Explore Publications
Good Places for All
By: Mark Bjelland
This book combines a biblical framework with an exploration of how cities, neighborhoods, housing markets, and transportation systems work.
Congregations, Neighborhoods, Places
By: Mark T. Mulder
This book offers a brief overview to stimulate congregational thinking about community engagement that includes insights regarding social science and local context.
The Embrace of Buildings
By: Lee Hardy
In a culture long enamored of the suburban ideal, Lee Hardy invites readers to reconsider the many advantages of living and working in walkable city neighborhoods.
Visual Arts in the 91ÁÔÆæing Church
By: Lisa DeBoer
Although numerous studies have examined biblical and theological rationales for using the visual arts in worship, this book by Lisa J. DeBoer fills in a piece of the picture missing so far — the social dimensions of both our churches and the various art worlds represented in our congregations.
Arts Ministry: Nurturing the Creative Life of God's People
By: Michael J Bauer
The best available guidebook to the emerging field of Christian arts ministry.
Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions
By: Robin Margaret Jensen
This book examines five models for understanding baptism, showing how visual images, poetic language, architectural space, and symbolic actions signify and convey the theological meaning of this ritual practice.
Greening Spaces for 91ÁÔÆæ and Ministry: Congregations, Their Buildings, and Creation Care
By: Mark Torgerson
In Greening Spaces for 91ÁÔÆæ and Ministry, Mark Torgerson asserts that greening the built environment of a congregation is a powerful way to achieve and model a commitment to creation care.
Jesus as Healer
By: Edgar Boeve
Reflections on Jesus as healer though artwork and meditations.
Dwelling With Philippians
By: Elizabeth Steele Halstead, Joyce Borger, John D. Witvliet, Paul Detterman
This rich, inviting volume illumines Paul's letter to the Philippians through evocative juxtapositions of visual images, poetry, and other worship-related arts with theological reflections, prayers, and more.
An Architecture of Immanence
By: Mark Torgerson
Modern architecture has heavily influenced the construction of new sacred spaces, producing a new way of building that emphasizes God's coming near to us.
The Substance of Things Seen
By: Robin Margaret Jensen
The Substance of Things Seen explores the intersection of art and faith, offering thoughtful reflections on the way art functions in Christian life and practice.
Good Places for All
By: Mark Bjelland
This book combines a biblical framework with an exploration of how cities, neighborhoods, housing markets, and transportation systems work.
Congregations, Neighborhoods, Places
By: Mark T. Mulder
This book offers a brief overview to stimulate congregational thinking about community engagement that includes insights regarding social science and local context.
The Embrace of Buildings
By: Lee Hardy
In a culture long enamored of the suburban ideal, Lee Hardy invites readers to reconsider the many advantages of living and working in walkable city neighborhoods.
Visual Arts in the 91ÁÔÆæing Church
By: Lisa DeBoer
Although numerous studies have examined biblical and theological rationales for using the visual arts in worship, this book by Lisa J. DeBoer fills in a piece of the picture missing so far — the social dimensions of both our churches and the various art worlds represented in our congregations.
Arts Ministry: Nurturing the Creative Life of God's People
By: Michael J Bauer
The best available guidebook to the emerging field of Christian arts ministry.
Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions
By: Robin Margaret Jensen
This book examines five models for understanding baptism, showing how visual images, poetic language, architectural space, and symbolic actions signify and convey the theological meaning of this ritual practice.
Greening Spaces for 91ÁÔÆæ and Ministry: Congregations, Their Buildings, and Creation Care
By: Mark Torgerson
In Greening Spaces for 91ÁÔÆæ and Ministry, Mark Torgerson asserts that greening the built environment of a congregation is a powerful way to achieve and model a commitment to creation care.
Jesus as Healer
By: Edgar Boeve
Reflections on Jesus as healer though artwork and meditations.
Dwelling With Philippians
By: Elizabeth Steele Halstead, Joyce Borger, John D. Witvliet, Paul Detterman
This rich, inviting volume illumines Paul's letter to the Philippians through evocative juxtapositions of visual images, poetry, and other worship-related arts with theological reflections, prayers, and more.
An Architecture of Immanence
By: Mark Torgerson
Modern architecture has heavily influenced the construction of new sacred spaces, producing a new way of building that emphasizes God's coming near to us.
The Substance of Things Seen
By: Robin Margaret Jensen
The Substance of Things Seen explores the intersection of art and faith, offering thoughtful reflections on the way art functions in Christian life and practice.