Religious institutions and organizations

In a suffering world reeling from global pandemics and health disparities, it is high time to think theologically about the devastating experience of disease, and to address our God-inspired responsibility to understand its origins and engage in its management.

Any Christian who lives in such a broken world may ask God what their role would be as the person who is reconciled with God, and about the implications of the vertical dimension of reconciliation.

Dave Andrews's latest book, To Right Every Wrong, is the last in the Dave Andrews Legacy Series.

"e;This scientific-historical biography explores the influences that shaped the spirituality of Amy Carmichael of Dohnavur.

Are you struggling with your faith or trying to help others but cannot get around the problem of "e;If there is a God, why is he hidden?

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.

John Henry Newman's pulpit at St Mary's, Oxford, was a powerhouse of religious innovation and reinvigoration in English religion through the 1830s and 1840s.

The Practical Art of Spiritual Conversation is about the art of when, if, and how to engage in a spiritual conversation.

When times of threat and uncertainty come, it can be challenging to know what to do or how to help.

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

In this book, Dr.

Evidence-based medicine has transformed contemporary medical practice.

This biography examines the life of a most unusual twentieth-century evangelical, Kenneth L.

This book is an upstream solution to the problems, issues, and questions young people struggle with downstream--alienation, boredom, and mistrust of religion.

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.

Amy Oxley Wilkinson was a well-known missionary in both China and the West in the early twentieth century.

This booklet has been written to foster the development of a program of mutual aid among Mennonites.

We are living in a rapidly changing culture.

At a time of unprecedented secularization and declining church attendance, youth ministry in the twenty-first century should be doomed.

Is a developmental disability an appropriate reason to bar a baptized person from the sacraments?

Spiritual Life on a Burning Planet draws on scientific research in developing religious perspectives on anthropogenic climate change.

Can anything good come out of suffering?

Preaching is a relational act.

The author draws the reader through the drama and mediocrity of his personal experience.

When our communities are shaken by school shootings and natural disasters, ministry leaders are first on the scene to care for the people.

Attendance in US churches continues to sharply decline.

This book is an exploration of the renewal of the Baptist Union of Great Britain in the 1990s, the only historic UK denomination which grew in this period.

Techno-Sapiens gathers together leading scholars of technology, theology, and religion in order to explore the ways in which modern technology is neither solely a dehumanizing force in the world nor a mere instrument for evangelizing the world, but rather the very means by which incarnation happens--the media in and through which humans love the (digital) other.

Confronting the crisis facing Christianity, this anthology of post-modern, progressive Christian poems, with a rebellious tone, demythologizes Christian theology.

Over the last few decades, Christianity's center of gravity has moved from the global north to the global south.

What could be better than brunch on a Sunday morning?

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While there are many books that address burnout in ministry, there are few that speak to compassion fatigue.

The Problem with the Dot is rooted in the idea that culture is a garden to be tended (Gen 2:15) rather than a war to be won and uses the analogy of an ecosystem to expand the details of the individual components of the theatrical ecosystem to:1.

While state governments determine the "e;Who?

The Ever Changing Sky: Meditations on the Psalms, a book of lay meditations on the Psalms composed in fits and starts over a thirteen-year period, is for anyone struggling with the challenges of leading an authentic life in what poet John Keats termed an "e;arena of soul making.

Trauma, from the fall of Adam and Eve forward impacts human lives in overpowering ways.

Parishes of all denominations are in decline, shrinking, closing, dying.

Contemporary questions about gender challenge our views of ourselves and the proverbial other.

Can something as simple as friendship have a transformative impact in a divided world?

This book reflects the author's work over eight years as amissionary in Bangladesh, where she was involved withthe United Bible Society and the Bangladesh Bible Society, then the Bangladesh Lutheran Church-Danish Mission and the Bangladesh Lutheran Church, despite the fact that Tess herself was a Pentecostal, in teaching literacy to the Bangladeshi people.

This collection of Ron Sider's sermons and speeches delivered in his lifetime of global ministry capture the essence of his theology, ethics, and mission.

These essays in this book are pastoral and scholarly, to encourage parents to nurture and foster Christian family life by learning from scripture and history.

Given this unique locus of today's church, this book takes us back to the foundational teachings of Jesus on missions: the Great Commission (Gospel of Matthew) and the Messianic Commission (Gospel of John).

Contemporary missions often include evangelistic and socio-economic dimensions.

The purpose of this study was to understand how women lead and make meaning of their leadership in evangelical mission organizations.

This book provides an exegetical-theological-rhetorical paradigm, "e;the Christ-oriented approach"e; (Lk 24:27, 44), that facilitates accuracy, effectiveness, and practicality in preaching the New Testament use of the Old.

Jesus is the most attractive person in human history.

The discussion guide for the novel, Wonder Clearing, comes at a critical moment for churches and nations.