Religious institutions and organizations

The condition of stuck is a condition well known by pastoral caregivers and leaders.

In A Pacifist Way of Knowing: John Howard Yoder's Nonviolent Epistemology, editors Christian Early and Ted Grimsrud gather the scattered writings of Yoder on the theme of the relationship between gospel, peace, and human ways of knowing.

Created in Delight challenges the church to take seriously the relationship of human beings with the earth and their fellow creatures.

Living in this world can be hazardous to one's health.

God seeks our attention and relationship in so many ways.

Is it possible to find the revelatory, to find faith in a tiny blue berry?

America stands in the throes of an anxiety epidemic, yet Americans live in one of the most religious countries in the world?

In News from the Kingdom of God, minister and poet David Breeden introduces readers to a Jesus hidden for fifteen hundred years.

Praying--with the Saints--to God Our Mother celebrates the feminine characteristics of God by uncovering a treasury of texts that have been overlooked for centuries.

American Presbyterians have a remarkable heritage of foreign mission work.

Creative Ways to Build Christian Community is exactly what its title says it is: a very personal, practical response to the present and future prospect of isolation, a treasure trove of examples and suggestions about how to accomplish the Great Commission from community builders telling how, over the years and the ministries, they have implemented creative ways to build up churches and organizations to develop more intensive Christian fellowship and, thereby, create community.

Grief is universal, permeating all avenues of life on planet earth; no one can escape it.

What Jesus began on and around the Sea of Galilee, Paul continued on and around the Mediterranean Sea.

Our lives move along with ups and downs, and we cope with them the best we can.

Kierkegaard's Pastoral Dialogues takes a selection of Kierkegaard's most insightful spiritual writings and transforms them into a series of dialogues between two friends, a believer and a nonbeliever.

What does the evangelical church in Palestine think about the land, the end times, the Holocaust, peace in the Middle East, loving enemies, Christian Zionism, the State of Israel, and the possibilities of a Palestinian state?

The mission to the Gentiles and their conversion into the church gave rise to conflict in the early Christian community.

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What really happens to human consciousness at death?

Is faith a search for security?

Evangelicals often give little thought to the morality of contraception, but when they do, serious studies of the subject are scarce if not non-existent.

Suitable for Advent or Lent, these meditations on pictorial images of light are navigational aids in the ascent to trust in the triumph.

The book is about showing different ways of doing ethics, highlighting a kind of methodological pluralism.

Even on a bumper sticker, grace is irresistible.

This book is a vital resource for intervention programs, educators, social workers, counselors, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, and survivors of intimate violence and their families.

The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across Christian traditions in the last century.

The quest to escape authority has been a persistent feature of the modern world, animating liberals and Marxists, Westerners and non-Westerners alike.

In Soft Shepherd or Almighty Pastor?

Having grown up in the shadow of the Bomb and having provided supportive care to post-Cold War generations of children and their parents (both in crisis), I have seen a lot of distrust and instability in people--individually and in communities.

The term "e;emerging church"e; causes confusion, conflict, and contention whenever it is used.

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What is the relationship between the gospel and the church's responsibility toward the poor?

This book records a set of dialogues between scientists, theologians, and philosophers on what can be done to prevent a global slide into ecological collapse.

Maybe the only thing new about sexual abuse is quality discussion from several professions (psychology, theology, and pastoral care).

What does a clock or calendar, a map, a newspaper or bandage, a set of measuring cups or a basket have to do with prayer?

Here is a vivid, poetic, and evocative story of the painter Vincent van Gogh's struggle to become his true self.

For those who are called to it, pastoral ministry can be a source of deep joy.

Although preachers often question their effectiveness, no task of the church is more important than proclamation.

No Man's Land is a book of poems of searching, longing, and belonging overlaid by the ancient struggle with home, family, and God.

Jesus used parables to teach his disciples certain truths about the gospel.

Too often, Christ followers are content to live inside the church walls with other Christians.

The work of American Baptist missionaries among the Telugu people in India in the nineteenth century came to fruition in 1897, when Telugus established their own indigenous missionary organization, the Telugu Home Missionary Society.

They were seeking religious freedom and the Second Coming of Christ in Central Asia.

Principles-based biomedical ethics has been a dominant paradigm for the teaching and practice of biomedical ethics for over three decades.

What drives you?

Research in the roots of evangelicalism and revivalism uncovers its share of peculiarities, but nothing is more unusual than what follows.

Therapeutic preaching is badly in need of rehabilitation.

Black women are strong.

Christianity is simple.

Women's Ordination in the Catholic Church argues that women can be validly ordained to ministerial office.