The aim of the book is to open a window onto the world of people who are forced to escape from their homeland to survive - refugees. The guide to this world is their own words, their stories, their hopes and expectations, and often their despair.
This essential handbook provides church leaders the tools to gather information and define goals, helping to construct a framework of accountability. Metrics are a key tool for discerning purpose and strategy, and the metric resources included will guide any church leader who seeks an objective means to monitor the progress of their ministry.
This essential handbook provides church leaders the tools to gather information and define goals, helping to construct a framework of accountability. Metrics are a key tool for discerning purpose and strategy, and the metric resources included will guide any church leader who seeks an objective means to monitor the progress of their ministry.
This book attempts to help church leaders looking for a strategy as to how to restore the church in the midst of a struggling and declining age. Choe utilizes his experience working with a struggling ministry to propose twenty-four ideas and programs for the restoration of the church.
In this work, Harry H. Singleton seeks a new paradigm for revelation that pushes us beyond America's historical collaboration with Christian sponsored racism and the religious individual. He calls instead for a revelation that prevents the liberation imperative inherent in the Bible from being used to justify black dehumanization.
Paul Hinlicky reads the history of the early church as a genuine, centurieslong theological struggle to make sense of the confession of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. Protesting a recent parting of the ways between systematic theology and the history of early Christianity, Hinlicky relies on the insights of historical criticism to argue in ......
The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North
Uncovers the often overlooked participation of African Americans and Native Americans in early Protestant churches Phillis Wheatley was stolen from her family in Senegambia, and, in 1761, slave traders transported her to Boston, Massachusetts, to be sold. She was purchased by the Wheatley family who treated Phillis far better than most ......
Doing theology requires dissension and tenacity. Dissension is required when scriptural texts, and the colonial bodies and traditions (read: Babylon) that capitalize upon those, inhibit or prohibit "rising to life." With "nerves" to dissent, the attentions of the first cluster of essays extend to scriptures and theologies, to borders and native ......
