Examines client assessment of the programs, their progress in developing attitudes and resources important for finding self-supporting employment, and their experience in finding actual employment. This title concludes with three sets of concrete recommendations for public policymakers, social service program managers, and researchers.
This practical and inspiring book written by the former U.S. senator from Illinois and 1988 presidential candidate--who passed away in December 2003 at the age of 75--reminds readers that the little things do count, and offers concrete suggestions for small ways of making a difference.
This book probes how a twelfth-century woman became a Gospel interpreter, analyses the creative methodology and themes of the homilies, and deals with the vast legacy of Hildegard's works, including their relevance for today.
A Guide for Service Providers, Families and Congregations
Addresses how faith communities, service providers, and families can work together to support the full participation of individuals with disabilities in the faith community of their choice. This book incorporates practical strategies, vignettes, case examples, resource lists, and photocopiable forms, checklists, and interview guides.
A Book of Ritual and Ethics: Continental Commentaries
Building upon his life-long work on the Book of Leviticus, Jacob Milgrom makes this book accessible to all readers. He demonstrates the logic of Israel's sacrificial system, the ethical dimensions of ancient worship, and the priestly forms of ritual.
Love in a Time of Climate Change issues a call to readers to develop a loving response to climate change, which harms the poor, threatens future generations, and damages God's creation.
In Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture, editor Daniel K. Finn proposes a field-changing critical realist sociology that puts Christian ethics into conversation with modern discourses on human agency and social transformation.
In Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture, editor Daniel K. Finn proposes a field-changing critical realist sociology that puts Christian ethics into conversation with modern discourses on human agency and social transformation.
In Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation, Cindy S. Lee proposes that the church needs to reimagine spiritual formation--to unform the ways Western-dominated church leaders have understood formation and to create a more robust spirituality, one that will hold the complexities of a multicultural God and the God-human relationship.
Childhood and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary American Paganis
Pagan parents tend to seek to instil values, such as religious tolerance and spiritual independence, which will remain with their children throughout their lives
Childhood and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary American Paganis
Pagan parents tend to seek to instil values, such as religious tolerance and spiritual independence, which will remain with their children throughout their lives
The Spiritual Dimensions of Psychological Type Theory
In Personality, Religion, and Leadership, Christopher F. J. Ross and Leslie J. Francis contend that knowledge of Jungian psychological type theory and Jungian archetypes can help religious leaders build a religious community that welcomes all personality types, while continuing their personal spiritual journeys during times of stress and success.
This book provides a handbook of resources to aid the study and practice of pilgrimage for leaders and pilgrims. The first part of the book explores aspects of the pilgrimage phenomenon: philosophy, theology, anthropology, psychology, medieval literature, art history. The second part addresses specific pilgrimage experiences and contexts.
Work, Livelihood, and a US Catholic Economic Ethic
Christine Firer Hinze advances Monsignor John A. Ryan's American Catholic defense of worker justice and a living wage, advocating for an action-oriented livelihood agenda that situates US working families' economic pursuits within a commitment to sustainable, radical sufficiency for all.
Work, Livelihood, and a US Catholic Economic Ethic
Christine Firer Hinze advances Monsignor John A. Ryan's American Catholic defense of worker justice and a living wage, advocating for an action-oriented livelihood agenda that situates US working families' economic pursuits within a commitment to sustainable, radical sufficiency for all.
Reimagining Human Rights presents an interpretation of human rights "from below," showing how victims of atrocity can embrace the rhetoric of human rights to dismantle old narratives of power and advance new ones.
