Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Electing Not to Vote
Christian Reflections on Reasons for Not Voting
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Ethical discourse about the institution of voting rarely includes the option of abstaining for principled reasons. This collection of nine articles widens the discussion in that direction by giving readers a new question: At what point and on what grounds might one choose not to vote as an act of...
by Geoffrey Rees
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
From the polling place to the pulpit, The Romance of Innocent Sexuality investigates the passions that are enacted in debates about same-sex marriage. In a critique that is at once humorous and unrelenting, Geoffrey Rees argues that sexual desire is fundamentally a desire to make sense of oneself...
Intersex in Christ
Ambiguous Biology and the Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Intersex is an umbrella term for many different conditions that cause ambiguous sexual biology. Intersex people are "in between," neither clearly male nor clearly female. Intersex has been largely hidden through surgery and secrecy, but is now coming out into the open. Many intersex people...
Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse
Lifting the Veil on Big-Time Sports
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Why do sports matter so much to so many people? And why should we care? Far from being a distraction or a trivial pastime, sports tell us deep truths about ourselves. Big-time sports are a particularly potent mirror for humanity--reflecting both our promising possibilities and our demonic distortions....
Together
Community as a Means of Grace
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Together: Community as a Means of Grace addresses the concept of community as an avenue to a deeper relationship with God. Using an ecumenical Wesleyan approach, Duggins explores the concept of "God as community" to conclude that bringing people together in almost any setting allows them...
Simple Harmony
Thoughts on Holistic Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Many have experienced Christianity as a confusing list of restrictive rules designed to wring all of the joy out of life. Others seek to live as Christians without a clear understanding of what the focus of a Christian life should be, leaving them to wonder if Jesus had more in mind than regular Sunday...
Luther's Theology of the Cross
Christ in Luther’s Sermons on John
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Luther was fundamentally a preacher-pastor, "a care-taker of souls," whose ingenuity lies in his usage of the biblical message as a source of pastoral encouragement. This book seeks to capture the often-overlooked pastoral side of the Reformer through an examination of his sermons on John's...
After Heresy
Colonial Practices and Post-Colonial Theologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
In this important contribution to post-colonial theological studies, the argument is made that religious practices and teachings imposed on colonized peoples are transmuted in the process of colonization. The very theological discourse that is foisted on the colonized people becomes for them, a liberating...
Transfiguring Luther
The Planetary Promise of Luther’s Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Luther's theology and practice have inspired and continue to inspire so many across confessional and even religious alignments worldwide, or else excite those for whom he displays a coveted, untamed audacity in living out convictions; it is the fabric, the texture that makes Luther a figura with the...
Drinking from the Wells of New Creation
The Holy Spirit and the Imagination in Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
"Dearborn provides us with the gift of deep insight into the heart of God and the ways of the Spirit to open our eyes, our hearts, our homes, and our lives to God and others. Through profound theological reflection interwoven with compelling stories, this book draws us into God's healing love...
The Family Metaphor in Jesus’ Teaching, Second Edition
Gospel Imagery and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This revised edition of The Family Metaphor in Jesus' Teaching examines the family metaphors for God (Father) and for believers (children, brothers) that Jesus chose to use. Jesus not only held up a child as an example of receptivity, but he defended actual children, warning against despising one...
by Stephen Finlan
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Do bullies have free rein in our churches? Who are the bullies? What is scapegoating? Is it possible to practice the mercy and forgiveness demanded by Gospel ethics while also protecting people from emotional and professional damage? These are some of the questions that Stephen Finlan seeks to answer,...
Contact with Reality
Michael Polanyi’s Realism and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Is knowledge discovered, or just invented? Can we ever get outside ourselves to know how reality is in itself, independent of us? Philosophical realism raises the question whether in our knowing we connect with an independent reality--or only connect with our own mental constructs. Far from being...
by Esther Lightcap Meek
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In refreshing challenge to the common presumption that knowing involves amassing information, this book offers an eight-step approach that begins with love and pledge and ends with communion and shalom. Everyday adventures of knowing turn on a moment of insight that transforms and connects knower...