Religious institutions and organizations

After ten years in youth ministry, Michael Novelli felt like he had tried everything to help his students connect with the Bible.

The pseudo-Clementine writings are one of the most intriguing and valuable sources for early Jewish Christianity.

We are constantly engaged in processing data and sensory inputs all around us, even when we are not conscious of the many neural pathways our minds are traveling.

In failing to take the sacramentality of the word of God seriously, the preaching of the church has suffered negative consequences.

Karoline Lewis draws together the strengths of two exegetical approaches to the Gospel of John in this volume of the Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries series.

Traditional books on preaching a book of the Bible often look at broad themes of the text with little explicit advice about preaching individual passages.

Pastoral care in rural communities is different from care in other locales.

The language of exile, focused with theological and biblical narratives and coupled with depictions of real-life exilic communities, can equip church leaders as agents in the creation of new communities.

Sexual health is an essential part of maintaining professional relationships in ministry.

David Schnasa Jacobsen draws together the strengths of two exegetical approaches to the Gospel of Mark in this volume of the Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries series.

Readings from Acts are offered only during Easter, so how can preachers make this important book come alive throughout the church year?

While most churches offer 'new member classes' and genuinely seek to welcome visitors, too often the end result is a rush to assimilate the newcomer into formal membership and all of the invitations to participation in committees, choirs, or fellowship groups that go along with it.

In this comprehensive, practical, and gripping assessment of various forms of violence against women, Pamela Cooper-White challenges the Christian churches to examine their own responses to the cry of Tamar in our time.

Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs.

In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides, it would seem that death has little place in contemporary preaching.

Walter Brueggemann declares that the necessary character of truly prophetic preaching today is "e;a contestation between narratives.

Preaching the Principal Festivals focuses homiletically on the six primary theological festivals of the church year, sometimes described as the principal festivals: Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and Holy Trinity.

Seeking to overcome the chasm between church practice and theological reflection, James H.

Harbaugh captures your interest with dramatic stories of the inner lives of working pastors, weaving these stories into patterns of meaning from his own reflection and research.

Moral injury is a profound violation of a human being's core moral identity through experiences of violence or trauma.

This edited collection about good practice for mental health chaplains and other related professionals looks at how spirituality is viewed across mental health fields.

Although Christianity has been a minority religion in Chinese societies, Christians have been powerful catalysts of social activism in seeking to establish democracy and rule of law in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and diasporic communities.

As the country recognizes the 101st birthday of former President Ronald Reagan, this memoir offers insight into a local Anglo-Protestant community in Westchester, California, that was but one grain of sand in a sea of change that led to the Reagan Revolution.

Following Jesus to Burning Man: Recovering the Church's Vocation places the author, a Pentecostal/evangelical minister, in a thoroughly pagan context in the Nevada desert where he discovered the presence of God in a way that transformed his understanding of ministry in the twenty-first century context.

Our nation is politically, ideologically, and socially polarized to the point of breaking; confusion dominates every layer of our culture.

Synergistic Collaborations is a valuable resource for Christian ministers and social workers seeking to extend outreach ministries and new ways to collaborate with community organizations as they serve hurting people.

In this book, Christopher D.

This book has two objectives, one explicit and one implicit.

Theory of Social Involvement examines the dynamic interplay between church, state, and society.

The assault on traditional marriage that began in the late 1990s seemingly ended with the 2015 Obergefell v.

Writing Teresa: The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesus "e;boom"e; of roughly 1880-1930 and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St.

How do faith-based organizations influence the work of transnational peacebuilding, development, and human rights advocacy?

In 2008, the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life initiated an Apostolic Visitation to examine the quality of life of women religious in the United States.

Some scholars believe that Jesus' punitive instructions about possessions and material goods amount to little more than antiquated sayings.

This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator.

The study of man today is divided in three ways that it should not be: between the humanities and the social sciences, between natural and metaphysical philosophy, and between faith and reason.

Who were Catholicism's greatest orators?

The voices of second-generation Korean Americans echo throughout the pages of this book, which is a sensitive exploration of their struggles with minority, marginality, cultural ambiguity, and negative perceptions.

Innovative Discoveries for Ecumenical Ministries presents pertinent historical pastoral research considerations of the identity crisis in the priesthood requiring reconciliation of the hierarchical authority structures which have impaired authentic Christological pastoral leadership for decades.

From the Preface:"e;Get real"e; was a slang term that became popular in the 1960's when Michael Hickey was growing up in East Boston.

This book is a series of essays in the area of current culture and its defects, Christian religious belief, and other political and philosophical issues.

More Sermon Nuggets contains ninety-five topics treated in hundreds of Fred R.

These short readings, one for each day of the year, offer deep inspiration for readers who want to develop a more spiritually grounded lifestyle.

Hospital Preaching as Informed by Bedside Listening states the great need to sit down face to face and attentively listen to stories, experiences, and feelings of patients.

This collection of essays and thoughts covers such areas as basic Christian thought, which includes traditional family morality and a great concern for alleviating poverty and promoting social justice, political thought comparing the need for a system which includes both socialist and capitalist elements, and the need for values in our society, which has come to emphasize money, power, and greed as philosophical goals and values, though they are not.

The history of Catholic homiletics is rich and layered with theology and spirituality.

This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator.

In 1874 and 1875, Brazilian peasants in the Northeastern region of Brazil rose up in rebellion, destroying the weights and measures of the new metric system implemented by the government from Rio de Janeiro.

This book attempts to inspire both church leaders and lay people through serious discussion of strategies as to how to restore the church in the midst of a struggling and declining age.

Ecce Educatrix Tua discusses the Apostolic Letter Novo millennio ineunte (NMI), wherein John Paul II outlined the path the Church should adopt in the third millennium.