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Recinos fell in love with poetry growing up on the streets, after being abandoned by immigrant Latino parents.

Do you desire something to perk up the attention of the listeners?

Short-term mission trips are commonplace in American church life.

What if our actual lives aren't 'written' like a simple story?

Is the Christian concept of grace anathema to the social structure of merit-making found in Buddhist karmic communities?

Persecution can kill the church--unless there is an adequate understanding of, preparation for, and response to this potentially fatal threat.

This manual provides educators and retreat facilitators with questions for guided reflection and discussion, and with ideas about how to orchestrate conversations based on these reflections.

"e;Everyone loves a good story, and So Tell Me a Story offers wise counsel to preachers and teachers who want to improve their storytelling skills.

Franz and Frederick Foltz examine how modern technology creates an environment that significantly affects Christianity by reducing the mysteries of faith to manageable techniques.

Surprising teachers.

What is found in this series unveils an entirely different side of C.

Deeper Waters is a sermon collection--but also a manifesto.

In a world laced with the lethal threads of racism, sexism, classism, and sexual oppression we need a liberating hope that dismantles these intersecting problems that render us into a stupor of chronic despair.

How do chaplains and counselors form their identities as "e;pastoral"e; caregivers in challenging clinical contexts such as institutional, interdisciplinary, postmodern, inter-cultural, and multi-faith work environments?

Biblical and progressive.

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Models and Methods for Youth and Young Adult Ministry is a rare book on young adult and youth ministry in that it weaves sound theology and solid pastoral practice.

Modern life has led to an increase in traumatic deaths, such as accidents, murders, suicide, and other types of unanticipated, violent death.

The loss of a pastor throws a congregation into emotional turmoil.

Relive through reminiscing and remembering, a Maine pastor's recollections of boyhood experiences that turned into a minister's messages in old age.

How does a missional mindset or perspective impact the way we read Scripture?

Faith Seeking Conviviality traces the journey of a U.

"e;Mission is nothing but the one church of God in motion.

How does God manifest himself in the world?

Promise has a long pedigree in the history of Christian understandings of the gospel.

Tupac Amaru Shakur was considered a Hip Hop prophet.

The Old Testament prophets are a neglected treasury of biblical examples for pastoral preaching.

Have you made a New Year's resolution to get married out of nowhere?

You are about to read a book with a double storyline with many intertwining segments.

It has often been held that missions rode on the coattails of colonialism.

The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) called for the renewal of all religious institutes in the Catholic Church.

This book wrestles with quandaries of pastoral ministry in what psychotherapist Mary Pipher calls "e;the age of overwhelm.

Somewhere in the mists of time, between history and hagiography, stands the great evangelist and missionary St.

In many ways, sacrifice is a prerequisite for obeying the Great Commission.

How should a follower of Christ engage the popular media culture?

Spiritual Gifts: A Christ-Centered Perspective is just that, centered on Christ.

It's almost undeniable that God is working miracles of healing in evangelization today.

Gender, Violence, and Justice is a volume of collected essays by an expert in the field of violence against women and pastoral theology.

For centuries, evangelical Protestants and Catholics have hurled harsh epithets at each other.

John Wesley and George Whitefield were in many ways larger-than-life figures during their own lifetimes and continue to be so today.

This festschrift contains original missiological contributions from colleagues and former doctoral students of Dr.

The moment the pager rings, all hell breaks loose.

Christian universalism has been explored in its biblical, philosophical, and historical dimensions.

How do pastors live their spiritual lives, both as private persons and as professionals?

The Rev.

Hebrews is a powerful meditation on the gospel.

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.

A collection of essays composed during the Obama presidency on politics, theology, art, and education.

Do you ever feel hopeless or depressed?