Religious institutions and organizations

After logging thousands of miles in planes, jeeps, dugout canoes, pickup trucks, bicycles, and on foot, LeQuire and du Plessis offer insights into how Christians around the world are using tourism to develop their villages while caring for both creation and culture.

How true can Christianity really be?

Much like the book of Revelation, Joel L.

The Sermon on the Mount is not supposed to read like a collection of standards that we should be striving to achieve.

The declining religious participation among young adults, or "e;Rise of the Nones,"e; has signaled alarms across American Christianity.

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?

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

"e;If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

After more than twenty years since the fall of the USSR, the evangelical movement in post-Soviet society has entered a crucial phase in its historical development.

Practicing Ministry in the Presence of God presents a new paradigm for church ministry--one that is based on fundamental truths of the Christian faith such as the Trinity, union with Christ, and the "e;already"e; presence of the Holy Spirit in the church.

What would it look like if an Avenger turned up to help in youth work?

Communities of Faith is a collection of essays on the multicultural Christian spirit and practices of churches around the world, with particular attention to Africa and the African diaspora.

From Wall Street to Main Street, the moral toxicity in our country is alarming.

While it is readily admitted that we learn in order to do, we are in need of guidance.

In a cinematic culture where multiple visions of reality "e;play"e; at the same time, it is critical that Christian believers know how to confidently identify and "e;discern,"e; among other stories, the Jesus-story that defines their most important commitment in life.

In this book, Johnson avoids the standard approach of many apologetic works that seek to "e;prove,"e; in systematic fashion, that Christianity is true.

After serving for more than thirty years as a parish minister, the author was hospitalized with major depression.

Early evening, a young boy alone on his pony on the rim of the Nebraska Sandhills.

This book seeks to demonstrate the significance of Ancestor Christology in African Christianity for christological developments in World Christianity.

Beginning with a conversation prompted by African American scholars like Dr.

Once you come to know Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, what is the next step?

What do educated urban people think about God, and why?

The content of the gospel never changes; however, communicating it constantly fluctuates.

The ongoing global financial crisis was not simply the fault of the financial sector.

What theologies are popular and formative of Christian thinking in the present day?

Since its inception in 1968, the brain-death criterion for human death has enjoyed the status of one of the few relatively well-settled issues in bioethics.

Are meaning and purpose still possible in life?

Imagine traditional congregations in the United States and Canada sending missionaries across the street from their church buildings to express the kingdom of God within a postmodern culture and among disenfranchised Christians.

"e;To pursue the matter of "e;revelation in context,"e; I will address an exceedingly difficult text in the Old Testament, Joshua 11.

From their theological and devotional writings to their social and ecclesial practices, the fathers and mothers of Pietism boldly declared the ethical spirit of the Christian faith.

Why does it feel like most of the world today considers irrelevant the gospel we cherish and so faithfully proclaim in our churches?

With the onslaught of books on how to do worship, Dr.

Today's technology offers thousands of applications--apps--to solve problems and to enhance lives.

In this compact, fluently written survey of logical fallacies, Adam Murrell provides myriad examples of ways we go about being illogical--how we deceive ourselves and others, how we think and argue in ways that are uncritical, disorganized, or irrelevant.

Compassion plays a central role in the teachings of all world religions.

The needs for and the benefits of holistic health care--care that extends to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of individuals--have been well known for 2,500 years or so.

The preaching of God's Word happens tens of thousands of times each week across the world.

It is not possible to look at the ministry of Jesus without noticing his concern for the poor and the sick.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today.

In November 1877, three months after Emperor Meiji's conscript army of commoners defeated forces led by Japan's famous "e;last samurai,"e; the Reverend Tom Alexander and his new wife, Emma, arrived in Japan, a country where Christianity had been punishable by death until 1868.

Not many theologians have had as great an impact on the study of peace and violence as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was labeled an Enemy of the State and eventually executed in April 1945.

How does Christian faith integrate with capitalism?

The Kingdom Will Come Anyway: A Life in the Day of a Pastor opens a window into the world of a typical minister serving congregations in the midst of soul-stirring delights and heart-rending troubles.

Enlarge My Coast tells of Pastor Blackstone's return to India to see the completion of a project inspired during his first trip to the subcontinent of Asia in 2006.

The sacred Scriptures, stylized in poetryAfter thorough readings through the Bible and study of biblical languages, The Haiku Bible started as an effort to make better sense of the complex and nuanced anthology.

Various thinkers have attempted to explain the Earth-altering (even ecocidal) features in modern life.

In this thoroughly revised edition of a classic in spirituality, Walter Brueggemann guides the reader into a thoughtful and moving encounter with the Psalms.

Current research shows what many in the Christian community already know: young people are leaving the church.

As the first Bengalee Archbishop of South Asia, Theotonius Amal Ganguly, CSC, made a remarkable contribution in the expansion of Christian missionary activity in Bengal through all the three political regimes that Bangladesh went through.

Church leaders and those who endeavor to plant new churches in Europe today face tremendous challenges, not least because the church itself is considered by many to be outdated, irrelevant, or even an abusive sect.