"This book introduces a practice based and contextually sensitive approach to studying lived religion, employing cases from diverse disciplines, locations, and traditions and providing accessible guides to students and novice researchers eager to begin their own exploration of religious and spiritual practices"--
Using the annual lectionary as his guide, Christian Piatt has developed a devotional that allows us to read through major parts of the Old and New Testaments. Every week has four Scripture readings, glossary terms, deeper thoughts, and a closing prayer. Use it as an in-depth study guide or a daily devotional.
Religious Skepticism and the Search for a Liberal Politics
This book's central claim is that a close reading of Augustine's epistemology can assist political theologians in developing affirmative accounts of political liberalism.
How Spirituality and Organizing Transformed a Pastor and Congregation
Terry Allen Moe came as pastor to Redeemer Lutheran, a traditional, working-class congregation in a poorer, mixed-race neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, in 1981. Five US presidents, six Portland mayors, and four Lutheran bishops later, Redeemer had been transformed into an innovative, spiritual-not-religious, member-based nonprofit called Leaven ......
In this essay Barth articulates what it means to follow Jesus in faith. He emphaisizes that discipleship involves a detachment from authority of possessions, foregoing the pursuit of personal glory, challenging the fear and use of force, the dissolution of self-evident personal attachments and a "better-righteousness" which goes beyond actions.
Is there an alternative to a fragmented, frantic, meaningless life? This work tells that the author finds it in a life centered in God. It includes spiritual exercises, questions for reflection, and discussions in every chapter for individuals and congregational study groups.
In the current postmodern context, where many despair of faith and seem to circle back to the 1960's conclusion that "God is dead," this book will hold forth a reason to believe and a pathway to probe more deeply in contemporary images and language the age-old truth and traditions of faith.
Why do men rarely invest time and effort building intentional and mutually supportive friendships? How can men create meaningful friendships? David Bentall explores the experience of three men who have supported each other in friendship for more than twelve years. He chronicles how friendships can inspire, challenge, and have the potential to ......
