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Becoming Like Creoles: Living and Leading at the Intersections of Injustice, Culture, and Religion
Creolization offers a way of envisioning a future through interplay between cultural diversity, injustice and oppression, and intersectionality. People of faith must embrace such practices to be relevant and effective for ministry in the 21st century. Becoming Like Creoles prepares followers of Jesus to live in a world where injustice is real and cultural diversity is increasing. This book will equip readers to embrace a Creole process, becoming culturally competent and social justice focused.
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Luther's Lively Theology: A Study Based on Luther's Small Catechism - With Over 400 Quotations from Other Works by Martin Luther
The purpose of this book is to add to what Luther teaches in the Small Catechism and to fill in its blanks by expanding on the catechism, theme by theme, with over 400 quotations from other works by Luther along with 50 quotations by other authors or speakers. In addition, this book identifies the background of the five major parts of the catechism and addresses issues that are not addressed in the catechism.
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Anna B. Hoppe: Her Life and Hymnody
Anna B. Hoppe is one of the most prolific Lutheran hymn writers of the early 20th century. She composed hundreds of hymns along with opinion pieces and devotional writing. Today Lutherans still know her through her hymns--"O Son of God, in Galilee," "For Jerusalem You're Weeping," and "Rise, Arise." Hoppe's major collection, Songs of the Church Year: Hymns on the Gospel and Epistle Texts and Other Songs was published in 1928.
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I Walk with Angels: The Life and Work of James Engel
James Engel played an important role in the history of Lutheran church music. He was known by his colleagues and students as an excellent musician, choir director, composer and teacher. He had a positive influence on the subsequent generations of Lutheran musicians. In his later years, he became well-known as a composer of church music. His organ and choral works have been performed by many musicians through the years.
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Searching for Aunt Dot: Surprised by a Lutheran Woman's Story
The author has cast her Aunt Dot as a quiet rebel and a very strong woman. In the depths of the Depression, she worked to save money and follow her older brothers to Carthage College. After two years she succumbed to the cultural ideal of the era and gave up college for marriage. She became a wife with several titles -- wife-in-waiting, minister's wife, housewife, and war wife.
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Jesus Loves You and Evolution Is True: Why Youth Ministry Needs Science
Science is not a threat to the faith of Christian youth. In fact, Sara Sybesma Tolsma, an award-winning scientist, and Jason Lief, a leading practical theologian, argue that youth ministry needs science to help young people explore their relationship to God and engage their world faithfully. Pastors, faith leaders, and youth workers must not only engage science but embrace its lessons for the life and practice of Christian faith today
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The Aesthetics of Atheism: Theology and Imagination in Contemporary Culture
Atheism and Christianity are often placed at polar opposite ends of a spectrum, forever in stark conflict with each other. In The Aesthetics of Atheism,...
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The God of Intimacy and Action: Reconnecting Ancient Spiritual Practices, Evangelism, and Justice
Acclaimed evangelical speaker and writer Tony Campolo teams up with spiritual director and teacher Mary Albert Darling to reveal some gems from the liturgical Christian...
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Connecting Like Jesus: Practices for Healing, Teaching, and Preaching
A hands-on resource for all Christians who want to communicate with more passion and power. Tony Campolo and Mary Albert Darling have teamed up to...
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Jesus Wept: When Faith and Depression Meet
Jesus Wept, Barbara C. Crafton?s best-selling and brilliant reflection on faith and depression, is now released in its tenth-anniversary edition. Religious belief can make depression...
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Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice
In Honoring the Body, Stephanie Paulsell speaks to those who have ever wondered how to celebrate the body's pleasures and protect the body's vulnerabilities in a world that seems confused about both. What we need, she shows, are practices that honor the body.
Paulsell invites readers to explore how we might honor the body in daily activities, seeking wisdom from Scripture, history, and contemporary experience, in story and song and poetry/
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Diaspora Christianities: Global Scattering and Gathering of South Asian Christians
South Asians make up one of the largest diasporas in the world and Christians form a relatively large share of it. Christians from the Indian...
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Let the Children Come: Reimagining Childhood from a Christian Perspective
In Let the Children Come, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore explores the question, What does faithful parenting look like today? As she addresses this query, she updates outmoded and distorted assumptions about and conceptions of children in popular US culture. She also shows important insights and contributions religious traditions and communities, Christianity in particular, make as we examine how to regard and treat children well.
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Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time
In Receiving the Day, Dorothy C. Bass shows how Christian practices for rest and worship continually welcome us into a way of life attuned to the love of God, neighbor, earth, and self. Through them, we can learn to dwell more graciously, attentively, and faithfully within the hours and days we have and to share the gift of time with others.
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Hearing with the Heart: A Gentle Guide to Discerning God's Will for Your Life
In Hearing with the Heart, popular writer and retreat leader Debra K. Farrington leads you through a gentle process for discovering how to invite God's...
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Unity as Prophetic Witness: W. A. Visser 't Hooft and the Shaping of Ecumenical Theology
Visser 't Hooft and the Shaping of Ecumenical Theology Visser 't Hooft is, perhaps, the most distinguished figure in the modern ecumenical movement, emerging in...
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Christianity in India: Conversion, Community Development, and Religious Freedom
Christianity has been present in India since at least the third century, but the faith remains a small minority. Even so, Christianity is growing rapidly...
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Political Orthodoxies: The Unorthodoxies of the Church Coerced
Dispatches on nationalism and religion As an insider to church politics and a scholar of contemporary Orthodoxy, Cyril Hovorun outlines forms of political orthodoxy in...
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A Brief Introduction to Hinduism
This brief introduction to Hinduism is designed to help readers understand this important religious tradition. With both nuance and balance, this text provides broad coverage...
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A Brief Introduction to Jainism and Sikhism
This brief introduction to Jainism and Sikhism is designed to help readers understand these important religious traditions. With both nuance and balance, this text provides...
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