and strength in Canada’s Great War /edited by Peter Farrugia and Evan J. Habkirk. Portraits of Battle brings together biography, battle accounts, and historiographical analysis to examine the lives of a cross-section of Canadians who served in the war, exploring key issues in the process. Contributors to this thoughtful collection consider the range of Canadians touched by war–soldiers and their loved ones, deserters, nurses, Indigenous people, those injured in body or mind–raising fundamental questions about the nature of conflict and memory. These portraits of the formerly faceless men and women honoured on war memorials fill in what is often missing from accounts of the Great War. In the process, they provide a more nuanced perspective on the complex legacy of that war in Canadian history.
Biology, religion, and philosophy: an introduction
