Religious life and practice

Western evangelical and baptist theologies have largely avoided experience as a source of theology.

We must surrender our motherhood to the One who never failseven though we often fail.

The 108 pieces in the international bestseller Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?

In a time when the global and national economies seem to favor so few and harm so many, when the threats to the common good are so prevalent and so deep, how do people of faith think about these issues and act with those who are most vulnerable?

What happens when a liberal, free-spirited, modern American girl goes on a spiritual quest into structured, disciplined, traditional Japanese Zen life?

What is the relationship between the soul, or inner life, and what we wear in the making of identity and belief?

The Easter Moment tells the moving story of Spong's friendship with a young physician dying of cancer and how that relationship shed new light on the years of study the author has devoted to the great mystery of what actually happened on that long-ago Easter when the whole history of the human race was changed.

Thomas Curry argues that discussion and interpretation of the First Amendment have reached a point of deep crisis.

Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years.

Tracing two thousand years of female leadership, influence, and participation, Elizabeth Gillan Muir examines the various positions women have filled in the church.

Companionship and strategies for job seekersMillions of people become unemployed every year, yet when job loss happens to us, we typically feel completely alone and often lost, ashamed, and afraid.

Exploring the relationship between identity and religion in British Fishing Communities during the 19th and early 20th centuries, this volume focuses on three communities in the UK: Scarborough, Filey and Grimsby.

Grounded in a deep understanding of what makes intimate relationships succeed, this book provides concrete guidelines for addressing the complexities of real-world clinical practice with couples.

In the modern world, angels can often seem to be no more than a symbol, but in the Middle Ages men and women thought differently.

A historical, cross-cultural survey of sexuality as a sacred spiritual practice*; Examines sacred sexuality in the world's religious and mystery traditions*; Explores contemporary ';sexual stress syndrome' resulting from the absence of the sacred in sexual practice*; Reveals how to find the sacred in the ordinaryThis book examines the history of sexuality as a sacramental act.

A Temporary Affairis a collection of talks given at Sunday morning sittings at the Ithaca Zen Center by Yoshin David Radin, abbot and founder of the Ithaca Zen Center for the past 40 years.

Topics discussed in this volume include different types of structure in Talmudic texts from a literary point of view; the study of the Aramaic language utilized in the Bible and the Talmud from a linguistic and interpretive perspective; the redaction of sugyot in the Talmud Bavli analyzed from a textual point of view; and matters of halakha and halakhic rules.

We live in a vast social wordscape made up almost entirely of chit-chat, or we're being talked at rather than with.

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

In Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima, Alyssa Gabbay examines episodes in pre-modern Islamic history in which individuals or societies recognized descent from both men and women.

The Ultimate Challenge: To Be Better Than Good He has spent his life helping other people to realize their dreams and experience maximum success.

Has your relationship become a battlefield?

Asma Sayeed''s book traces the history of Muslim women''s religious education over the course of nearly ten centuries.

Godly Play(R) is an imaginative approach to working with children, based on Montessori principles.

An invitation and guide for leaders "e;to cast a courageous and imaginative vision, to lead resiliently, and to be present and steady in times of deep anxiety.

There are two types of conflict in congregations: conflict that kills and conflict that cultivates growth.

Mass attachment to religion is rapidly declining in most of the world; Why, and What comes next?

Luther and Bach on the Magnificat: For Advent and Christmas brings together the gifts of Lutheranism's original and most prominent theologian with Lutheranism's most prominent composer/musician as Martin Luther and Johann Sebastian Bach expound in word and music on the Virgin Mary's song of praise in the Gospel of Luke: the Magnificat.

Working in Vancouver's notorious downtown eastside to pay for her theological education at Regent College, Meera Bai Grover was faced with questions about whether or not providing people who use drugs with sterile supplies and a place to inject contravened her faith.

Can morality exist separately from a belief in God?

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"e;A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

What a wonderful way to start each day.

Sacred Unions is a book about true love.

This practical book has given tens of thousands of clinicians and students a comprehensive introduction to mindfulness and its clinical applications.

Religious pluralism has characterized America almost from its seventeenth-century inception, but the past half century or so has witnessed wholesale changes in the religious landscape, including a proliferation of new spiritualities, the emergence of widespread adherence to 'Asian' traditions, and an evangelical Christian resurgence.

Here are three different Christmas pageants complete with music, staging directions, scenery and costume suggestions, plus pointers about how to organize your event.