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The Only Alternative
Christian Nonviolent Peacemakers in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
The radical message of Jesus is that there is only one alternative to the common method of confronting violence with more violence. The Only Alternative: Christian Nonviolent Peacemakers in America explores the spiritually active practice of compassionate nonviolence. Here is a journey through the...
Strengthening Families and Ending Abuse
Churches and Their Leaders Look to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Strengthening families of different varieties and ending abuse in the myriad of forms through which it surfaces is God's way of bringing peace and safety to Christian homes across the world. We challenge congregations, their leaders, and the men, women, and youth who faithfully support them to consider...
Released Outward
Liberating Congregations To Do Justice, Love Mercy, and Live Faithfully
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Drawing from the experience of a church on Chicago's south side, Released Outward addresses the situation of congregations that have turned inward and become isolated from the needs of the world around them. It addresses the question of how churches, addicted to their cultural and ecclesial traditions,...
by Alain Finkielkraut
Language: French
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Language: French
Release Date: August 26, 2009
« Le roi Salomon suppliait l’Éternel de lui accorder “un cœur intelligent”.
Au sortir d’un siècle ravagé par les méfaits conjoints de l’efficacité technologique et de la ferveur idéologique, cette prière a gardé toute sa valeur.
Dieu cependant se tait. Il nous regarde peut-être,...
by Vincent Peillon
Language: French
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Le bien ou le mal, la justice ou la vengeance, la guerre ou la paix ?
Du Groenland à Tel Aviv, en passant par Copenhague et Paris, nous voici plongés dans une réalité qui est la nôtre, dont on soupçonne l’existence mais qu’on préfère ignorer.
AURORA : c’est le nom du consortium...
Walking Together
A Congregational Reflection on Biblical Church Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Walking Together: A Congregational Reflection on Biblical Church Discipline is a study of the biblical concept of church discipline. It seeks to show that church discipline, rightly understood, is a ministry of mercy and grace that will bless churches that return to it. Walking Together reveals that...
Readings in Catholic Social Teaching
Selected Documents of the Universal Church, 1891–2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Readings in Catholic School Social Teaching: Selected Documents of the Universal Church, 1891-2011 is a curated collection of readings that form a short summary of the universal Catholic social teaching ranging between Pope Leo XIII's 1891 Rerum Novarum and Pope Benedicts XVI's 2011 pontificate. Organized...
The Divided Soul
A Kierkegaardian Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2009
SOren Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing is an astute analysis of inner dividedness. In this striking little book, Kierkegaard gently yet incisively specifies the precise forms it takes. Like many of SOren Kierkegaard's books, however, Purity of Heart contains a good deal of formidable...
The Wisdom of Kierkegaard
A Collection of Quotations on Faith and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Tucked away in the complicated prose that fills many of Soren Kierkegaard's books are numerous insightful declarations. They arrest the reader with their depth of understanding. They often are expressed in a lilting and lyrical manner. Encountering them makes working through the intricate prose eminently...
by Christopher Dreisbach
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Your God is too somber if your posture before him lacks a spirit of joy and a commitment to rejoice as much as possible. While life has its sadness and tragedy, the good news of Jesus Christ is that God's kingdom has won; and the suffering we face for a time is shorter compared with the endless delight...
Burning Center, Porous Borders
The Church in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Burning Center, Porous Borders articulates what the church is and is called to be about in the world, a world now globalized to the point that the local is lived globally and the global is lived locally. The church must respond creatively and prophetically to the challenges-economic disparity, war...
Breathing Patterns
A Teacher's Reflections on Calling, Equipping, and Sending
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Preaching to the choir is always complicated, but especially so when that choir happens to be a seminary community. In this collection of sermons, delivered in the chapel of the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary (PCUSA), Robert P. Hoch, Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Worship, weaves...
Children’s Ministry That Fits
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Approaches to Nurturing Children’s Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Children know God. They encounter God in diverse ways as they walk along the spiritual journey. Amidst this diversity, four distinct avenues for connecting with God emerge in the lives of children: word, emotion, symbol, and action. These are the four spiritual styles, broad approaches to spirituality...
The New Chosen People, Revised and Expanded Edition
A Corporate View of Election
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Controversy rages on about God's choosing people for salvation. Are only the few elect? Rather than typically beginning with the preconceptions of systematic theologies, Dr. William Klein takes up this question by searching for a biblical theology of election. He surveys the OT contexts of God's choosing...