Religious life and practice

This book brings together a variety of perspectives on how religion can be related to violence and war--both in a destructive and constructive way.

A basic question in philosophy is, "e;how do we know what we think we know?

This book and the essays contained within are dedicated to Dr.

At some time or another, every preacher has entered the pulpit wondering "e;What shall I preach?

The Lord's Supper (or Eucharist) has often been a subject of intense debate in the church.

Originally published in German in an edition edited by Dietrich Braun, Karl Barth's Ethics is at last available in English.

In Our Separate Ways, authors Ella Bell and Stella Nkomo take an unflinching look at the surprising differences between black and white women's trials and triumphs on their way up the corporate ladder.

Service learning teams and short-term mission opportunities have incredible potential to help participants stretch their faith, to help others, and gain a bigger picture of what God is doing in the world.

Working within two popular genres, gardening books and biblical meditations, God Gardened East offers a meditation on the first twenty-five chapters of Genesis, emphasizing the tropes of cultivation, wandering, and "e;the east.

What does it take for women to succeed in a male-dominated world?

This book showcases the perspective and insights of a youth ministry servant who is also a ministry school student.

If a meal is a metaphor for a relationship, then there's no better way to describe God's purpose for his people than as an invitation to a meal with the Maker.

The Bluebonnet flower grows in very poor soil.

What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace?

Preaching is a challenging, privileged, and awesome responsibility.

The chapters collected in this book, prepared by a think tank of the Elijah Interfaith Academy, address the subject of religious leadership.

Keen to make your church relevant to Millennials?

No one can deny that friendships are powerful relationships of influence.

The hope of this book is that it awakens desire to know more intimately the God who breaks through our compartmentalization and naming.

To what extent are the children of Holocaust perpetrators to feel remorseful or responsible for their parents' wrongdoing?

A broad and eloquent study on the relatively overlooked population of single women in the slaveholding SouthSingle, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women-from the pre- to the post-Civil War South-within a society that placed high value on women's marriage and motherhood.

In 1975, Arthur F.

What is to be the church's response to the immigrant?

A fresh wind of God's Spirit is blowing on the earth today, and as in times past, God is inviting us to raise our sails and move forward with the power and direction that reflects our commitment to God's will.

In the early 1970s, living in inner-city St.

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A young dancer's last hope--a bone marrow transplant--has failed.

Jesus, the rabbi of Nazareth, was always on the move.

How do pious Shia Muslim women nurture and sustain their religious lives?

Bertrand Russell defines power as the ability to produce intended effects.

Every day, Americans rub shoulders with the cultures of the world--on the sidewalks of their cities and, increasingly, in small towns and rural areas.

African American scholar Anthony Bradley understands the growing interest in the intersections of theology and economics emerging in light of Christianity's commitment to loving the poor.

Many Pentecostal groups have forgotten their legacy of war resistance and doctrinal history opposing killing.

The current age marks the transition from modernity to postmodernity, a period as impactful to the Western sensibility as any previous era.

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What is the role of the church in ministering to the sick?

Your God is too small--way too small!

Recent scholarship in a number of disciplines has explored the relationship between ontology and ethics.

Portraits of Jewish Learning brings together colorful accounts of the ways that Jewish students today are having meaningful learning experiences in day school classrooms, Hebrew programs, synagogue-based schools, and high school and college courses that push students out of their comfort zone.

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This collection of biblical, theological, historical, and pastoral essays celebrates the remarkable forty-year ministry of the Rev.

Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood.

Veterans who experience the overwhelming trauma of war are often still stuck in the far country.

Preaching is a personal event: a minister or speaker prepares his or her sermon and presents it to the congregation.

Our churches and our country long for an expression of common hope.

John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was a man who sought to integrate life and holiness.

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In Painstaker, Galbraith takes stock of life, building an inventory of faith, regret, travel, parenthood, and hardship both physical and mental.