Chalice Press: 181 books
Holy Currency Exchange
101 Stories, Songs, Actions, and Visions for Missional and Sustainable Ministries
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Eric Law's foundational Holy Currencies (2013) demonstrated a new way ministries can think about the resources needed to do their work in their communities. Law's follow-up book, Holy Currency Exchange, shares a variety of tools for thinking differently about how those resources can mobilize ministries...
Urbansouls
Reflections on Youth, Religion, and Hip-Hop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
urbansouls foreshadows the Ferguson uprising by offering keen insight on the social and cultural situation of the greater St. Louis region. Written while serving as a youth pastor and community center director in the late '90s, Sekou theorizes on race, class and gender. urbansouls reads the religious...
by Fred B. Cradock,Lee Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
No one has had more impact and influence on the craft of preaching in the last several decades than Fred Craddock. After his retirement from a distinguished teaching career, he became free to share his wisdom with a wider audience without the burdens of academic responsibilities. As a result he's...
by Dr. Denise Dombkowski Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Reclaim the Psalms for true worship, as well as prayer, as you learn how to approach God with the emotional intensity of the ancient psalmists. Denise Dombkowski Hopkins combines the insights of scholarship on the Psalms with artwork, liturgy, song, and poetry, to give us a new way to use the Psalms...
A New Evangelical Manifesto
A Kingdom Vision for the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Being religiously conservative does not necessarily mean being politically conservative. There is a significant, emerging segment of conservatively theological Christians who agree with politically liberal counterparts while staying true to their own faith regarding a wide variety of political issues...
Gods, Gays, and Guns
Religion and the Future of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
"Democracy and god have failed" captures the spirit of this provocative collection of essays. Arguing that the religion must be used for the expansion of democracy, Gods, Gays, and Guns takes up the topics of gay marriage, economic justice, and social movements. Written in Parisian cafes,...
Hospice: a labor of love
A Labor of Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Sharing stories of real people they have encountered as professional hospice caregivers, the authors explore both the practical and philosophical aspects of the hospice movement. Straightforward and nontechnical in approach, Hospice, A Labor of Love offers help and inspiration to hospice volunteers, pastoral counselors, and the families of those who are receiving hospice care.
Servant Leadership
Jesus and Paul
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Servant Leadership addresses a fundamental concern of the contemporary church by asking pertinent questions of the New Testament: Who became a leader in the Jesus movement and in Pauline Christianity? What was the social status of these leaders in the outside world as compared to the importance of...
Femmevangelical
The Modern Girl's Guide to the Good News
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Damaging social contradictions, pervasive patriarchal structure, oppressive gender biases - no wonder women are abandoning formal religions! But our faith is still important to us, leaving many conflicted and frustrated in the quest to cultivate and practice our authentic female spirituality and authority....
Religious Education in the African American Tradition
A Comprehensive Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
This book is a comprehensive survey of African American Christian Religious Education (AACRE). It addresses historical, theological, and ministerial issues. Kenneth H. Hill defines concepts and explores history, considers the diverse voices that are addressing AACRE, and focuses on educational theory...
An Inner Journey to Easter
A Lenten Devotional
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
We know Lent is coming. Just after New Year's Day when the holiday activities are dying down, we briefly recognize that Lent and Easter are just around the corner. Normally, the next time we acknowledge that fact is a week before Easter as we're all running about trying to make Easter dinner arrangements...
Bubble Girl
An Irreverent Journey of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Kat Banakis is on her way to becoming a Christian minister. Maybe. Part memoir, part practical theology, Bubble Girl is the story of a young, edgy woman from a big, loud, ethnic Chicago family, deciding who she wants to be as a Christian adult. The book seamlessly weaves together iconic tales of those...
Dancing with God
The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Dancing With God is an exploration of the divine gifts of courage and grace in the face of evil. Moreover, it is a doctrine of God as the source of that courage. Baker-Fletcher presents an understanding of the work of the Trinity with regard to the problem of crucifixion, a metaphor she uses for unnecessary...
Human Development and Faith (Second Edition)
Life-Cycle Stages of Body, Mind, and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
This book, now in its second edition, brings together the best available understandings of human development from a multidisciplinary perspective. Uniquely inclusive of the moral and faith dimensions of context and life-cycle development, Human Development and Faith examines the interplay of mind,...