Biography: religious and spiritual

In 1974 Charles W.

Sassy and adventurous, Jackie Gillies devours life with style and a smile - and lives it to the shiny brim.

In this engaging and artful overview, Russell Richey, Kenneth Rowe, and Jean Miller Schmidt, some of Methodism's most respected teachers, give readers a vivid picture of soulful terrain of the Methodist experience in America.

This essential handbook for the preparation of worship presents the authorised Bible readings (references only) for the liturgical year beginning Advent Sunday 2023.

An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion.

This first biography of Selina Campbell opens a window onto the experience of women in one of the most dynamic religious groups of 19th-century America Loretta M.

Palliative and end of life care are an essential component of nursing practice.

Explore the lives of twenty Christian figures whose powerful testimonies and lives of service will inspire you to embrace Christ as the secret to abundant living.

Respected Baptist historian and theologian Bill Leonard takes readers through the theological and practical questions that are important to Baptists.

Born in 1925 into a life of sharecropping in Brownsville, Tennessee, Clay Evans was desperate to escape life working for the descendants of plantation owners.

Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life applies modern psychological understanding to a historical person.

As the host of one of National Public Radio's most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing life's most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time.

In Seven Men, New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas presents seven exquisitely crafted portraits of widely known--but not well understood--Christian men, each of whom uniquely showcases a commitment to live by certain virtues in the truth of the gospel.

A perfect companion to Read and Share BibleTM that helps young families teach about God's Word!

Standing Against the Whirlwind is a history of the Evangelical party in the Episcopal Church in nineteenth-century America.

The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian denomination and claims a membership of some 80 million members in about 164 countries.

You know him as the rotund merry-maker in the red suit.

An unprecedented, richly, detailed, and clear-eyed exploration of Islam in European history and civilizationTensions over Islam were escalating in Europe even before 9/11.

This cultural history of mainline Protestantism and American cities--most notably, New York City--focuses on wealthy, urban Episcopalians and the influential ways they used their money.

What impact is the Calvinist/non-Calvinist debate having on the Southern Baptist Convention today?

A warm, witty memoir of Greenwich Village in the late 1950s and ’60s by a young rabbi who led a local synagogue in the midst of it all.

A new and age-old way of practicing the Christian faith.

If prophets are called to unveil and expose the illegitimacy of those principalities masquerading as "e;the right"e; and purportedly using their powers for "e;the good,"e; then Will D.

Discover never-before-told details of POW underground operations during the Vietnam War told through one airman's inspiring story of true love, honor, and courage.

Investigation of the development of the Cathar heresy in south-west France, looking at how and why its growth differed across the regions.

Do humans have a special capacity designed to foster experiences of God?

Melvin traces the emergence and development of the motif of angelic interpretation of visions from late prophetic literature (Ezekiel 4048; Zechariah 16) into early apocalyptic literature (1 Enoch 1736; 7282; Daniel 78).

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

Is it time for your church to go multisite?

Thanks for the memories--well, maybe not.

In the subsistence agricultural social context of the Hebrew Bible, children were necessary for communal survival.

This is the story of unsung heroes: the clergy, in so many churches, who quietly changed the world they knew and reimagined their roles in order to lead their people, and their communities, during an international crisis.

The popular biblical story of Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi is retold in this beautifully illustrated picture book.

* An accessible and distinctive anthology of texts to support preaching and enhance individual devotion Consulting editors include former Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold, Cynthia Kitteridge, Mark Oakley (Canon Chancellor, St.

Fueled by the music of revolution, anger, fear, and despair, we dyed our hair or shaved our heads .

In 1980s America, coming out as gay as a father and husband was a significant journey for anyone to make.

Discover what sets United Methodism apart.

Ibn Babawayh also known as al-Shaykh al-Saduq was a prominent Twelver Shi'i scholar of hadith.

Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories opens up new and exciting perspectives on how systems of state surveillance developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The first book-length study of the vital role Regular Baptists played in creating the modern Southern Baptist denominationThe origins of the Southern Baptist Convention, the world's largest Protestant denomination, is most often traced back to the colorful, revivalist Separate Baptist movement that rose out of the Great Awakening in the mid-1700s.

Growing up in the Tennessee hills, Alvin York was equally renowned as a marksman and as a hard-drinking brawler.

In the new Hermeneia volume, the Jonah translation and commentary, renowned biblical scholar Susan Niditch encourages the reader to investigate challenging questions about ancient conceptions of personal religious identity.

In an era marked by church power struggles and corruption, one man-Celestine V-stood for a vision of purity and humility.

Combining real-life case studies with vital lessons from her own personal journey, Susan Hope explores what happens to us on the inside when we cross boundaries and become missional Christians.

This book covers new ground in its focus on the Anglican Church congresses 1861-1938 as a public space in which the views of notable women were widely disseminated.

In this book Donovan Roebert provides a path for Christians and Buddhists who wish to better understand the essential, living tenets of their own faith while exploring how these two great religious paths can provide insights of real benefit to adherents of either.