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The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods invites readers to recognize the hidden talents, skills, and strengths in their own neighborhoods. It shows how bringing these assets together can create healthier, more vibrant, and more resilient communities.

Cormac Russell and John McKnight draw on years of experience with asset‑based community development to demonstrate how neighborly connection can help address challenges such as social isolation, economic inequality, and environmental concerns. Through real stories and examples from communities around the world, this book encourages practical action, shared discovery, and the building of deeper relationships among neighbors.

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The New Parish invites readers to rediscover the importance of place in the life of the church. Written by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, and Dwight J. Friesen, the book explores how Christian communities can move beyond disconnected or program-driven models of ministry and instead become deeply rooted in the neighborhoods where they live.

Drawing from stories and practices from churches across cities, suburbs, and small towns, the authors show how mission, discipleship, and community life can flourish when churches intentionally engage their local context. Rather than seeing church as something that happens only within a building or gathering, The New Parish encourages communities to follow Jesus into everyday neighborhood life, learning to love, serve, and collaborate with the people and places around them.

With a vision grounded in theology and practical examples, the book paints a hopeful picture of churches rediscovering their calling as a faithful presence within their

In Counterweights, Shannan Martin explores what it means to hold on to hope in a world that often feels heavy and overwhelming. Life is rarely purely joyful or purely painful. Most days are filled with a mix of small griefs, ordinary routines, and unexpected beauty. This book introduces the practice of “counterweights,” a way of intentionally noticing the good that exists alongside the hard things we carry.

Through personal stories, reflection, and gentle wisdom, Martin invites readers to pay attention to the ordinary gifts hiding in everyday life. By learning to hold both sorrow and joy with honesty, readers discover a grounded hope that does not ignore the challenges of the world but helps us remain steady within them.

Counterweights offers a thoughtful and compassionate guide for anyone who feels weary, overwhelmed, or unsure how to keep moving forward with courage and hope.