Church Institutions category: 259 books
by Linda Wommack
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Colorado's houses of worship reflect the same trademark resourcefulness and fortitude that the pioneers and history makers demonstrated throughout the state's history. Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, established in 1854, remains the state's oldest church. Formed by a group of African American...
Hidden and Forgotten
African Absence in the Consciousness of the Catholic Church in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Catholics of African descent have been in the Catholic Church in Canada since Canada's pre-independent days, and yet there has been and still is a poverty of pastoral outreach to them. In a richly researched yet enjoyably readable study, Father Enwerem posits that the recent arrival of African missionaries...
The Trial of Pope Benedict
Joseph Ratzinger and the Vatican's Assault on Reason, Compassion, and Human Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
In this persuasive new book, Daniel Gawthrop examines how Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) systematically steered the Catholic Church to the far right, and what his shocking resignation means for the Church as it navigates a new world. By doing so, it reveals one of recent history’s most astonishing tales of institutional power, religious bullying, and systemic abuse.
by Tomas Alvarez, O.C.D., Kieran Kavanaugh
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
As the first woman to be given the title of doctor of the church, St. Teresa of Avila continues to exercise her teaching authority in the world today both within and outside the boundaries of the church. In the present group of 100 themes, Tomás Alvarez wishes to create a favorable approach...
by A. W. Tozer, CrossReach Publications
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
This book has been described by James L. Snyder as Tozer's valedictory. It was his last message ever given to God's people. Written shortly before his death in 1963, it was published two days after his death. It is a challenging message to all who want to walk with Christ. "HERE IS THE BURDEN of...
The Silence We Keep
A Nun's View of the Catholic Priest Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
In this uplifting and empowering call to action, Karol Jackowski, a nun for more than forty years, speaks out about her life and vocation, women in the Church, the sexual scandal in the priesthood and why the Catholic hierarchy won’t fix it, and how Catholics will take back their Church.
Hidden Children of the Holocaust:Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis
Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
In the terrifying summer of 1942 in Belgium, when the Nazis began the brutal roundup of Jewish families, parents searched desperately for safe haven for their children. As Suzanne Vromen reveals in Hidden Children of the Holocaust, these children found sanctuary with other families and schools--but...
Values-Driven Leadership
Discovering and Developing Your Core Values for Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
What are the core values of your ministry?
Values-Driven Leadership is a pioneering work designed to help church and parachurch leaders understand the cutting-edge concept of organizational core values. Every ministry organization has a set of core values that guides what the ministry seeks...
The Hidden Lives of Congregations
Discerning Church Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
Faced with crisis, lack of direction, or just plain "stuckness," many congregations and their leaders are content to deal only with surface issues and symptoms—only to discover that the same problems keep recurring, often in different, and more serious, ways. In The Hidden Lives of Congregations,...
by JOHN RUSKIN
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
A few words by way of introduction will be absolutely necessary before I proceed to read Mr. Ruskin's letters. They originated simply in a proposal of mine, which met with so ready and willing a response, that it almost seemed like a simultaneous thought.
They are addressed nominally to myself,...
Ecce Educatrix Tua
The Role of the Blessed Virgin Mary for a Pedagogy of Holiness in the Thought of John Paul II and Father Joseph Kentenich
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Ecce Educatrix Tua discusses the Apostolic Letter Novo millennio ineunte (NMI), wherein John Paul II outlined the path the Church should adopt in the third millennium. The necessity 'to rediscover the full practical significance of Chapter 5 of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium,...
by Julie A. Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Over the past thirty years there has been a boom in small groups, both in society at large and within the church. From Bible studies to MOPS to Alcoholics Anonymous, it is estimated that four out of ten Americans belong to a small group that meets regularly for the care and support of its members....
Sacramental Politics
Religious Worship as Political Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Religion and politics have often been called taboo topics for polite dinner conversation, but in political campaigns and religious services, the two often mix. This book looks at how religious worship remains embedded with inherent political messages and behaviors, showing that conflicts between church...
A Historical Sketch of the Brethren Movement
An Account of its Inception, Progress, Principles and Failures and its Lessons for Present Day Believers
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
H. A. Ironside’s history of the so-called “Plymouth Brethren” stands today as one of the best and probably most readable histories of the movement ever written. Not only is it readable, but it is honest, and fair. This is a warts-and-all account written by a man who had a deep love for the movement...