Religious issues and debates

Prince Evgenii Trubetskoi (1863-1920), one of Russia's great philosophers, exemplified what was best in the Russian religious-philosophical tradition.

Life is not a cakewalk for any of us.

Throughout history, many marriages have been characterised by confusion, conflict, and pain.

When Surveyor-General Thomas Hutchins drove a stake into the ground to mark a "e;point of beginning"e; for the 1785 establishment of Seven Ranges of townships on the west bank of the Ohio River, he had to have sensed that he was initiating something larger than a survey.

God made human beings in his image and that is what makes us so valuable.

The Prosperity movement has been rightly challenged on biblical, theological, and pastoral grounds and has been found to be lacking.

"e;Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise.

Has liberation theology reached a dead end?

This is a selection of writings on themes of trauma and transformation, hope and anguish, in a time of reckoning.

University Ethics: The Status of the FieldMatthew J.

In a culture where gender neutrality is the ideal, why is it significant that we were created differently as male and female?

This book is a look at the spirituality of marriage through the lens of Christian spirituality.

From pornographic videos of rape and incest to sexual predators around every corner; from online challenges teaching children how to commit suicide to resources teaching them how to conjure up demons; from social media trends praising abortion to completely redefining what it means to be human; these are the monsters in the closet which children and teenagers are being exposed to.

This work explores issues of forgiveness and reconciliation in countries that had experienced political conflicts, civil war, and even genocide.

What does believing mean in the face of empire and militarization?

Apocalyptic (end times) beliefs are found across different religious cultures and time periods, especially those influenced by the Abrahamic faiths.

Spiritual Life on a Burning Planet draws on scientific research in developing religious perspectives on anthropogenic climate change.

This book is primarily for a general audience of persons of good will, regardless of faith or non-faith, as well as for professionals who counsel others on the issues discussed.

Christian realism is undergoing a renaissance in both American Christianity and around the world.

When our communities are shaken by school shootings and natural disasters, ministry leaders are first on the scene to care for the people.

Attendance in US churches continues to sharply decline.

Biblical Israelites were sojourners--immigrants, refugees, and resident aliens in lands other than their own--for the greater part of two thousand years.

The Digital Age has transformed nearly every facet of Western culture.

Kitty Kielland's verve and confidence, scathing wit, and indignant ability (and willingness) to point out stupidity and hubris underpin her entry in the late nineteenth-century argument about "e;The Woman Question.

At this historic moment of global revolutions for social justice inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, the philosophy of Black Consciousness has reemerged and gripped the imagination of a new generation, and of the merciless exposure by COVD-19 of the devastating, long-existent fault lines in our societies.

Introduction: The 'Climate Emergency' and US Catholic Responses to Laudato Si'Daniel R.

Techno-Sapiens gathers together leading scholars of technology, theology, and religion in order to explore the ways in which modern technology is neither solely a dehumanizing force in the world nor a mere instrument for evangelizing the world, but rather the very means by which incarnation happens--the media in and through which humans love the (digital) other.

What is it that makes discipleship authentic?

This is a spiritual, historical, fictional story about a young Polish man falsely accused by the Nazis.

Futurists speculate that we are heading towards a 'singularity,' where AI will outsmart human beings, and humanity will coalesce into a single, ever-expanding mind for which data is everything.

While there are many books that address burnout in ministry, there are few that speak to compassion fatigue.

The Problem with the Dot is rooted in the idea that culture is a garden to be tended (Gen 2:15) rather than a war to be won and uses the analogy of an ecosystem to expand the details of the individual components of the theatrical ecosystem to:1.

Radical Conversion utilizes both analytic and normative philosophic/theoretical frameworks to study the relationship between Christian-Catholic conceptualizations of politics, citizenship, faith, and religion as viewed through a quasi-theological lens.

While state governments determine the "e;Who?

The Ever Changing Sky: Meditations on the Psalms, a book of lay meditations on the Psalms composed in fits and starts over a thirteen-year period, is for anyone struggling with the challenges of leading an authentic life in what poet John Keats termed an "e;arena of soul making.

Why Call It God?

Funk is an African American musical genre that causes the average listener to have an uncontrollable desire to move their feet and dance.

Contemporary questions about gender challenge our views of ourselves and the proverbial other.

Decolonizing Ecotheology: Indigenous and Subaltern Challenges is a pioneering attempt to contest the politics of conquest, commodification, and homogenization in mainstream ecotheology, informed by the voices of Indigenous and subaltern communities from around the world.

Can something as simple as friendship have a transformative impact in a divided world?

Very few if any have devoted more years to practicing and teaching others to practice the precepts of Jesus's Sermon on the Mount than Leo Tolstoy.

In a world in which genuine forgiveness seems as rare a commodity as ever, this collection of essays offers an opportunity to explore where and in what forms forgiveness may be found in the Hebrew Bible--a text which is foundational for Western religions and the cultures they have influenced over the last two millennia.

Growing in our ability to have a conscious awareness of God's presence with us in the midst of our busy and over-stimulated world is a key to our spiritual health and emotional well-being.

This book provides an exegetical-theological-rhetorical paradigm, "e;the Christ-oriented approach"e; (Lk 24:27, 44), that facilitates accuracy, effectiveness, and practicality in preaching the New Testament use of the Old.

At first glance, it may seem as though the Bible is populated with the stories of faithful men, courageous men, or nefarious men, men who were either enemies or friends of God.

The discussion guide for the novel, Wonder Clearing, comes at a critical moment for churches and nations.

Human history is the history of migration.

The Dialogues on the Incarnation presented in this book show a group of four preachers as they endeavored to help the people in their church make theological sense at a time when optimism and fear were intermingled.

The Brain and the Spirit invites readers to embark on a practice of listening to the Christ story through the earpiece of neuroscience.