Religious life and practice

Bestselling author Emile Barnes' classic 15 Minutes Alone with God (more than 525,000 copies sold) has a lovely new cover and interior design that embraces inspiring devotions and encourages women in their quiet times with God.

What is worship?

This wise and practical handbook, written by a palliative care physician and a priest with experience in hospice ministry, addresses the needs of the dying, their relatives and friends, and also those who provide support and care.

In this moving spiritual memoir, Dr.

This collection of essays considers topics in pastoral theology, pastoral care and counseling, pastoral leadership, and social work, and attends to challenges and opportunities pertaining to the support and care of persons in need.

Evil, death, demons, reanimation, and resurrection.

What is justice?

We yearn to be accepted and loved for who we really are.

Parktails is an adventure that takes place in the aftermath of a great forest fire.

Musings is a collection of short, easy-reading essays dealing with the challenges of life.

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.

Brazil is a rapidly emerging country.

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.

In the twenty-first-century workplace, women are encouraged to step up, lean in, take charge, go for it .

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.

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.

This publication develops a strategic focus for integrating gender concerns into programs and operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Kazakhstan.

This book provides a current and comprehensive analysis of the context in which Pacific women engage in the private sector, as well as a detailed list of strategies to increase their participation in business.

Do you want to make a greater difference with your life?

This book is a conversation-not a lecture-for women.

Our known world, the world of twenty-first century Americans, is shaped and defined by consumer choice.

Believing that study and application of Scripture in the context of Christian community can greatly enhance the transformative power of the preached message, in Bringing Home the Message Robert Perkins aims to help pastors integrate small group ministry with their preaching.

The church has been inundated in recent years with literature emphasizing the relational and the value of community.

This volume throws out a lifeline to all who are running low on hope--those going under, losing their grip, slipping away, falling, failing, listing, losing, lost--as well as to those looking to enliven and embolden their hope.

In these challenging times, the resident population served by the predominantly African-American church demands and deserves specific attention in order to preserve the uniquely cohesive nature of the African-American community.

Inner Messiah, Divine Character encourages readers to deploy their imaginations in describing their lives as a confluence of narrative constructs to identify, analyze, and overcome obstacles and destructive patterns in both their personal and professional lives.

Public worship is the nursery of the Holy Spirit.

In The Games People Play, Robert Ellis constructs a theology around the global cultural phenomenon of modern sport, paying particular attention to its British and American manifestations.

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.

At this time of climate crisis, here is a practical Christian ecospirituality.

Psychosis has taken over.

What is your hope for your first five years of ministry?