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Expressing God’s longing for relationship with creation
Encountering God’s grace
A rip-roaring library to inspire ongoing conversation
Connecting God’s people across millennia through story
The Bible is for play, seriously
Falling into a literary ocean, infinitely deep
Helping us ask the right questions
Stirring us to believe in costly love
Providing wisdom about God, life, and love
Proclaiming God’s work as people understand it
Telling us what men thought about God
Whatever we use it for—and more
Encountering the Divine through story and thought
World-building, worship, and wonder
Building friendship
Gathering around stories of encounter with God
Helping humans understand how literature works
A library of human encounters with divinity
Scripting a people’s performance of shalom
Seeing the world as God’s
