One new and three revised titles are available from the UCC's publications ministry. The long-awaited revision to the "Affirming Faith" confirmation student and leader guides, an updated edition of "Just Peacemaking" edited by Glen H. Stassen and a new church transformation guide "Top 10 Ways to Defuse Your Congregational Time Bomb" have all entered distribution.

Affirming Faith: A Congregation's Guide to Confirmation, Revised and Updated
Thomas E. Dipko, editor

Affirming Faith: A Congregation's Guide to Confirmation, Revised & Updated is a confirmation resource for use by United Church of Christ congregations. Focusing on the United Church of Christ Statement of Faith, it relates to Affirming Faith: A Confirmand's Journal, Revised & Updated.

Designed for those planning, leading, and participating in a local church's program of faith formation for youth ages twelve to sixteen, the guide includes session and retreat designs with detailed instructions for leading ninety-minute experiences, as well as suggestions for additional activities. A unique feature, "Connecting with the Congregation," offers ways in which the confirmands can be involved more fully in the life of the congregation as they go through the faith-forming process.

The Bible is an integral part of the Affirming Faith guide. Particular passages of scripture have been selected for each session, but the emphasis is on encounter with scripture rather than knowledge about scripture. The goal of this resource is life transformed through continuing exposure to the Word of God.

$28.00 North America ISBN 978-0-8298-1781-2

Affirming Faith: A Confirmand`s Journal, Revised and Updated
Thomas E. Dipko, editor

Affirming Faith: A Confirmand's Journal, Revised & Updated is a confirmation resource for use by confirmands of United Church of Christ congregations. Focusing on the United Church of Christ's Statement of Faith, it relates to Affirming Faith: A Congregation's Guide to Confirmation, Revised & Updated.

Designed for youth ages twelve to sixteen, the journal is a guidebook for the confirmation journey that gives helpful background information for each session, scriptures, stories, and prayers. It asks some important questions that can be considered alone, in a group, or with a mentor. Space is provided for the confirmands to write, draw, doodle, and reflect about God and faith in their own personal way.

$13.00 North America ISBN 978-0-8298-1782-9

Thomas E. Dipko is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and the former executive vice president of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries.

Just Peacemaking
The new paradigm for the ethics of peace and war

Praise for the Second Edition
"Each chapter helpfully contains historical examples and contemporary cases, along with recommendations for how to apply the practices effectively."
The Christian Century

Just Peacemaking is the product of 23 scholars across various denominations who have collaborated annually for six years to specify the 10 practical steps and develop the undergirding principles of this critical approach:
1.  Support nonviolent direct action
2.  Take independent initiatives to reduce threat
3.  Use cooperative conflict resolution
4.  Acknowledge responsibility for conflict and injustice and seek repentance and forgiveness
5.  Advanced democracy, human rights, and religious liberty
6.  Foster just and sustainable economic development
7.  Work with emerging cooperative forces in the international system
8.  Strengthen the United Nations and international efforts for cooperation and human rights
9.  Reduce offensive weapons and weapons trade
10. Encourage grassroots peacemaking groups and voluntary associations

Originally published in 1998 and revised in 2004, this new 2008 edition contains a new introduction and conclusion, as well as updated contents.

$18.00 North America ISBN 978-0-8298-1793-5

Glen H. Stassen is the Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University.

The Top 10 Ways to Defuse Your Congregational Time Bomb
Julianna Kristina Tenny-Brittian

The top 10 ways - at a glance – are:
Number 10: Don't miss the money trees for the money pits
Number 9:  Take what you need and leave the rest
Number 8:  Wear the right shoe for the right job
Number 7:  Put the right people in the right places
Number 6:  Keep cool, calm, and collected
Number 5:  Be prepared to stay grounded
Number 4:  Play together, stay together
Number 3:  Be a hospital for sinners, not a hotel for saints
Number 2:  Learn the fine art of conversation
Number 1:  Remember who you are and whose you are

"Tenny-Brittian has been involved in church transformation for many years. She knows how thin the line is between success and disaster when trying to transform a stuck or dying church. You would do well to read this book carefully and apply her hard earned wisdom." — Bill Easum, co-founder, Easum Bandy & Associates, and foreword writer

$20.00 North America ISBN 978-0-8298-1804-8

Julianna Kristina Tenny-Brittian is the Northeast Area Minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Mid-America. She was senior consultant to The Mainline Evangelism Research Project, funded by the Lilly Endowment and operated under the office of the General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). She received her D.Min. from Bakke Graduate University in Seattle, Washington. She lives in Columbia, Mo.