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Shaping Christianity in Greater China
This book is an integral collection of essays looking at the shaping of Christianity in China, with
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Stopping the Traffick
Stop the traffick? How do we even begin addressing such an important--and yet overwhelming--task? I
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Mission in Secularised Contexts of Europe
This volume deals with religion and church today, in light of the secularized contexts in Europe. I
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Diakonia as Christian Social Practice
The concept of diakonia has developed over the last decades, especially within the ecumenical movem
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Ecumenical Missiology
This book has been prepared with acute awareness of how challenging it can be to comprehend the mea
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To Fulfil, Not to Destroy
In today's globalized world, as we struggle desperately for social harmony amid growing religious f
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Strategy Coordinator
In 1976, the Southern Baptist Convention adopted its Bold New Thrusts in Foreign Missions with the
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Orthodox Handbook on Ecumenism
Reading the articles in this handbook about Orthodox theologians on ecumenism, one feels awe at the
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Tribe
Tribe explores the issues of reciprocity in cross-race and cross-class relationships using stories,
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Speak It Plain
Speak It Plain: Words for Worship and Life Together delivers prayers, blessings, litanies, and litu
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Grace and Gigabytes
Grace and Gigabytes: Being Church in a Tech-Shaped Culture explores change and ministry at the inte
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Competing for Caesar
Competing for Caesar brings together, for the first time, key scholars working on various issues re
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They Are Us
Although written from a Lutheran religious tradition, the invitation and reach of They Are Us: Luth
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The Missional Leader
In The Missional Leader, consultants Alan J. Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk address two questions: "How
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The Externally Focused Quest
The Externally Focused Quest: Becoming the Best Church for the Community is designed for church lea
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The Post-Black and Post-White Church
The key to creating and growing a more unified and holistic church is the multi-ethnic and Christ-c
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The Elephant in the Boardroom
One way or another, every church will eventually lose its pastor or minister, yet few congregations
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Leading from the Second Chair
They say it's lonely at the top. And it can be even lonelier when you are almost at the top. Church
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Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church
Through personal stories, proven experience, and a thorough analysis of the biblical text, Building
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In Times of Crisis and Sorrow
In a single volume, In Times of Crisis and Sorrow: A Minister's Manual Resource Guide offers a prac
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Finding Our Way to the Truth
In Finding Our Way to the Truth, Sarah Ciavarri explores lies of a particularly insidious sort--lie
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The Underground Church
The Underground Church proposes that the faithful recapture the spirit of the early church with its
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Leading Congregational Change
Bold transformation is needed in many of the congregations that cover the American landscape, argue
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Black Suffering
In Black Suffering, James Henry Harris explores the nexus of injustices, privations, and pains that
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The Augsburg Confession
The Augsburg Confession is the single most-important confession of faith among Lutherans today. How
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Culture Religion and Home-Making in and Beyond South Asia
Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is re
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God So Enters into Relationships That . . .
Biblical theologian Terence E. Fretheim weaves key insights from Scripture with theological reflect
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St. Thomas and India
In St. Thomas and India, renowned scholars trace the historical, religious, and cultural connection
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. . . And the Church Actually Changed
The mainline church is in a drastic decline, and that decline is hitting clergy and churches on all
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2020s Foresight
In 2020s Foresight, authors Tom Sine and Dwight Friesen seek to "wake up" Christian leaders and tho
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Doing Theology with Humility, Generosity, and Wonder
This book looks at how Christians can think about their own theology in a manner that will allow th
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Better Together
Thousands of Protestant churches are perplexed by plateaued or declining attendance, while other co
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Good Grief
This lovely hardcover edition of the timeless classic makes a heartfelt gift for anyone who is grie
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Tough Questions, Honest Answers
In Tough Questions, Honest Answers, Christian theologian Cameron Harder explores pressing contempor
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The Gospel People Don’t Want to Hear
Lisa Cressman, founder of Backstory Preaching, offers preachers tools to craft difficult sermon mes
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Hemingway and Ho Chi Minh in Paris
Two of the twentieth century's most fascinating figures, Ernest Hemingway and Ho Chi Minh, grapplin
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A Lay Preacher’s Guide
In A Lay Preacher's Guide: How to Craft a Faithful Sermon, Karoline M. Lewis provides lay preachers
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The Long Night
When you're in the midst of terrible depression, the days and weeks can feel like an eternity. This
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The Challenge of History
The advent of the modern, historical, and critical methods of reading Scripture is one of the most
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Preaching the Headlines
Preachers often feel stuck when met with quickly shifting and dense media topics that flood the hea
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30-day Journey With Jane Austen
Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers. Through brief daily readings and
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Keys to Bonhoeffer’s Haus
In Keys to Bonhoeffer's Haus, Laura M. Fabrycky, an American guide of the Bonhoeffer-Haus in Berlin
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Longing for an Absent God
Longing for an Absent God unveils the powerful role of faith and doubt in the American literary tra
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Touched
In Touched, author Shanell T. Smith makes visible the often silenced or ignored narratives of survi
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With Courage and Compassion
With Courage and Compassion celebrates the contributions of women to nations, societies, churches,
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Minister’s Prayer Book
Since it first appeared in print in 1959, John Doberstein's Minister's Prayer Book has been a devot
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Parable of the Brown Girl
"Illuminating ... these profound profiles will be eye opening for any reader." --Publisher's Weekly
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Leading With the Sermon
In this addition to the new Working Preacher Books series, prolific author William H. Willimon make