Religious issues and debates

Intersex is an umbrella term for many different conditions that cause ambiguous sexual biology.

Thanks to coded notes taken by the teenager John Pynchon, this volume transports the reader, virtually, back to Sundays in the seventeenth century, when the community gathered to listen to the Rev.

Even in the twenty-first century, critical and creative engagement with modern and postmodern philosophy is still a rarity in Orthodox circles.

In stark contrast to the shrill and nasty interactions among many Christians regarding contentious LGBT issues, this book models a redemptive mode of engagement by featuring respectful conversations among deeply committed Christians who hold to diverging traditional and non-traditional views.

In today's multi-cultural and multi-religious world, evangelism is often viewed as scandalous, not only by those who are opposed to anything religious, but also by many Christians.

We can make Jesus look very small if we are not careful.

Proverbs 22:22 enjoins the reader, "e;Don't take advantage of the poor just because you can.

Like Ripples on Water is, first of all, a book about Russian Baptists and their preaching.

Tim's wife, Anne, died of breast cancer at the age of forty-nine, having battled against the disease for more than six years.

Can a Lutheran be sociopolitically radical?

In Setting the Captives Free Marion Carson sets out to answer the question, what does the Bible say about human trafficking?

The Tragedy of Almightiness encircles the theme of human yearning for omnipotence, as expressed in religion and various ideologies.

Remarkable is how extensively in each parable Jesus provides a subtle but rich array of unexpected possibilities hidden within the hierarchies of power so commonplace in his world.

Despite its title, this is not a morbid or depressing book, but one that it is hoped will bring encouragement and comfort to all who are experiencing life's difficulties, even to the point of wondering if they wish to continue living.

In this succinct, inviting volume, four Balkan theologians probe their contextual ways with the theology of Jurgen Moltmann, whose classic The Crucified God influenced novel theological approaches around the globe, most recently the emerging postwar Christian theology in the Balkans.

The purpose of this book, Diary of Agony and Hope, explores the ethical themes of justice and hope through the lens of folk sayings, case studies, and real-life experiences on the part of the writer as a resident of St.

The manner in which Kathryn Johnston died so tragically at the hands of Atlanta narcotics police on the evening of November 21, 2006, anticipates and informs a number of very contemporary--and extremely volatile--issues that have become closely associated with the name of Ferguson, Missouri.

What happens when North American Mennonite Christians arrive in Islamic Somalia?

When a fire severely burned a small boy and displaced his family, it left lingering marks on the entire neighborhood.

Roots Matter recognizes the impact of transgenerational trauma, as a result of chattel slavery, on the African American community.

How do we care justly when selves suffer because of the identities that they inhabit?

In the wake of the furious demonstrations and debates evoked by terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere, Dr.

How should Christians respond to terrorism and terrorists in their midst?

Harold J.

Thomas Aquinas and William Langland inherited the dynamic metaphor of journeying as a fundamental concept of the Christian life and harnessed it to animate their magisterial texts: the Summa Theologiae and Piers Plowman.

Christianity has lost control of its brand.

Come to church or go to hell.

Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy provide the conceptual foundations of theocracy, which is to say religiously-based totalitarianism.

Confronting Religious Violence: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination tells the tale of Christian theocracy in the West.

The art of mentoring, like all great arts, is a grace to be received, a gift to be given, and a skill that can be learned and practiced.

Navigating the Nonsense will change the way your church approaches conflict and communication.

One of the most influential social activists of the twentieth century, A.

The current immigration crisis on our southern borders is usually debated from a safe distance.

In Ethics and the Autonomy of Philosophy, Bernard Walker sets out with two objectives.

Does neuroscience show that all our ideas about law and ethics are false?

A philosopher and a business leader have a friendly debate about whether it makes sense to speak of God having a strategy for the human race.

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What are the resources and teachings in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam that take hospitality--and its call to provide protective hospitality--seriously enough to inform shared action and belief on behalf of the threatened other?

The nature of Kierkegaard's political legacy is complicated by the religious character of his writings.

A House Divided helps answer the question, how do Christians form moral judgments about sex-linked issues?

Responsible Belief tackles the problem of fixing the tenacity of believers in forming, holding, and modifying beliefs.

Americans are using more medical services every year, but as many as half of those services do nothing to improve their health.

Ethics in the West too often equates morality with universal moral principles, thus imposing lifestyles and moral criteria that do not respect differences and local histories.

"e;Why does God hate me?

In 2017 Christians around the world will mark the five hundredth anniversary of the Reformation.

In Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion, Celucien Joseph provides a fresh and careful reexamination of Haiti's intellectual history by focusing on the ideas and writings of five prominent thinkers and public intellectuals: Toussaint Louverture, Joseph Antenor Firmin, Jacques Roumain, Dantes Bellegarde, and Jean Price-Mars.

How would politics be different if Christians acknowledged Jesus Christ as the archetype of all rulers, democratic and nondemocratic?

The landscape of Christian spirituality in the West is no longer lush with green grass and wild flowers blooming.

Few words inspire more fear in Americans these days than jihad.

According to the Reformers, preaching is the word of God.