Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Healthy Human Life
A Biblical Witness
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Health is God's original created intent: whole persons, healthy relationships, a thriving environment, and ongoing interaction with himself. In the Bible, human health is body-based, community-based, and deeply integrated in a relationship with God's creating Spirit. The Pentateuch, prophets, writings,...
Stewards of the Mysteries of God
Preaching the Old Testament—and the New
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
One of our best known biblical interpreters offers essays and sermons meant to assist preachers in their interpretation and explication of biblical texts. Often neglected in preaching, the Old Testament is a particular focus of attention, but only in the context of the wholeness of Scripture. Questions...
Jesus v. Abortion
They Know Not What They Do
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
There are three main positions that people adopt within the abortion debate: pro-life, muddled middle, and pro-choice. Jesus v. Abortion critiques the pro-choice and muddled middle positions, employing several unusual angles: (1) The question "What would Jesus say about abortion if he were here...
Justpeace Ethics
A Guide to Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
People too often enter into conflict with an eye on how to resolve, manage, or transform it, thereby losing sight of the people involved and the end desired. Justice and peace too often serve as abstract ideals or distant shores. We have not yet learned enough about how these ends can also be the...
In Such Times
Reflections on Living with Fear
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
What are the fears that govern our lives? Why do we seldom share them with others? How do they inform the way we think of the politics of the day and the life of the church? These are some of the questions addressed by Lorraine Cavanagh in this short and readable book. Her reflections take us through...
The Economy of Salvation
Essays in Honor of M. Douglas Meeks
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Over the last four decades, the focus of M. Douglas Meeks' work has placed him at the center of many of the most important developments in theological reflection and education. As a political, ecclesial, and metaphorical theologian, Meeks has given witness to the oikonomia of the triune God, the Homemaker...
Beginning Again
Reflections on Art as Spiritual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
What does it mean to become and work as an artist today? What unique challenges do artists face in the twenty-first century, and what skills are required to overcome them? How might art become an expression of spiritual life? In addressing these and other questions, Deborah J. Haynes offers reflections...
The Good News about Conflict
Transforming Religious Struggle Over Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Conflict over homosexuality in Christian churches is only intensifying. We can do better. We have to do better. The stakes are too high to do otherwise. Conflicts are difficult and ugly, but the good news reaches even here. It is possible to have healthy conflict, to disagree and struggle together...
Teach from the Heart
Pedagogy as Spiritual Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
How can a teacher remain whole and happy, able to teach well for an entire semester, an entire year, and an entire career? Teach from the Heart is about finding, rediscovering, or holding on to the heart of the teaching life, which is, quite literally, the teacher's heart. It is an encouragement to...
by Christopher W. Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
The Gospel of John is often found at the center of discussions about the Bible and its relation to Christian theology. It is difficult to quantify the impact John's Gospel has had on both the historical development of Christian doctrine and the various expressions of Christian devotion. All too often,...
by Schubert M. Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
As an introduction to Christian systematic theology, this volume treats all the main theological topics-from God to last things-seeking to explicate critically the understanding of them implicit in Christian faith itself in terms at once appropriate to Jesus Christ and credible to human existence....
Lord, Teach Us to Pray
One Hundred Daily Reflections on Jesus’ Life of Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Although Jesus of Nazareth was a devout first-century Jew, in the twenty-first century he is often lost in the thickets of Christian theology, reflection on the wisdom of his words, and the busyness of church life. But Jesus is more than words about Jesus. What can we know about Jesus the Jew? What...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Issue #19 of The Other Journal examines our complex relationships with food from a theological bent. The thoughtful contributors to this issue take us to Middle Earth and the Romanian city of Constanta. They swing by swank Manhattan bistros and raucous NFL stadiums on game-day. But most importantly,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The Other Journal's first print edition focuses on the role of celebrity in North American culture--its phenomena, its significance, its utility. The articles illuminate different facets of celebrity culture through multiple vantage points and methodologies. This issue features articles, art exhibits,...