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Artist Aimee St. Claire is painting an outside mural on the hillside Community Church in Loch James, Virginia. The handsome new pastor, Rev. Lucas Carson, comes by dressed for gardening. Aimee mista……続きを見る

Though rooted in a well-known New Testament passage, the identification of God with love has proved to be a contentious issue for theologians throughout the history of Christian theology. This is du……続きを見る

Leonard Cohen’s Book of Mercy is a modern classic, appreciated by a wide readership, used in liturgy, and translated into more than a dozen languages. It is Leonard Cohen’s modern psalter, in which ……続きを見る

Drawing on the author’s own experiences as a psychiatrist-psychotherapist, this fascinating new book gathers and analyzes folktales from around the world about adults struggling with conflicts and t……続きを見る

All major religions in history have offered hope of some kind of afterlife to answer the perennial interest in the question of life after death. This volume brings together renowned experts in the p……続きを見る

Wise, encouraging pastoral reflections on growing in Christ "When I clothe myself with Jesus, he leaves me room to grow ー which is a good thing because, God knows, I'm still growing. I put on Jesus……続きを見る

As a veteran of twenty-five years, author John B. Carter would never have thought there would be a need to just sit down and write. But as he lay in bed at night, the words tumbled out. As the words……続きを見る

In A Devotional for Progressive Christians, author Lon Chesnutt is speaking to and for self-exiles from the church who claim to be 'spiritual but not religious'. During a time of intense searching o……続きを見る

During a time of global conflict, the theological question of whether Muslims, Jews, and Christians worship the same God carries political baggage. Is the God of ISIS the same as the God of Israel? ……続きを見る

"I always consider myself as a simple Buddhist monk. I feel that is the real me. I feel that the Dalai Lama as a temporal ruler is a man-made institution. As long as the people accept the Dalai Lama……続きを見る

Random thoughts on pastoral care. Every person derives the meaning of their lives from relationships with specific people, faith, work, leisure, family, an unfinished task or a discipline such as sc……続きを見る

Have you ever felt in your gut that you were mistreated, marginalized, alone, sabotaged? Your feelings may be unveiling adversity. Adversity can be a show stopper that negatively impacts one's outlo……続きを見る

When Nietzsche proclaimed "God Is Dead" with his seminal philosophical work, he had a point. The "God of the gaps" theory was being dismantled with every new discovery. Automatic laws determined the……続きを見る

Finding New Life in the Spirit will help you to find your way through the Life in the Spirit Seminars and to discover all the wealth that God wants to give you through them. 続きを見る

Churches have split and denominations have formed over the issue of church government. While many Christians can explain their church's form of rule or defend it because of its "tried and true" trad……続きを見る

This Odd and Wondrous Calling offers something different from most books available on ministry. Two people still pastoring reflect honestly here on both the joys and the challenges of their vocation……続きを見る

Christian faith, says Martin Copenhaver, is not a subject to be mastered like calculus or Shakespeare; it is a story to be told and a life to be lived. No matter how much or how little you know, To ……続きを見る

Archaeological case studies consider material evidence of religion and ritual in the pre-Columbian Eastern Woodlands Archaeologists today are interpreting Native American religion and ritual in the ……続きを見る

Christian faith, says Martin Copenhaver, is not a subject to be mastered like calculus or Shakespeare; it is a story to be told and a life to be lived. No matter how much or how little you know, To ……続きを見る

This work by Stephen Chapman offers a robustly theological and explicitly Christian reading of 1 Samuel. Chapman’s commentary reveals the theological drama at the heart of that biblical book as it p……続きを見る

An excellent supplemental confirmation resource, or meaningful confirmation or graduation gift*, Words for the Journey: Letters to Our Teenagers About Life and Faith*, first published in 2003, is an……続きを見る

Making Space for Knowing: A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology is an intervention in mainstream Western epistemology, especially as it relates to theories of knowledge, knowing, and know……続きを見る

In A Devotional for Progressive Christians , author Lon Chesnutt is speaking to and for self-exiles from the church who claim to be spiritual but not religious in our times. During a time of intense……続きを見る

Unlike many traditional quote books, this captivating collection represents the authors own words as opposed to famous peoples words. Get ready to open up wider your heart to love with greater focus……続きを見る

How do we reach the different cultures in our neighborhoods? Dr. Susan B. Carole, lead pastor of the multicongregational San Bernardino First Church of the Nazarene, discusses the sociological, hist……続きを見る

This book illuminates the experiential and theocentric dimensions of holiness theology. It acknowledges two strands of thought in current holiness theology--Wesley's Christian perfection and entire ……続きを見る

Understand that the greatest enemy of many is ignorance, it is imperative that the light of knowledge be shed on all areas of this darkness by the Truth that sets men free. Apostle Claxton, in his b……続きを見る

The church has emphasized ideas about God that have marginalized Jesus’ understanding of his spiritual Father, his Abba. We commonly think of God as a demanding lawgiver and judge, an omnipotent rul……続きを見る

In the fifty years since its initial publication, Is It Too Late? has proven its prescience in ways both significant and dire. As the first book-length philosophical and theological analysis of the ……続きを見る

This work by Stephen Chapman offers a robustly theological and explicitly Christian reading of 1 Samuel. Chapman’s commentary reveals the theological drama at the heart of that biblical book as it p……続きを見る