The Church's Role in Fostering Democracy and Sustainable Development
In A Church for the World, contributors from mostly non-Western theological communities offer historical, developmental, ecclesiastical, and theological perspectives on the church-world relationship, challenging misconceptions and practices that prevent the church from being salt and light in the world.
Explores the issues of Church authority and the priesthood. This book offers a critique of contemporary Vatican policies, and issues a call for the Church to enter into a greater dialogue with the millions of sincere Catholics who feel increasingly disenfranchised and alienated by a Church they see as out of touch with the real world.
Anthropological poverty has long been overlooked in Christian theology. It disproportionately affects women, striking at the heart of their existence. However, when women are empowered to follow Christ and live as risen beings, they can radically contribute to a Catholic Christian theology that claims solidarity with the poor and oppressed.
An 8-Year-Old Boy and His Father Take on the Appalachian Trail
Imagine a 7-year-old boy asking his father if they can hike the entire length of the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail together. Then imagine that the father says yes. Now think "What are they getting themselves into?"For the author of this deeply felt book, the planned hike is an opportunity to bond with his son and be what he calls "Barbarians"--in ......
An 8-Year-Old Boy and His Father Take on the Appalachian Trail
A funny, poignant, clear-eyed account of a father and son's modern-day wilderness adventure: attempting a hike of the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail. Wonderfully written and illustrated with the son's journal drawings.
The Con Man's Formula: Hope + Fear = Desperation From the Gilded Age, through WWII, America was rife with ne'er-do-wells with their never-ending search for the next Big Score. Between 1850, and 1950 lawlessness melded with ingenuity, fueled by optimism and ruthlessness: America was dangerous, and buzzing, and where opportunity came to take ......
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the NFL's founding as the American Professional Football League, Roger Gordon describes the evolution of pro football in trivia questions, answers, and anecdotes.
This compelling book analyzes the dramatic changes in rural Chinese society as a result of rapid urbanization. Building on eight decades of studies of the village of Lengshuigou, Chinese sociologists examine the fundamental changes over the last century that have radically transformed centuries-old systems of patriarchy and generational order.
Helps readers to find a unified call to reason, tolerance, and freedom of expression in opposition to the forces of ignorance, supernaturalism, superstition, and dogmatism. This title includes the words of over eighty of the world's most often read and frequently quoted authors such as: Aristotle, Matthew Arnold, Marcus Aurelius, and Cicero.
