Religious life and practice

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

Ideas about education have consequences.

Is religion a source of political stability and social continuity, or an agent of radical change?

The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) called for the renewal of all religious institutes in the Catholic Church.

David Bosch (1929-1992) was one of the foremost mission theologians of the twentieth century, at once a prolific scholar, committed church leader, and active participant in the global conciliar and evangelical mission movements.

After logging thousands of miles in planes, jeeps, dugout canoes, pickup trucks, bicycles, and on foot, LeQuire and du Plessis offer insights into how Christians around the world are using tourism to develop their villages while caring for both creation and culture.

Muchas personas viven atormentadas con la idea, con la simple posibilidad, de que pueden estar sintiendo atracción por el mismo sexo, o bien ya son esclavas de una forma de vida homosexual.

Most don't make it to the deep waters of community.

This is a book about the enormous changes that took place at Baylor University from 1991 to 2003, as seen through the perceptive eyes of its provost at the time, Donald D.

The Relation Equation is designed to expose both the subversively held and overtly understood nuances of relationships in order to view them through the lens of a commonly accepted formula for equity.

This book boldly asserts that New Testament prophetic visions portray a dynamic heaven-borne program of collective human revitalization in the new future.

Christian ministers working in congregations and with nonprofits seek to discern what it is that God has been doing and where it is that the "e;Spirit"e; might be leading them.

Could we have imagined how much theological education would change in the new millennium?

The needs for and the benefits of holistic health care--care that extends to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of individuals--have been well known for 2,500 years or so.

The preaching of God's Word happens tens of thousands of times each week across the world.

Abigail Waldron always knew she wanted to be a mother.

Humans are lovers, and yet a good deal of pedagogical theory, Christian or otherwise, assumes an anthropology at odds with human nature, fixed in a model of humans as "e;thinking things.

Folk is an analog foundation in a digital world.

The Sacred Art of Marriage explores married life as an art studio with fifty-two tools to creatively craft your spiritual life together.

Norma Jean Duncan found God following a personal revelation of his love.

This book presents nine biblical themes in essays authored by veteran educators who surprise and affirm readers with personal accounts of how these themes shaped their practice in education.

It is never surprising that even after years of sitting in the pews of America's churches basic understanding of who Jesus is and how he expects us to live day to day escape laymen and leaders alike.

This book explores the unprecedented challenge of involuntary singleness for women, and the implications of disregarding this challenge for the Christian (and particularly, baptistic) communities of faith.

Adolescent girls are filled with passion, excitement, joy, critique, wit, and energy, even as they face and overcome a wide variety of difficult challenges.

Two Jews, Three Opinions examines a unique educational movement that began in 1980 when eight school leaders met to create RAVSAK: the Jewish Community Day School Network, an association of schools distinguished by being inclusive of all Jews in their communities.

Academic research in alcohol addiction presents diverse results and subject inadequacies.

In a public education world of vast, multiple, rapid, and often colliding educational reforms, Movements of Educational Reform provides the novice as well as the veteran educator and administrator a sort of map of educational changes and processes.

If you have ever looked into the eyes of a parent who is heartbroken over a wayward child, then you have seen one of the worst types of pain imaginable.

The Iraq War caused emotional, physical, psychiatric, relational, and spiritual challenges to an untold number of military reservists and their families.

More than at any time in the past, today's evangelicals struggle to understand what the essence of the Christian faith really is.

This work explores a perennial question that Christians who are called to teach must consider: So what makes our teaching Christian?

Who doesn't want a liberated life?

Theological education has historically placed a strong emphasis on Scripture as the source of principle and practice for ministry.

A boy doesn't become a man by accident.

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.

As we evolve, so do our prayers; as our prayers evolve, so do we.

Christianity must be understood not as a religion of private salvation, but as a gospel movement of universal compassion, which transforms the world in the power of God's truth.

This book is aimed at those Christians who have begun to question the conventional understandings of Jesus, and Christianity, and even of what we mean by "e;God,"e; and have become discomforted by the dissonance between their own thinking and the church's stance.

We humans are capable of great relationships.

Pastoral theologians from Congo, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address, in this book, the issues of leadership, Ubuntu (community), gender-based violence, political violence, healing, and deliverance faced by pastors and ministers in African contexts today.

"e;Here are the details of an amazing life.

Based on the popular spiritual healing program designed by Bob Schuchts and the John Paul II Healing Center, Lenten Healing offers a twist to traditional Lenten fasting: instead of giving up chocolate, give up your sin.

Mainline Protestant congregations face a profound adaptive challenge.

In Finding Voice, Kincaid employs an often used but somewhat elusive metaphor, "e;voice,"e; as a way of speaking of pastoral identity and contends that a lively, imaginative pastoral voice emerges from a thorough grasp of context, theology, pastoral roles, personal journey, and systemic dynamics.

This new edited collection explores the intersection of spiritual direction and counselling/psychotherapy, and the relationship between the two.

Focusing on how someone in need can best be helped, the author identifies the skills and honesty of the person who wants to help as key to how effective this can be.

Have You Ever Met a Great Leader?

In the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted classrooms around the world, teachers scrambled to convert their lectures and presentations into a format more conducive to online and distance learning.

Good people of privilege are increasingly aware of racial injustice but unsure what to do about it and afraid to venture into challenging dialogues and spaces.