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In Honoring the Body, Stephanie Paulsell speaks to those who have ever wondered how to celebrate the body’s pleasures and protect the body’s vulnerabilities in a world that seems confused about both. What we need, she shows, are practices that honor the body.

Many advertisements these days make us feel as if we have an intimate, even passionate relationship with a product. But as Jean Kilbourne points out in this fascinating and shocking exposé, the dreamlike promise of advertising always leaves us hungry for more. We can never be satisfied, because the products we love cannot love us back.

This highly readable study asks whether the church can make a difference in the development of young women in a culture that destroys the self-esteem of girls. Caretakers of Our Common House should be required reading for all those involved in theological education and ministry.

The first spiritual guide to the pregnant woman, Motherprayer is filled with poems, rituals, prayers, and incantations from a variety of religious traditions.

First published in 1988, Peter Brown’s The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East.

Rejecting presentist interpretations of women as exploited or masochistic, Bynum shows the power and creativity of women’s writing and women’s lives.

This newest edition of Jean Kilbourne’s influential and award-winning Killing Us Softly series shows how the advertising industry continues to reinforce, and glamorize, a regressive and debased notion of femininity.

Jean Kilbourne’s award-winning video offers an in-depth analysis of how female bodies are depicted in advertising images and the devastating effects of those images on women’s health.

Pack of Lies reveals, with powerful insider information, the deception of tobacco industry claims that they do not seek to addict children to nicotine.

Based on the story of Oskar Schindler, an opportunistic businessman who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in Nazi-occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler learns to respect his workers’ humanity, and he finds ways to protect more than 1,100 Jews from death in the Auschwitz gas chambers. Note the stark contrast between honoring and dishonoring bodies throughout the film.

Based upon the story of Roy L. “Rocky” Dennis, who lived from 1964 to 1980 with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a bone disease that causes extreme facial disfigurement. In spite of the way he is often treated because of his physical appearance, Rocky is an honor student and a surprisingly upbeat and responsible kid. Note how Rocky is accepted by other “outsiders,” including his mother’s motorcycle gang and the young people he meets while working as a summer counselor at a camp for the blind.

In An Altar in the World, Taylor shows us how to discover altars everywhere we go and in nearly everything we do as we learn to live with purpose, pay attention, slow down, and revere the world we live in.