Church Institutions Organizations category: 259 books
Catholicity Challenging Ethnicity
An Ecclesiological Study of Congregations and Churches in Post-apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book deals with the relationship between the catholicity of the Church and ethnicity. Churches confess their «catholicity» – which means that they declare that their members belong to one community; but at the same time, the churches are often internally divided along ethnic lines. South...
Not Trying Too Hard
New Basics for Sustainable Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
The Christian church in America is doing its best to be relevant. Its leaders are trying harder, working longer hours, offering more programs, and trying to solve more problems. Not coincidentally, more clergy than ever before are burning out or "browning out," losing their edge, becoming...
Lay People in the Asian Church
A Critical Study of the Theology of the Laity in the Documents of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences with Special Reference to John Paul IIs Apostolic Exhortation «Ecclesia in Asia» and the Pastoral Letters of the Vietnamese Episcopal Conf
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book investigates the role of the laity in the Asian Church. Lay people have three responsibilities: proclaiming the Gospel, be a witness of life, and the triple dialogue with the cultures, the religions, and the poor. Focusing on the triple dialogue, the bishops of Asia have offered fresh ideas...
Here Comes The Bride
A Critique of the Baptist Bride Heresy
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Is a local, Baptist church the bride of Christ? Did John the Baptist start the first Baptist church with Jesus as one of his members? Is a saved Methodist, Lutheran or Catholic in the bride of Christ? What is the Baptist Bride heresy?You may wonder at the absurdity of these questions, and yet...
The Once and Future Church Study Guide
Transforming Congregations for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Church boards, congregational planning groups, judicatory study groups, and people exploring their own religious experiences in the congregation will find themselves in new territory, using their own insights as well as Mead's. Can be used independently with either or both of Mead's books; includes suggestions for Bible study and group exercises.
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,...