Simply Jesus
N. T. Wright
Hardcover, 256 pp., $24.99
HarperOne (October 25, 2011)

N. T. Wright invokes 200 years of Biblical scholarship to show us how we should best retell the story of Jesus today. For believers confronting the challenge of connecting with their faith today, Wright offers a provocative new picture of how to understand who Jesus was and how we should relate to him today.

God Wants You to Be Happy
James Randall Robison
Hardcover, 224 pp., $24.99
HarperOne (April 12, 2011)

Christians should be the happiest of all people! Randy Robison, writer and producer for Life Today television program, encourages readers to embrace everything God wants for them, including deep, overflowing gladness that does not depend on pleasant circumstances or emotional highs. Full of biblical wisdom and insight, this engaging new look at happiness challenges readers’ unexamined assumptions and opens new possibilities for them to rejoice in the Lord like never before.

Between Heaven and Mirth
James Martin, SJ
Hardcover, 272 pp., $25.99
HarperOne (October 4, 2011)

From The Colbert Report’s “official chaplain” James Martin, SJ, author of the New York Times bestselling The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, comes a revolutionary look at how joy, humor, and laughter can change our lives and save our spirits. A Jesuit priest with a busy media ministry, Martin understands the intersections between spirituality and daily life.

Naked Spirituality
Brian McLaren
Hardcover, 288 pp., $25.99
HarperOne (March 15, 2011)

In Naked Spirituality, McLaren takes his prophetic work a step further by confronting how the lack of a simple, doable, durable spirituality undermines the very transformation God is calling us to undergo. McLaren presents a four-stage framework for understanding the spiritual life, and he unfolds spiritual practices appropriate to each stage.

Love Wins
Rob Bell
Hardcover, 244 pp., $22.99
HarperOne (March 15, 2011

In his new book LOVE WINS, author, pastor, and innovative teacher Rob Bell presents a deeply biblical vision for rediscovering a richer, grander, truer, and more spiritually satisfying way of understanding heaven, hell, God, Jesus, salvation, and repentance.