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Understanding Our Story
The Life’s Work and Legacy of Adrian van Kaam in the Field of Formative Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Understanding Our Story presents a concise introduction to the original, transformative thinking of Adrian van Kaam, CSSp, PhD (1920-2007). While many books are available on "spiritual formation" and "Christian disciplines," no other author of our time has offered such a holistic...
The Beauty of the Faith
Using Aesthetics for Christian Apologetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Nearly everyone finds beauty compelling, so Christian apologists should devise ways to present an aesthetic Christian apologetic. Nearly all apologists admit that the beauty of a life well lived and the beauty of the Christian community (along with the use of media and the arts) are not only helpful...
Surviving Toxic Leaders
How to Work for Flawed People in Churches, Schools, and Christian Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Since Jean Lipman-Blumen's The Allure of Toxic Leaders shook the corporate world in 2005, countless articles, books, and Internet blogs have appeared on the topic. Despite such interest and response, no study of toxic leadership had appeared from a Christian point of view until this volume, Kenn Gangel's...
Responding to Abuse in Christian Homes
A Challenge to Churches and their Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Domestic abuse is a horror. It lurks beneath the surface of our collective existence, sometimes raising its ugly head where least expected-in the church or within families of faith. Are we-individually or collectively-ready to respond? What can, or should, congregations and their pastoral leaders...
Beyond Abuse in the Christian Home
Raising Voices for Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
In January 2004 a newly founded evangelical organization called PASCH was formed. The word denotes the Passover or time of new beginnings--when God kept people safe in their own homes before leading them into freedom from abuse and oppression. Yet the word PASCH also stands for Peace and Safety in...
Stewards of Grace
A Reflective, Mission Biography of Eugene and Phyllis Grams in South Africa, 1951–1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Stewards of Grace tells several stories in one. It is a story of two faithful stewards of God's grace called to serve the poor, despised, and marginalized in apartheid South Africa. It is a story that captures how cross-cultural missions from the west at the end of the colonial era led to a thriving...
The Sacramental Church
The Story of Anglo-Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
What is Anglo-Catholicism? What are its origins? Are Anglo-Catholics real Anglicans/Episcopalians? What is their relationship with Roman Catholics? Has Anglo-Catholicism betrayed Anglicanism's Protestant roots? The Sacramental Church answers these and many other questions. Addressed to the general...
by Kristen Welch, Abraham Ruelas
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
In the United States, female seminaries and their antecedents, the female academies, were crucial first institutions that played a vital role in liberating women from the "home sphere," a locus that was the primary domain of Euro-American women. The female seminaries founded by Native Americans...
To Bless Our Callings
Prayers, Poems, and Hymns to Celebrate Vocation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
To Bless Our Callings: Prayers, Poems, and Hymns to Celebrate Vocation is an ecumenical collection that supports the callings of everyone within the Christian community. This valuable resource of over two hundred prayers, blessings, poems, and sacred songs from diverse Christian traditions speaks...
Jesus, the New Adam
Humanity’s Steadfast Hope
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book retells the narrative of Christ's redemptive journey by looking at some of the Gospel's underlying assumptions and showing how they are both reasonable and credible. For Christians, faith is not contrary to reason, but presupposes and even builds on it. This faith asks us to put aside whatever...
What to Expect in Reformed Worship, Second Edition
A Visitor’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Worship the Lord. Too many churches assume that those in their pews and those who pass through their doors know what worship is and why the Lord commands it. The purpose of this booklet, then, is to educate and acquaint members of Reformed churches but most of all those who inquire within their walls,...
The Nursery of the Holy Spirit
Welcoming Children in Worship
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Public worship is the nursery of the Holy Spirit. As you enter the sanctuary, you notice them at once. Then, as you take your seat next to a family, they are right there beside you. Throughout the ensuing service, you see them--and hear them. The presence of children in public worship is not only...
The Facilitator Era
Beyond Pioneer Church Multiplication
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Some time ago, Ralph Winter brilliantly identified three eras of modern missions: Era 1: William Carey focused on the coastlands; Era 2: Hudson Taylor focused on the inlands; Era 3: Donald McGavran and Cameron Townsend focused on unreached peoples. With all the fast and furious changes swirling around...
by Ted A. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Many Christians today do not have the confidence to state the most important, commonly held beliefs and practices of historic Christian communities. The appearance of large-scale and fundamental inconsistencies between Christian groups remains an obstacle to Christian commitment for persons outside...