Calumet Editions

  • Seeing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

    Seeing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

    Seeing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary gathers personal stories of everyday moments when the divine breaks through, drawing strangers together to offer hope and healing. These brief encounters reveal God’s love and light in ordinary life—if you pause to notice. Inspiring and challenging, the book invites you to awaken to daily possibilities, deepen your faith, and live with greater meaning.

    Filled with hope and optimism

    —Julie Westerlund, verified review on Amazon

  • Seeing Yourself as God Sees You

    Seeing Yourself as God Sees You

    Feeling overwhelmed, afraid, or exhausted? Struggling to accept who you are? This book blends stories, scripture, exercises, and reflective questions to help you reconnect with yourself and the Holy Spirit. Identify and release misbeliefs that block God’s love, reclaim your potential, and live with greater peace, energy, and wholeness—mind, body, and soul—strengthening relationships and loving more fiercely.

    Beautiful breath prayers and prayer practices complement short stories and scripture

    —Mj G., verified review on Amazon

  • Sell Like a Monk

    Sell Like a Monk

    Sales is struggling amid economic uncertainty, turnover, and rising stress and mental-health strain—yet most organizations keep using the same old playbooks. Mike Ferrell proposes a new, comprehensive sales approach inspired by principles from a 1,500-year-old monastic document. Step-by-step, he shows how to build happier, healthier, more successful salespeople—and stronger, thriving sales organizations.

    I love the idea of taking the Rule of St. Benedict and applying it to a sales job.

    —Andreas Widmer, author of The Pope and the CEO
  • The Akedah or Sacrifice of Isaac

    The Akedah or Sacrifice of Isaac

    This book traces how Genesis 22:1–19—the Akedah, or Sacrifice of Isaac—has been interpreted across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It begins with human sacrifice in the ancient world and in the Bible, then offers a close reading of the Hebrew text. The study surveys interpretations from early Judaism and Christianity through medieval Jewish and Islamic traditions to modern perspectives, including Kierkegaard, Holocaust readings, and contemporary relevance. Appendices cover key Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and other terms.

  • The Idea of the Demonic

    The Idea of the Demonic

    This study traces how cultures and religions have imagined the demonic across history—from medieval and Reformation eras to the modern world—drawing on diverse scriptures and traditions. It also examines the demonic in art, sculpture, music, and film, showing how images of evil evolve with society. Includes a glossary of foreign terms and phrases.

  • The Long Surrender

    The Long Surrender

    In 1970s Alabama, Brian Rush McDonald becomes a “Jesus freak” and is formed by fundamentalism at Bob Jones University. He becomes a minister, husband, and father, then moves his family to Taiwan as a missionary—learning Mandarin and a wider worldview. Back in America, he pastors Chinese American churches while earning a Ph.D. After thirty years preaching, he leaves the pulpit. The Long Surrender chronicles losing religion to find freedom.

    still thinking about it weeks later

    —Random Reviewer, verified review on Amazon
  • The Soul of Humanity

    The Soul of Humanity

    The Soul of Humanity urges readers to abandon blind faith and apply rational thinking to science, relationships, politics, and religion. Drawing on enduring insights from the world’s major wisdom traditions, it argues reason is the way out of superstition, prejudice, and recurring social upheaval. Without it, humanity remains divided; with it, the book proposes practical principles and values to guide civilization toward lasting peace.

    grabs your attention and makes you appreciate our God given… thinking power

    —Setar Heather, verified review on Amazon
  • The Sweet Spot

    The Sweet Spot

    If you align business strategy with positive psychology and faith, you can find your “Sweet Spot”—where integrity elevates everything you do. Shaped by lessons from the 2008 financial crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, and Mike Ferrell’s work as an executive coach, The Sweet Spot offers principles to help leaders endure disruption, make values-driven decisions, and survive—and thrive—through any crisis.

    how best to integrate the timeless principles of faith into a winning leadership approach

    —Bob Keith Co-Founder, The Ciocca Center for Entrepreneurship
  • The Trumpet Blast

    The Trumpet Blast

    Religious prophecies anticipate a world redeemer, and this book reexamines Ṭáhirih—the Bábí movement’s heroic martyr—as a central herald of that advent. Through analysis of her symbolism of the “veil,” newly uncovered unpublished poetry, and authoritative writings of the Faith she died for, the author argues Ṭáhirih was more than a feminist icon. She is presented as the Trumpeter of the Day of Resurrection, lifting apocalyptic veils and announcing an imminent transformation of human civilization and the coming of the Promised One.

    beautifully highlights the life and station of Tahirih, a remarkable historical figure in religion and poetry

    —Jehan Rehayem on Amazon

  • Transformed

    Transformed

    Transformed explores a transformative decision-making process built for the complexity of modern life—from individuals and families to organizations, communities, and nations. Introduced to the authors in 1968, it has guided their marriage, parenting, caregiving, health challenges, and service-centered careers as a coach/OD consultant and a psychotherapist. Applied with clients in crisis and conflict, the methodology yields wise, practical decisions while fostering healing, deeper understanding, spiritual growth, social advancement, and unity for all affected.

    filled with useful charts and consultation models

    —David W. Carlson on Amazon

  • Ultimate Breakthrough Planning

    Ultimate Breakthrough Planning

    Most business plans are static documents for bankers and investors. Ultimate Breakthrough Planning replaces that with Mike Ferrell’s Business Funnel Approach—a step-by-step system to build and execute real growth. You’ll analyze six key business elements, set priorities, create an actionable game plan and six-month framework, and align employees with your vision. Based on Ferrell’s workshops, it removes the guesswork so you know exactly what to focus on—and why.

    the right formula for making your business soar!

    —Connie S., review on Amazon
  • Unseen Worlds

    Unseen Worlds

    Marilène Phipps’s extraordinary life begins in Haiti—land of Vodou spirits and the world’s first Black republic—where paradise and hell coexist. In this powerful memoir, she traces a family descended from both European aristocrats and African slaves, and encounters rebels, Vodou priests, popes, astrologers, monks, exorcists, Mormon bishops, scholars, and missionaries. The 2010 earthquake shatters her world, propelling a search for modern answers to ancient questions of identity, origin, and destiny.

    reveals why all of us should keep searching!

    —Tete Cobblah, verified review on Amazon