Love at Its Best When Church Is a Mess is a collection of fifteen meditations, drawn from 1 Corinthians 13, perhaps the most well-known passage about love in Holy Scripture, and certainly one of the most beloved passages found anywhere in the English language.
Prayers for every aspect of lifeDuring the pandemic, priest and theologian David Taylor began writing collects (an ancient form of short prayer) as a daily spiritual exercise.
Wer mit jungen Menschen zu tun hat und will, dass Kinder und Jugendliche in Freiheit wachsen und reifen und ihren eigenen Weg finden, muss an sie glauben und sie ermutigen, "nach den Sternen zu greifen".
Laypersons receiving a divine call to preach in the Roman Catholic Church may feel caught between a rock and a hard place--both figuratively and ecclesiastically.
Companionship and strategies for job seekersMillions of people become unemployed every year, yet when job loss happens to us, we typically feel completely alone and often lost, ashamed, and afraid.
Auch wenn nationale Grenzen nach wie vor die Erfahrungswelt der meisten Europäer prägen, haben die mediale Präsenz anderer Länder, Religionen und Konfessionen, die erzwungene und freie Migration von Menschen, die berufliche Mobilität auf dem globalen Arbeitsmarkt und selbst Urlaubsreisen die Rahmenbedingungen religiöser Sozialisation, Erziehung und Bildung in Deutschland nachhaltig verändert.
Author John Raub's twenty-eight years as a monk changed him, sharpening his eye to see more deeply into situations with a perspective that welcomes debate, for controversy invites thought.
Showing how spiritual care is practiced in a variety of different contexts such as healthcare, detention and higher education, as well as settings that may not have formal chaplaincy arrangements, this book offers an original and unique resource for Hindu chaplains to understand and practice spiritual care in a way that is authentic to their own tradition and that meets the needs of Hindus.
Contemporary preaching suffers from a loss of confidence in the power of the Word, from an infatuation with technology, from an embarrassment before the biblical text, from an evacuation of biblical content, from a focus on felt needs, from an absence of gospel.
Last Call for the African-American Church revisits the commandment Jesus left his followers to proclaim the gospel worldwide until his return, one that by all accounts is no longer a priority in the contemporary African-American church.
Pastor of a bilingual, multicultural church for more than a decade, Gary Commins knows that "e;diversity"e; is a spiritual exercise that can be as charged with anxiety as it is laced with hope.
As Protestant denominations are fracturing over whether to ordain gays and lesbians, this work looks at The United Methodist Church's conversations about the issue, in light of Methodism's historic contests over the leadership of African Americans and women, to see what can be learned from these earlier periods of change.
Behind the stereotype of a solitary meditator closing his eyes to the world, meditation always takes place in close interaction with the surrounding culture.
Our culture has undergone a major shift: younger generations have less and less interest in the printed word as they become predominantly image oriented.
