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Benedict Of Nursia
$14.95Brief reflections on aspects of the Rule of Benedict.
Ponders how work is an aid to prayer and how the Benedictine vow of stability is essential to building community.
Each chapter concludes with a brief reflection ont he state of contemporary society and how the aspect of the Rule of Benedict treated in the chapter applies to the needs of today.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Long Shadowed Grief
$28.50In the aftermath of suicide, friends and family face a long road of grief and reflection. With a sympathetic eye and a firm hand, Harold Ivan Smith searches for the place of the spirit in the wake of suicide. He asks how one may live a spiritual life as a survivor, and he addresses the way faith is permanently altered by “the residue of stigma” that attaches to suicide.
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Storm Tossed : How A U S Serviceman Won The Battle Of Sex Addiction
$15.2812 Chapters
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The author doesn’t pull any punches in this hard-hitting story that takes the reader to the Persian Gulf War zone, where Porter served on the USS America and tried to satisfy his cravings in the seedy underworld of Mediterannean seaport cities. Details are not graphic, but this well-written story does reveal the degradation and despair that wrong choices can lead to and also the glorious freedom that he found.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Between Pacifism And Jihad
$28.99IVP Print On Demand Title
Pacifism. Jihad. Militarism.
Are these our only alternatives for dealing with global injustice today?
J. Daryl Charles leads us to reconsider a Christian view of the use of force to maintain or reestablish justice. He shows how love for a neighbor can warrant the just use of force. Reviewing and updating the widely recognized but not necessarily well-understood just-war teaching of the church through the ages, Charles shows how it captures many of the concerns of the pacifist position while deliberately avoiding, on the other side, the excesses of jihad and militarism. Aware of our contemporary global situation, Charles addresses the unique challenges of dealing with international terrorism.
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Gospel According To Relativity
$20.61Many people have traded the wisdom of the ages for the uncertainty of postmodernism. This book ventures in to uncharted territory with a revolutionary “model of understanding” that bridges the gap between traditional view and modern/postmodern skepticism. The model has three components: A moving frame of reference acknowledges the chaos of the present age, a nondiscriminatory duality that is both neutral and inclusive (male/female, black/white, etc.) provides linguistic order for public discourse, and constant value is superimposed on all creation much the way the constant speed of light in E=mc2 is superimposed on the theory of relativity. Part 1 applies the model to Christianity and Part 2 replicates the same model for secularism and other world religions. The result is an innovative approach that discredits the inflexible absolutism of the past and the uncommitted relativism of the present, and reaffirms the existence of a general theory of value.
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Flannery OConnor And The Christ Haunted South
$30.99This is an excellent and lucid study of O’Connor’s theological and cultural convictions, with a study of the grotesque in her work as well as an elegant exploration of O’Connor as an engimatic Southern writer.
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Ending Violence In Teen Dating Relationships
$31.66Foreword By Dr. Jill Murray
Acknowledgments1.Hell On Earth: Violence In The Dating Relationships Of Christian Teens
2.How Christian Teachings And Popular Culture Contribute To Teen Dating Violence
3.Unique Challenges: Dating Violence Among Urban African Ameridcan Teens
4.How Clergy, Youth Ministers, Christian Educators, And Parents Can Help
5.Healthy Teen Dating Relationships: Why Teamwork Is EssentialAppendix A: Qualities Of A Healthy Christian Marriage: A Sermon On Domestic Violence Awareness
Appendix B: Selected Resources
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Miles, a nationally recognized expert in the field of domestic violence and teen relationship violence, explores the complex issue of teen dating violence. Through interviews and other research, he provides critical information that parents, caregivers, clergy, and educators can use to protect teens and help them foster healthy dating relationships.Miles offers thoughtful advice and answers to such questions as: What constitutes violence in teen dating relationships? Why is the problem so pervasive? What are the warning signs that parents and other caring adults can watch for that may indicate a teen is being either abused or abusive? And what can the church do to help?
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Meditations From Iraq
$26.18In January 2003, Lance Kittleson’s army reserve unit was deployed to Kuwait and Iraq. For the next 14 months, his ministry was transformed – instead of pastoring an Iowa congregation, he now served under harsh and sometimes dangerous conditions as a chaplain for a support unit on the edge of war. Yet even in this chaotic and challenging environment, his trained pastor’s eye finds the presence of God in moments both mundane and exhilarating.
In this collection of e-mails sent to family and friends during his time in the Middle East, Kittleson shares insightful, poignant, and humorous meditations on faith and life. You’ll get a firsthand glimpse of military life, as well as the remarkable ways of the spirit (both divine and human) at work. When the camp’s altar suddenly disappears, you’ll read about how Kittleson comes to understand that the crude replacement altar hastily assembled from discarded shipping crates is a better symbol of Jesus than any fancy altar in an ornate sanctuary. You’ll also see how the sight of a superior officer offering a cup of coffee draws quizzical responses from servicemen accustomed to a rank-conscious army.
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Black And Tan
$18.75Foreword
Introduction
Regenerate But Unreconstructed
Black And Tan
Scripture And Slavery
Southern Slavery And Our Culture Wars
Plowing The Same Ground
Black Confederates
Dabney In Full
Fragments From The Controversy
Epilogue
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If we want to understand culture wars on the contemporary American scene, we must first come to grips with the American culture wars of the nineteenth century. That our nation did not remove slavery in a biblical way helps explain many of our contemporary social evils. But who is qualified to talk about such things? What is a biblical view of racism? Why do the biblical answers to such questions so infuriate the radical left and the radical right? This collection of essays lays out some of the answers from a view unashamed of historic biblical absolutism.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Soul Searching : The Religious And Spiritual Lives Of American Teenagers
$148.33Winner of the 2006 Christianity Today Book Award for Christianity and Culture Description
In most discussions and analyses of American teenage life, one major topic is curiously overlooked–religion. Yet most American teens say that religious faith is important in their lives. What is going on in the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers? What do they actually believe? What religious practices do they engage in? Do they expect to remain loyal to the faith of their parents? Or are they abandoning traditional religious institutions in search of a new, more “authentic” spirituality?
Answering these and many other questions, Soul Searching tells the definitive story of the religious and spiritual lives of contemporary American teenagers. It reports the findings of The National Study of Youth and Religion, the largest and most detailed such study ever undertaken. Based on a nationwide telephone survey of teens and their parents, as well as in-depth face-to-face interviews with more than 250 of the survey respondents, Soul Searching shows that religion is indeed a significant factor in the lives of many American teenagers. Chock full of carefully interpreted interview data and solid survey statistics, Soul Searching reveals many surprising findings. For example, the authors find that teenagers are far more influenced by the religious beliefs and practices of their parents and other adults than is commonly thought. They challenge the conventional wisdom that many teens today are “spiritual seekers.” And they show that greater teenage religious involvement is significantly associated with more positive adolescent life outcomes.
Soul Searching reveals the complexity of contemporary teenage religious life, showing that religion is widely practiced and positively valued by teens, but also de-prioritized and very poorly understood by them, yet significant nonetheless in shaping their lives. More broadly, Soul Searching describes what appears to be a major transformation of faith in the U.S., away from the substance of historical religious traditions and toward a new and quite different faith the authors call “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.”Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
