The following books (76 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in December 2024 and January 2025.
Seminary Library
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2 Corinthians by Ben Witherington
2 Corinthians by Timothy George and Scott M. Manetsch
Abundantly more: the theological promise of the arts in a reductionist world 
Attentive church leadership: listening and leading in a world we’ve never known 
The Biblical Hebrew verb: a linguistic introduction 
The church and multiculturalism in contemporary America 
Ephesians by David A. deSilva
Exegetical epistles by Jerome and Thomas P. Scheck
Galatians, Ephesians by Gerald Lewis Bray
Great to good: how following Jesus reshapes our ambitions 
Growing women in ministry: seven aspects of leadership development 
Handbook of contemporary preaching:a wealth of counsel for creative and effective proclamation 
John 1-12 by Craig S. Farmer, Timothy George, and Scott M. Manetsch
John 13-21 by Christopher Boyd Brown, Timothy George, and Scott M. Manetsch
Philippians, Colossians by Graham Tomlin
Politics and public policy: a Christian response:  crucial considerations for governing life 
Psalms 1-72 by H. J. Selderhuis
Raising disciples: guiding your kids into a faith of their own.
Reading the Bible Latinamente: Latinoa interpretation for the life of the church 
Romans by C. Samuel Storms
Shape of Our Lives: A Field Guide for Congregational Formation: A Field Guide for Congregational Formation 
When the church harms God’s people: becoming faith communities that resist abuse, pursue truth, and care for the wounded 
When your world ends: God’s creative process for rebuilding a life 
Why study Christian origins? 
The widening of God’s mercy: sexuality within the biblical story 
Womanist Midrash by Wilda Gafney
Welshimer Library
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American anarchy: the epic struggle between immigrant radicals and the US government at the dawn of the twentieth century 
Anime: a history 2nd edition
Bad Chaucer : the great poet’s greatest mistakes in the Canterbury Tales
Becoming Foucault : the Poitiers years
Cobalt red: how the blood of the Congo powers our lives 
Covered with night: a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America 
Cuba: an American history 
The Doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women–and women to medicine 
The Exorcist effect: horror, religion and demonic belief 
Fire weather: a true story from a hotter world 
The force of truth : critique, genealogy, and truth-telling in Michel Foucault
The free world: art and thought in the Cold War 
Freedom’s dominion: a saga of white resistance to federal power 
From modes to keys in early modern music theory 
The ground breaking: the Tulsa race massacre and an American city’s search for justice 
Hegel: the philosopher of freedom 
Henry David Thoreau: thinking disobediently 
High-impact content marketing: strategies to make your content intentional, engaging and effective 
His name is George Floyd: one man’s life and the struggle for racial justice 
How the word is passed: a reckoning with the history of slavery across America 
I saw death coming: a history of terror and survival in the war against reconstruction
King : a life by Jonathan Eig
Kingdom of characters : the language revolution that made China modern
Lost literacies : experiments in the nineteenth-century US comic strip
MacIntyre’s After Virtue at 40
Master slave husband wife: an epic journey from slavery to freedom
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers 
The opioid epidemic: origins, current state and potential solutions 
The Oxford handbook of World War I
Plato and the metaphysical feminine: one hundred and one nights
The pleasures of memory in Shakespeare’s sonnets 
Political ideology and social work 
Politics and literature at the dawn of World War II
The politics of innocence: how wrongful convictions shape public opinion 
The presidency and the American State : leadership and decision making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft administrations
A real right to vote: how a constitutional amendment can safeguard American democracy 
The rediscovery of America: native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history 
Schubert: a musical wayfarer 
South to America: a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation 
Southern history remixed: on rock ‘n’ roll and the dilemma of race 
The dead are arising: the life of Malcolm X 
Theorizing Stephen King
These vivid American documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA photobooks 
The understory : an invitation to rootedness and resilience from the forest floor
The undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Warnings: the Holocaust, Ukraine, and endangered American democracy 
Watergate: a new history 
What works in community news : media startups, news deserts, and the future of the fourth estate
Woman much missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and poetry 
Women artists together: art in the age of women’s liberation