Buddhism

This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk production of their herd for sustenance.

What if reality TV met one of our oldest stories of blood revenge, lust, envy, and coming-of-age?

Idealistic farm girl Teresa can't wait to leave home, to escape the ugliness.

These 150 meditations are paraphrases of our common human experience and therefore a way of uniting our divisive world.

At each turn in life we are bombarded with the idea of normal.

Most consumers of mental health services assume that psychology developed as a bias-free social science, with research data driving theory and practice.

The fascinating and quirky biography of a disheveled poet, skillfully interwoven with his original works.

Christian faith is continually challenged by the tension between certainty and mystery.

Have you ever been challenged and stymied when asked where you stand in your faith?

Told in the first person by the author of the Gospel of Mark, The Cloak and the Parchments relates the story of how the earliest gospel came to be written against the backdrop of emergent Christianity's doctrinal tensions.

Today's culture war raises questions about pulpit ministry; the answers to which are often assumed but rarely thought through.

Foretaste of Heaven is a witness to the enabling grace of God in a time of grave illness.

Who Me?

Church weddings, funerals, and most Sunday services reflect the values and dramas of their communities, even when the ministers are the main or sole actors.

This book enables worship leaders to skillfully guide spiritual novices, skeptics, and Christian veterans to the grace embedded in the timeless liturgy.

This book was prepared for lay people, congregational leaders, pastors, church musicians, worship leaders, and worship committees.

As the church continues to advance through the generations, The Great Commission is falling into great disarray.

Nirvana has become an idealized word associated with the juxtaposition of a cult rock celebrity who died before his time and a vague new age version of Eastern religion.

Today, humanity is caught up in the mad complexity of the mind, and as never before, there is an urgent need to rediscover simplicity and innocence.

SOren Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing is an astute analysis of inner dividedness.

After logging thousands of miles in planes, jeeps, dugout canoes, pickup trucks, bicycles, and on foot, LeQuire and du Plessis offer insights into how Christians around the world are using tourism to develop their villages while caring for both creation and culture.

How true can Christianity really be?

The Sermon on the Mount is not supposed to read like a collection of standards that we should be striving to achieve.

The declining religious participation among young adults, or "e;Rise of the Nones,"e; has signaled alarms across American Christianity.

Have you ever wondered how it would look to live out a Christian sexual ethic amid the varied and confusing sexual messages that are part of modern culture?

In a cinematic culture where multiple visions of reality "e;play"e; at the same time, it is critical that Christian believers know how to confidently identify and "e;discern,"e; among other stories, the Jesus-story that defines their most important commitment in life.

Why does it feel like most of the world today considers irrelevant the gospel we cherish and so faithfully proclaim in our churches?

With the onslaught of books on how to do worship, Dr.

In this compact, fluently written survey of logical fallacies, Adam Murrell provides myriad examples of ways we go about being illogical--how we deceive ourselves and others, how we think and argue in ways that are uncritical, disorganized, or irrelevant.

The needs for and the benefits of holistic health care--care that extends to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of individuals--have been well known for 2,500 years or so.

This book is intended to encourage the use of comparative theology in contemporary Buddhist-Christian dialogue as a new approach that would truly respect each religious tradition's uniqueness and make dialogue beneficial for all participants interested in a real theological exchange.

Enlarge My Coast tells of Pastor Blackstone's return to India to see the completion of a project inspired during his first trip to the subcontinent of Asia in 2006.

The sacred Scriptures, stylized in poetryAfter thorough readings through the Bible and study of biblical languages, The Haiku Bible started as an effort to make better sense of the complex and nuanced anthology.

There are infinite stories about New York City, here are 41 in haiku form.

Why do we see so much fruitful good in unbelievers and so much evil in believers?

In this companion to his best-selling translation ofThe Dhammapada, Eknath Easwaran explains howThe Dhammapadais a perfect map for the spiritual journey.

The Light of Wisdom Vol.

If you have ever looked into the eyes of a parent who is heartbroken over a wayward child, then you have seen one of the worst types of pain imaginable.

The Iraq War caused emotional, physical, psychiatric, relational, and spiritual challenges to an untold number of military reservists and their families.

Seeking God is a Platonic dialogue on the nature of the religious experience and the conditions under which this experience is possible.

Tasty Jesus deals with key cultural, philosophical, and theological representations of Christ that find expression in the North American church.

More than at any time in the past, today's evangelicals struggle to understand what the essence of the Christian faith really is.

In Giving Voice to the Silent Pulpit, author Barry Blood explores the many differences that exist between Popular Christianity, (the doctrine as taught from the pulpit) and Academic Christianity, (the doctrine as taught in our colleges and seminaries).

This work explores a perennial question that Christians who are called to teach must consider: So what makes our teaching Christian?

Street Cop is the exciting story of one man's career in Law Enforcement.

Who doesn't want a liberated life?

Said to contain the words of the Buddha on the nature of ultimate wisdom, the Lankavatara was influential in the general doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism, in particular Zen.

Dangerous Woman?

These reflections, based on the seven last words of Jesus from the cross (including an Easter message) invite readers to contemplate the spiritual, theological, and biblical significance of the death and resurrection of Jesus.