Best sellers

Christian Century, May 31, 2003

Brazos

1. The Unauthorized Guide to Choosing a Church

by Carmen Renee Berry

2. Darwin's God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil

by Cornelius G. Hunter

3. Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, The Simpsons and other Pop Culture Icons

by David Dark

4. Christianity Incorporated: How Big Business Is Buying the Church

by Michael L. Budde and Robert W. Brimlow

5. Becoming Friends: Worship, Justice, and the Practice of Christian Friendship

by Paul J. Wadell

Penguin Putnam

1. Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent

by Mary Laven

2. The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth

by Alan Cutler

3. The New Penguin Handbook of Living Religions, 2nd edition

edited by John R. Hinnells

4. Journey to the Well: 12 Lessons on Personal Transformation

by Bishop Vashti M. McKenzie

5. Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius

by Paul Mariani

Oxford

1. The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice

by Philip Jenkins

2. Visions of Utopia

by Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp and Martin Marty

3. The Oxford Dictionary of Islam

edited by John L. Esposito

4. United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race

by Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Michael O. Emerson, George Yancey and Karen Chai Kim

5. Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America

by Gary Laderman

Abingdon

1. Pastor: The Theology and Practice of Ordained Ministry/Pastor: A Reader for Ordained Ministry

by William H. Willimon

2. The New Interpreters Bible, Vol. 10: Acts, Introduction to Epistolary Literature, Romans, 1 Corinthians

3. Leading Beyond the Walls: Developing Congregations with a Heart for the Unchurched

by Adam Hamilton

4. An Introduction to Christian Theology

by Justo Gonzalez and Zaida Maldonado Perez

5. With God in the Crucible: Preaching Costly Discipleship

by Peter Storey

Yale

1. One World: The Ethics of Globalization

by Peter Singer

2. Jonathan Edwards: A Life

by George M. Marsden

3. Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History

by James M. Morone

4. The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God

by Robert Louis Wilken

5. Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal

by William R. Hutchison

Eerdmans

1. Writing in the Dust: After September 11

by Rowan Williams

2. Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope

by Joan Chittister

3. Joy in Our Weakness: A Gift of Hope from the Book of Revelation

by Marva J. Dawn

4. Basic Christianity

by John R. W. Stott

5. Engaging God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living

by Cornelius Plantinga Jr.

Beacon

1. The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

by Thich Nhat Hanh

2. Man's Search for Meaning

by Victor Frankl

3. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

by Mohandas K. Gandhi

4. The Place of Tolerance in Islam

by Khaled Abou El Fadl

5. Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering and the Search for What Saves Us

by Rita Brock and Rebecca Parker

Chalice

1. Transforming Worship

by Timothy L. Carson

2. Testimony to the Exiles: Sermons for GenXers and Other Postmoderns

by Mark Feldmeir

3. Embracing a Beautiful God

by Patricia Adams Farmer

4. Contemporary African American Preaching: Diversity in Theory and Style

by L. Susan Bond

5. The Vision of the Ecumenical Movement and How It Has Been Impoverished by Its Friends

by Michael Kinnamon

HarperSanFrancisco

1. The Brother of Jesus: The Dramatic Story and Meaning of the First Archaeological Link to Jesus and His Family

by Hershel Shanks and Ben Witherington III

2. Strength for the Journey: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living

by Peter J. Gomes

3. Signs and Wonders: A Harmony Novel

by Philip Gulley

4. Saint Julian: A Novel

by Walter Wangerin Jr.

5. Rebirth of Orthodoxy: Signs of New Life in Christianity

by Thomas C. Oden

Princeton

1. Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians

by F. E. Peters

2. Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation

by Ahmed Ali

3. The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America

by Frank Lambert

4. For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery

by Rodney Stark

5. One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism

by Rodney Stark

Fortress

1. The Resurrection of the Son of God

by N T. Wright

2. Awed to Heaven, Rooted to Earth

by Walter Brueggemann

3. Jesus and Nonviolence

By Walter Wink

4. Witnessing and Testifying

by Rosetta E. Ross

5. Islam--What Non-Muslims Should Know

by John Kaltner

Westminster John Knox

1. The Gospel According to Harry Potter: Spirituality in the Stories of the World's Most Famous Seeker

by Connie Neal

2. Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes

by Walter Brueggemann

3. Power in the Pulpit: How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons

by Cleophus J. LaRue

4. Being Disciples of Jesus in a Dot.Com World: A Theological Survival Guide for Youth, Adults, and Other Confused Christians

by Ted V. Foote Jr. and P. Alex Thornburg