Church Institutions category: 259 books

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by James R. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009

Scientology is arguably the most persistently controversial of all contemporary New Religious Movements. James R. Lewis has assembled an unusually comprehensive anthology, incorporating a wide range of different approaches. In this book, a group of well-known scholars of New Religious Movements offers...
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The World-Conquering Fiction

A critique of the Christian claim that Christ's death on the Cross provides salvation for a 'lost' humankind

by John Bracht
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016

The grand claim of the Christian religion is that it alone has the answer to the human ‘plight’, which is that all people are born into a state of ‘lostness’, and are estranged from God. If they die outside of God’s grace and salvation, they will enter an eternal state of separation from...
Cover of Companions of Christ and the Heavenly Calling
by T. Austin-Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014

We are occupied at this time with that great thing that God is doing in this dispensation. He is constituting a new, heavenly Israel and preparing it for the day when its King comes and it will reign with Him forever. The members of this spiritual Israel are called, "the companions of a heavenly...
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In Remembrance of Me

A Manual on Observing the Lord's Supper

by Jim Henry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998

In this authoritative guide to the Lord's Supper, Jim Henry underscored the biblical basis for the practice, then offers practical suggestions for congregations seeking to conform their worship service to the will of God.
Cover of Look to the East: A Ritual of the First Three Degrees of Freemasonry
by Ralph P. Lester
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019

This book contains the complete work of the Entered Apprentice, Fellow-craft, and Master-mason's Degrees, along with their ceremonies, lectures, etc. It has doubtless been a matter of comment and surprise among the Members of the Fraternity that all the books which are avowedly intended to serve as...
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How Your Congregation Learns

The Learning Journey from Challenge to Achievement

by Tim Shapiro, President
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017

Change isn’t always easy or intuitive. How Your Congregation Learns introduces churches and leaders—both lay and ordained—to the process of the learning journey. By understanding learning dynamics and working to become a learning community, the congregation will be able to move more purposefully...
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Welcoming Resistance

A Path to Faithful Ministry

by William Chris Hobgood
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002

Resistance can be a sign of vital, high-quality, and faithful life in a congregation, and a learning opportunity for congregational leaders who recognize the value of hearing from those who resist ministry initiatives, inviting their input and listening to their response. Hobgood proposes a "continuum...
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Journal

Passages in a Turbulent Life

by Lois Henderson Bayliss
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018

This intimate record - written by a gifted story-teller in spurts from 1931 to 1974 - provides glimpses into a girlhood in pre-World War I Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Pigeon Cove summer colony on Cape Ann as well as experiences as a young woman in the Roaring Twenties in New York City. Bayliss’s...
Cover of A Theology of Community Organizing
by Chris Shannahan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

The rising importance of community organizing in the US and more recently in Britain has coincided with the developing significance of social movements and identity politics, debates about citizenship, social capital, civil society, and religion in the public sphere. At a time when participation in...
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Cyberhenge

Modern Pagans on the Internet

by Douglas E. Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004

Cyberhenge examines the use of Internet technology in shaping religious traditions and rituals. Cowan asks how and why Neopaganism has embraced the Internet in such an innovative and imaginative way.
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by Daniel Clausen
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015

Ordo Aurum, The Golden Order of the Almighty. In 171 pages, it contains the internal structure, teachings of five degrees, and symbology of the Order. Most importantly, through the tireless work of the Loremaster and his assistant, a detailed, yet succinct record of the 2,500 year history, covering...
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Military Chaplains as Agents of Peace

Religious Leader Engagement in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments

by S. K. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012

By way of theoretical analysis and documented case studies from a number of countries, Military Chaplains as Agents of Peace considers Religious Leader Engagement as an emerging domain that advances the cause of reconciliation via the religious peacebuildingof chaplains*—*a construct that may be...
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by Tanya B. Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018

How do faith-based organizations influence the work of transnational peacebuilding, development, and human rights advocacy? How is the political role of such organizations informed by their religious ideas and practices? This book investigates this set of questions by examining how three transnational...
Cover of Beating Burnout in Congregations
by Lynne M. Baab
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003

"I can only shake my head in the face of the irony that all too often the very place where we look for life and health, the very place where we expect to nurture and deepen a loving relationship with God, can cause so many to experience the exact opposite." So remarks author Lynne Baab in...
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