Church Institutions Organizations category: 259 books
Catholic Bishops in the United States
Church Leadership in the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
In the past thirty years, the Catholic bishops of the United States have made headlines with their statements on nuclear disarmament and economic justice, their struggles to address sexual abuse by clergy, and their defense of refugees and immigrants. Despite many similarities, the nearly two hundred...
by Jim Manney
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
What is discernment? Who was Peter Faber? Why do the Jesuits exude such optimism?
Awareness. Emotions. Love. Work. We use such words every day in normal conversation, but those same words take on special meaning when used in the context of Ignatian spirituality. Other words and phrases, such...
The Profits of Religion
An Essay in Economic Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
An eye-opening condemnation of the economic sins of organized religion
Throughout his adult life Upton Sinclair was an unapologetic idealist and a tireless crusader for the rights of the common man. In this powerful and scrupulously researched critique, he argues that organized religion is...
Faith, Power and Territory
A Handbook of British Islam
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Islam is a religion that seeks also to be a political and territorial power. This book is an easy-to-use resource to understand Islam in Britain today, how it is developing and its influence on the country. It asks penetrating questions about how Muslim communities in the UK could develop in the future,...
Playlist Judaism
Making Choices for a Vital Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
"Every Jewish institution," writes Kerry Olitzky, "is undergoing significant change and is in danger of becoming irrelevant to the majority of North American Jews. All these institutions will have to reimagine themselves if they are to survive and grow. And the most numerous of these...
by Wylie, James A.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This was originally published as a large 24 book set. All 24 books are published here in one volume. There is a linked table of contents to all 24 book at the beginning of the volume, as well as a fully descriptive table of contents at the beginning of each book. The History of Protestantism'...
Inside the Vatican
The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 1998
Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with Vatican officials, this book affords a firsthand look at the people, the politics, and the organization behind the institution. Throughout, revealing and colorful anecdotes from church history and the present day bring the unique culture of the Vatican to life.
Epistles on Clergy Abuse
The Clergy Abuse Scandal Chronicled Through Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
What makes Epistles on Clergy Abuse unique? It is written from a very personal perspective; it is a living chronological history of the clergy abuse scandal in letter form; it contains numerous no-holds barred letters sent to the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in America over a nine year...
The Coming Catholic Church
How the Faithful Are Shaping a New American Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Rather than chronicling the well-reported sexual abuse scandal or advocating a particular reform agenda, David Gibson shows how the crisis in the church is unleashing forces that will change American Catholicism forever.
Opus Dei
An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
The first serious journalistic investigation of the highly secretive, controversial organization Opus Dei provides unique insight about the wild rumors surrounding it and discloses its significant influence in the Vatican and on the politics of the Catholic Church.
Opus Dei (literally “the...
Dog Training, Fly Fishing, and Sharing Christ in the 21st Century
Empowering Your Church to Build Community Through Shared Interests
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2008
Ted Haggard presents a successful and tested model for a small group ministry here that can be implemented by a church of any size. By enabling members to embrace and capitalize on their own unique abilities, the diverse groups create an environment where people meet mentors that can disciple and...
Solus Jesus
A Theology of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
If you read one book this year about the future of Christianity, then choose this book. Five hundred years ago the Protestant Reformation claimed the Bible as the authoritative guide for Christian living (“Sola Scriptura!” Only Scripture!). In this groundbreaking work, Emily Swan and Ken Wilson...
by James Oscar Boyd, John Gresham Machen, Walter Scott Athearn
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
A recent book intimates that there are three kinds of Sunday-school teachers. Some are so poor that they must be forgiven by those who had the disadvantage of having Christianity interpreted through their words and spirit. Some are so colorless, so neutral, so neither poor nor rich, that they are...
Essence of the Church, The
A Community Created by the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
This fresh perspective on the church explores its essential nature as a community of people governed by the Word and led and taught by the Spirit.