Religious institutions and organizations

This is not your grandfather's poetry.

Scientology is arguably the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religious Movements.

Kaethe Schwehn and L.

With the number of large congregations rising in the U.

Prayer is an often practiced, more often neglected, and less often understood practice of Christendom.

Field education is an opportunity for students to develop ministry skills, practice ministerial reflection, discern their call, experience professional collegiality, and undergo personal transformation.

A new, enlarged edition of the groundbreaking 'No Women in Holy Orders?

Abiding Mission presents the discipline of abiding as the first priority of the Christian and the base methodology of mission.

In this newly revised edition of Sexuality and Holy Longing, author Lisa Graham McMinn beautifully describes how people are created by God for relationship, and our sexuality guarantees that we will long for and be drawn toward others.

"e;Inevitably there comes a crisis, sooner or later .

In recent years, Protestant churches and denominations have become increasingly concerned with issues of racial diversity and reconciliation.

The New Monastic Movement is a vibrant source of renewal for the church's life and mission.

The need to train Christian missionaries was an afterthought of the Protestant missionary movement in the early nineteenth century.

In They Don't Come with Instructions, Hollie M.

Hebrews is a powerful meditation on the gospel.

Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was one of the world's last great polymaths and one of the most important Christian thinkers of his time, engaging the world with a simplicity, sincerity, courage, and passion that few have matched.

With the continual appearance of evidence that the emerging generation (the iGens) is not at all enamored of institutional churches, and is ignoring or forsaking them, it seemed a good time to take a step back, take a deep breath, and take a fresh look at what the church was intended to be and do in the New Testament document.

There are a lot of books about leadership out there.

Liturgical Elements for Reformed Worship is a series of four liturgical resources: three consisting of liturgical elements for Years A, B, and C of the Revised Common Lectionary, and a fourth, the first such resource to support the implementation of Year D: A Quadrennial Supplement to the Revised Common Lectionary (Cascade Books).

'Healing for the City' is a book for counseling urban dwellers in need, whether they be inside or outside the church.

The purpose of this study was to describe how the North Korean refugee understanding of evil can shape missionary practice in the Korean Peninsula.

A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.

Much of the conversation and concern of churches and of Christian individuals is centred around Christian discernment or knowing God's leading in decision-making.

Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path: An Abecedary offers lessons not usually taught about leadership, lessons learned over the author's more than thirty years in higher education and nonprofit organizations.

Once liberal Christianity was preached in ways that defined it in the public eye.

Secular assumptions underlie much formal communication between the West and Africa, and even intra-Africa.

Few vocations share more in common with preaching than stand-up comedy.

One of our best known biblical interpreters offers essays and sermons meant to assist preachers in their interpretation and explication of biblical texts.

Another World explores day to day life in a small Trappist monastery tucked away in the Ozark foothills.

Human history has been marked by the great number of people born into conditions of war, violence, oppression and social exclusion.

Terry Allen Moe came as pastor to Redeemer Lutheran, a traditional, working-class congregation in a poorer, mixed-race neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, in 1981.

In a single decade, AIDS has grown to pandemic proportions.

The purpose of this book is to present a comprehensive review of deception, its essential component of neurolinguistic dialectics, and how it is used by Satan to corrupt the human mind from devotion to Jesus Christ.

Frontiers and Challenges for Christian Healthcare MissionsEver since Jesuss proclamation in word and deed as the Great Physician, his followers in mission have assumed that salvation and health are intertwined.

This book continues a series of volumes containing the papers read at an annual conference held in turn by Tel Aviv and Bochum in the course of a co-operation between the Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, the Department of Bible of Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of Protestant Theology in the University of the Ruhr, Bochum, since 1985.

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.

Lesslie Newbigin was arguably the greatest missionary thinker of the twentieth century.