Religious institutions and organizations

You may have heard that churches in Europe are vanishing.

What happens to the Gospel when you put other loyalties into positions of power in Christian life and practice?

After harmonizing the four Gospels into one unified story, the author examines the ministry of Jesus to see what we can learn today for our own churches and ministries.

Do you wonder why some people you know hold theological and political views that blow your mind but they find quite reasonable?

We live in a time when many view the church as a relic of ancient traditions and cosmologies, often reactionary, mean-spirited, nationalist, and racist.

Spirituality & Social Action is written for people who identify themselves as spiritual but not religious, turned off by organized religion, yet having an innate sense of a higher power.

What happens when Christians reconsider political engagement?

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.

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.

Apocalyptic texts are often seen as either frightening or irrelevant, a tool for fearmongering and manipulation or for the lucrative doomsday industry.

"e;Can't you hear those little bells tinkling?

A boy doesn't become a man by accident.

Paul wrote to Timothy instructing him to not be despised for his youth.

The Nightingale, attributed to the early Franciscan mystic and philosopher St.

Mentoring Minutes: Weekly Messages to Encourage Anyone Guiding Youth aims to encourage and equip people working with youth with the knowledge, strategies, ideas, and recent youth research to build meaningful and developmental relationships with these young people.

Liberating Inner Eve: From Constraints of Historic Conditioning to Boundless Personal Power--A Christian Woman's Guidebook addresses the most commonly encountered social and historic challenges that constrain women's experience of personal power, against the background of an empowering exploration of the Genesis account of Adam and Eve.

When a scrappy small-town pastor refuses to perform a gay wedding, he doesn't expect the decision to send his sister to prison.

Prison ministry needs to be reevaluated.

Amid the mid-twentieth-century post-war relief and rebuilding efforts, reconsideration of views on nonviolence and civic engagement was also underway for North American Mennonites.

Jesus warned of wolves carefully disguised as shepherds coming into local churches as pastors.

Character for Kids: Devotions and Activities for Kids Ages 3-10 includes easily understandable thoughts on selected character traits including courage, respect, self-control, manners, loyalty and eight others.

Faith and Oil tells the story of conservative Christianity's relationship with America's oil industry.

How does Christian faith integrate with capitalism?

For a denomination like Roman Catholicism that is canonically difficult to leave, many American Catholics are migrating beyond the institution's immediate influence.

Whatever life gives you and wherever life takes you, there is always a story.

This collection of essays on policing and the use of force, while written over the course of the last twenty-five years, remains relevant and timely.

This book, People of Faith, People of Jeong (Qing), seeks to reveal and understand the current state and the future prospective of Asian Canadian immigrant churches (ACIC), including Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean churches.

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