In this companion volume to The Word in the Wind: Sermons for the Lectionary, Year A, Advent through Eastertide, Bruce Taylor provides a collection of theologically rich, sacramentally sensitive, and biblically centered sermons for the Sundays and feast days for Pentecost and the remainder of the liturgical year commonly referred to as "e;Ordinary Time.
Do Something Else is meant to encourage faith communities and their leaders to reconsider "e;church as usual,"e; reengage Spirit-led entrepreneurialism, and reimagine new models of ministry bubbling up in their midst.
Border crossing is a significant experience in the global era when many people cross borders, whether in cultural, geopolitical, relational, or existential terms.
"e;All of us ought to be ready to laugh at ourselves,"e; wrote theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, "e;because all of us are a little funny in our foibles, conceits, and pretensions.
You are holding a collection of short stories that reveal how every aspect of life takes a particular dimension when considered from the perspective of faith in relationship with everyday experiences.
This book provides pastors, seminarians, and interested laity with the background necessary to understand the need for disability ministry and the contexts out of which the church's ministry among people with disabilities must emerge.
The joyful premise at the heart of this book is that there is a table lavishly spread for all who hunger for forgiveness--the believer, the doubter, and the famished.
Seeking to push the historical study of the liturgical phenomenon known as "e;Contemporary Worship"e; or "e;Praise and Worship"e; to a new level, this collection of essays offers an introduction to the phenomenon, documents critical aspects of its development, and suggests methods for future historical study.
Throughout history Christians have prayed for the dead--both for continual growth of the faithful and for their advancement from purgatory, though not for the deliverance of the unsaved from hell.
The community of faith finds itself located precariously between Jesus' first and second comings, between the promise and fulfillment, between what God has begun in the gospel and what God has yet to complete.
Gundamentalism and Where It Is Taking America is the work of James Atwood, a retired Presbyterian pastor and an avid deer hunter for half a century who has also been in the forefront of the faith community's fight for two constitutional rights: the right to keep and bear arms and the right to live in domestic tranquility, free of gun violence.
How does starting with women's statements that "e;God was there"e; in the moment of wartime violence shift the ways we think about religion, conflict, and healing?
