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Holy Conversations

Strategic Planning as a Spiritual Practice for Congregations

by Alice Mann, Gil Rendle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003

Planning can be challenging in the contemporary congregation, where people share a common faith and values but may have very different preferences and needs. Much of the literature on congregational planning presents it as a technical process: the leader serves as the chief problem solver, and the...

Preservation Politics

Keeping Historic Districts Vital

by William E. Schmickle
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012

You’ve established a historic district in your town! Now what? Preservation Politics picks up where The Politics of Historic Districts leaves off, advising the established HPC on how to maintain momentum in their communities once the initial political campaign to win historic preservation designation...

Preaching that Matters

Reflective Practices for Transforming Sermons

by Lori J. Carrell
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013

Listeners do love their pastors and they agree with the sermon content they hear,' Lori Carrell once explained to a group of pastors, 'but most sermons don't ask for change, and most listeners don't experience spiritual growth as a result of the sermon.' A participant responded: 'Let's get practical....

Juvenile Delinquency

A Sociological Approach

by William E. Thompson, Jack E. Bynum
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016

This sophomore/junior level core text is intended for the juvenile delinquency course taught in criminal justice, criminology, and sociology departments at both four year and two year institutions. Taking a sociological approach, Juvenile Delinquency, Tenth Edition, discusses delinquency as...

The New Politics of the Old South

An Introduction to Southern Politics

by Scott E. Buchanan, Patrick R. Cotter, Stephen D. Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013

The New Politics of the Old South, Sixth Edition is available August 2017. Paperback ISBN 9781538100158 Now in its fifth edition, The New Politics of the Old South is the best and most comprehensive analysis and history of political behaviors and shifting demographics in America’s southern...

Beyond Physicalism

Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality

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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015

The rise of modern science has brought with it increasing acceptance among intellectual elites of a worldview that conflicts sharply both with everyday human experience and with beliefs widely shared among the world’s great cultural traditions. Most contemporary scientists and philosophers believe...

A Concise Survey of Western Civilization

Supremacies and Diversities throughout History

by Brian A. Pavlac
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019

This engaging text offers a concise, readable description of our common Western heritage. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms “supremacies and diversities”...
by William M. Kondrath
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013

Facing Feelings in Faith Communities is based on a simple premise: We have emotions because we need them. God created us as affectively competent beings, William Kondrath argues, to help us understand our world and to give appropriate signals to people around us about what we are experiencing. When...
by George D. Parsons, Speed B. Leas
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1994

Parsons and Leas have created an important tool for congregational leaders in this application of systems theory to evaluating a congregation’s life and readiness for change. Church leaders can explore the forces at work and examine the systemic implications in seven key areas: strategy, process,...
by Michael Bartanen, Robert Littlefield
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013

Here is the story of the process by which competitive speech and debate evolved in the United States during the 20th Century. This authoritative history shows how forensics, as practiced in the United States, was an uneasy fusion of contradictory premises that began as a significant part of...
by William M. Kondrath
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2013

Congregational Resources for Facing Feelings is a companion collection to Facing Feelings in Faith Communities by William Kondrath. This collection of practical applications for congregational situations in which exercising greater emotional competence will improve both our understanding of what is happening and the effectiveness of our actions and those of others.
by Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Nader Entessar
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017

Entessar & Afrasiabi’s Iran Nuclear Negotiations (Rowman & Littlefied, October 2015) offered a thorough analysis of the negotiation process between Iran and the 5+1 great powers about its nuclear program. This book essentially builds upon it, focusing this time on the final nuclear agreement,...

Ballet Music

A Handbook

by Matthew Naughtin
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014

Musicians who work professionally with ballet and dance companies sometimes wonder if they haven’t entered a foreign country—a place where the language and customs seem so utterly familiar and so bafflingly strange at the same. To someone without a dance background, phrases and terms--boy’s...

Kabbalah

The Mystic Quest in Judaism

by David S. Ariel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005

Today, many people from all faiths are exploring the Kabbalah. What were once controversial and esoteric teachings from medieval Jewish mystics now is becoming one of the latest spiritual trends sweeping across America. In the wake of this renewed interest comes David Ariel's Kabbalah: The Mystic...
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