John Henry Newman's pulpit at St Mary's, Oxford, was a powerhouse of religious innovation and reinvigoration in English religion through the 1830s and 1840s. This towering neogothic structure gave ...
Most academics agree with Peter Berger that pluralism theory appears more accurate than secularization theory in accounting for the societal changes that accompany modernization. Yet Berger's earli...
What does believing mean in the face of empire and militarization? These essays articulate the critical and liberating consciousness shared by oppressed peoples across the world, arising from a fai...
In my book, Faith over Fear, I tell my story as a teenager living my life throughout high school dealing with injuries, surgeries, friendships being destroyed and made stronger, breakups, and fa...
The one who wars against our soul has been working to destroy the family unit since Genesis. In fact, Genesis is a great book to read to see family dysfunction up close and personal. I have lear...
Barry Callen is a ""church theologian"" in the finest sense. In this book he once again brings the commitments nurtured by Pietist, Anabaptist, and Wesleyan theological streams into conversation wi...
Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions examines the possible motivations behind the production of apocryphal Christian texts.
Did the authors of Christian apocrypha intend to deceive others about the tru...
This book is a sweeping anecdotal view of two thousand years of Christian history. It asks whether we are called to be a righteous community apart from those who are sinners, criminals, and nonbeli...
The lives of two Italian families migrating to America around 1900 was seen through their choices in living life to impact a third generation descendent with a problem all her own. The families ...
This book is the first full-length treatment of the philosophical problem of fatalism, the thesis that the laws of logic alone suffice to prove that no person ever acts freely. After a critical exa...
Ever wonder what it would be like to have a perfect, strong, powerful father who could give you everything you need? Your perfect father would love you unconditionally and always do what was bes...
Why would anyone want to watch horror movies? Why would Christians, in particular, bother with the genre? In Fear Not!, critic Josh Larsen makes the case that monster movies, creature features, sla...
Fighting for My Life is the real-life story about one man's struggle to find faith and hope amid physical abuse, torture, and sexual abuse. It is about how discovering that God has alwa...
Do you have a constant ache to fill that empty void which sits deep in all of us? A desire to find and validate a purpose for your life? Are you feeling powerless to cultivate the staying power ...
Is Walmart a good place to meet God? What about a dive bar? The town dump? Does meeting God happen only in separate, ""holy"" places? The book of Acts says there is no place on earth without a witn...
Finding God in Suffering is about a Jesus-follower's pilgrimage from East Asia to Australia. It speaks of his journey of sorrow and joy, struggles and hope, affliction and God's power in his weakne...
Have you wondered what your “real purpose” in life is?Does it seem like you are simply going through the motions of a daily routine to fulfill your responsibilities like a mou...
Finding H2OM3 is a story that follows a young boy into adulthood, not knowing what God has in store for him. As he grows in his faith and his wisdom, he EVENTUALLY realizes exactly what...
For all who know the security of home--in all its iterations--and for those who don't, finding home is complicated. Home always is characterized by joy and sorrow, grief and gladness, the realities...
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