Religious institutions and organizations

Christian mission has often been a project allied with colonial powers and conquests.

Pentecostal women ministers have been silenced in official conversations about their place in church leadership.

It is often claimed that local churches provide a significant proportion of social care today.

In this comprehensive, practical, and gripping assessment of various forms of violence against women, Pamela Cooper-White challenges the Christian churches to examine their own responses to the cry of Tamar in our time.

"e;The Korean missions movement is perhaps the most significant story of the Church in the world over the past one hundred years.

Seit den ersten christlichen Missionen im mittelalterlichen Kiew bis zur entscheidenden Abgrenzung zwischen Ost und West steht die ruthenische Kirche an einer einzigartigen Schnittstelle der Religionsgeschichte.

A solid family life will help pastors focus and attentively minister to the needs of their congregation.

Healing the Racial Divide retrieves the insights of Dr.

The Lawudo Lama presents two life stories along with an extended introduction laying out their social and cultural context.

"e;I wish every self-identified 'person of faith' could read this remarkable, thought-provoking book.

A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation.

Just as the government structure of Russia differs from that of the United States, and both differ from that of Great Britain, so it is with church government.

Secular contemporary development discourse deals with the problems of societal development and transformation by prioritizing the human good in terms of vital and social values with the aim of providing the basic necessities of life through social institutions that work.

Formerly titled Comforting the Bereaved, this practical, insightful guide gives direction to pastors and lay-leaders of all levels of experience.

Franz and Frederick Foltz examine how modern technology creates an environment that significantly affects Christianity by reducing the mysteries of faith to manageable techniques.

Most churches have sought out a new pastor many times, yet search committees often feel as though they are inventing the process from scratch.

Churches large and small across the world and in every denomination have rising numbers of single people on their leadership staff.

Marriage as an institution faces many challenges today.

The Catholic Church seems to be in serious crisis disfigured by scandals, divided by theological, cultural and political differences, retreating institutionally in many places, judged irrelevant by a culture that believes it has outgrown this kind of religious faith.

The churches from the whole world are joined in the effort to reach the whole world.

Promise has a long pedigree in the history of Christian understandings of the gospel.

Apologetic methodology has been the subject of intense debate in Reformed circles.

The first comprehensive textbook on the theology and methodology of Fresh Expressions, one of the most important developments within the contemporary church.

At first sight the lives of hermits, living in solitude and committed to a life of prayer and contemplation seems to be a world apart of the active practice of interfaith dialogue.

"e;Why is this happening to me?

Aquinas at Prayer draws attention to important aspects of Aquinas's life and work which have been all too often overlooked or forgotten.

In A Beautiful Second Act, bestselling author Maria Morera Johnson explores the adventure of life's second half, drawing inspiration from twenty saints and ';soul sisters' who faced these challenges with courage.

The real question for homiletics in our increasingly postmodern, post-Christian contexts is not how we are going to prevent preaching from dying, but how we are going to help it die a good death.

The growing use and appreciation of the Common Lectionary (Revised) has stimulated renewed attention to the Christian calendar in its fullness and an enrichment of liturgical worship.

Cultural Architecture: A Path to Creating Vitalized Congregations, by Douglas A.

Pastor John MacArthur combines his passion for the Bible with the training expertise of faculty members at The Master's Seminary to guide seminary students and ministry leaders in developing their pastoral ministry skills.

The thirteen fascinating essays in this book bring together theoretical articles and practical planning strategies to create a how-to guide for worship.

This book is a call for new structure and ways of behaving as a church by an experienced church officer.

For nearly eighteen centuries, two fundamental spatial plans dominated Christian architecture: the basilica and the central plan.

The clergy today faces mounting challenges in an increasingly secular world, where declining prestige makes it more difficult to attract the best and the brightest young Americans to the ministry.

You are There: Restoring Churches, People, and Places is a pastoral conversation about creation care.

Navigating Ethnic Identity for Gospel WitnessIn most peoples minds ethnic or ethnicity are terms associated with conflict, cleansing, or even genocide.

Each of us will come to at least one crossroads in our lives where decisions must be made that will impact both our past and our future.