Religious issues and debates

"e;There are no words foul and filthy enough to describe war.

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.

The Ten Commandments belong to the "e;classics"e; of Western culture.

The prophets exhort us to defend the poor; but we lionize the rich.

Green Witness is a work in theological ethics, addressed primarily to theologians and seminarians, but also to clergy and church study groups.

Ethical discourse about the institution of voting rarely includes the option of abstaining for principled reasons.

Telling in current biblical postcolonial discourse that draws insights from the works of Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, and postcolonial theorists is the missing contribution of Leopold Sedar Senghor, the architect of Negritude.

This book calls attention to an urgent need for postcolonial feminist approaches to practical theology.

In a perfect world we might expect that all worshipers would be ready for a worship service of thorough praise and adoration.

The Orthodox Church has been characterized by some as "e;the best-kept secret in North America.

This book re-imagines the universe (and the scientific study of it) through the lens of a triune Creator, three persons of irreducible identity in a perichoretic or coinherent communion.

Each year many young Christians leave the comfort and security of their towns, cities, and communities to enter a new world: college.

The locus of God's change and transformation in the world is through local groups of believers immersed in relationships among those directly impacted by injustice.

What is found in this series, unveils an entirely different side of C.

Behold the Lilies draws from the riches of the author's long-standing work in the theology of nature and ecological spirituality, especially from his classic historical study, The Travail of Nature (1985), and from his Franciscan exploration in Christian spirituality, Before Nature (2014).

The foundation of a good biblical sermon is the biblical text.

Globalization has raised numerous questions about theology and culture for Christians.

"e;I'm rich and I don't need a thing,"e; bragged the early Christians in the big city of Laodicea.

FINALLY, a scholarly description of the development of Black preaching in the United States that is accessible to the average reader, but also contributes to the academic conversation about both style and theological content.

A Minister's Manual for Spiritual Warfare is written to assist pastors and other ministers help their parishioners find freedom from demonic oppression.

Dementia presents a significant social issue in a hyper-cognitive culture where stigma, relational neglect, and isolation still accompany forgetfulness.

The Church of God Reformation Movement (founded in 1881) has the distinction of having been founded on the two core principles of holiness and visible unity.

In today's polarized publics, we are rarely prepared to encounter one another peaceably and deeply across irreconcilable difference.

While the traditional Christian engagement with environmental ethics too often begins and ends with Genesis, this project joins numerous recent efforts by biblical scholars to identify new foundations on which Christians can make ethical choices about creation.

The popular belief that a scientific understanding of reality is incompatible with a Christian one is simply wrong.

In The End of Captivity?

Forgiveness is a profound, life-changing experience for many people who have been hurt by others.

What comes after reflective listening?

Guiding Gideon chronicles the encounters between Gideon, a young man in his thirties in the midst of crisis, and his spiritual guide, Julian.

The spiritual formation of young people can often focus on encouraging their personal spiritual practices, and perhaps linking them to a local youth group.

Because the Catholic Church, other Christian churches, and almost every national government permit exceptions to God's commandment that "e;you shall not kill,"e; Johannes Ude examines Catholic moral law to discern whether this commandment has absolute validity or may be modified so that in certain instances it is permissible to kill another human being.

Human hostility is not the narrative of a selected few.

For the Healing of the Nation offers a serious look at the social and political climate in the United States from a biblical perspective, emphasizing race and "e;otherness,"e; economics and the environment, and institutional violence (war and capital punishment).

For religious communities to have integrity and credibility they must flourish as places of love and respect.

In Wo/men, Scripture, and Politics, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, brings to bear years of trailblazing scholarship of feminist thought and hermeneutics onto the current political and cultural landscape.

How you spend your time and money controls what happens on this planet .

There are three main positions that people adopt within the abortion debate: pro-life, muddled middle, and pro-choice.

After a generation of being a leading progressive voice both in the pulpit and in the print media of Springfield, Missouri, Roger Ray has collected one hundred of his essays on topics of social justice, religion, sex, economics, warfare, and race as a collection for use in college classrooms, in adult discussion groups, and as an enjoyable collection of thought provoking articles that once appeared on the opinion page of the Springfield NewsLeader.

As preachers who come to the pulpit, before God and before God's people, each and every week, how do we make sense of the text as we live a new moment of its ongoing story?

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

Memento mori--remember death--this is how the medieval monks exhort us.

Perhaps more than any philosophy written in the past few centuries, the work of Friedrich Nietzsche has given rise to controversy, misunderstanding, and dissent.

Between the world of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Christianity there appears to be the widest difference.

The ailments of the contemporary church are remarkably similar to those suffered by the fractious Corinthian church in the first century.

The Quest for Human Dignity in the Ethics of Pregnancy Termination describes and analyzes the problem of termination of pregnancy, with special attention to its prevalence in Kenya, where more than seven hundred abortions are performed daily on girls between fifteen and seventeen years of age.

The Sacred Art of Marriage explores married life as an art studio with fifty-two tools to creatively craft your spiritual life together.

Moral Leadership tells you all you need to know to lead.

The election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of the United States was a watershed moment in American history.

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

What the hell happened on the way to making the world a better place?