Religious life and practice

In Teaching to Justice, Citizenship, and Civic Virtue, a group of teachers considers how students learn and what students need in order to figure out what God is requiring of them.

This book is not another volume attempting to persuade the reader of the rights of gays and lesbians in society and in the church.

This book invites the reader to experience Advent as a spiritual journey to Bethlehem, a journey from darkness to light.

The emergence of Pentecostalism in Ghana has attracted a massive following and generated institutions that have significantly impacted Christian discourse and national life.

Leaders constantly rely upon power.

The Bible can and should be an environment in which we live and move and have our being, an environment in which we are shaped by God in different and interrelated ways.

Since the rise of the "e;New Homiletic"e; a generation ago, it has been recognized that sermons not only say something to listeners, they also do something.

In 1861 a young farmer, drafted into the Confederate Army, was wounded in battle and sent home to die.

His birthday was once celebrated as a national holiday and his portrait once adorned the walls of almost every classroom in the United States.

Despite astute critiques and available resources for alternative modes of thinking and practicing, individualism continues to be a dominating and constraining ideology in the field of pastoral psychotherapy and counseling.

A Conscious Endeavor is a synopsis of the social teachings and the concept of justice in the Old and New Testament.

Christians, the Care of Creation, and Global Climate Change is a wake-up call for Christians and others.

Drinking from the Same Well is designed for those who seek a praxis-oriented theological grounding in the exploration of cross-cultural perspectives in the field of pastoral care and counseling.

Colonialism and imperialism continue to impact the personal and social identities of North American preachers and listeners.

The Christian faith has always stood in a place of tension between its transcendent nature and the surrounding culture.

Remain in Your Calling explores the way the Apostle Paul negotiates and transforms existing social identities of the Corinthian Christ-followers in order to extend his gentile mission.

Radical Orthodoxy, whose founding father is John Milbank, claims that God has been pushed to the margins in modernity and that a false and misleading neo-theology has taken hold that needs to be revisited and contested.

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

Is it possible to find the revelatory, to find faith in a tiny blue berry?

Like many young Christians, Kevin Brown had what he believed to be a strong faith, one that provided answers to all the questions he had and might encounter.

Healing the Racial Divide retrieves the insights of Dr.

In Soft Shepherd or Almighty Pastor?

In a world where armed conflict, repression, and authoritarian rule are too frequent, human rights and peace-building present key concepts and agendas for the global and local struggle for peace and development.

Increasingly, adolescents and young adults in the United States are racially and socioeconomically diverse, while the teaching population remains predominantly white and middle class.

The quest to escape authority has been a persistent feature of the modern world, animating liberals and Marxists, Westerners and non-Westerners alike.

These reflections, based on the seven last words of Jesus from the cross (including an Easter message) invite readers to contemplate the spiritual, theological, and biblical significance of the death and resurrection of Jesus.

This diary is a fine-grained, often daily, theological reflection on the author's final ponderings on his ordeal with a serious illness, a concluding sabbatical, a last year of teaching, a culminating lecture, presiding at Eucharist, and summarial notes about "e;what God is doing in the world.

Women have been adding their voices to the proclamation of the gospel for as long as there has been a gospel to proclaim, but only in the last half-century have these voices become part of the official catalogue of Christian preaching.

As Protestant denominations are fracturing over whether to ordain gays and lesbians, this work looks at The United Methodist Church's conversations about the issue, in light of Methodism's historic contests over the leadership of African Americans and women, to see what can be learned from these earlier periods of change.

What theologies are popular and formative of Christian thinking in the present day?

Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam, and the Middle East is the personal, yet profoundly political first-person account of one man's unique interracial and interfaith leadership roles over five decades in movements for civil rights, against the Vietnam War, and for Arab-Israeli-Palestinian peace.

As a freshman in college, Rachel Murr found herself trying to decide which campus social group to join: the gay and lesbian advocacy group or the campus Christian fellowship.

Fear works its way into our lives on a daily basis, but it does not define us.

This book offers reflections on a number of theological themes, going beyond abstraction to ask what is involved in coming to know God--through all the praying, struggling, and rejoicing that entails.

Laypersons receiving a divine call to preach in the Roman Catholic Church may feel caught between a rock and a hard place--both figuratively and ecclesiastically.

Meet Me at the Palaver makes the case for a particular approach to pastoral counseling as a response to the destructive impact of colonial Christianity on indigenous African communities.

"e;Religion and ecology"e; has arrived.

Even under the best circumstances in life, we all suffer psychological injuries to our self.

An international cast of theologians come together in this volume to offer essays in tribute to the late Stanley J.

This book is a collection of seven Good Friday homilies by the late Rev.

The Psalms have long been the preferred prayer book of souls in quest of God's guidance and comfort.

Klaus Bockmuehl (1931-1989), former Professor for Systematic Theology at Regent College, Vancouver, published outstanding theological ethical works.

Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel has said that there is a new commandment: "e;Thou shalt not stand idly by.

Then God Said teaches us to open our eyes and behold the gifts of creation that unfold before us in all their splendor.

How are we to care for our bodies and our health as part of faithful Christian living?

Religious Mourning is about a common experience among those who study religion: religious loss.

While many of the Reformers considered natural law unproblematic, many Protestants consider natural law a "e;Catholic thing,"e; and not persuasive.

We live in an age of global capitalism and terror.

A quick scan of any newsstand is enough to confirm the widespread preoccupation with technological change.

Even casual acquaintances of the Bible know that the Truth shall set you free, but in the pursuit of that Truth in higher education--particularly in Christian or Jewish seminaries--there are often many casualties suffered along the way.