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The Faith Factor and Social Welfare

Evidence, Practice, Policy

by Byron R. Johnson, Alfreda Alvarez Wubbenhorst and William Wubbenhorst

Price: $69.99

ISBN: 9781481323505

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-12-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

730 Pages

The Faith Factor and Social Welfare: Evidence, Practice, Policy comprises case studies and impact evaluations on the important work done by faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the United States to...

Proclamation Beyond the Pulpit

The Expansive Homiletical Practice of Black Women

by Chelsea Brooke Yarborough

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481324243

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-09-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

164 Pages

Preaching is typically considered to be a practice confined to ministry within the institutional church. Studies of preaching are often filtered through the lens of the pulpit, with Black women rarely...

John Clifford and Radical Nonconformity

1836–1923

by Michael R. Watts

Edited by Joel C. Gregory and David W. Bebbington

Preface by Joel C. Gregory

Price: $69.99

ISBN: 9781481321976

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-09-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-07-16

Imprint: 1845 Books

373 Pages

In 1966, Michael R. Watts completed his Oxford dissertation on the life of John Clifford (1836-1923). Although Watts intended for the work to be published, he passed away unexpectedly and the dissertation...

Restlessness and Belonging

Augustinian Wisdom for the Digital Empire

by Autumn Alcott Ridenour

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481319744

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-08-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

312 Pages

Life is to be lived rather than consumed.In a digital environment and market society where everything is for sale, the human face is one more object to exchange. Devices often hold our attention captive...

Madness, Theocracy, and Anarchism

Political and Cultural Reflections on the Church

by Barry Harvey

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481322379

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-07-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-07-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

334 Pages

According to some of the most influential thinkers of the modern era, it is madness to subordinate all one’s aims to one end. Such thinkers believe that the church in particular should limit itself...

Good News for the World

Baptist World Alliance Resolutions and Statements, 1905-2023

Edited by Lee B. Spitzer

Preface by Elijah M. Brown

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481318341

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-03-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-02-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

794 Pages

Since 1905, the Baptist World Alliance has served as a prophetic witness for Jesus Christ on behalf of the global Baptist family. At its World Congress, General Council, and Executive Committee meetings,...

God of the Whirlwind

Horror, Memory, and Story in Black Waco

Edited by Tyler B. Davis

Foreword by Stevie Walker-Webb

Photographs by Mark Menjívar

Price: $22.99

ISBN: 9781481322560

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-02-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-02-01

Imprint: 1845 Books

168 Pages

God of the Whirlwind is a book about the power of storytelling traditions to carry memories and shape ways of living. It assembles stories from members of the Black Waco community--stories that have...

Over from Union Road

My Christian-Left-Intellectual Life

by Gary Dorrien

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481322416

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

332 Pages

Gary Dorrien, the renowned social ethicist, theologian, and intellectual historian whose many books are routinely described as magisterial and definitive, in this book turns to interpret his own life...

Entangled Being

Unoriginal Sin and Wicked Problems

by Rebecca L. Copeland

Price: $47.99

ISBN: 9781481321426

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

262 Pages

Contemporary societies face many complex injustices, from environmental devastation that threatens our long-term prospects, to human trafficking that fuels our global economy, to health disparities...

Desire

by Micheal O'Siadhail

Price: $23.99

ISBN: 9781481320061

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

128 Pages

Critically acclaimed and award-winning poet Micheal O'Siadhail's Desire is a quartet of poems which addresses the pressing global concerns of our times. He describes the devastating effects of...

Sola Scriptura

Scripture's Final Authority in the Modern World

by Ben Witherington III

Price: $21.99

ISBN: 9781481320467

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

230 Pages

In modern times, evangelical Protestants have advocated for the belief that the Bible is the only real standard of truth and true Christian praxis for the church. But is this how the early Jews and...

Ordinary Faith in Polarized Times

Justification and the Pursuit of Justice

by Amy Carr and Christine Helmer

Price: $47.99

ISBN: 9781481319317

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

296 Pages

Finalist in the Theology/Religious Studies category for the 2024 PROSE AwardsChristians in the United States and around the world are politically polarized today, unable to speak to one another across...

The End of Civility

Christ and Prophetic Division

by Ryan Andrew Newson

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481319010

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-07-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-06-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

248 Pages

"I have come not to bring peace, but a sword." These words of Christ echo in our current times. In recent years, a growing number of commentators have decried a lack of civility in public discourse. Considered...

Justice Looks Like...

Reflections on Living the Gospel in an Unjust World

Edited by Eric Black

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9781481319249

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-07-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2023-07-01

Imprint: 1845 Books

248 Pages

Our world is crying out for justice--the doing of right and the righting of wrongs. George Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020 amplified this cry. In response, the Baptist Standard published a sixty-nine-week...

Empowering Charity

A New Narrative of Philanthropy

by Froswa' Booker-Drew

Price: $19.99

ISBN: 9781481316095

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-04-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-03-15

Imprint: 1845 Books

202 Pages

Our faith is centered around giving and offering support, yet our belief about those who need "help" must be reexamined. Philanthropy is steeped in myths that hurt communities of color rather than...

Predicadores

Hispanic Preaching and Immigrant Identity

by Tito Madrazo

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481313902

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-03-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-03-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

199 Pages

Hispanic Protestants have been one of the most rapidly growing demographic groups in the United States over the last few decades. Sociologists have written about the cultural and political identities...

Commonwealth

Transformation through Christian Community Development

by Jimmy M. Dorrell

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481315135

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: 1845 Books

189 Pages

Today the chasm between rich and poor is constantly widening. While the wealthy seem to acquire more and more, the impoverished struggle to survive and thrive. This problem pervades not only the secular...

Seeking What Is Right

The Old Testament and the Good Life

by Iain Provan

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481312882

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

500 Pages

The question of the good life--what it looks like for people and societies to be well ordered and flourishing--has universal significance, but its proposed solutions are just as far reaching. At the...

God and Community Organizing

A Covenantal Approach

by Hak Joon Lee

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481313155

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

288 Pages

For decades, the multiple, interlocking forces of technological advances, neoliberal capitalism, and globalization have been transforming the very moral fabric and institutional underpinnings of global...

The Friends We Keep

Unleashing Christianity's Compassion for Animals

by Laura Hobgood-Oster

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781602582644

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2010-10-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2010-09-13

Imprint: Baylor University Press

245 Pages

Today we find ourselves in an anomaly in human history: many of our lives are empty of animals. Many of us have pets or watch documentaries on Animal Planet, but, for the most part, we humans don't...

No Enemy to Conquer

Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World

by Michael Henderson

Foreword by The Dalai Lama

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781602581401

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2009-02-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2009-01-07

Imprint: Baylor University Press

220 Pages

Offering dramatic evidence of the transformative power of forgiveness, No Enemy to Conquer shares the stories of people of diverse faiths and cultures who, despite all odds, found the courage to reconcile...

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