January 27, 2005

MINNEAPOLIS - Augsburg Books is happy to announce the release of Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle-Twentieth Anniversary Edition. This classic collection of challenging and inspiring prayers by Ted Loder has sold more than 75,000 copies since it was first published in 1984. Loder, called "the poet of prayer' by Tex Sample, explains, "prayer . . . is always guerrilla action in the world of time on behalf of the eternal."

"These prayers liberate the imagination to new experiences of God, grace, and the stuff of life." -Sojourners

"Loder's prayers are a lantern to illumine the wonders, terrors, and miracles of our passing days." -Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Pastor Emeritus, Riverside Church, New York City.

"An embarrassingly beautiful collection of prayers. . . . To read Loder's writings is to look with penetrating honesty into one's personality, relationship with God, and need for neighbor." -Dr. William Muehl, Professor Emeritus, Yale University Divinity School.

"This collect offers the reader a plethora of images that tumble effortlessly forth to feed hungry souls on dark nights. Here is a minister-writer who is unafraid of crying out his complaints, confessions, denials, and dreams-all the while not taking himself too seriously." -Rev. Joan E. Hemenway, Chaplain and Clinical Pastoral Education Supervisor in the Yale-New New Haven System.

"Rev. Ted Loder's prayers are written in the familiar cadence of everyday language, but leavened with echoes of the inspired awe, wonder and praise of the ancient scriptures." -Dr. Bob Edgar, General Secretary, National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA and former U.S. Congressman.

Ted Loder served for almost forty years as senior minister of one of Philadelphia's most unusual churches, the First United Methodist Church of Germantown. With imagination and vision, Loder led the church to the forefront of artistic endeavors, political activism, and social justice.

ISBN: 0-8066-9054-2, Paperback, 144 pages, 8" x 6" - $14.99.

To order Guerrillas of Grace please call Augsburg Fortress at 1-800-328-4648 or visit the web site at http://www.augsburgfortress.com/.

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