Church category: 10276 books
Called to Serve
A History of Nuns in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Winner, Conference on the History of Women Religious (CHWR) Distinguished Book Award
Winner, 2014 Catholic Book Award in History presented by the Catholic Press Association
For many
Americans, nuns and sisters are the face of the Catholic Church. Far more
visible than priests, Catholic...
Religion and the State
Europe and North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The historiography of church-state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of history illuminate the need for a thoroughly trans-Atlantic approach to the history of church-state...
Divided by God
America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
A brilliant and urgent appraisal of one of the most profound conflicts of our time
Even before George W. Bush gained reelection by wooing religiously devout "values voters," it was clear that church-state matters in the United States had reached a crisis. With Divided by God, Noah...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Early Christianity
Discover the Origins of the Christian Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Where it all began-for two billion followers worldwide.
The most popular religion in the world has a variety of doctrines, beliefs, and practices. This book helps its legion of followers to better understand where it all began, while exploring everything from how early Christians lived to Jesus'...
Priests and Politicians
Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
In the decade beginning with the hanging of Louis Riel in 1885, a series of radical and religious conflicts shook Canada, culminating in the Manitoba school crisis of the 1890s. By 1896, the focal point of the controversy was remedialism, the attempt to have Roman Catholic school privileges in Manitoba...
by Kirby Clements Sr
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
The Church, through its delegated authority and assigned responsibility, is pivotal in the fulfillment of the great commission. However, there have been challenges in the discharge of this function and the battleground has always been conceptual, involving the interpretation and integration of historic...
by Philip Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Offers an inviting way to understand the facts and implications of the major demographic shifts happening within Christianity
By 2025, 75 percent of Catholics in the world will be non-European; the new global church will have its center of gravity in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. This fascinating...
Tools for Rebuilding
75 Really, Really Practical Ways to Make Your Parish Better
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Fr. Michael White and Tom Corcoran know that the fundamental work of the Church is to evangelize—to introduce people to Christ and make them disciples. Still, they’re the first to admit: “the difficulty comes when we reach down into the details and get to work.” In their barn-burning first...
by Witness Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1986
In the book of Ephesians, the church is revealed as the assembly, the household, the Body of Christ, and the new man. The church as the Body of Christ needs Christ as its life, whereas the Church as the new man, the highest aspect of the church, needs Christ as its person. According to Colossians 3:10-11,...
Jim and Casper Go to Church
Frank Conversation about Faith, Churches, and Well-Meaning Christians
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
What does an atheist think about church? Jim Henderson decided that the best way to find out was to ask! So he recruited an atheist—Matt Casper—to visit twelve leading churches with him and give the “first impression” perspective of a non-believer. Week after week, this spiritual odd couple...
Replant
How a Dying Church Can Grow Again
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Grow Where You’re Replanted
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Today’s spiritual landscape is littered with churches on their last legs, forcing us to reconsider how we keep the Body of Christ alive and strong. The solution, according to visionary pastors Darrin Patrick and Mark DeVine, is to infuse new blood...
The Fly in the Ointment
Why Denominations Aren't Helping Their Congregations…and How They Can
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
An ecumenical resource that helps churches and church leaders begin to think about how to transform themselves into vital, flourishing organizations—transformation that requires deep, systemic change on the part of the bodies that are meant to help congregations live into their mission in the world.
Real Followers
A Radical Quest to Expose the Pretender Inside Each of Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Many Christians, disillusioned with lives of spiritual mediocrity that have been dampened by today’s rampant materialism and cafeteria spirituality, are asking the same question: “Where is the substance that can move our church beyond ho-hum Christianity?” Today’s public fascination with angels,...
Jesus Insurgency
The Church Revolution from the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Crunching more data maybe helpful but will not revolutionize, let alone save, a declining church. We need creative thinking done by people who are not afraid to face the institutional church.
Indeed, the change we long for is already happening. It is happening on the margins in ministries to...