Understanding Judaism

The Westminster Cardinals

This book will look at the lives of ten men who have been appointed by Rome to head the Roman Catholic Church in this country.

Christian Sites

This book takes a tour around of some of these places, giving a fascinating glimpse of how Christians built their houses and communities as well

Sikhism

What do Sikhs believe? What festivals do they celebrate? This book introduces young readers to Sikhism.

Bound to be Free

Freedom is one of the most cherished ideals of Western culture. Yet that ideal is threatened from without and within in alarming ways in our

Stripping Preaching to Its Bare Essentials

Bad sermon jokes have lost none of their edge, and preachers know most of them. Yet those churches where preaching flourishes often grow most strongly.

Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh

In this title, Matthew Fox offers a theology that aims to fundamentally change the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to

The Man Who Drove with His Eyes Closed

In over 25 years of training, Barefoot Doctor learned from some of the most colourful, inspiring and innovative teachers and gurus of their generation. In

Be Thou My Breastplate

This meditative title offers a 40-day reflection on the breastplate of St Fursa. Circling each verse it expertly draws on fresh insights gained from Celtic

The Magdalene

‘A story that, for too long, has been crying out to be told’ Henry Lincoln, author of Holy Blood, Holy Grail ‘The heights that the

Christianity

What do Christians believe? What festivals do they celebrate? This book introduces young readers to Christianity.

Hinduism

What do Hindus believe? What festivals do they celebrate? This book introduces young readers to Hinduism.

Simple Path to Following Jesus

Noii creștini sunt plini de întrebări. Ce acum? Cum pot deveni mai asemănător cu Isus? De unde încep să fac schimbări în viața mea? Ce

The Kingdom Of God

This booklet explores how the Bible uses the term “kingdom of God” and discusses its relevance and meaning for today. A Gospel Coalition Booklet.

Prayers and Verses: For Contemplation

This colection of meditative prayers for everyday use includes verses for festivals, special occasions, for those who have died, as well as contemplations on the

Mystics in spite of themselves

Cei mai mulți oameni cred că misticii urmăresc vieți de singurătate, sechestrandu-se departe de societate pentru a locui numai asupra lui Dumnezeu fără distragere a

Your Mess Matters

Our lives can get messy - a tangle of past hurts, ruined dreams, and broken hopes. But God is never afraid of a mess. In

God knows there's need

Dumnezeu știe: amintirea empatică -- Amintirea ca poveste personală -- Paradigma angajantă: forma nevoii creștine timpurii -- Despre a trăi și a spune: depășirea decalaj...

Romancing God

În lumea romanului evanghelic de dragoste, sexul și dorința sunt atenuate de o terță parte omniprezentă - divinul. Astfel, romantismul nu este doar o întâlnire

How to Be a Yogi

How to be a Yogi explains the laws and principles as well as the pragmatic methods of yoga. It is based on the teachings of

A sense of direction

Offers accounts of the author's pilgrimages to three holy sites in search of personal direction, describing the hundreds of miles trekked and the people encountered

Sri Chaitanya

It's Not Over

In It's Not Over, Pastor Joshua Gagnon explores the God-given purpose of our dreams and encourages us to keep believing that we can achieve them

Jesus and gin

Jesus and Gin is a rollicking tour of the roaring twenties and the barn- burning preachers who led the temperance movement--the anti-abortion crusade of the

Foucault and Augustine

Using Augustine as a conversation partner, this text explores the value of Michel Foucault's controversial writings for theologians, ethicists, philosophers and cultural ...

Eduardo el curandero

A fascinating glimpse at a day in the life of a Peruvian shaman, Eduardo el Curandero relates the philosophies of a Peruvian shaman and illustrates

Jesus' Urgent Message for Today

The Kingdom of God is like an intergalactic starship in constant orbit around the earth. No on can see it, but its tremendous power is

God Is New Each Moment (Question What You Thought Before)

Edward Schillebeeckx (1914-) is a prominent Catholic theologian, remarkable for having survived three inquiries into his possible heresy by the Vatican. He explores tradi...

Dancing With the Sacred

Draws on sources in evolutionary biology, process theology, and a range of world religions to propose that evolution can provide a key to religious faith,

Conversion and Discipleship

Happel and Walter's contribution is in constructing a dialogue between a systematician and a moralist about common foundations for their respective disciplines. This is m...

Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Asia

Although a minority of the Asian population, Protestants in Asia are a fast growing group. In some cases, religion has effected positive changes for poor

Art of Worldly Wisdom

This is a perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success. Aceasta este o carte veșnic populară de sfaturi despre

Judaism and Modern Man

Originally published in 1951, it explores the ways in which the Jewish religion relates to our society and to us as individuals, and how we

Where God Hides

‘It is in great simplicity that great beauty is revealed, and only then may we discover where God truly hides.’ In this moving exploration of

Motherhood as Metaphor Engendering Interreligious Dialogue

'This volume takes women's voices and experiences as the primary data for thinking about interfaith encounter in the modern world. It places original work on

The Tenth Parallel

A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worlds The tenth parallel--the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of

Prayer & Community

Riv-Ellen Prell spent eighteen months of participant observation field research studying a countercultural havurah to determine why these groups emerged in the United...

Pause for Thought

This collection of scripts from BBC Radio 2's Pause for Thought showcases the incredible insights that the different faiths in the UK today offer to

One Nation, Under Gods

A groundbreaking new look at the story of America At the heart of the nation's spiritual history are audacious and often violent scenes. But the

How to Be Secular

Argues that a return to a more secular America will promote religious diversity and freedom, and help eliminate the widening divide between religious conservatives and

Victorian Reformations

In Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1900, Miriam Elizabeth Burstein analyzes the ways in which Christian novelists across the de...

Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation

Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation seeks to interrupt the rhetorics and politics of meaning that, in the past decade, have compelled the proliferation of

Praying with the Grain

Why do so many struggle to pray? Dr. Pablo Martinez, a medical doctor and psychotherapist, suggests that our basic personality type strongly affects both how

Islam Beyond the Violent Jihadis

Ziauddin Sardar argues for a more nuanced analysis of Islam beyond the dominant narrative that fills the media.

Friends On The Way Jesuits Encounter Contemporary Judaism

The largest order of religious in the Roman Catholic Church, the Society of Jesus has been at the forefront of the Church's efforts at dialogue

Empowering Leadership

In Empowering Leadership author and leadership consultant Michael Fletcher says leaders like this can't simply be bought, nor can they be hired from someone else's

A Buddhist Bible

The Lankavatara Sutra is one of the most important sutras of Mahayana Buddhism, and it is influential in coming to terms with the doctrines of

The Zen of R2-D2

Entertaining and engaging, this new follow-up to Wisdom’s bestseller The Dharma of Star Wars stands on its own and will captivate a broad audience with

Epochs in Buddhist History

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This

The Highest Knowledge

We all have a powerful energy-soul within, Source of creativity, freedom, love, and well-being. To take appropriate care of our body and mind, we must

A Future and a Hope

Tearfund started because evangelical Christians wanted to do something about suffering in the world - and to do it in the name of Jesus. It

Holy Week and Easter Ceremonies and Dramas from Medieval Sweden

Included here are the texts, translations, musical transcriptions, and facsimiles of the Swedish music-dramas for Holy Week and Easter: Depositio, Elevatio, and Visitati...

The Psychedelic Sacrament - NU

In The Psychedelic Sacrament , a companion work to The Mystery of Manna , Dan Merkur elucidates a body of Jewish and Christian writings especially

Faith Is: the Quest for Spirituality and Religion

Following the successful formula of The Face of Human Rights and Who Owns the Water? this volume deals with the origin and significance of human

Turning the Templar Key: Martyrs, Freemasons and the Secret of the True Cross of Christ

Why were the Knight's Templar forcibly disbanded? What happened to their legacy? Were the Templars wiped out or did they survive by starting new orders

On the Way to Nineveh, Steven L. Cook

On the Way to Nineveh: Studies in Honour of George M Landes A tribute to Dr George M Landes on the occasion of his retirement

A faithful sea

Contemporary academia relies upon categorization. One can study Africa or Europe East or West the Middle Ages or the Early Modern period. In this innovative

The Spiritual Legacy of Henri Nouwen

In 1969, the year following the death of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen published his first book. Who, reading Intimacy: Essays in Pastoral Psychology, at the

Learning the Way

How should the church respond to the changing cultural and societal changes going on around it? Should it reject the historical traditions that served the

Becoming Catholic

The history of Christianity and particularly of Roman Catholicism has been profoundly shaped by conversion for centuries, from the first apostles to such prominent modern...

Short Introduction to Religion

A Short History of Religion provides a useful guide to the world's most popular religions - Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and Hinduism - describing their