Arches Bookhouse — Local services in Portland

This Christian bookstore specializes in Biblical and theological academic works, but has so much more. It's surprisingly filled inside with new books (at 20% off retail) and used books (competitive with online retailers). The staff there are amazing! Every year they have a customer appreciation sale, 50% off used prices, so visit the store website and sign up for their newsletter to know when that happens. If you can't find a book they will find it for you!

They have sections for ministry/Christian living, Bible commentaries, theology, Biblical Studies (Old Testament and New Testament), political theology and culture, psychology, literature, philosophy, church history, archaeology, preaching, Bible Interpretation, Judaica, liturgical studies and more! Woah. Seriously.

Every week new-to-the-store used books come in so the inventory is always fresh. Check out the Used New Arrival section at the front, and make sure to check out Inklings section as well. Lovely bookstore, amazing folks.

(Note: I am currently an employee of the store but was a customer for 4...

Whoever you are reading this review, know that I charge you with a serious responsibility, to which I attach the sternest sanctions that love can bear. Do not share this bookstore with any unless you really believe that they are a person deeply committed to following love. I have in mind a person who, over and above the good works of the active life, has resolved to follow love into the inmost depths of contemplation. As for worldly gossips, flatterers, the scrupulous, talebearers, busybodies, and the hypercritical, I would just as soon they never laid eyes on...

So, it's technically the campus bookstore for Multnomah University, but's it's waaaaay more than a campus bookstore. The staff is very helpful and knowledgeable. The prices are more than fair. They can order you books they don't have in store (and sometimes pass a discount on to you). For a small bookstore, they keep a wide range of books in-stock (possibly by not stocking much of the "Prayer of Jabez"/Thomas Kincade/"Secrets To Your Best Life NOW" shenanigans). If it's a theologically-oriented book at all, I'll see if they have it before I check...