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The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church
By Katie Gaddini. 2022
Evangelical Christianity is often thought of as oppressive to women. The #MeToo era, when many women hit a breaking point…
with rampant sexism, has also reached evangelical communities. Yet more than thirty million women in the United States still identify as evangelical. Why do so many women remain in male-dominated churches that marginalize them, and why do others leave? In each case, what does this cost them?The Struggle to Stay is an intimate and insightful portrait of single women’s experiences in evangelical churches. Drawing on unprecedented access to churches in the United States and the United Kingdom, Katie Gaddini relates the struggles of four women, interwoven with her own story of leaving behind a devout faith. She connects these personal narratives with rigorous analysis of Christianity and politics in both countries, and contextualizes them through interviews with more than fifty other evangelical women. Gaddini grapples with the complexities of obedience and resistance for women within a patriarchal religion against the backdrop of a culture war. Her exploration of how women choose to leave or remain in environments that constrain them is nuanced and personal, telling powerful stories of faith, community, isolation, and loss. Bringing together meticulous research and deep empathy, The Struggle to Stay provides a revelatory account of the private burdens that evangelical women bear.The Bible in the Early Church
By Justo L. González. 2022
A concise history of the Bible: its creation, use, and interpretation.What is the Bible? To answer this question we must…
understand the Bible&’s origins in the early church. In this book, celebrated church historian Justo González introduces the reader to some important features of the earliest Bibles—for instance, the Bible&’s original languages, its division into chapters and verses, and even its physical appearance in its first forms. González also explores the use of the Bible in the early church (such as in worship or in private reading) and the interpretation of the Bible throughout the ensuing centuries, giving readers a holistic sense of the Bible&’s emergence as the keystone of Christian life, from its beginnings to present times.El premiado autor de best sellers Lee Strobel entrevista a expertos sobre las pruebas de la vida después de la…
muerte y ofrece respuestas creíbles a las preguntas más provocadoras sobre lo que ocurre cuando morimos, las experiencias cercanas a la muerte, el cielo y el infierno. Todos queremos saber qué nos espera al otro lado de la muerte, pero ¿hay alguna prueba fiable de que haya vida después de la muerte? El autor de investigación Lee Strobel ofrece un estudio vivo y convincente sobre uno de los temas más provocadores de nuestros días. A través de fascinantes conversaciones con respetados eruditos y expertos, un neurocientífico de la Universidad de Cambridge, un investigador que analizó mil relatos de experiencias cercanas a la muerte, y un ateo convertido en filósofo cristiano; Strobel ofrece razones convincentes de por qué la muerte no es el fin de nuestra existencia, sino una transición a un emocionante mundo por venir. A partir de los relatos bíblicos, Strobel despliega lo que nos espera después de exhalar nuestro último aliento y responde a preguntas como:¿Existe una vida después de la muerte?¿Cómo es el cielo?¿Cómo pasaremos nuestro tiempo allí?¿Y qué significa ver a Dios cara a cara? Con un enfoque equilibrado, Strobel examina la alternativa del infierno y la lógica de la condenación, y da una mirada cuidadosa a la reencarnación, el universalismo, las pretensiones de exclusividad de Cristo y otras cuestiones relacionadas con el tema de la vida después de la muerte. Con vulnerabilidad, Strobel comparte la experiencia de cómo estuvo a punto de morir hace años y cómo la realidad de la muerte puede moldear nuestras vidas y nuestra fe. Siga a Strobel en este viaje de descubrimiento de la vida venidera, totalmente creíble y estimulante.The Case for HeavenBestselling and award-winning author Lee Strobel interviews experts about the evidence for the afterlife and offers credible answers to the most provocative questions about what happens when we die, near-death experiences, heaven, and hell.We all want to know what awaits us on the other side of death, but is there any reliable evidence that there is life after death? Investigative author Lee Strobel offers a lively and compelling study into one of the most provocative topics of our day.Through fascinating conversations with respected scholars and experts—a neuroscientist from Cambridge University, a researcher who analyzed a thousand accounts of near-death experiences, and an atheist-turned-Christian-philosopher—Strobel offers compelling reasons for why death is not the end of our existence, but a transition to an exciting world to come. Looking at biblical accounts, Strobel unfolds what awaits us after we take our last breath and answers questions like:Is there an afterlife?What is heaven like?How will we spend our time there?And what does it mean to see God face to face?With a balanced approach, Strobel examines the alternative of hell and the logic of damnation, and gives a careful look at reincarnation, universalism, the exclusivity claims of Christ, and other issues related to the topic of life after death. With vulnerability, Strobel shares the experience of how he nearly died years ago and how the reality of death can shape our lives and faith.Follow Strobel on this journey of discovery of the entirely credible, believable, and exhilarating life to come.The Marriage Book Newly Revised Edition
By Nicky Lee, Sila Lee. 2020
Today we are facing a global crisis when it comes to families. Marriages are under more pressure than ever. Many…
children are growing up without experiencing the security of their parents' love and commitment—and as a result are finding it harder to receive God's unconditional love. There is an urgent need to invest in marriage and family life, for strong societies are built on strong families, and strong families are built on strong marriages.The Marriage Book, developed by Nicky and Sila Lee of Alpha, has been revised and updated to address these needs and provides practical tools to help couples at every stage of their relationship. Along with the companion seven-session Marriage Course, this resource will help couples:Better understand each other's needsCommunicate more effectivelyGrow closer by learning methods to resolve conflictsRecover from the way they may have hurt each otherRecognize how their upbringing has affected their relationshipImprove relationships with parents and in-laws The Marriage Book is based on a Christian understanding of love and serves to strengthen marriages within the church while, at the same time, being accessible for all couples from any cultural background. Full of practical advice, it will help couples prepare, build, and even mend their marriages.The Sexual Reformation: Restoring the Dignity and Personhood of Man and Woman
By Aimee Byrd. 2022
Since the Reformation, Protestants have confessed that the church is reformed and always reforming. But do we really believe this?…
Why, then, are we so shocked to hear that the church itself needs a sexual reformation? That the church has been fighting to uphold biblical distinction between the sexes against a culture that is rapidly and aggressively challenging this, is certainly one reason. But in trying to be faithful to the beauty of God's design for man and woman, the church has instead latched onto a pagan, Aristotelian concept of man and woman--that woman is by nature inferior to man--which robs us of the dignity of personhood as man and woman created in the image of God.Much of the evangelical teaching on the sexes is based on cultural stereotypes and an unbiblical ontology of male authority and female subordination. While some try to correct this, they often flatten the meaningful distinctions in the feminine and masculine gift. We end up missing the beautiful message that our bodies, and our whole selves as men and women, tell: the story of the great joy in which Christ received his gift of his bride, the church. Having taken on flesh, he is bringing her to the holy of holies, ushering her behind the veil, and securing communion with his bridal people in sacred space. He gave himself as the ultimate Gift and he loves us to the end. We see this highlighted in the book placed right in the middle of our Bibles. The Song of Songs enfleshes our hope as it poetically sings the metanarrative of Scripture.In this book, Aimee Byrd invites you to enter into the Song's treasures as its lyrics reveal a typology in God's design of man and woman, one that unfolds throughout the canon of Scripture. The meaning of man and woman extends beyond biology, nature, and culture to give us a glimpse of what is to come. Our bodies are theological. They are visible signs that tell us something about our God. This often-ignored biblical book has much to teach us about Christ, his church, man, and woman. It teaches us the whole point of it all. And what it teaches us is not a list of roles and hierarchy, but a love song. We are ripe for a sexual reformation in the church, and recovering a good theological anthropology is imperative to it. We desperately need to peel away the Aristotelian mindset of man and woman that still pervades much of the teaching on gender and sexuality in the church today.?The Holy Spirit is speaking to us in his Word to bring about a sexual reformation. He invites us to sing an eschatological song. In doing so, we find ourselves in it. We participate in it. We find beauty in it. We persevere by it. It changes us.Be the Boss of Your Stuff: The Kids’ Guide to Decluttering and Creating Your Own Space
By Allie Casazza. 2022
Life minimalist and host of The Purpose Show podcast Allie Casazza has created a resource for showing kids how to create and…
design their own space, offering practical ideas on organization and productivity, kid-friendly inspiration for mindfulness, and interactive pages for creativity in Be the Boss of Your Stuff--the decluttering guide that will promote independence in your kids and create a more peaceful home for your family.Through her podcast, online courses, and first book titled Declutter Like a Mother, Allie Casazza has encouraged women to simplify and unburden their lives. Now she's helping moms equip their kids and tweens to discover the same joy of decluttering as theyDesign and create a space that supports their interests and goalsMake more room in their lives for playtime and creativityIncrease productivity and find renewed focus for schoolworkBecome conscientious consumersLearn valuable life skillsContribute to the family and householdCut down on cleaning time, reduce stress, and feel more peacefulAs she helps kids see that the less they own, the more time they have for what's important, Allie breaks down each step of the decluttering process. Written in her fun, motivational voice, Be the Boss of Your StuffIs ideal for boys and girls ages 8 to 12Includes photography and interactive activities with space to write, draw, imagine, and planIs a great gift for coming-of-age celebrations, the first day of spring, New Year's, Easter, birthdays, or school milestonesAs your kids become more proactive in taking care of their stuff, you'll find your whole family has more time and space for creativity and fun. After all, less clutter, less stress, and less chaos in your kids' lives means more peace, more independence, and more opportunity to grow into who they're meant to be.One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
By William P. Barr. 2022
The former attorney general provides a candid account of his historic tenures serving two vastly different presidents, George H.W. Bush…
and Donald J. Trump. William Barr’s first tenure as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush was largely the result of chance, while his second tenure under President Donald Trump a deliberate and difficult choice. In this candid memoir, Barr takes readers behind the scenes during seminal moments of the 1990s, from the LA riots to Pan Am 103 and Iran Contra. Thirty years later, Barr faced an unrelenting barrage of issues, such as Russiagate, the COVID outbreak, civil unrest, the impeachments, and the 2020 election fallout. One Damn Thing After Another is vivid, forthright, and essential not only to understanding the Bush and Trump legacies, but also how both men viewed power and justice at critical junctures of their presidencies. New York Times BestsellerSpringtime for Your Spirit: 90 Devotions of Hope, Joy & New Beginnings
By Michelle Medlock Adams, Andy Clapp. 2022
Guaranteed to breathe new life into your walk with God, this 90-day devotional—with entries for March, April, and May—will reawaken…
your spirit through famous quotes, inspirational readings, meaningful prayers, and targeted scriptures. Whether you&’re looking for those first signs of new life to burst through the soil, hunting Easter eggs with the kiddos, or seeking a closer relationship with Jesus, it seems we&’re all searching for something to bring us hope, joy, and a new beginning. That&’s why Springtime For Your Spirit: 90 Devotions of Hope, Joy, and New Beginnings is the perfect devotional for such a special season. Award-winning authors Michelle Medlock Adams and Andy Clapp have carefully woven biblical lessons into holidays and happenings that we experience only during spring, such as: MLB Spring TrainingLentEasterSpring Storm SeasonSpring Pancake FestivalSpring PlantingMother&’s Day Each devotion not only features an inspirational teaching and quote, but also, it gives readers the opportunity to: Plant the Word, Work the Word,Pray the Word, and learn more through a Did You Know? feature. We challenge you to search the pages of this devotional and experience the sweetness of this sacred season. Your beautiful new beginning awaits. . . .Daughters of Islam: Building Bridges with Muslim Women
By Miriam Adeney. 2002
"Their clothing is often distinctive. Their beliefs and values are strongly held. They love their families. Any they live everywhere…
on earth. They are women of Muslim background. Some still belong to Islam, but some now belong to Christ.In 'Daughters of Islam', Miriam Adeney introduces you women such as Ladan, Khadija and Fatma. You'll learn about their lives, questions and hopes, as well as those of other Arab, Iranian, Southeast Asian and African sisters. And you'll gain new understanding of why Muslim women come to Christ. "Holiness and Pentecostal Movements: Intertwined Pasts, Presents, and Futures (Studies in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements #1)
By David Bundy, Geordan Hammond, and David Sang-Ehil Han. 2022
Since the 1830s, Holiness and Pentecostal movements have had a significant influence on many Christian churches, and they have been…
a central force in producing what is known today as World Christianity. This book demonstrates the advantages of analyzing them in relation to one another.The Salvation Army, the Church of the Nazarene, the Wesleyan Church, and the Free Methodist Church identify strongly with the Holiness Movement. The Assemblies of God and the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World identify just as strongly with the Pentecostal Movement. Complicating matters, denominations such as the Church of God (Cleveland), the International Holiness Pentecostal Church, and the Church of God in Christ have harmonized Holiness and Pentecostalism. This book, the first in the new series Studies in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements, examines these complex relationships in a multidisciplinary fashion. Building on previous scholarship, the contributors provide new ways of understanding the relationships, influences, and circulation of ideas among these movements in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, and Southeast and East Asia.In addition to the editors, the contributors are Kimberly Ervin Alexander, Insik Choi, Robert A. Danielson, Chris E. W. Green, Henry H. Knight III, Frank D. Macchia, Luther Oconer, Cheryl J. Sanders, and Daniel Woods.In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist
By Dr Sohom Das. 2022
'thought provoking'Gwen AdsheadShocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that have characterised a career…
spent treating mentally disordered offenders.As a forensic psychiatrist, it's Dr Das's job to treat and rehabilitate what the tabloids might call the 'criminally insane', many of whom assault, rob, rape, and even kill. His work takes him to high-security prisons and securely locked hospital wards across the country, as well as inside courtrooms, giving evidence as an expert witness.From the young woman who smothered her two-year-old nephew in a flash of psychosis, to the teenager who set his house on fire with his mother locked inside, Dr Das must delve into the minds of these violent offenders to elicit their symptoms of mental illness, understand their actions and prevent future atrocities.In this honest, revealing and at times humorous memoir, Dr Das shares stories from his fifteen years as a psychiatric doctor working with this dangerous clientele, detailing some of his most extreme, heart-breaking and bizarre cases - and how he's learned to live with his mistakes when the worse happens.Compelling, enlightening and candid, if you enjoyed Unnatural Causes, Dark Side of the Mind or The Prison Doctor, you'll love IN TWO MINDS.The Complexities of Home in Social Work (Routledge Advances in Social Work)
By Carole Zufferey, Christopher Horsell. 2021
Home is a complex and multifaceted concept. This book revisions how ‘home’ is used in social work literature by showing…
how it is positioned as being discursively represented, materially experienced and embodied, and multiply imagined as symbolic and existential. Drawing on multidisciplinary understandings of 'home' and intersectionality, it analyses the privileging and disadvantaging social policies and complex interactional practices that contribute to one’s sense of home including homelessness, mobility and the politics and complexities of homeownership. Providing social workers with practice considerations for different areas of social work, this book analyses how to makes and build a sense of home and community belonging for a broad range of client groups. It will be of interest to all academics and students of social work, sociology, public policy, housing policy, gender studies and human geography.In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist
By Dr Sohom Das. 2022
'thought provoking'Gwen AdsheadShocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that have characterised a career…
spent treating mentally disordered offenders.As a forensic psychiatrist, it's Dr Das's job to treat and rehabilitate what the tabloids might call the 'criminally insane', many of whom assault, rob, rape, and even kill. His work takes him to high-security prisons and securely locked hospital wards across the country, as well as inside courtrooms, giving evidence as an expert witness.From the young woman who smothered her two-year-old nephew in a flash of psychosis, to the teenager who set his house on fire with his mother locked inside, Dr Das must delve into the minds of these violent offenders to elicit their symptoms of mental illness, understand their actions and prevent future atrocities.In this honest, revealing and at times humorous memoir, Dr Das shares stories from his fifteen years as a psychiatric doctor working with this dangerous clientele, detailing some of his most extreme, heart-breaking and bizarre cases - and how he's learned to live with his mistakes when the worse happens.Compelling, enlightening and candid, if you enjoyed Unnatural Causes, Dark Side of the Mind or The Prison Doctor, you'll love IN TWO MINDS.Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions
By Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli. 1994
The Routledge Handbook of Refugees in India
By S. Irudaya Rajan. 2022
This handbook marks a key intervention in refugee studies in India—home to diverse groups of refugees, including an entire government…
in exile. It unravels the various socio-economic, political, and cultural dimensions of refugee issues in India. The volume examines the various legal, political, and policy frameworks for accommodating refugees or asylum seekers in India, including the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Registry of Citizens. It evaluates the lack of uniformity in the Indian legal and political framework to deal with its refugee population and analyzes the grounds of inclusion or exclusion for different groups. Drawing from the experiences of Jewish, Tibetan, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Afghan, and Rohingya refugees in India, it analyzes debates around marginalization, citizenship, and refugee rights. It also explores the spatial and gendered dimensions of forced migration and the cultural and social lives of displaced communities, including their quest for decent work, education, and health. The volume will be an indispensable reference for scholars, lawyers, researchers, and students of refugee studies, migration and diaspora studies, public policy, social policy and development studies.In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on…
the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco not only attacked sailors and merchants in the Mediterranean but also roved as far as Iceland. A substantial number of the European captives who later returned home from the Barbary Coast, as maritime North Africa was then called, wrote and published accounts of their experiences. These popular narratives greatly influenced the development of the modern novel and autobiography, and they also shaped European perceptions of slavery as well as of the Muslim world.Barbary Captives brings together a selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation for the first time. It features accounts written by men and women across three centuries and in nine different languages that recount the experience of capture and servitude in North Africa. These texts tell the stories of Christian pirates, Christian rowers on Muslim galleys, house slaves in the palaces of rulers, domestic servants, agricultural slaves, renegades, and social climbers in captivity. They also depict liberation through ransom, escape, or religious conversion. This book sheds new light on the social history of Mediterranean slavery and piracy, early modern concepts of unfree labor, and the evolution of the Barbary captivity narrative as a literary and historical genre.Since the 1990s, an increasing number of young men in Cameroon have aspired to play football as a career and…
a strategy to migrate abroad. Migration through the sport promises fulfillment of masculine dreams of sports stardom, as well as opportunities to earn a living that have been hollowed out by the country’s long economic stalemate. The aspiring footballers are increasingly turning to Pentecostal Christianity, which allows them to challenge common tropes of young men as stubborn and promiscuous, while also offering a moral and bodily regime that promises success despite the odds. Yet the transnational sports market is tough and unpredictable: it demands disciplined young bodies and introduces new forms of uncertainty. This book unpacks young Cameroonians' football dreams, Pentecostal faith, obligations to provide, and desires to migrate to highlight the precarity of masculinity in structurally adjusted Africa and neoliberal capitalism.Eucharist: Christ's Feast with the Church
By Laurence Hull Stookey. 1993
This book provides a historical-theological perspective in a style that is "popular" rather than academically heavy, and ecumenical in scope,…
but with a concentration on Protestantism. The shared Calvinian eucharistic tradition of Presbyterians, UCC, and Methodists will be particularly explored.Method In Ministry: Theological Reflection And Christian Ministry (revised Edition)
By Evelyn E. Whitehead, James D. Whitehead. 1995
Theologically-based and ministerially-tested, Method in Ministry provides a portable method for pastoral reflection, supporting the essential Christian vocation of generous…
response to God’s Word. In this new edition, the Whiteheads have revised and expanded their now-classic discussion of theological reflection in ministry.In the Presence of Our Lord: The History, Theology and Psychology of Eucharistic Devotion
By Benedict J. Groeschel, James Monti. 1997