Spirituality and religious experience

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.

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?

Come into the Silence is an easy-to-use devotional for all those seeking peace, stillness, and solitude in a busy and noisy world.

We Are Beloved offers you a personal, thirty-day retreat based on the prophetic words of Servant of God Sr.

Psobriety helps people in recovery develop and strengthen their spirituality with daily readings on each of the 150 Psalms.

Contemplative disciplines, such as centering prayer and meditation, have been part of Christian life for centuries.

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.

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Christianity is simple.

Cancer, I'll Give You One Year: A Non-Informative Guide To Breast Cancer, A Writer's Memoir In Almost Real Time is not about eating kale.

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

Journey in real time with Steve, a burned-out Protestant minister, as he babysits his daughter's classmate Adi.

The poetry and prose reflections in this book cover a wide range of themes, discovering the presence of God in deeply challenging as well as joyful experiences.

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.

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.

For a denomination like Roman Catholicism that is canonically difficult to leave, many American Catholics are migrating beyond the institution's immediate influence.

How does Christ meet, engage, change, challenge, dialogue, interact with, and bridge cultures?

Dove of White Flame: A Historical Novel About Saint Columba aims to enter the sixth-century world of Saint Columba--also known as Colmcille--as vividly as possible while maintaining historical accuracy.

The quick facts are these: Alzheimer's Disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and is the only cause of death in the top ten in America that cannot be prevented, slowed, or cured.

We often hear that alternative medicine is superior to classical medicine, for it treats us holistically, both the physical body and the immaterial part of our nature.

This prayer book is intended to build up your child's prayer life in a fun and relatable way.

Imagine a child going for an exciting helicopter ride over Niagara Falls, then having to perform an emergency rescue after identifying a body in distress down into the gorge.

Growing evidence indicates that spiritual practices enhance personal resilience under challenging circumstances.

Our world is facing an enormous and unprecedented challenge.

Meeting the psychological and spiritual needs of patients is vital to supporting their wellbeing in health care settings.

Odes to Common Plants is a book about loving common plants and respecting their tenacious powers of survival.

This book draws from the examples of God, that of Jesus Christ and of others like Joseph, Moses, Joshua, and Paul, who had been called into leadership, as recorded in the Bible, in order to show good leadership approaches, styles, best leadership practices, and the underlying guiding principles that today's leaders need to embrace in order to become more effective in their leadership roles.

Mentoring Minutes: Weekly Messages to Encourage Anyone Guiding Youth aims to encourage and equip people working with youth with the knowledge, strategies, ideas, and recent youth research to build meaningful and developmental relationships with these young people.

As I reflected on working in a Teen Challenge Youth Emergency Accommodation Shelter, I began to realize that in serving others, I too had been greatly served.

"e;The church of our Lord is like a body with Christ as the Head.

What does it mean to die?

In this book Timothy D.

A Holocaust survivor whose mother collapsed and died only moments after they both registered as survivors, a death row inmate who has reclaimed his life through Buddhism, and a mother whose daughter was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer two days before her thirtieth birthday, among others, offer their perspectives on death and dying in this thought-provoking volume.

This collection of essays on policing and the use of force, while written over the course of the last twenty-five years, remains relevant and timely.

A problem facing many churches today is the lack of strong leadership in the area of stewardship, particularly the stewardship of financial resources.

Bruce Taylor's latest publication of sermons for the Common Lectionary (Revised) covers the Sundays and major feast days of Year B, from the first Sunday of Advent through the seventh Sunday of Easter, and includes a sermon delivered for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in an ecumenical setting.

Among the numerous sets of conferences that Thomas Merton presented to young prospective monks during his decade (1955-1965) as novice master at the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani is a wide-ranging introduction to biblical studies, made available for the first time in the present volume.