Religious institutions and organizations

'A delightful book from a gentle, generous spirit.

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.

Contemporary theologians tend to associate the Holy Spirit with the formation of local communities, social movements, and fluid relational networks-and not with institutions such as denominations or global church bodies.

Too often, especially in the church, the subject of homosexuality causes deep misunderstanding and painful rifts.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

Imagine a child going for an exciting helicopter ride over Niagara Falls, then having to perform an emergency rescue after identifying a body in distress down into the gorge.

The Prosperity movement has been rightly challenged on biblical, theological, and pastoral grounds and has been found to be lacking.

This is a selection of writings on themes of trauma and transformation, hope and anguish, in a time of reckoning.

Evidence-based medicine has transformed contemporary medical practice.

From pornographic videos of rape and incest to sexual predators around every corner; from online challenges teaching children how to commit suicide to resources teaching them how to conjure up demons; from social media trends praising abortion to completely redefining what it means to be human; these are the monsters in the closet which children and teenagers are being exposed to.