Religious institutions and organizations

Across the world, grassroots movements for change are growing in number, skill, and impact on society.

As the global marketplace grows and becomes more complex, increasing stress is placed upon employees.

Tension between theory and practice in theological education is an unfortunate yet common occurrence, with educators sometimes finding themselves on one extreme or the other.

Strategic partnerships are on the rise around the world as denominations, organizations, local churches and individuals seek ways to work together to accomplish the Great Commission.

Strategic partnerships are on the rise around the world as denominations, organizations, local churches and individuals seek ways to work together to accomplish the Great Commission.

The ICETE Programme for Academic Leadership (IPAL) was officially established in 2010 and arose out of the need to provide training to theological institutions in different regions of the world.

The ICETE Programme for Academic Leadership (IPAL) was officially established in 2010 and arose out of the need to provide training to theological institutions in different regions of the world.

Tension between theory and practice in theological education is an unfortunate yet common occurrence, with educators sometimes finding themselves on one extreme or the other.

We can only approach the divine from the human because that is all we know.

An honest, in-depth guide to becoming a member of Pagan Clergy.

Preaching in a post-Christian world.

Children are the focus of marriage in African cultures.

The Essential Dale Suderman Reader draws from essays, correspondence, personal journals, and newspaper columns written by one of the most dynamic Mennonite thinkers of his generation.

The Saints' Life was one of the most popular forms of literature in medieval England.

Everyone has an interest in housing, because we all live in some kind of home.

This five-part group study booklet is for local church communities who are contemplating setting up a pioneering church community, but are unsure how to get going.

This short booklet provides a contemporary summary of the essentials of the Christian faith for enquirers, new Christians and baptism and confirmation candidates.

Beyond the Lectionary offers experiences of scripture that will surprise, enlighten, provoke and challenge.

Revealing the man behind the icon.

'A delightful book from a gentle, generous spirit.

A White pastor and a Black pastor, close friends who have each built racially diverse congregations, offer a model Christians can follow to open necessary conversations about race, encourage unity, and foster mutual respect to heal a wounded nation riven by racial tension and political tribalism.

Showing how spiritual care is practiced in a variety of different contexts such as healthcare, detention and higher education, as well as settings that may not have formal chaplaincy arrangements, this book offers an original and unique resource for Hindu chaplains to understand and practice spiritual care in a way that is authentic to their own tradition and that meets the needs of Hindus.

A well-worn, often-told tale of woe.

The question of contextual theology and its relevance to Africa in this time of globalization, whereby there are rampant uncontrolled changes in cultures, technologies, economic policies, and even people's religious lives, is very urgent.

Jesus is the epitome of what leadership is all about.

We can find excellent leadership lessons in a lot of places.

Inspired by an incarnational theology that emerges from a missional reading of Luke 10, Chung and Meehan went out to discover the stories of contemporary disciples who labor in the harvest fields of God's uncommon, upside down Kingdom.

It may seem that so many sermons have been preached on biblical texts that there is nothing new to say.

Music and Liturgy, Identity and Formation is a one-of-a-kind book about All Saints Moda Church in Istanbul.

Shane had the privilege of meeting his long-time hero: civil rights leader, and minister, John Perkins.

You Visited Me explores current work practices in pastoral care, supervision, and spirituality, and how one can experience a new type of ministry with the theory of CPE and its methods in a secular world.

For many of today's Christians their go-to style of proclaiming the faith is to share their own experiences.

The Christian church was always destined to find its way to China.

Written in a theopoetic key, this book challenges Christian reliance on the motif of promise, especially where promise is regarded as a prerequisite for the experience of hope.

If you feel you've lost your bearings, you aren't alone!

This is one pastor's story of the touch of death on life: how he first learned of it and what it brings upon us, how he met its coming to those he served as pastor, and how he awaits its coming to him as he ages.

Have you ever felt that the tools and techniques you mastered in preaching class are failing you?

Is social enterprise yet another example of the expansion of the market into all areas of life and society, in this case the marketization of poverty?

Spirit, Symbols, and Change is more than a "e;how to"e; manual--it is a celebration of how to relate to people with a vastly different culture, language, and set of values.

Religion in American Today describes how sacred powers and secular religions have overtaken and infiltrated Christianity.

Children are theologians with the ability to recognize and respond to God's presence in their lives.

The state of public discourse in America is dismal, reflecting an extreme us-versus-them tribalism where "e;me and my folks"e; have the full truth about the contentious issue at hand and "e;those other folks"e; are devoid of any truth and can even be demonized as evil.

A grave danger lurks behind the seemingly friendly term of social justice.

A selection of sermons or homilies preached over a fifty-year period explicitly linked to the church's liturgical year--thus, In Season.

Why bother with the interpretive categories of biblical faith when in fact our energy and interest are focused on more immediate matters?

Continuing his series of sermons for the Common Lectionary (Revised), Bruce Taylor offers theologically rich, sacramentally sensitive, and biblically centered proclamations for the Sundays and major feast days of Year B, from Pentecost through Christ the King (Reign of Christ), and a sample of preaching from the Daily Lectionary.

The integration of theology and social vocation invites scholars and practitioners to reach outside their discipline and into relationship with others.

This concise study searches for what is needed to awaken or strengthen the faltering missionary consciousness of Western Christians with regard to their own environment.

This book explores the theme of the missional conversion of the church, namely how the church is transformed toward its missionary vocation, from a biblical-theological perspective.

How do twenty-first century Christians communicate the Bible and their faith in today's mediascape?