Religious and ceremonial art

Let Your Faith Be Moved by the MasterpiecesArt becomes a masterpiece when it stands the test of time and challenges its viewers to see the world from a new perspective.

The Bisa people of Nabwalya, Zambia love their culture and gladly celebrate all their traditional festivals.

Church Beyond Walls tells inspiring, informative and occasionally funny stories of how a group of people took Christian spirituality outside of church buildings to engage a world increasingly uninterested in religion, God and faith.

What is Christianity?

Growing from 4 to 400 GenerationsWeve heard stories about disciple-making movements that are sweeping the globe, transforming the way people are coming to Christ in places like Asia, western Africa, and South America.

Using new archival research, this book shows how Union Theological Seminary exported progressive Christianity to Communist China.

Adjusting to a New World Missionaries must adjust to new cultures, learn languages, work as a team, maintain healthy relationships, and discern best ministry practices.

What is the biggest threat facing churches today?

Adjusting to a New World Missionaries must adjust to new cultures, learn languages, work as a team, maintain healthy relationships, and discern best ministry practices.

Why would anyone want to watch horror movies?

The evangelical Mongolian church has experienced significant growth since the country opened to the world in 1990.

The wonderful love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit makes mission possible.

This book was written with three purposes in mind.

This qualitative study explores intercultural social dynamics among international Christian workers who are part of multicultural teams engaged in Christian ministries in a North African country.

How do art and faith intersect?

Can we afford to chase beauty in a world that emphasizes distraction and naked ambition over a lifestyle of wonder and spiritual restfulness?

The Pilgrim's Progress has inspired readers across the centuries to persevere in their faith.

Many know the acclaimed author Walter Wangerin Jr.

Experience the holiday season like never before as you meditate on beautifully hand-lettered Scripture passages and heartwarming devotions.

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This book presupposes that pastors and seminarians deeply desire to answer the question of all questions: how do I make disciples of Jesus Christ?

Ministry Makeover examines the decline within the church, especially the United Methodist Church (UMC), and some causes for this decline.

Why have so many churches started community gardens over the past decade?

The term Ubuntu articulates an African understanding of our need to connect to one another in order to be complete.

Few people have any extensive knowledge of the life and witness of the Protestant churches in the former Portuguese colonies of southern Africa.

The church is in major decline in the Western world.

In 1938 the Reverend Henry H.

Many churches are involved in short-term mission trips.

Christian mission has often been a project allied with colonial powers and conquests.

Mainline Christianity in the West is dying.

The globalizing world of late modernity is heavily awash with pseudo-gods.

Adoniram Judson was not only a historic figurehead in the first wave of foreign missionaries from the United States and a hero in his own day, but his story still wins the admiration of Christians even today.

The First Steps of Your Discipleship Journey .

Though None Go With Me is a series of observations and challenges as seen through the eyes of a Maine pastor on his first trip to India.

The Wells of Venice contains sequences, blank verse, and lyrics that meditate upon visual and literary Venetian art, as well as the myths, history, religion, and politics that shaped the culture of this extraordinary human achievement.

The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Melanesia and Micronesia, 1850 to 1875 is the result of Father Ralph Wiltgen's years of archival work in Rome and at the headquarters of religious orders who worked in Micronesia and Melanesia.

In many oral cultures local proverbs are highly regarded for their wisdom and prized for their aesthetic expression.

With the majority of the world's Christians now living in the non-Western world, Christian mission has become a global movement.

We all know that healthy partnerships are essential to fruitful boundary-crossing ministries, but how exactly do we create them?

Making the Word of God Fully Known is a collection of essays on church, culture, and mission relevant for the Australian church in honor of the sixty-fifth birthday of Archbishop Philip Freier, archbishop of Melbourne.

China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden looks at how massive urbanization is redrawing not only the geographic and social landscape of China, but in the process is transforming China's growing church as well.

The new and different frontiers and factors discussed in missiology are reshaping the meaning of mission.

The apostle Paul directed Timothy to teach faithful men who would follow his model of teaching others also (2 Tim 2:2).

Maybe you are familiar with the growth in recent decades of "e;majority world"e; missionaries being sent all over the world from non-Western countries (i.

Secularization, as a movement away from a religious orientation to life, is strong in Canada and has influence worldwide.

What is our preconception about Muslims?

Talking about Jesus' story with others is designed to be a joy-producing experience for his followers, not to mention those hearing his story.

In this timely book, Cho provides mission scholars, sending churches, and mission agencies with an understanding of Korean missionaries' burnout recovery process.

As bearers of the divine image, all of us are storytellers and artists.

There has been heightened interest and prolific publication by missiologists about contextualization since the term was first coined in 1972.