Paldiel highlights the role of non-Jews in extending aid and assistance to Jews inside Nazi-dominated Europe. From the testimonies and files housed at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust martyrs and heroes memorial in Jerusalem, Paldiel presents dozens of stories of the circumstances and odds facing Jews and those who would help them. Includes an eight-page ......
Shelter Theology offers insight into the worlds of the invisible: individuals experiencing homelessness and those living in extreme poverty. Based on over ten years of chaplaincy in a homeless shelter, Dunlap shares the nuanced theology of people in harsh circumstances and outlines how their beliefs and practices enable survival and resistance.
Explores the role of food in the Christian tradition. This work argues that our eating practices can make us more attentive to our life purposes, more attuned to our community identity and more aware of the presence of God. It considers the important role food and fasting have in the Christian tradition.
Church scandals relating to sexual boundary violations by clergy have made all professionals more aware of the underlying dynamics of the pastoral relationship. Pamela Cooper-White plumbs these depths and proposes a framework for understanding the relationship and the root causes of misconduct and effective care.
Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling, Revised and Expanded 20th Anniversary Edition
For twenty years, clinical pastoral educators, congregational caregivers, chaplains, pastoral psychotherapists, and pastoral theologians have turned to Pamela Cooper-White's Shared Wisdom to ground their teaching, training, and understandings of countertransference and how the use of the caregiver's self, in turn, impacts the relational dynamic ......
* Provides a simple three-step process to discover the core claim of the sermon * Helps preacher to create sermons that engage head, heart, and hand * Keyed to online sermon samples and other Web-based features
When Michael tried storying, he saw his students discover meaning and identity in the biblical narrative. Michael has invested almost a decade in refining this Bible storying approach, and has found it effective with groups of all ages. Shaped by the Story helps you engage your group with the Bible in a new way.
While many manuals advise clergy and congregants on tactics for church survival or thriving, few address the deepest identity, shape, and imperatives of the church in its identity in Christ and the tradition of discipling that stems from his life, work, death, and resurrection. As compelling as it is clear, Craig Nessan's important new work ......
Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization, Second Edition
This book breaks new ground by describing the global economy and its effects from the perspective of an integrated theology of "the earth as primary revelation" and the institutional powers of this world.
