Ashley Hales writes and speaks at the intersection of faith, formation, and cultural imagination.
“Dr. Ashley Hales has written a welcoming, biblically rich, and well-researched book.”Dr. Alan Noble, author of You Are Not Your Own
“Her theologically rich and pastoral invitation to slow down is a needed tonic in our culture of ambition and excess.”Tish Harrison Warren, author of Liturgy of the Ordinary
“Ashley is the rare sort of writer, imaginative yet concrete, prophetic yet gentle. She only cuts where she can bring healing.”Seth Haines, author of The Book of Waking Up
A Bible study on the Sermon on the Mount, written with Bryce Hales
What does it look like to live the life Jesus describes on the mountainside — blessed, salted, lit, rooted, and fruitful — in the middle of ordinary weeks? A Fruitful Life walks small groups and individuals through the Sermon on the Mount with study questions, reflection, and practices for the week.
Available now.
Trading Hustle and Hurry for the Goodness of Limits
We’re told that freedom and opportunity are our ticket to the good life. Get out there and follow your dreams! Be the hero of your own story! Find your happiness! Live your best life! It seems that limitless possibilities await anyone with vision and willingness to hustle their way through life.
The spacious life is not found in unfettered options or accomplished by our hustle and hurry. The life we crave is found within the confines of God’s loving limits. Ashley helps us recognize that when we live within these boundaries, we discover a life filled with purpose, joy, and rest. This is the spacious life — finding true freedom within the good limits given to us by our good God.
InterVarsity Press · Available in paperback, ebook, and audio. Please support a local bookstore if you’re able; Hearts & Minds ships books as well.
Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much
More than half of Americans live in the suburbs. For many Christians, however, the suburbs are ignored, denigrated and demeaned, or seen as a cop-out from a faithful Christian life. In everything from books to Hollywood jokes, the suburbs aren’t supposed to be good for our souls.
What does it look like to live a full Christian life in the suburbs? Suburbs reflect our good, God-given desire for a place to call home. And suburbs also reflect our own brokenness.
InterVarsity Press · Foreword by Emily P. Freeman · Available in paperback, ebook, and audio.
If you’re a church leader using Ashley’s books as a resource for small groups, sermons, or meetings, there are free leader’s guides, a sermon series, and bulk-order discounts through InterVarsity Press.
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