Religious life and practice

In this hilarious breastfeeding tell-all, the newly titled reissue of How My Breasts Saved the World, Lisa Wood Shapiro recounts her misadventures of new motherhood from the delivery of her daughter and her rookie days as a food source to the bittersweet end of weaning.

Good Sex presents sexual ethics in the light of faith.

Evangelicals often give little thought to the morality of contraception, but when they do, serious studies of the subject are scarce if not non-existent.

Suitable for Advent or Lent, these meditations on pictorial images of light are navigational aids in the ascent to trust in the triumph.

Apparently, in 1338 and well into 1339, Death showed up for a grand performance at a little village of Nestorian Christians.

The book is about showing different ways of doing ethics, highlighting a kind of methodological pluralism.

Even on a bumper sticker, grace is irresistible.

This book is a vital resource for intervention programs, educators, social workers, counselors, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, and survivors of intimate violence and their families.

In this engrossing memoir, Christine Berghoef takes us on a journey exploring the simplicity and complexity of faith.

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

In Soft Shepherd or Almighty Pastor?

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What is the relationship between the gospel and the church's responsibility toward the poor?

This book records a set of dialogues between scientists, theologians, and philosophers on what can be done to prevent a global slide into ecological collapse.

Maybe the only thing new about sexual abuse is quality discussion from several professions (psychology, theology, and pastoral care).

What does a clock or calendar, a map, a newspaper or bandage, a set of measuring cups or a basket have to do with prayer?

Here is a vivid, poetic, and evocative story of the painter Vincent van Gogh's struggle to become his true self.

Here's a guide for English grammar that reads as easily as a story.

For those who are called to it, pastoral ministry can be a source of deep joy.

Although preachers often question their effectiveness, no task of the church is more important than proclamation.

No Man's Land is a book of poems of searching, longing, and belonging overlaid by the ancient struggle with home, family, and God.

Jesus used parables to teach his disciples certain truths about the gospel.

Too often, Christ followers are content to live inside the church walls with other Christians.

The work of American Baptist missionaries among the Telugu people in India in the nineteenth century came to fruition in 1897, when Telugus established their own indigenous missionary organization, the Telugu Home Missionary Society.

University is a major way that our society prepares professionals and leaders in education, health, government, business, arts, church--all components of our communal lives.

They were seeking religious freedom and the Second Coming of Christ in Central Asia.

Principles-based biomedical ethics has been a dominant paradigm for the teaching and practice of biomedical ethics for over three decades.

What drives you?

Research in the roots of evangelicalism and revivalism uncovers its share of peculiarities, but nothing is more unusual than what follows.

Therapeutic preaching is badly in need of rehabilitation.

Black women are strong.

The world is slowly emerging from the worst global emergency in a century, and the myriad struggles of the contemporary moment-division, isolation, illness, and uncertainty-make living our faith a challenge.

Christianity is simple.

Come, Holy Spirit reveals a spirituality intimately connected to the daily life of Fr.

Popular Catholic podcaster Haley Stewart insists that there's no better life coach than nineteenth-century British novelist Jane Austen.

Relationships built on trust matter.

Descubre la historia real de este psicólogo que empezó a recibir en su consultorio a personas que decían algo así como: "soy homosexual y no quiero serlo".

During the holidays, so many of us can suffer for all kinds of reasons.

In recent years the issue of domestic abuse and violence has gained a lot of attention as the extent of it has become known.

Spirituality at the School Gate is an innovative and explorative new study grounded in the field of lived religion.

Many spiritual caregivers, including chaplains, spiritual directors and clergy, are unaware of how they can support people with chronic health conditions.

This text provides the first full-length consideration of women's economic roles in early modern Scottish towns.

A transformative exploration of queer theology and the debate around same-sex marriage within the Church.

When a scrappy small-town pastor refuses to perform a gay wedding, he doesn't expect the decision to send his sister to prison.

Across the world, grassroots movements for change are growing in number, skill, and impact on society.

Liberating Inner Eve: From Constraints of Historic Conditioning to Boundless Personal Power--A Christian Woman's Guidebook addresses the most commonly encountered social and historic challenges that constrain women's experience of personal power, against the background of an empowering exploration of the Genesis account of Adam and Eve.

We live in a time when many view the church as a relic of ancient traditions and cosmologies, often reactionary, mean-spirited, nationalist, and racist.

When the organization and structure of the church in America was altered in the early 1900s to meet modern demands, the role of the pastorate became more specialized to adapt to the burdens of the new, "e;efficient"e; structure.

Eve on Top takes an in-depth look at the position of women in senior positions in the public sector using a case-study approach, based on ten 'successful' women and their background, upbringing, career progression, successes and failures, challenges and experiences.

Through a rich variety of case studies, this book provides insight into the patient's needs and the chaplain's perspective, as well as discussions of spiritual assessments and spiritual care interventions.