Religious institutions and organizations

Drawing on the work of Bowen, Friedman, and his own many years' counseling experience, Peter Steinke shows how to recognize and deal with the emotional roots of such issues as church conflict, leadership roles, congregational change, irresponsible behavior, and the effect of family of origin on current relationships.

Building communicate.

In Holy Clarity, Sarah Drummond explores the most basic reason leaders of religious organizations conduct evaluations: To find and create God-pleasing clarity regarding the organization's purpose and the impact of its activities.

Knowledge is power, and the way knowledge is shared in a congregation can build up or break down community.

Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry is a comprehensive guide.

In The Practicing Congregation (Alban, 2004), Diana Butler Bass explored the phenomenon of "e;intentional congregations,"e; an emerging style of congregational vitality in which churches creatively and intentionally re-appropriate traditional Christian practices such as hospitality, discernment, contemplative prayer, and testimony.

Ministers often find themselves caught in the day-to-day pressures of leading a congregation and yearn to experience the unfolding of their professional lives from a larger perspective.

Facing Feelings in Faith Communities is based on a simple premise: We have emotions because we need them.

Asking parishioners for money is very different from creating congregations of generous people.

Humans have been choice-makers since the days when hunter-gatherers had to decide when to hunt and what to gather.

What does the church look like if we take the ministry of the baptized the priesthood of all believers seriously?

A Ready Hope: Effective Disaster Ministry for Congregations is an introduction for people of faith who are new to the ministry of disaster preparedness and response.

This illustrated dictionary for the Episcopal Church is an essential reference to its terminology, worship, structure, and polity.

"e;Reading of God's silence in the Bible gives me courage to explore the practice of restraint in preaching-not as a deliberate withholding of God's word nor, I hope, as a rationale for my own reticence, but as a sober reaching for more reverence in the act of public speaking about God.

Now a major motion picture!

Have you ever imagined a trip back in time?

Children's spiritual development is currently a hot topic in Christian circles, as well as in other fields and disciplines such as educational psychology, medicine, developmental psychology, education, and sociology.

A powerful indictment of Pope Benedict and the Vatican, and a searing assessment of the future of the Catholic Church.

In "Gedankenlesen als Brücke zwischen den Seelen" entführt Xavier X.

The existence of orphans is as inevitable to most African cities and the world as it is death.

Embodied Hope explores implications of an embodied theology of hope for preachers' ability to nurture imaginative abundance and purposeful hope-filled action in the most chaotic of times.

Future pastors and servant-leaders are taught the much-needed "e;tools of the trade"e;--the principles of hermeneutics, how to exegete a passage, put a sermon together, conduct a wedding, manage a funeral, oversee administrative meetings, and much more.

The Surprising Work of God tells the story of how America's mid-twentieth-century spiritual awakening became a worldwide Christian movement.

The missionary endeavor is as ancient as the Word of God.

Return for a fifth time with Pastor Blackstone to the fabled land of India and discover more biblical precepts and life-changing concepts as he travels again with his good friend Shibu Simon to "e;earth's farthest bounds.

Violent extremism is not new, but we have witnessed its rise to the point that it has become a defining issue of our time.

James Spiegel never realized what challenges and adventures he would face in talking about God with his own children.

Modern Christians have been bombarded by objections launched against the Christian faith from popular secular authors, bloggers, and stars from the entertainment industry.

Cordell Strug served as a small town pastor in rural Minnesota from 1982-2010.

Luther Rice was born on a small farm in Northborough, MA.

Being a clergyperson can be stressful--mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and relationally.

Sustaining Grace explores the dynamic between new faith communities and denominational systems through the lens of stewardship and sustainability.

Have you ever wondered how it would look to live out a Christian sexual ethic amid the varied and confusing sexual messages that are part of modern culture?

Often, a disconnect exists between the way pastors, children's ministry volunteers, and churches describe the health and impact of children's ministry volunteers (and the overall functioning of an ongoing children's ministry).

This compelling collection tells five stories of young Australian women who served in times of armed conflict in early twentieth-century China.

Wilhelm Loehe is one of the most significant nineteenth-century figures for North American church life and mission, whose influence continues into the present.

Do preaching and apologetics go together?

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.

Sacred Playgrounds explores the wisdom of camping ministry for Christian education and faith formation, examining its rich history and fundamental characteristics with compelling stories, groundbreaking research, and theological grounding.

Churches in the West are renowned for responding to the measured needs of the vulnerable within their communities.

Why does the church engage in missions?

The cultural landscape plays a momentous role in the transmission of Christianity.

This volume shows pastors how to be spiritually prepared for the myriad tasks of pastoral ministry: preaching, pastoral care, church administration, worship, teaching, and more.

Preachers have long been faced with two options.

While we look forward in mission and strive to develop strategies for reaching a rapidly changing world with the gospel, we must also look back.

Most don't make it to the deep waters of community.

The Rhetoric of the Pulpit treats the sermon as the single most important factor in evangelism for a parish, and also the most important factor in the spiritual growth of both the congregation and the pastor.

Faithful biblical sermons not only attempt to capture what the biblical text says, but also what the text is trying to do.

What is addiction, and how do we know if we are addicted?