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.
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.
Church growth in metropolitan communities motivated a short study concerning the pastoral care and counseling of immigrants, specifically Black Caribbean congregants in large/mega congregations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Political Islam, Citizenship, and Minorities discusses the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East and the future of political Christianity.
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.
This book on black churches and urban politics uses case studies from various cities to examine the strategies and tactics of activist clergy and congregations.
This ebook 'boxed set' combines all seven of Rob Bell's influential books in one edition - including his sensational new title: What We Talk About When We Talk About God.
In this remarkable and candid memoir the former Archbishop of Canterbury recalls his life and his spiritual quest; this is the first time in history that an Archbishop of Canterbury has written his autobiography.
Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching: Contemporary Theory and Research contains essays by key scholars in the territory where Catholic social thought and secular sociology meet, and offers a much needed alternative to the relativism and individualism that so often characterize social scientific analysis today.
Drawing on a range of approaches developed by paediatric chaplaincy teams worldwide, this edited collection provides best principles, practices and skills of chaplaincy work with neonates, infants, children, young people and their families.
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled.
This book on black churches and urban politics uses case studies from various cities to examine the strategies and tactics of activist clergy and congregations.
A fresh eyewitness account of the Japanese invasion of mid-China in 1937-1938, these letters by an American missionary in Hangzhou provide a vividly detailed, first-hand account of the spread of war from Shanghai across the Yangzi valley and the subsequent ordeals of military occupation seen against the better-known backdrop of the Nanjing Massacre - one man's embedded experience in one major Chinese city of one chaotic year of war.
Vorgelegt werden in diesem dritten Band »Unterwegs in den Wirklichkeiten der Polizei« zwei empirische Studien zur Polizeiseelsorge: Die eine Studie befasst sich mit dem Verhältnis zwischen Polizeibeamt: innen und Polizeiseelsorgenden und die andere Studie geht dem Phänomen der Angst in der Polizei, um die Polizei und vor der Polizei nach.
Der Pfarrberuf steht angesichts gesellschaftlicher und kirchlicher Transformationsprozesse unter erheblichem Druck und befindet sich in einem grundlegenden Wandel.
Mathematik als ungewohnte Inspirationsquelle für Theologie: Das Buch entwickelt aus der Unterscheidungslogik der "Gesetze der Form" (George Spencer-Brown) und soziologischen Diagnosen zur "nächsten Gesellschaft" (u.
Mathematik als ungewohnte Inspirationsquelle für Theologie: Das Buch entwickelt aus der Unterscheidungslogik der "Gesetze der Form" (George Spencer-Brown) und soziologischen Diagnosen zur "nächsten Gesellschaft" (u.
