Religious life and practice

The perfect "e;sister"e; to the long-awaited book, I'll Be There (But I'll Be Wearing Sweatpants) from Sister, I Am With You founders, Amy Weatherly and Jess Johnstonthis official workbook addresses the value of authentic friendships and helps you develop them.

This text is a comprehensive introduction to mission and ministry in the contemporary Church which enables students to prepare for ministry in a changing church within a changing world.

A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by inhibiting reproduction of “inferior” genetic strains, ultimately came to be regarded as the great shame of the Progressive movement.

What a beautiful, genuine, moving book.

GOD CAN MEET YOUR NEEDS AS HE DID FOR WOMEN OF THE BIBLEWomen are central to some of the most critical events, powerful encounters, and transformative moments in the Bible.

Unapologetic, troublemaking, agitating, revolutionary, and hot-headed: radical feminism bravely transformed the history of politics, love, sexuality, and science.

Based on interviews with women who are HIV positive, this sobering pandemic brings to light the deeply rooted and complex problems of living with HIV.

Let go of the guilt, shake off the shame, and fend off your fears.

Journey with prolific author and avid baseball fan Ethan Bryan on an exciting quest to play catch every day for a year, and discover the lessons he learned about the sacredness of play, finding connections, and being fully present to the human experience.

How can we ignite faith in the next generation?

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The wives of Woodrow Wilson were strikingly different from each other.

Congregational workshop leader Michael Angrosino gives down-to-earth examples and practical information to make discussion of these tough issues for congregations much easier.

For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies.

How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries?

In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as "e;I'm twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen"e; and "e;Honestly, Mom, chances are he won't stay with you.

As one of the most outstanding Christian thinkers in history, John Henry Newman continues to influence theology, especially Catholic theology, long after his death in 1890.

Discover how to organize and declutter your life so you can make space for what you value most.

Inside the Heart of Every Champion Lies CharacterWinning at sports and life takes more than just talent and hard work.

Experience Freedom by Embracing One Fearand Releasing All OthersIt sounds strange, doesn't it?

The flood of archaeological work in Maya lands has revolutionized our understanding of gender in ancient Maya society.

Violence committed by religious young people has become a regular feature of our daily news reports.

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Worlds of Women is a groundbreaking exploration of the "e;first wave"e; of the international women's movement, from its late nineteenth-century origins through the Second World War.

Kingdom Hero: a committed Christian who perseveres by faith in order to experience spiritual victory and divine approval You must grow in your faith to keep harvesting its fruits.

During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic philosophical issues posed by this controversial subject: whether the fetus is a person, whether it has a right to life, whether a woman has a right to decide what happens in and to her body, whether there is an ethical connection between abortion and infanticide, whether there is any point after conception where it is possible to draw the line beyond which killing is impermissible.

A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psychology.

The Jesus Always Discussion Guide is a 52-week discussion guide that showcases one passage of Jesus Always within every seven-day period and provides discussion questions for that devotion.

Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade.

Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade.

This handbook provides an original, comprehensive and unparalleled overview of feminist scholarship in sport, leisure and physical education.

Confronting Global Gender Justice contains a unique, interdisciplinary collection of essays that address some of the most complex and demanding challenges facing theorists, activists, analysts, and educators engaged in the tasks of defining and researching women's rights as human rights and fighting to make these rights realities in women's lives.

Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.

In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology.

Over the past decade, democratization and civil society promotion became key variables in preserving global security and the liberal economic market.

How would your life change if you could show up as your true self?

Is there any greater gift than knowing you are loved?

Create a lifelong intimate relationship between each other and with God.

Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory.

Fishermen don't rely on luck in order to catch fishthey put their skills, knowledge, and experience into play every time they cast their line.

Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?

God designed men to seek out adventure.

Brazil has the tragic distinction of having endured the longest military-authoritarian regime in South America.

God has something to say to his daughters.

Like the products of the "e;sea-change"e; described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "e;rich and strange.

Let God's Word light your way every day with one of the most beloved devotionals of all time.

Striking out from my familiar path of poetry writing, this devotional continues my walk of openly sharing the challenges of mental disease.

This year, take an insightful journey through the pages of the New Testament.

In The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran, Arzoo Osanloo explores how Iranian women understand their rights.

Since the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996, the public has grappled with the relationship between Islamic education and radical Islam.