Future Faith

Future Faith

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  • Author: Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
  • Publisher: Fortress Press
  • ISBN: 1506438199
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

In Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping the Practice of Christianity, author Wesley Granberg-Michaelson provides a lucid view of how the top ten winds of change blowing through global Christian faith are reshaping the practice of Christianity today. He is uniquely qualified to identify and interpret connection points between global Christian trends and the American church. Drawing on the stories, examples, and personalities of pastors and congregations from throughout the U.S. as well as those from Africa, Asia, Latin America, who are the faces of Christianity's future, Future Faith is designed to inform and empower followers of Jesus to seek new ways of becoming the face of Christ to a rapidly changing world. Leaders and practitioners in church growth, renewal, and planting will be a primary audience for this book. Students of religion from Catholic, evangelical, Pentecostal, and historic Protestant streams will find this book an informative and stimulating resource for pondering together the future of their faith. Small groups engaged in congregational nurture and growth will find in the author a welcome companion for guiding them through the multi-cultural landscape of contemporary faith.


Making Peace with Faith

Making Peace with Faith

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  • Author: Michelle Garred
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 153810265X
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 264

Although religion is almost never a root cause, it often gets pulled into conflict as a powerful element, especially where conflicting parties have different religious identities. Every faith tradition offers resources for peace, and secular policy makers are more and more acknowledging the influence of faith-based actors, even though there remains a tendency to associate religion more with conflict than peace. In this text, practitioners from different faiths relate and explore the many challenges they face in their peacebuilding work, which their secular partners may be unaware of. The contributors are all practitioners whose faith or religious experience motivates their work for peace and justice in such a way that it influences their actions. Their roles are diverse, as some work for faith-based institutions, while others engage in secular contexts. The multiple perspectives featured represent multiple faiths (Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish), diverse scopes of practice, different geographic regions. Each chapter follows a similar template to address specific challenges, such as dealing with extremist views, addressing negative stereotypes about one’s faith, endorsing violence, developing relations with other faith-based or secular groups, confronting gender-based violence, and working with people who hold different beliefs. In this text, practitioners from different faiths relate and explore the many challenges they face in their peacebuilding work, which their secular partners may be unaware of. They provide a comprehensive view of the practice of peacebuilding in its many challenging aspects, for both professionals and those studying religion and peacebuilding alike.


Answering that of God

Answering that of God

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  • Author: Peter Parr
  • Publisher: Peter Parr
  • ISBN: 0956224539
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 48

What do Quakers mean when they speak of 'that of God in everyone'? And what would be the implications if we held an awareness of the Divine in everyone all of the time? What if we tried genuinely to live this belief day by day, minute by minute, in the encounters we have with our family, friends, and in society at large? Answering that of God is an invitation and a challenge to explore these questions. In seven sections it examines Who we are; reflects on the spiritual values that lie behind the Quaker witness to Truth, Equality, Simplicity and Peace; exhorts us to Let our Lives Speak and finally, in Remembering, urges us to find daily ways of prompting ourselves to do so. Each section offers scope for reflection, alone or in small groups.


The 21st Century Christian

The 21st Century Christian

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  • Author: Michael Beck
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781734508116
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
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Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century

Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century

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  • Author: Wendy Cadge
  • Publisher: UNC Press Books
  • ISBN: 1469667614
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 334

Wendy Cadge and Shelly Rambo demonstrate the urgent need, highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, to position the long history and practice of chaplaincy within the rapidly changing landscape of American religion and spirituality. This book provides a much-needed road map for training and renewing chaplains across a professional continuum that spans major sectors of American society, including hospitals, prisons, universities, the military, and nursing homes. Written by a team of multidisciplinary experts and drawing on ongoing research at the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab at Brandeis University, Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century identifies three central competencies—individual, organizational, and meaning-making—that all chaplains must have, and it provides the resources for building those skills. Featuring profiles of working chaplains, the book positions intersectional issues of religious diversity, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and other markers of identity as central to the future of chaplaincy as a profession.


The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism

The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism

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  • Author: Stephen W. Angell
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107136601
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 411

A vigorous, innovative, compelling introduction to Quakers, fully global in reach, and utilizing the best Quaker scholars from every continent.


Effective Teaching Practices for 21st Century Christian Educators

Effective Teaching Practices for 21st Century Christian Educators

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  • ISBN: 9781932972153
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  • Languages : en
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Mixed-Up Love

Mixed-Up Love

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  • Author: Jon M. Sweeney
  • Publisher: Jericho Books
  • ISBN: 1455545902
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 142

Dating, commitment, kids, and family--it's all hard work, and when you come from different religious backgrounds it's even harder. Jon, a Catholic writer, and Michal, a Reconstructionist rabbi, live out the challenges of an interfaith relationship everyday as husband and wife, and as parents to their daughter Sima, who is being raised Jewish. In MIXED-UP LOVE, the couple explores how interfaith relationships impact dating, weddings, holidays, raising children, and family functions--and how to not just cope, but thrive. This is an engaging and practical resource for singles who are considering dating outside their own faith, couples in interfaith relationships, relatives and friends of "mixed" couples who seek information and understanding, and parents desiring a fresh perspective. With clarity, insight, and humor, Sweeney and Woll demonstrate how to engage with your partner, family, and faith like never before.


Practicing the Faith

Practicing the Faith

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  • Author: Martin Lindhardt
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 0857450484
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 351

Over the past decades, Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity has arguably become the fastest growing religious movement in the world. Distinguishing features of this variant of Christianity include formal ritual activities as well as informal, experiential, and ecstatic forms of worship. This book examines Pentecostal-charismatic ritual practice in different parts of the world, highlighting, among other things, the crucial role of ritual in creating religious communities and identities.


Just Spirituality

Just Spirituality

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  • Author: Mae Elise Cannon
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • ISBN: 0830837752
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

Mae Elise Cannon opens the annals of activist history to see if there is a correlation between great acts of compassion and advocacy and great depths of prayer. Looking at the lives of Mother Teresa, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King Jr. and others, Cannon finds a depth of spiritual practice at the root of courageous social action.