Good Hair Days

Author(s): Grace Helena Walz
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Price: $4.99       (Ends Mar 7)

Two sisters, a failing family business, a messy legacy, and a whole lot of hairspray.

“Kristy Woodson Harvey, Nancy Thayer, and Patti Callahan Henry fans should take note.” –Booklist

A modern twist on Steel Magnolias meets Hello Beautiful with some extra Dolly Parton flair.

The Louise women have squabbled for years, but they’ve always agreed on one thing: Georgia would be the one to make them proud. Years–and failed dreams–later, Georgia only wants to come home to the small Southern town of Whitetail, back to the family salon, June’s Beauty Shop, but to do so would mean dashing their hopes by admitting she’s fallen helplessly short.

When little sister Junie lands the beauty shop in hot water by way of a renovation gone wrong, (more…)

Systematic Theology: Mar 15/26

Systematic Theology (Volume 1)
Author(s): Paul Tillich
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Price: $3.99       (Limited Time Only)

“A great voyage of discovery into a rich and deep, and inclusive…vision and understanding of human life in the presence of the mystery of God.” — H. Richard Niebuhr, author of Christ and Culture

This is the first part of Paul Tillich’s three-volume Systematic Theology, one of the most profound statements of the Christian message ever composed and the summation and definitive presentation of the theology of the most influential and creative American theologian of the twentieth century.
In this path-breaking volume Tillich presents the basic method and statement of his system—his famous “correlation” of man’s deepest questions with theological answers. Here the focus is on the concepts of being and reason. Tillich shows how the quest for revelation is integral to reason itself. In the same way a description of the inner tensions of being leads to the recognition that the quest for God is implied in finite being.
Here also Tillich defines his thought in relation to philosophy and the Bible and sets forth his famous doctrine of God as the “Ground of Being.” Thus God is understood not as a being existing beside other beings, but as being-itself or the power of being in everything. God cannot be made into an object; religious knowledge is, therefore, necessarily symbolic.

“Beyond doubt the richest, most suggestive, and most challenging philosophical theology our day has produced.” –John Herman Randall Jr., author of The Making of the Modern Mind

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Systematic Theology (Volume 2)
Author(s): Paul Tillich
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Price: $3.99       (Limited Time Only)

The second volume of the eminent Christian philosopher’s magnum opus, in which he explores humanity’s quest for Christ.
Paul Tillich’s Systemic Philosophy is the most comprehensive and definitive presentation of his groundbreaking theological message: his “method of correlation”, which finds the answers to humanity’s most urgent existential dilemmas in the principles of Christian revelation. In volume two of this three-volume work, Tillich comes to grips with the central idea of his system—the doctrine of the Christ.
Here, Tillich describes the human predicament as the state of “estrangement” from ourselves, from our world, and from the divine Ground of Being. This situation drives us to the quest for a new state of things, in which reconciliation and reunion conquer estrangement. This is the quest for the Christ.

Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning

Author(s): Nancy Pearcey
Publisher: B&H Books
Price: $4.99       (Mar 16 only)

Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or does it lead to fragmentation and disintegration? In Saving Leonardo, best-selling award-winning author Nancy Pearcey (Total Truth, coauthor How Now Shall We Live?) makes a compelling case that secularism is destructive and dehumanizing.

Pearcey depicts the revolutionary thinkers and artists, the ideas and events, leading step by step to the unleashing of secular worldviews that undermine human dignity and liberty. She crafts a fresh approach that exposes the real-world impact of ideas in philosophy, science, art, literature, and film–voices that surround us in the classroom, in the movie theater, and in our living rooms.

A former agnostic, Pearcey offers a persuasive case for historic Christianity as a holistic and humane alternative. She (more…)

This Promised Land

Author(s): Cathy Gohlke
Publisher: Tyndale Fiction
Price: $2.99       (Ends Apr 30)

When she ran away as a young war bride, she was cut off from her family forever . . . or so she believed. Decades later, maybe the only way to move on is to go home.

Ginny Pickering Boyden can’t wait for her last day of work, when she’ll be free to pursue a lifelong ambition through a master gardener apprenticeship. But an unexpected letter brings shocking news: Ginny has inherited her family’s Christmas tree farm, a dream she’d long ago given up.

Facing a past laced with memories and lies she’s tried hard to bury, a furious nephew who thought the land would be his, and a failing farm with a mountain of debt, Ginny returns to New Scrivelsby, Virginia, (more…)

This Promised Land

Author(s): Cathy Gohlke
Publisher: Tyndale Fiction
Price: $2.99       (Ends Apr 30)

When she ran away as a young war bride, she was cut off from her family forever . . . or so she believed. Decades later, maybe the only way to move on is to go home.

Ginny Pickering Boyden can’t wait for her last day of work, when she’ll be free to pursue a lifelong ambition through a master gardener apprenticeship. But an unexpected letter brings shocking news: Ginny has inherited her family’s Christmas tree farm, a dream she’d long ago given up.

Facing a past laced with memories and lies she’s tried hard to bury, a furious nephew who thought the land would be his, and a failing farm with a mountain of debt, Ginny returns to New Scrivelsby, Virginia, (more…)

Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning

Author(s): Nancy Pearcey
Publisher: B&H Books
Price: $4.99       (Limited time only)

Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or does it lead to fragmentation and disintegration? In Saving Leonardo, best-selling award-winning author Nancy Pearcey (Total Truth, coauthor How Now Shall We Live?) makes a compelling case that secularism is destructive and dehumanizing.

Pearcey depicts the revolutionary thinkers and artists, the ideas and events, leading step by step to the unleashing of secular worldviews that undermine human dignity and liberty. She crafts a fresh approach that exposes the real-world impact of ideas in philosophy, science, art, literature, and film–voices that surround us in the classroom, in the movie theater, and in our living rooms.

A former agnostic, Pearcey offers a persuasive case for historic Christianity as a holistic and humane alternative. She equips readers to counter the life-denying worldviews that are radically restructuring society and pervading our daily lives. Whether you are a devoted Christian, determined secularist, or don’t know quite where you stand, reading Saving Leonardo will unsettle established views and topple ideological idols. Includes more than 100 art reproductions and illustrations that bring the book’s themes to life.

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The Light That Is Given

Author(s): Patricia Dallmann
Publisher: Resource Publications
Price: $2.99       (Ends May 31)

Speaking from the traditional Quaker claim of inward knowledge of Christ the Light, the author shows her accord with early Friends’ writings and the Scriptures they affirmed. Promptings arising from daily readings and personal interactions provide the starting point for many of the book’s essays. Other genres, including interviews and dialogues, also present a perspective that largely has been lost to modern-day forms of the faith. Though not allowing authoritative texts to displace the prerogative of Spirit, the author often cites both Scriptures and seventeenth-century Friends to support her themes with their good sense and authority, and thus she demonstrates the unity of the faith from century to century, from millennium to millennium.