Religious social and pastoral thought and activity Books

There is an unprecedented mental health crisis sweeping the globe. People are hurting in more ways than ever and in epidemic numbers. This unique and innovative resource is designed to inspire and activate faith communities to meet the real-world...

Has school crushed your faith or at least caused some serious doubts?The truth is that students are constantly being presented with information that paints a negative picture of the Christian faith. Many students have compromised their beliefs for the...

Does the Bible talk about aliens and UFOs?What if I told you that it does?Do alien abductions really happen? Will aliens play a role in the End Times?Wanting to reconcile her Christian faith with the questions and concerns she had about aliens and UFOs,...

God’s word never returns void. Before she was six years old, Cari Gintz found salvation in Christ, but childhood abuse, trauma sustained through legalistic religion, and an ongoing struggle with her sexual identity took a steep toll on her...

The Bible is a frustrating book to many Christians. It's not uncommon to hear that it's difficult to understand. To complicate the matter, we live in a culture that dismisses the importance of God's word altogether and we are left to wonder if Scripture...

Liturgy at its best has the power to transform the community of the faithful. The liturgies in this book focus on lament, especially the lament experienced by communities of people facing environmental degradation and loss. It is often observed that...

I Am Who Loves the Prophets is a beautiful and haunting meditation on exile, a central experience in the history of the Jewish people but now experienced by diverse peoples and faiths around the world. For Jewish theologian Marc H. Ellis, exile began...

A SMALL BOOK WITH POWERFUL WORDSThe title of this book "Black Girls Lives Matter Too!!" is derived from personal experiences. Valerie and her daughter continue to be affected by the challenges and harmfulness that confronts them. Valerie's daughter wants...

This is my true story. We grew up in this world and have been haunted by it all our lives. Some of my sisters succumbed to drugs, others to alcohol to ease their pain. I've lost five sisters, one to drugs and the others to breast cancer or related...

This book is based on my true life story and how the past plays a role in characteristics that we exhibit. Especially when I found out that I was born out of Rape. My parents had instilled in me the importance of putting God first in my life. I...

God Loves You Maybe, But Only Just a Few From time to time, a book appears on the scene that radically challenges and/or refutes contemporary "Consensus Reality Truths" that are intellectually interpreted-truths that are honored and celebrated...

The Rev. Michael Lessard is president of Pastoral Care Associates, an organization that provides pastoral care services and pastoral care training, through the Pastoral Care Associates School of Pastoral Ministry to hospitals and healthcare centers in...

A Strictly Biblical Perspective Ministries Inc. has strategically designed a biblical cognitive character-based training curriculum. It is designed to equip pastors, chaplains, and faith-based instructors with insight for preparing reentry volunteers as...

Can Christianity really work in both life and business today?I am a good Christian, but...      ...it's just business.         ...I have a family to take care of...

Al comenzar esta “defensa del Evangelio” necesitamos conocer bien lo que es el Evangelio, y por qué necesitamos defenderlo. El Apóstol Pablo creía que en su día era necesario defender el Evangelio. Él...

The book’s purpose is to provide helpful, practical advice for preachers and pastors concerning the call to ministry. It was born out of a ministry defense paper written by the author while he was a student of the Newburgh Theological Seminary...

Sets out some of the leading features of the evolutionary spiritual reawakening initiated in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, and their implications for our time. The pandemic entails a reset, one that involves a major shift in human consciousness-in the...

Argues that the problem of impending ecological devastation cannot be solved without a repudiation of the whiteness, and white theology that created it. This means naming and rejecting white epistemological hubris, which objectifies the land and...

An overview of Pope Francis's contribution to Catholic social teaching, drawing especially on his teaching in Fratelli Tutti.

These reflections by activist and pastor, Brandan Robertson-recently named to Rolling Stone's "Hot List" of artists, creatives, and influencers "giving us reason to be excited about the future"-come at one of the most divisive times in American history...

An analysis of anti-Asian racism, told from a Catholic perspective and including relevant CST documents and current examples of anti-Asian racism, compared and contrasted with anti-Black racism. Three damaging anti-Asian stereotypes are examined from the...

Nineteen reflections and a dozen intentional spiritual practices for the growing number of people living at the intersection of contemplation and justice. Each chapter is a teaching of engaged contemplation. Adam Bucko, a contemplative and cofounder of...

The modern restorative justice movement, perhaps one of the most important social movements of our time, was born in a Christian home to Christian parents, specifically to Christian peace workers striving to put their faith into action in the public...

Not many theologians have had as great an impact on the study of peace and violence as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was labeled an Enemy of the State and eventually executed in April 1945. In this book, Trey Palmisano examines the theological connection...

If as believers we are to go from glory to glory, strength to strength, and faith to faith, we better have a plan. Unfortunately, even many leaders to not have a systematic, logical yet flexible plan to get from child of God to Son to...

From Saturday Night Rockin' to Sunday Morning Reconciliation Before becoming a pastor, Jimi Calhoun performed alongside many world-famous musicians, including: Jimi Hendrix / Etta James / Hank Williams Jr. / John Lennon / Elton John /Mick Jagger / The...

It is ultimately the preacher who determines how the biblical text is used in the church. To assume that professional scholars alone can produce a definitive interpretation of the Bible for the church is to lose sight of that fact. Richard Rohrbaugh adds...

M. R. Mercer invites us to reflect upon life, death and Christian faith in the latter portion of our lives. In a world that seems intent on ignoring mortality, he encourages us to engage the reality of our human limits reflectively, and with deep faith...

For a Better Worldliness is not only a statement of Abraham Kuyper's and Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theological concept and historical practice of discipleship. It is also--and perhaps more importantly--a call to engage in the fullness of the Christian life...

We live in the wealthiest and most heavily defended world in history, so why do we feel so insecure? In a secular world, what does Christian theology have to say about this problem? Security after Christendom combines practical examples, social...

For centuries, evangelical Protestants and Catholics have hurled harsh epithets at each other. But that has changed dramatically in the last forty years. In 1960, many prominent evangelicals opposed John Kennedy for president because he was a Catholic...

Faithful biblical sermons not only attempt to capture what the biblical text says, but also what the text is trying to do. Biblical sermons will take direction from both the content and the intent of the biblical text. In Taken Up and Preached, Blayne...

Personal encounters with God are vital for the current generation of believers--the postmodern/millennial generation who affirm truth through experience. Instead of the traditional view of inner healing and deliverance (IHD) as a ""hospital unit"" of the...

""What do I do now?"" Whether you're a lay minister, pastor, or missionary, this is probably a question you've often asked yourself. Along with the joy of helping people in Christian ministry comes the complexity of all the issues and situations that...

This book wrestles with quandaries of pastoral ministry in what psychotherapist Mary Pipher calls "the age of overwhelm." Drawing especially from the wisdom of Jesus' own teaching and healing ministries as portrayed in the Gospel of Luke, it offers an...

In a Christian culture driven by answer-knowing and movement-making, we have largely become addicted to figuring out the way and ensuring that others are walking it as well in order to be counted faithful. An addict to this end herself, Britney Winn Lee...

This collection of fifteen sermons by one of the leading pentecostal theologians today provides insight into the form, style, and content of preaching in the pentecostal tradition while also being suggestive of normative homiletical theory and practice...

Faith, Love, and Mercy is a selection from the weekly homilies of noted moral theologian and pastor Fr. Richard Roach SJ, who retired from university teaching to lead a small island parish in his last decade. His theologically rigorous yet accessible...

From Wall Street to Main Street, the moral toxicity in our country is alarming. There are frightening signs that America is on the same path to destruction as the Roman Empire was before its fall. Since America has embraced secular progressivism and...

This volume brings together a decade of reflection at the intersection of culture, economics, and theology. Addressing topics ranging from the family to work, politics, and the church, Jordan J. Ballor shows how the Christian faith calls us to get...

The book is about showing different ways of doing ethics, highlighting a kind of methodological pluralism. This book attempts to relate the difference in methodology and perspective to difference in identity, focal point of analysis, or projects of...

In the decade after 9/11, Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale did what preachers were doing all across America--he entered the pulpit and tried to claim Jesus Christ as the risen one who is ushering in a renewed and restored kingdom, even as it seemed that so many...

Preachers are often caught in a double bind--they would like to be more witty and creative, but they aren't sure whether these capacities fit with the serious business of preaching the gospel. Pastor and preaching professor Blayne Banting addresses both...

Conservative evangelical women are least likely to be trained in the areas of teaching and preaching. It's a tragic state of affairs, given the central value that our tradition places on the Scriptures. In this book, Jackie Roese examines the forces,...

The world's poorest people are struggling to access quality, affordable health care. Change is urgently required. Faith-based organizations deliver more than 40 percent of health services in many of the poorest places. This book argues FBOs can--and...