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God's Economics (Ebook Shorts)

Principles for Fixing Our Financial Crisis

by Jim Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

The collapse of financial systems and the resulting economic crisis have caused a growing distrust of the way things operate. Why has the global economy become so unfair, unsustainable, and unstable, with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? A conversation about how the market should...

Split Ticket

Independent Faith in a Time of Partisan Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010

Split Ticket takes on one of the most critical issues in the public eye right now: the complicated relationship between religious belief and political engagement. This collection of essays reflects the many different perspectives on this subject, not only on the reductive “liberal-conservative”...

Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land

by Joseph E. Lowery
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

From the earliest meetings of the Civil Rights Movement to offering the benediction for the first African American President of the United States, Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery has been an eyewitness to some of the most significant events in our history. But, more important, he has been a voice that speaks...

The Future of Islam

by John L. Esposito
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010

John L. Esposito is one of America's leading authorities on Islam. Now, in this brilliant portrait of Islam today--and tomorrow--he draws on a lifetime of thought and research to sweep away the negative stereotypes and provide an accurate, richly nuanced, and revelatory account of the fastest growing...

How Long O Lord?

Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Voices from the Ground and Visions for the Future in Israel/Palestine

by Marine Tobin
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2003

How Long O Lord? The prophet's ancient cry for justice sounds as plaintively and passionately today as it ever has. In this penetrating and provocative collection of essays, Maurine and Robert Tobin have brought together a group of peacemakers—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—whose religious convictions...

The Apostates

When Muslims Leave Islam

by Simon Cottee
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015

The Apostates is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context. Drawing on life-history interviews with ex-Muslims from the UK and Canada, Simon Cottee explores how and with what consequences Muslims leave Islam and become irreligious. Apostasy in Islam is a deeply controversial...

Between Two Rivers

by Dr. C. Brandt Smith, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011

Between Two Rivers Do you ever wonder what life is really like for Iraqis living in Baghdad? Wonder no longer. “Between Two Rivers” released in May 2008 by Brandt Smith Publishing dispels the myths and brings readers face to face with the reality of life and death in a besieged city. “Between...

Why You Should Care about the Person Who Made Your Cell Phone (Ebook Shorts)

by Jim Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013

The headlines are almost unfathomable: More than one thousand Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed when their building collapsed. Over one hundred workers killed in a poultry-factory fire in China. Harsh conditions and a rash of suicides at a Taiwanese company producing cell phones. These tragedies...

The Best of The Reformed Journal

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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011

For four decades, from 1951 to 1990, The Reformed Journal set the standard for top-notch, venturesome theological reflection on a broad range of issues. With a lively mix of editorial comment, articles, and reviews, it addressed topics as diverse as the civil rights movement, feminism, the Vietnam...

Despising The Old Rugged Cross

by Frederick Meekins
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013

An examination of a case made by a clergyman as to why a memorial cross should be abolished.

Why True Christians Should Avoid The Modern Church

by John David Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013

The modern church has become a Godless social club for the unsaved of the world. This short essay looks at some of the changes from the writers perspective. The work is short, but to the point.

Subversive Peacemakers

War-Resistance 1914-1918: An Anglican Perspective

by Clive Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014

The story and impact, in the context of peace movement history, of Christian pacifists and conscientious objectors in the First World War, with emphasis on the unlikely and potentially subversive contribution of members of the Established Church.

Demanding Liberty

An Untold Story of American Religious Freedom

by Brandon J. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

Historian Brandon O'Brien unveils an untold story of religious liberty in America. Between theocracy and secularism, Baptist pastor Isaac Backus contended for a third way—religious liberty and freedom of conscience for all Americans, regardless of belief. Backus's ideas impacted his era, giving...

Serving God and Country

United States Military Chaplains in World War II

by Lyle W. Dorsett
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012

**In World War II, over 12,000 Protestant ministers, Catholic priests, and Jewish rabbis left the safety of home to join the Chaplain Corps, following the armed forces into battle across Europe, Asia, North Africa, and the high seas. They were officers who displayed uncommon courage and sacrifice....