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Many churches are involved in short-term mission trips.

Preaching as Pastoral Caring is the thirteenth in a series of books devoted to presenting examples of preaching excellence from parishes throughout the Episcopal Church.

The Church's New Front Door introduces Christians to the critically important concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an era that will be dominated by powerful technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced robotics.

Praying--with the Saints--to God Our Mother celebrates the feminine characteristics of God by uncovering a treasury of texts that have been overlooked for centuries.

What does it mean to worshipespecially in spirit and truth?

Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching: Contemporary Theory and Research contains essays by key scholars in the territory where Catholic social thought and secular sociology meet, and offers a much needed alternative to the relativism and individualism that so often characterize social scientific analysis today.

The first comprehensive resource for chaplains and campus ministers of all faith traditions-a vital resource for ministry in multifaith and secular contexts.

Until now, Fresh Expressions has been about starting and sustaining mission initiatives among people with little or no church contact.

For a world so out of tune, this treatise intends to correlate from various instruments of learning, a new sound--a sound of hope.

Drawing on the wisdom gleaned from thriving mega-churches and innovative business leaders while anchoring their vision in the Eucharistic center of Catholic faith, Fr.

An essential and easy to use collection of prayers bound in a durable and portable format for the most frequently encountered pastoral occasions.

This updated version of Tippett's 1977, The Deep Sea Canoe, describes a significant but often overlooked aspect of the expansion of Christianity in the South Pacific, that of South Sea Island believers who carried the gospel from one island to another in their deep sea canoes.

Innovative Discoveries for Ecumenical Ministries presents pertinent historical pastoral research considerations of the identity crisis in the priesthood requiring reconciliation of the hierarchical authority structures which have impaired authentic Christological pastoral leadership for decades.

There is currently no shared language of vocation among Catholics in the developed, post-modern world of Europe and North America.

A theological explanation and practical handbook for those preparing for a diaconate in today's church.

A more complete picture of how procreation and childlessness are depicted in the BibleIn the Book of Genesis, the first words God speaks to humanity are "e;Be fruitful and multiply.

Evangelism is a contentious word, conjuring up all sorts of assumptions.

Thanks to coded notes taken by the teenager John Pynchon, this volume transports the reader, virtually, back to Sundays in the seventeenth century, when the community gathered to listen to the Rev.

This second volume of Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Matthean Parables contains a previously unpublished series of six sermons by Edwards on Jesus' parable of the Sower and the Seed, as found in Matthew 13:3-7.

Band 1 der Kritischen Gesamtausgabe dokumentiert das Frühwerk von Ernst Troeltsch.

In A Child Sees God, Howard Worsley explores how we can all learn from a child's perspective of the world and shows how a child's eye view of the Bible reveals many interesting ideas about ethics and morality, and provides new ways of understanding these ancient stories.

Die Corona-Pandemie macht auch vor Seelsorge und Liturgie nicht Halt.

A personal story of the struggle for authentic inclusion in the church.

Models and Methods for Youth and Young Adult Ministry is a rare book on young adult and youth ministry in that it weaves sound theology and solid pastoral practice.

My Burden Is Light: Making Room for Jesus in Preaching invites preachers to reclaim proclaiming Jesus as the goal of preaching.

The characters in Scripture are often portrayed as one-dimensional--as caricatures instead of human beings with real needs, authentic pain, and compelling fears.

SOren Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing is an astute analysis of inner dividedness.

In Integrating the New Science of Love and a Spirituality of Peace, the contributors explore the intersection between the science of attachment theory and the vision of Anabaptism.

This book is about trauma-informed counseling with racially traumatized African (Black), Latino/a/x, Asian, and Native (Indigenous) Americans (ALANAs).

Die Nachfrage nach Seelsorge und Beratung im Internet ist schon jetzt enorm.

In this book I have tried to raise the awareness of mainly working Catholics regarding the spiritual pitfalls of excessive nationalism.

This book combines critical New Testament scholarship with homiletic concerns.

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.

The Handbook takes as its subject the complex phenomenon of Christian monasticism.

In Exploring Practices of Ministry, Pamela Cooper-White and Michael Cooper-White share insights from their extensive experience as parish ministers, church agency executives, and seminary educators in diverse multicultural and international contexts.

Marriage and the Counsel of God is the product of over twenty-two years of biblical study and pastoral counseling.

Would it surprise you to know that New Testament scholars, missiologists, and church-planting authorities cannot agree on how to define tentmaking, whether or not the church should be practicing it today, or even why Paul did it in the first place?

Der vorliegende Band untersucht die Anlässe und Motive derjenigen, die zwischen 2020 und 2022 aus den evangelischen Landeskirchen von Westfalen und in Württemberg ausgetreten sind.

In Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary, theologian Stanley Hauerwas and political theorist Romand Coles reflect about possibilities and practices of radical democracy and radical ecclesia that take form in the textures of relational care for the radical ordinary.

Late eleventh century spiritual counsel for a woman recluse, anticipating medieval advice literature for anchoresses.

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.

Preachers are often caught in a double bind--they would like to be more witty and creative, but they aren't sure whether these capacities fit with the serious business of preaching the gospel.