**NATIONAL BESTSELLERA former evangelical pastor explains why we can stop worrying about hell and start focusing on love"If you’ve ever struggled with...the idea of eternal conscious torment, Hell Bent is for you.”—Pete Enns**There is a black hole at the center of Christian spirituality: the doctrine of hell. No matter how hard we try to believe in a loving God, the fear of eternal torment always lurks at the back of our minds, warping our sense of what lov...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERA former evangelical pastor explains why we can stop worrying about hell and start focusing on love"If you’ve ever struggled with...the idea of eternal conscious torment, Hell Bent is for you.”—Pete Enns**There is a black hole at the center of Christian spirituality: the doctrine of hell. No matter how hard we try to believe in a loving God, the fear of eternal torment always lurks at the back of our minds, warping our sense of what lov...

Shows how government created “ghettos” and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality—and issues a call for abolition.The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution animated by the ideology of white supremacy. Politicians and people of all colors propagated “ghetto” myths to justify racist policies that concentrated poverty in the hood and created hi...

**CHRISTY AWARD WINNER • A Colombian American journalist tries to save her career by taking an assignment somewhere she never thought she’d go—Colombia—in this heartwarming debut novel about rediscovering our family stories.“A beautiful homage to a mother’s bravery and to the grace and grit that is our inheritance.”—Alicia Menendez, MSNBC anchor and creator and host of the Latina to Latina podcast**International Latino Book Award Gold Winner for Best First ...

Celebrate queer faith and take your rightful place at God’s table with Brandan Robertson, the “TikTok Pastor.” The biblical scholar and social activist also reads this program.For too long, the Bible has been weaponized to exclude LGBTQ+ individuals, despite Jesus’ radical message of inclusion. In Queer & Christian, Brandan Robertson envisions a faith where all are unequivocally embraced.Ostracized at school, Brandan thought he had finally found hi...

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at critical risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley, but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle, dates?these are foods that carry significant cultural weight. But they’re disappearing. In Endangered Eating, culinary historian Sarah Lohman draws inspi...

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Delicious. . . you should really, really give the book a read.” —VogueDuring the greatest, most exciting years in the world’s greatest, most exciting city, Barneys New York was a place where fashion made culture and made history.In They All Came to Barneys, Gene Pressman tells his story for the first time, capturing the unprecedented rise and unimaginable fall of his family’s multimillion-dollar fashion retail em...

The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early AmericaBeginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel oppressions co...

**Read by the author and set in one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, Kuleana is the story of an award-winning journalist’s effort to hold on to her family’s ancestral Hawaiian lands—and find herself along the way.“A powerful story of land, belonging, loss, and survival that challenges us all to think about what we are responsible for.”** —Rebecca Nagle, bestselling author of By the Fire We Carry"Sara Kehaulani Goo'...

This groundbreaking book tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today, showing how our modern economy was built on the backs of enslaved Black people—and lays out a clear argument for reparations that shows exactly what was stolen, who stole it, and to whom it is owed.In this timely, powerful, investigative history, The Stolen Wealth of Slavery, Emmy Award-nominated journalist David Montero follows the trail of the massive wea...

**"A wide-ranging and cogent guide to seeing scripture in a new light. Disenchanted Christians will be energized."--**Publishers WeeklyHow can we read the Bible in ways that lead to healing and wholeness?As a pastor for more than ten years, Zach Lambert has seen the Bible used countless times as something far from the "Good Book"--both in his own life and in the experiences of others. He has seen the Bible weaponized to subjugate w...

Elaine Pagels explores the surprising history of the most controversial book of the Bible.In the waning days of the Roman Empire, militant Jews in Jerusalem had waged anall-out war against Rome’s occupation of Judea, and their defeat resulted in the desecrationof the Great Temple in Jerusalem. In the aftermath of that war, John of Patmos, a Jewishprophet and follower of Jesus, wrote the Book of Revelation, prophesying God’s judgmenton the pagan empire tha...