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  • - A Pastor's Journey
    von Barbara Melosh
    28,00 €

    Barbara Melosh's story was a common one. A second-career seminarian, she arrived at her first pastorate brimming with enthusiasm and high hopes. The blue-collar congregation to which she'd been called had a glorious past but an uncertain future. Certain that she could turn around its slow yet undeniable slide into decline, Melosh...

  • - Year A, Volume 3, Season After Pentecost
    von Thomas Long
    52,00 €

    Designed to empower preachers as they lead congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary.This nine-volume series offers creative commentary on each reading in the three-year lectionary cycle by viewing that...

  • - Interpretation
    von Patrick D. Miller
    51,00 €

  • - Thriving without Full-Time Clergy
    von G. Jeffrey MacDonald
    29,00 €

    Churches experiencing numerical and financial decline may dread the day when they can no longer afford a full-time pastor. Freeing up funds that would go to a full-time salary sure would help the budgetmaybe even enough to turn things aroundbut is it even possible to run effective ministries with just a half- or quarter-time...

  • - Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice
    von Kerry Connelly
    23,00 €

    "A no-nonsense call to action for all those willing to confront their complicity, Good White Racist? promises 'This is going to be hard, and you are going to be uncomfortable. But it will be worth it.'" - Foreword Reviews

  • - Essays for a Perilous Age
    von Walter Brueggemann
    39,00 €

    In this varied collection of essays, Walter Brueggemann provides a lens into biblical teachings concerning the present age of fake news, lies, and alternate realities. Compiled and edited by Louis Stulman, professor of religion at the University of Findlay, these essays carry a common theme of truth and hope. As Brueggemann writes in the...

  • - Changing Yourself to Change the World
    von Kathy Escobar
    25,00 €

    From the masses of young people spurning organized religion to faithful followers of Jesus, there is a deep hunger across gender, age, socioeconomics, and denominational backgrounds for practical, tangible ways to live a life of love, mercy, and justice in our divided, fragmented world. But where do we start? Its easy to feel overwhelmed...

  • - A Devotion through Ten Objects
    von Jill J. Duffield
    20,00 €

    God is often at work through the ordinary: ordinary people, ordinary objects, ordinary grace. Through the ordinary, God communicates epiphanies, salvation, revelation, and reconciliation. It is through the mundane that we hear Gods quiet voice.In this devotion for the season of Lent, Jill J. Duffield draws readers attention to ten...

  • von Donald K. Mckim
    21,00 €

    The Lenten journey is a shared journeyChristians join with others along the way of faith, following Jesus and seeking to live out the will and purpose of God.Living into Lent,written by noted theologian, educator, and author Donald K. McKim, sets aside time during the Lenten season for readers to reflect on their Christian...

  • - Year A, Volume 2, Lent through Pentecost
    von Thomas G Long
    51,00 €

    Designed to empower preachers as they lead their congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary. For each worship day within the three-year lectionary cycle, the commentaries in Connections link the individual...

  • - Feminist Conversations on the Human Condition
    von Rachel Sophia Baard
    36,00 €

    Early feminist theologians criticized the Christian doctrine of sin for its focus on female sexual purity and its enabling of the marginalization and oppression of women. Others have questioned whether the entire theological category of sin should be abandoned in favor of other ways of talking about the human predicament. In this new book...

  • - A Study on the Prophets
    von Walter Brueggemann
    20,00 €

    While conservative interpreters might believe that prophets were predictors and progressives believe the prophets to be simply social advocates, Walter Brueggemann argues that the prophets were emancipated imaginers of alternative. Emancipated from the dominant thinking of their societies, the prophets imagined an alternative...

  • - A Pro-Choice Theological Ethic
    von Margaret D. Kamitsuka
    43,00 €

    Abortion remains the most contested political issue in American life. Poll results have remained surprisingly constant over the years, with roughly equal numbers supporting and opposing it. A common perception is that abortion is contrary to Christian teaching and values. While some have challenged that perception, few have attempted a...

  • - Year A, Volume 1, Advent through Epiphany
    von Joel B Green
    51,00 €

    Designed to empower preachers as they lead their congregations to connect their lives to Scripture, Connections features a broad set of interpretive tools that provide commentary and worship aids on the Revised Common Lectionary. For each worship day within the three-year lectionary cycle, the commentaries in Connections link the individual...

  • - A Conversation about Scripture, Faith, and the Thickness of Relationship
    von Walter Brueggemann & Clover Reuter Beal
    23,00 €

    Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann has always excelled at making the Bible approachable and engaging. Drawn from a series of public conversations with Brueggemann and his former student and longtime friend Clover Reuter Beal, An On-Going Imagination explores Brueggemanns most influential biblical-theological concepts and methods: Why...

  • - Questions and Answers on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
    von John Kaltner, Kendra G. Hotz & Micah Greenstein
    25,00 €

    The current social and political climate makes it easy to benefit from religious misunderstanding. Political and religious leaders create fear of the religious other in order to drum up support for themselves. But the best way to combat deliberate misrepresentation is to provide accurate, timely information about the three great monotheistic...

  • - A Guide to Reading Scripture Together, Newly Revised
    von James E. Davison
    23,00 €

    This popular, comprehensive Bible-reading program for individuals and group study offers a sweeping introduction to biblical themes and concepts. Complete with a detailed reading schedule for every day of one year,The Year of the Bibleleads participants to a better understanding of Scripture and a greater sense of community within...

  • - A Guide to Reading Scripture, Newly Revised
    von James E. Davison
    18,00 €

    This popular, comprehensive Bible-reading program for individuals and group study offers a sweeping introduction to biblical themes and concepts. Complete with a detailed reading schedule for every day of one year,The Year of the Bibleleads participants to a better understanding of Scripture and a greater sense of community within...

  • - Rethinking the Urban World of the Hebrew Bible
    von Mark McEntire
    47,00 €

    The Hebrew Bible displays a complicated attitude toward cities. Much of the story tells of a rural, agrarian society, yet those stories were written by people living in urban environments. Moreover, cities frequently appear in a negative light; the Hebrew slaves in the book of Exodus were forced to build cities, and the book of Samuels...

  • - A Coming-Out Guide for LGBTQ Christians
    von Amber Cantorna
    23,00 €

    On a daily basis, author and LGBTQ advocate Amber Cantorna receives emails asking the same question: How does one reconcile their sexuality with their faith? Depression, despair, and thoughts of suicide often haunt LGBTQ Christians as they feel unable to imagine the possibility of living a happy, fulfilling life as an LGBTQ person of faith. As...

  • - Combating the Lies about Islam
    von Charles Kimball
    23,00 €

    Questions and fears about Islam have proliferated American life for decades, from the Iranian Revolution in 1979 to the September 11, 2001, attacks. Yet more recent history has seen a new development in the tangle of Christian-Muslim relations: the mainstreaming of Islamophobia as a path to political and societal power at the highest level...

  • - A Theology of the Incarnation
    von Ian A. McFarland
    42,00 €

    Most theologians believe that in the human life of Jesus of Nazareth, we encounter God. Yet how the divine and human come together in the life of Jesus still remains a question needing exploring. The Council of Chalcedon sought to answer the question by speaking of one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in divinity...

  • von Jr. & O. Wesley Allen
    49,00 €

    When it comes to understanding a passage in the Bible, context is everything. What historical events surround a books composition? What larger literary unit is a given passage part of? What central themes explored by the book touch on the verses in question? If we dont know the answer to questions like these, we are ill-prepared...

  • - Thematic Plans for Years A, B, and C
     
    44,00 €

    Both lectionary preachers and topical preachers will enjoy the best of both worlds with this second volume of sermon series ideas designed to frame consecutive weeks of lectionary texts into seasonal and short-term series. With contributors from seven denominations, this comprehensive resource offers new perspectives and fresh ideas for diving...

  • - How What Separates Us Can Save Us
    von Layton E. Williams
    24,00 €

    These days, theres no dirtier word than divisive, especially in religious and political circles. Claiming a controversial opinion, talking about our differences, even sharing our doubts can be seen as threatening to the goal of unity. But what if unity shouldnt be our goal?In Holy Disunity: How What Separates Us Can...

  • - Belief
    von Martha L. Moore-Keish
    44,00 €

    The Letter of James is the focus of the latest commentary in the Belief series. In the Letter of James, the writer sends encouragement to the early church, in the midst of the struggles and strife that marked its early days. Theologian Martha L. Moore-Keish guides the reader through the brief but important letter, most known for its discussion...

  • - Theology in a Ruptured World
    von Serene Jones
    35,00 €

    This substantive collection from noted scholar Serene Jones explores recent work in the field of trauma studies. Central to its overall theme is an investigation of how individual and collective violence affect ones capacity to remember, to act, and to love; how violence can challenge theological understandings of grace; and even how the...

  • - Spirituality for Good-Hearted Heathens
    von Jerry Herships
    20,00 €

    The world is full of good-hearted heathens, those who love people and those who want to do good in the world. They're not against GodaEURO"they just have little use for church. Church is boring and hypocritical. A Plus, who wants to sit through a sermon every week? But while organized religion doesn't appeal to them, these heathens long for a...

  • - Talking about Gun Violence in America
    von Donald V. Gaffney
    21,00 €

    Every time a shooting makes national headlines, the same debates erupt: Is the problem guns or mental health? Why is the United States unique in its gun violence problem? Can we reduce this violence while protecting the right to bear arms?Newtown, Connecticut, native and Disciples of Christ minister Donald V. Gaffney brings a calm and...

  • von Michael Morgan
    28,00 €

    We lift up the psalms to God as our prayers. We borrow the language of these ancient texts, and they become our works. We are not secondhand recipients of Gods word but communicants actively in conversation with God. What seems to set the Psalms apart from the rest of Scripture is their...

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