Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works

What does a slab of bacon have to do with marital fidelity?

Exploring European changes in religious and secular beliefs and practices related to life passages, this book provides a deeper understanding of the impacts of social change on personal identity and adjustment across the life course, According to latest research, Europeans who consider religious services appropriate to mark life passages significantly outnumber those who declare themselves as believers.

The church is in deep trouble, maybe in its death throes.

The contrast could not be greater.

Here's a different angle on humor--it can be a spiritual practice, an expression of a theology of joy, hope, and grace.

Are you fed up with being carried along by life, drifting along aimlessly?

God is the original poet--such that much of the Bible expresses eternal truth in beautifully indirect ways.

Pastor Blackstone is once again on a spiritual journey to the subcontinent of India.

Cinema, Religion and the Romantic Legacy surveys the ways in which notions of religion and spirituality have impinged upon the cinema.

The Arc of Spirituality invites readers on a journey through Western history, a journey that begins with the pioneering concepts of ancient Israelites, who understood spirituality communally and covenantally.

God is waiting for each of us to return home!

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanislavski as the creative state.

Irenaeus of Lyons (c.

The Christian faith is difficult--intellectually, morally, and spiritually.

Rachel True—beloved for her role in the cult classic movie The Craft—shares her tarot knowledge, gained through a lifetime of practice.

A mystical experience, no matter what else, is a subjective occurrence in the psyche.

Journeying with Hope into a New Year: Reflections for Advent and Christmas originated in 1982 when our family lived at Tantur, an ecumenical institute between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

Adolescence can be best summarized as a time of authenticity, passion, and advocacy.

The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to elucidate what religious experience is, in its own terms, and how its practitioners understand it.

The "e;Unchurched"e; are Christians who do not attend regular church services.

Shed your surnames of Doubt, Fear, and Shame.

In life there are a few major questions.

Compassionate missions constitutes a growing focus among evangelical denominations and agencies.

Presenting a rich account of women's faith lives and, mapping women's meanings in their own right, this book offers an alternative to dominant accounts of faith development which failed to account for women's experience.

Holiness is a topic that is rarely discussed in Christian colleges and seminaries, yet the rationale for the existence of these institutions is that they provide environments where people can grow into the image of Christ.

Despite a plurality of doctrinal statements on war, peace, and nonviolence, some United Methodists sustain a commitment to nonviolence.

Our known world, the world of twenty-first century Americans, is shaped and defined by consumer choice.

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Spirituality and Contemplative Studies provides the first authoritative overview of methodology in this growing field.

Steeped in the great tradition of Christian poetry, Bazyn offers a series of startling and highly personal interactions with the Four Gospels to break open Jesus' teachings and symbolic acts for our everyday lives.

The response of states to demands for free exercise of religion or belief varies greatly across the world.

This diverse collection of essays in honor of Edward William Fudge explores the topics of hell and immortality, for which Fudge has been widely known through his magnum opus, The Fire That Consumes.

In this book, Wilson gives a thoroughly biblical foundation for gospel movements.

In diesem Buch wird versucht, Leserinnen und Lesern eine Hilfe anzubieten, mit Hilfe des kontemplativen Betens den christlichen Glauben zu verinnerlichen und dem Ziel näher zu kommen, das JESUS CHRISTUS folgendermaßen formuliert hat: "Ich habe die Herrlichkeit, die du mir gegeben hast, ihnen gegeben, damit sie eins seien, gleichwie wir eins sind.

God's word begins with the tree of life and the tree of knowledge watered by a river nourishing Eden.

In a period of tumultuous transition for the church as it moves out of the Christendom era and into the unknowns of the post-Christian era, it is strange that so little has been written about the church's calling out of the dominion of darkness (Satan) and into the kingdom of Light (or, God's dear Son).

Fun, illustrated projects for those who believe in magick.

Dieses Buch ist ein sehr persönliches Buch.

The presence of the Divine is everywhere.