Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
John Stott’s Right Hand
The Untold Story of Frances Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The story John Stott hoped would one day be told. Frances Whitehead was working for the BBC when Stott asked her to become his secretary. For 55 years she was his right hand: gatekeeper, administrator, typist, encourager and enabler. In his Will, Stott named her as his 'friend and Executor'. Their...
C. S. Lewis and Friends
Faith and the Power of Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
C. S. Lewis is one of the best-loved and most engaging Christian writers of recent times, and he continues to be a powerful defender of the faith. It is in his imaginative fiction that his genius finds its fullest expression and makes its most lasting theological contribution. Famously, Lewis had...
Post-Christendom
Church and Mission in a Strange New World. Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Western societies are experiencing a series of disorientating culture shifts. Uncertain where we are heading, observers use "post" words to signal that familiar landmarks are disappearing, but we cannot yet discern the shape of what is emerging. One of the most significant shifts, "post-Christendom,"...
by John W. de Gruchy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
"If my life and experience is of some interest, it is chiefly so because I have lived through interesting times, in an interesting country, traveled to many interesting places, and been accompanied along the way by interesting folk." John de Gruchy is a renowned South African theologian...
by Richard Stoll Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Dick Armstrong was thoroughly committed to his promising future as a major league baseball front-office executive until something happened that completely changed his life and steered him in a totally new direction. In A Sense of Being Called, Armstrong tells the story of what he calls his Damascus...
The Negro Church
With an Introduction by Alton B. Pollard III
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
W. E. B. Du Bois was editor and principal author of The Negro Church, first published in 1903. A groundbreaking study, this volume is the first in-depth treatment of African-American religious life. It is the first sociological book on religion in the United States. It is the first empirical study...
When I Go
Selected French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Rilke's French poetry appears here for the first time in readable, musical versions. Largely unknown and rarely collected, these poems were written during the euphoria Rilke felt after having completed his greatest German works, the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus. At the same time, Rilke...
by Walter Wangerin
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible is a volume of poems divided into three parts. The three parts are bound together by a brace of persistent and developing themes, as well as by the repetition (and the development) of language, metaphor, and imagery. Part 1 presents various characters (mostly...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Between the world of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Christianity there appears to be the widest difference. Coates's brief comments on Christianity in his highly acclaimed Between the World and Me make clear that religious faith is alien to his own experience. Still, Christian audiences from congregations to...
The Spirit of Jesus Unleashed on the Church
Acts of the Early Christians in a Changing Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The Spirit of Jesus Unleashed on the Church is the third book in a series concerning the restoration of Jesus' people in a world where the marginalized classes longed for reconciliation to God. After Jesus' ascension the early Christians fulfilled Luke's epic theme of restoration in their new empire,...
Freeing the Oppressed
A Call to Christians Concerning Domestic Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
When Jesus spoke at his local synagogue he boldly proclaimed that he was the one sent to free those who were oppressed. He came to provide hope, peace, and safety to those suffering in the world. When he left this earth, his followers were left with the task of continuing this ministry. Statistics...
Jesus Unleashed
Luke’s Gospel for Emerging Christians
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Luke's narrative of Jesus was presented to Christians who had already heard and read stories of Jesus and the birth of this new movement, Christianity. Luke seemed to rewrite the story of Jesus similar to ancient epics of the history of a nation, a movement, and the tale of a hero. Jesus and the church...
Am I Sleeping with the Enemy?
Males and Females in the Image of God
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
When a boy cries, his father trains him in the way of the ancients. He is taught to man up, and rejects anything feminine in his life. Thus he begins the process of becoming a man in the image of his culture. This transformation comes at the expense of his own calling to reflect the image of God....
The God of Second Chances
Finding Hope through the Prophets of Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
When the people of Judah were taken captive by the Babylonians, their world was drastically changed. While in exile they experienced shame, guilt, fear, and displacement. However, their God had been traumatized by their behavior and also grieved with them. Yet, Yahweh gave them a second chance by...