Through brief daily readings and reflections, the 30-Day Journey series invites readers to be inspired and transformed. Whether you are familiar with MLK's writings or are encountering them for the first time, this journey provides the perfect way to engage the thought of this hero of the civil rights movement.
How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Ou
We have a universal yearning, writes Zahl, not to be happy or respected so much as enough-what religions call "righteous." Today, we look to all sorts of everyday activities--from eating and parenting to dating and voting-for the meaning once provided on Sunday morning.
Through brief daily readings and reflections, the 30-Day Journey series invites readers to be inspired and transformed.Whether you love St. Hildegard or are encountering her for the first time, this journey provides the perfect way to engage the thought of a compelling twelfth-century saint.
Through brief daily readings and reflections, the 30-Day Journey series invites readers to be inspired and transformed. Whether you are familiar with Bonhoeffer or are encountering him for the first time, this journey provides the perfect way to engage with the thought of a pivotal Christian figure.
Discover your own wisdom about your grief. Each of the ten meditations in this journal corresponds to a stage of grief as outlined in Granger E. Westberg's classic book Good Grief.The meditations are followed by prompts and questions to help readers reflect on both the nature and effects of their loss.
Reorienting Christian ethics from its usual anthropocentrism to an ecocentrism entails a new framework that Moe-Lobeda lays out in her first chapters, culminating in a creative rethinking of how it is that we understand morally.
Working. We spend most of our waking hours doing it but rarely consider its theological meanings or implications. Is work a punishment or curse, an avenue to human flourishing or something else? Is there a distinctively Christian approach to working? Darby Ray, whose work on Christology and ethics has emphasized the surprising breadth and ......
These resources focus on an influential church leader and include passages from Scripture and opportunities to reflect and pray. The texts are ideal for use during Advent or Lent.
In five interwoven meditations, Mystical Hope shows how to recognize hope in our own lives, where it comes from, how to deepen it through prayer, and how to carry it into the world as a source of strength and renewal.
Examines how the dynamics emerging from the pandemic affect our most vulnerable populations and shape a new religious landscape The COVID-19 pandemic upset virtually every facet of society and, in many cases, exposed gross inequality and dysfunction. The particular dynamics emerging from the coronavirus pandemic have been felt most intensely by ......
Pastor and certified fundraising executive (CFRE) Michael R. Ward provides church leaders a resource to lead their congregations to a new culture of generosity and abundance that raises more money as well as more disciples.
Becoming Your Full Self Without Becoming Full of Yourself
Self-help books emerge from one of two flawed views of the self--that people are fundamentally bad or fundamentally good--and these mutually exclusive ditches are destructive. Dan Kent presents a third view. He shows how the humility Jesus revealed offers the most accurate, freeing view of the self.
The Good Grief Devotional offers wise, honest companionship to those who struggle with the death of a loved one, a divorce, the loss of a job, or another major life transition. Pastor Brent D. Christianson's fifty-two devotions follow the ten stages of grief outlined in Granger Westberg's helpful book Good Grief.
Addresses some of the criticisms and misunderstanding around Centering Prayer and offers a new perspective on the forty-year-old approach to meditation.
This book will attempt to explore faith-based responses to unending injustices by embracing the reality of hopelessness. It rejects the pontifications of some salvation history that move the faithful toward an eschatological promise that, when looking back at history, makes sense of all Christian-led brutalities, mayhem, and carnage.
This volume provides access to selections from Martin Luther's Table Talk, Volume 54 of Luther's Works. Editor Henry F. French has carefully chosen some of the best of Luther's conversations with many guests who frequented the dinner table in the home of Martin and Katie Luther.
Analyzes and assesses the meaning of love from a wide range of perspectives. This book is organized into three areas: influential sources and exponents of Western Christian thought about the ethical significance of love, theoretical questions attending that consideration, and the implications of Christian love for important social realities.
The Impact and Influence of Bonhoeffer's Life and Thought
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. ln this magisterial collection, leading international scholars discuss and critically interact with the ways in which a variety of significant figures have engaged with Bonhoeffer's thought since his death.
Argues that practical theology has neglected deeper theological underpinnings, and seeks to create a practical theology that seeks to be fully post-postmodern, post-Aristotelian, and that in seeking to attend to doctrines such as divine action and justification, is properly and fully theological.
Martin Luther King's observation that 11 a.m. on Sunday is the most segregated hour of the week remains all too true. Christians addressing racism in American society must begin with a frank assessment of how race figures in the churches themselves, leading activist Joseph Barndt argues. This practical and important volume extends the insights ......
Lack of time is the chronic complaint of our culture - and the reality of most of our lives. Sabbath as a day of rest has been lost in our to - do lists and organizers, but the sense of Sabbath, as spiritual leisure, is very much needed in our time-starved world. Sabbath Sense offers a refreshing perspective on making the spiritual choice to take ......
Because our relationships with our animal companions are unlike human relationships, the death of a pet is like no other loss that we will experience. This book draws on the wisdom of "Ecclesiastes", and interviews with many pet lovers to guide the reader through the initial loss of a pet to the dawning of new hope and reassurance.
Daniel Bagby is a pastor, professional counsellor and a professor of pastoral care. With this book, he seeks to provide an understanding of the emotions that find expression in tears.'
