True stories: general

Why have so many churches started community gardens over the past decade?

The term Ubuntu articulates an African understanding of our need to connect to one another in order to be complete.

This book will help you become proactive in learning how to avoid the disastrous scenarios befalling companies every day.

An insider's account of an elite unit fighting crime and terror on the streets of London-includes hundreds of photos.

Few people have any extensive knowledge of the life and witness of the Protestant churches in the former Portuguese colonies of southern Africa.

The church is in major decline in the Western world.

In 1938 the Reverend Henry H.

Many churches are involved in short-term mission trips.

Christian mission has often been a project allied with colonial powers and conquests.

Mainline Christianity in the West is dying.

The globalizing world of late modernity is heavily awash with pseudo-gods.

Adoniram Judson was not only a historic figurehead in the first wave of foreign missionaries from the United States and a hero in his own day, but his story still wins the admiration of Christians even today.

Everywhere the Yellow Kid looks he sees moneytoo bad it's yours.

The First Steps of Your Discipleship Journey .

True crime at its most potent: a riveting account of tracking down and convicting an evil serial killer by the detective who trapped him.

'Fascinating' Margaret AtwoodCan taking the law into your own hands be the right thing to do?

With the majority of the world's Christians now living in the non-Western world, Christian mission has become a global movement.

We all know that healthy partnerships are essential to fruitful boundary-crossing ministries, but how exactly do we create them?

Making the Word of God Fully Known is a collection of essays on church, culture, and mission relevant for the Australian church in honor of the sixty-fifth birthday of Archbishop Philip Freier, archbishop of Melbourne.

China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden looks at how massive urbanization is redrawing not only the geographic and social landscape of China, but in the process is transforming China's growing church as well.

The new and different frontiers and factors discussed in missiology are reshaping the meaning of mission.

John Wilson came to Canada from Scotland in 1912, leaving his wife and family with the promise to return in a year.

The apostle Paul directed Timothy to teach faithful men who would follow his model of teaching others also (2 Tim 2:2).

Maybe you are familiar with the growth in recent decades of "e;majority world"e; missionaries being sent all over the world from non-Western countries (i.

An engrossing investigation into the true crime story of a sixteen-year family feud that ended in murder in early twentieth-century South Carolina.

Secularization, as a movement away from a religious orientation to life, is strong in Canada and has influence worldwide.

What is our preconception about Muslims?

Gallons of ink have been used analyzing Adm.

Talking about Jesus' story with others is designed to be a joy-producing experience for his followers, not to mention those hearing his story.

In this timely book, Cho provides mission scholars, sending churches, and mission agencies with an understanding of Korean missionaries' burnout recovery process.

As bearers of the divine image, all of us are storytellers and artists.

Caught off Okinawa in the fiercest typhoon in history at the end of World War II.

I am not like Hudson Taylor, David Livingstone, or William Carey.

The critique of Jacques Dupuis, SJ, by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the direction of Joseph Ratzinger was met by almost universal dismay by Christian theologians and participants in interfaith dialogue throughout the world.

Saying that no generation of Americans has produced a finer array of combat commanders than that of World War II, a thirty-year army veteran examines combat leadership throughout the war at every level of command in the U.

William Carey, often dubbed "e;The Father of Modern Missions,"e; and Adoniram Judson, America's first intercontinental missionary, were pioneers whose missions overlapped in chronology, geography, and purpose.

The stories in this book are the fruit of a vision that took root more than four decades ago.

A pioneer in the field of deep-sea diving, George F.

Are you dreaming of working abroad?

Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.

Originally published in 1972, Christopher McKee's biography of Edward Preble remains the most authoritative source on this influential early shaper of the U.

Welcome to an after-dark world of new money, hedonism and excess.

In this colorful memoir, a South Carolina game warden recounts a quarter-century of adventure patrolling the woods and waters of the Palmetto State.

Leadership is a most demanding undertaking.

The good news (euangelion) of the crucified and risen Messiah was proclaimed first to Jews in Jerusalem, and then to Jews throughout the land of Israel.

The human spirit seems incapable of being stagnant, ever pushing the boundaries of knowledge and experience.

This project explores the relationship between worship, discipleship, and evangelism within the missional church movement.

In the grip of serious numerical decline, American Evangelical churches are now experiencing a missional movement.

This volume provides a detailed account of the tireless, dedicated work of a small group of missionaries sent to China by the American Churches of Christ early in the twentieth century.