Church Institutions Organizations category: 259 books
Leadership and Conflict in African Churches
The Anglican Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Leadership and Conflict in African Churches: The Anglican Experience investigates the involvement of leadership and conflict in the African church. Mkunga H. P. Mtingele’s previous work with the government as a state attorney and his leadership positions in the Anglican Church gave him sufficient...
Raised by the Church
Growing up in New York City's Catholic Orphanages
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
In 1946 Edward Rohs was left by his unwed parents at the Angel Guardian Home to be raised by the Sisters of Mercy. The Sisters hoped that his parents would one day return for him. In time they married and had other
children, but Ed’s parents never came back for him. And they never signed the legal...
by Loren B. Mead
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994
In this third volume of the Once and Future Church Series Loren Mead focuses on what he sees as the age-old call of the church - living and breathing the good news promise of spiritual transformation for all to see. He explores how we as the church may need to change as institutions and as individuals...
Ecologies of Faith in New York City
The Evolution of Religious Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Ecologies of Faith in New York City examines patterns of interreligious cooperation and conflict in New York City. It explores how representative congregations in this religiously diverse city interact with their surroundings by competing for members, seeking out niches, or cooperating via coalitions...
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Volume 2 (of 7)
Period 1. History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In this second volume is recorded the arrival of a delegation from the exiled Saints in Missouri, seeking advice and the word of the Lord from the Prophet; the organizations of Zion's Camp for the deliverance of Zion; its march from Kirtland to Missouri; its rich educational experiences; its disbandment...
The Future Church
How Ten Trends are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
One of the world’s foremost religion journalists offers an unexpected and provocative look at where the Catholic Church is headed*—and what the changes will mean for all of us.*
What will the Catholic Church be like in 100 years? Will there be a woman pope? Will dioceses throughout the...
by Tanya B. Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
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...
That's My Pew
Resolving Conflict in the African American Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
There is something insidious running unchecked in the African American church. It threatens relationships, outreach to the community, organizational effectiveness, and the overall church mission. It is unresolved conflict. Dr. Credle’s research is so needed—for clergy, church leaders, members—for...
When Church Became Theatre
The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2002
For nearly eighteen centuries, two fundamental spatial plans dominated Christian architecture: the basilica and the central plan. In the 1880s, however, profound socio-economic and technological changes in the United States contributed to the rejection of these traditions and the development of a...
Tomorrow's Synagogue Today
Creating Vibrant Centers of Jewish Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
In the past decade many intelligent people who care deeply about synagogues have written about them. So how is this book different from all other books? Many books take the overall mission of the synagogue as a given, and the recommendations around structure are really about incremental change. Tomorrow's...
Neither Jew Nor Gentile
Exploring Issues of Racial Diversity on Protestant College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
In recent years, Protestant churches and denominations have become increasingly concerned with issues of racial diversity and reconciliation. Recent scholarship has examined this growing awareness, but has seldom attended to issues of diversity on the campuses and seminaries that educate the leaders...
Churches That Make a Difference
Reaching Your Community with Good News and Good Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Churches over the past generations have been weakened by a failure to meet both the physical and spiritual needs of their communities. Many have adopted a narrow vision, focusing on only one aspect of ministry. But in today's environment of faith-based opportunities many Christians are eager to start...
Pontiff
The Vatican, the KGB, and the Year of the Three Popes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The story of Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II—and an assassination plot—by the New York Times–bestselling coauthors of The Day the World Ended.
The Vatican has remained one of the last unexamined mysteries of the modern world. For centuries, pomp and pageantry have hidden from view...
by Henry Clay Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
Author's preface: We are sending forth this book with an earnest desire to contribute something to the awakening of the American people to a proper appreciation of the dangers that now threaten our institutions and liberties.
It is no longer a secret that the Roman Catholic Church is seeking...