Chalice Press: 181 books
Ministry Unplugged
Uncommon Calls to Serve
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Ministry can take place in the most unusual places and in the most unusual ways-and it should. Ministry Unplugged: Uncommon Calls to Serve explores out-of-the-ordinary expressions of the call to ministry, telling stories of passionate people involved in ministry in uncommon ways and places in order...
Ultimate Things
An Introduction to Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Carey presents an introduction to the elements of apocalyptic discourse in the Hebrew Bible, the intertestamental texts of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and the Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts. He seeks to help modern readers perplexed by the rampant and somewhat outrageous depiction and...
by Alan N. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Spiritual Dimensions of Team is the primary tool that will help churches become effective team-based organizations. Teams as dynamic units are important to organizations, and this book offers a new and unique approach to creating effective teams. By using parables and giving ways to put the insights...
by Christian Piatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Where did Adam and Eve's kids find spouses? Does God justify violence in scripture? Does the Bible call for sexual purity? (and what qualifies as pure and impure?) Ever get the feeling that you can't ask those kinds of questions at church? But if we can't ask the tough, keep-you-awake-at-night questions...
Oh God, Oh God, Oh God!
Young Adults Speak out about Sexuality and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2010
Oh God, Oh God, Oh God! addresses issues of love, sex(uality) and embodiment from the perspectives of young adults who work for or are involved with the church. Discussions about sex, sexuality, and theology are taboo in many churches. What about the tensions felt between the commitments of love,...
Blessed Are the Crazy
Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness, Family and Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
When do you learn that "normal" doesn't include lots of yelling, lots of sleep, lots of beating? In Blessed Are the Crazy: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness, Family, and Church, Sarah Griffith Lund looks back at her father's battle with bipolar disorder, and the helpless sense of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Handbook of Latino/a Theologies explores the varied theological, ecclesiastical, spiritual, and cultural expressions associated with the term 'Latino/a or Hispanic theology.' There is no single definition of Hispanic/Latino theology, but rather a multiplicity of perspectives within the diverse Latino/a...
Making Paper Cranes
Toward an Asian American Feminist Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
This is not your typical Asian instructional book on Asian crafting or origami. Making Paper Cranes is an attempt to describe an ever emerging life, in an emerging community within Christianity in North America, that is intentionally taking flight and impacting the world.
This theological book...
by Dr. John Killinger
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In the world today, churches and church members are often diverted from their central mission of loving others and interpreting life through the vision of Jesus Christ. If Christians Were Really Christian shows that with the message we have been given and the spirit of God to lead us, we should have...
Introduction to the Psalms
A Song from Ancient Israel
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Introduction to the Psalms: A Song from Ancient Israel seeks to provide the reader with a solid introduction to the Hebrew Psalter, one that is informed by an interest in its shape and shaping. The author, Nancy deClaissé-Walford, provides an up-to-date study on the poetic style of the psalms in...
The Stone-Campbell Movement
A Global Histroy
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The Stone-Campbell Movement: A Global History tells the story of Christians from around the globe and across time who have sought to witness faithfully to the gospel of reconciliation. Transcending theological differences by drawing from all the major streams of the movement, this foundational book...
Nobody Cries When We Die
God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
When the screams of innocents dying engulf you, how do you hear God's voice? Will God and God's people call you to life when your breath is being strangled out of you? For people of color living each day surrounded by violence, for whom survival is not a given, vocational discernment is more than...
by Fred B. Craddock
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
One of the things that makes Fred Craddock's sermons so compelling is his masterful use of storytelling, but, until now, few of his stories have ever been published. This collection offers for the first time hundreds of Craddock stories told in his own words and a glimpse of his life.
Forward Together
A Moral Message for the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In the spring of 2013, seventeen people gathered at the North Carolina state legislature to protest extreme legislation passed by the General Assembly attacking health insurance, unemployment insurance, labor, and voting rights. The ministers, labor, and human rights activists began praying, singing,...