Christian Science category: 744 books
Welcoming the Stranger
Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths about immigration, show the limits of the current immigration system, and offer concrete ways for you to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.
THE ABORTION AGENDA
Considering the Irish Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland introduced a ban on abortion by recognising the right to life of an unborn child. This is now under scrutiny, and a campaign is underway to “repeal the 8th.” Foreign money heavily funds this well-organised crusade, and there is pressure being...
Healing Our Broken Humanity
Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
We live in conflicted times. Our newsfeeds are filled with inequality, division, and fear. We want to make a difference and see justice restored because Jesus calls us to be a peacemaking and reconciling people. But how do we do this? Based on their work with diverse churches, colleges, and other...
Living, Dying, Living Forever
Spiritual Reflections on the Journey of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Living in a culture that is fascinated with the topic of death and dying, there are many who desire to explore the issues from a Christian perspective. Living, Dying, Living Forever is designed as a workbook to help you explore the issues of living and dying as they relate to your relationship with...
Making a Real Difference
Christian movers and shakers
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Christians have made a positive difference to our nation since its foundation. Motivated by faith, they have put a human face on the principle of ‘loving your neighbour’.
This book outlines the profiles of a few of the thousands of Christians who are moving and shaking New Zealand today,...
Godly Love
Impediments and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Godly Love: Impediments and Possibilities examines the theory of “Godly Love,” understood as including a vertical axis denoting the love of God and a horizontal axis involving the love of others, is at the core of a new field of research that studies how divine love influences the love of others...
Do All Lives Matter?
The Issues We Can No Longer Ignore and the Solutions We All Long For
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Something is wrong in our society. Deeply wrong.
The belief that all lives matter is at the heart of our founding documents--but we must admit that this conviction has never truly reflected reality in America. Movements such as Black Lives Matter have arisen in response to recent displays of violence...
Passionate and Pious
Religious Media and Black Women's Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
In Passionate and Pious Monique Moultrie explores the impact of faith-based sexual ministries on black women's sexual agency to trace how these women navigate sexuality, religious authority, and their spiritual walk with God. Providing churchwomen a space to candidly discuss these issues, these popular...
Homeland Insecurity
A Hip Hop Missiology for the Post–Civil Rights Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
North American domestic missions are now situated in a complex landscape of changing faith, ethnic diversity, and racial unrest. But most missiological approaches continue under colonialist assumptions and lack the cultural competency to navigate new realities. Missiologist Daniel White Hodge explores...
by Jacqueline Ley
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
When Jacqueline Ley's 23-year-old son told her that he was gay, she was shocked and hurt. Her fundamentalist Christian background told her that homosexuality was sinful and that her son had placed himself beyond the pale. But she underwent a remarkable transformation of attitude. A mother's journey...
A Time to Speak
Failure, Loss, and Forgiveness through Faith in God
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
A true story of personal failures, losses and how to forgive through faith in God.
I was a Christian women’s leader, executive secretary to three pastors, secretary to the board of trustees, wife and mother of five children but poor choices cost me everything I’d prayed for.
Caught in the...
Hogan’S Hope
A Deaf Dog, a Courageous Journey, and a Christian's Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Hogans Hope is the heartwarming story of a deaf dog who escaped death during the time when the prevalent belief was that deaf dogs needed to be destroyed. It is the tale of a legendary deaf canine champion who endured severe abuse and prevailed as he turned upside down the myths of deaf dogs being...
by Corinna Turner
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Mandy Lamb is the world's only half-sheep girl, thanks to a spot of well-meant but ill-advised genetic tinkering. She's grown up happily in the Valley of Worth with friends both ovine and human—and one who is neither.
Now she's off to senior school in the nearby town. And she's about to meet...
Catholic Theology of Marriage in the Era of HIV and AIDS
Marriage for Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Marriage for Life begins by listening to the lived experiences of Catholic, married, HIV-positive women, in order to better understand their struggles. The eight women interviewed in Chicago, Illinois, USA, shared their stories of marriage, of family life, of church involvement, and of living with...