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United By Faith
$125.00In the last four decades, desegregation has revolutionized almost every aspect of life in the United States: schools, businesses, government offices, even entertainment. But there is one area that remains largely untouched, and that is the church. Now comes a major new call for multiracial congregations in every possible setting–a call that is surprisingly controversial, even in the twenty-first century.
In United By Faith , a multiracial team of sociologists and a minister of the Church of God argue that multiracial Christian congregations offer a key to opening the still-locked door between the races in the United States. They note, however, that a belief persists–even in African-American and Latino churches–that racial segregation is an acceptable, even useful practice. The authors examine this question from biblical, historical, and theological perspectives to make their case. They explore the long history of interracialism in the church, with specific examples of multiracial congregations in the United States. They cite examples ranging from the abolitionist movement to an astonishing 1897 camp meeting in Alabama that brought together hundreds of whites and blacks literally into the same tent. Here, too, is a critical account of the theological arguments in favor of racial separation, as voiced in the African-American, Latino, Asian-American, Native-American, and white contexts. The authors respond in detail, closing with a foundation for a theology suited to sustaining multiracial congregations over time.
Faith can be the basis for healing, but too often Christian faith has been a field for injury and division. In this important new book, readers will glimpse a way forward, a path toward once again making the church the basis for racial reconciliation in our still-splintered nation.
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Vestments For All Seasons
$39.93Vestments-the robes, stoles or other items worn by clergy, or cloths used at the altar-not only add beauty to a worship service, but are visual clues to the liturgical season and to the tone of a particular service. The most beautiful and meaningful vestments are often those made for a particular priest, serving in a specific sanctuary. But many shy away from trying to sew vestments, which seem too complicated and difficult to make.
In Vestments for all Seasons, Barbara Baumgarten demystifies the making of vestments-from designing and fitting patterns, to fabric and color selection, to putting on the finishing touches. She provides patterns and directions for producing special vestments for Advent and Lent, Easter, and Pentecost, and general instructions for designing and making vestments completely from scratch. A history of the development of vestments from Roman times to the present is included, as well as a full glossary describing the various vestments worn by clergy.
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Bible Manners And Customs
$16.25A Christian Educational Services Title
“People” magazine, and many others, owe their successful existence to the fact that we human beings like to know about other people. Readers enjoy stories about famous (and even not so famous) people. The Bible is full of people whose lives, and even thoughts, are open before us. All of the drama of life is set before us in the Bible: love and hate, laughter and despair, hope and fear. The better we know the people of the Bible, the more interesting it is, the more fun it is to read, and the more we can learn as we read it. But the people of the Bible lived in a culture that was very different from ours. If we are going to know the people of the Bible, indeed, if we are going to understand the Bible itself, it is imperative that we learn something about the manners and customs of biblical times.
Imagine trying to understand modern culture without knowing how we dressed, what we ate, where we lived, and about the jobs that people worked at all day. Under those circumstances it would be easy to misunderstand something we said or did. Yet most people know very little about the daily lives of the thousands of people who fill the pages of the Bible, from Adam and Eve to the Apostle Paul. The Bible becomes much easier to understand, and a much more fun book to read, if we take the time to learn about the manners and customs of the biblical culture. The people of the Bible, and the lessons in it, become alive for us, hold our attention, and make sense.
When Samson said that the Philistines had “plowed with my heifer,” he was not in any way referring to cattle he owned. Just as our culture refers to girls in various ways, including “dolls, babes, chicks,” etc., so in the biblical culture young girls were sometimes referred to as “heifers.” Knowing that fact makes the passage understandable, and more fun to read. There are hundreds of examples in Scripture, where the meaning of a verse is clear if the custom is known. Understanding the manners and customs of the Bible can turn a frustrating session of Bible reading into a fun and meaningful session. Knowing biblical manners and customs can mean the difference between understanding and misunderstanding the Bible.
This book makes known many of the manners and customs of the people of Palestine. It covers many subjects, including the climate they lived in that affected their daily lives, the clothes they wore, the food they ate, the work that consumed their days, the
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Life In Biblical Israel
$70.00Stunning color photographs, graphic illustrations, and lively text offer a vivid description of everyday life in ancient Israel. Based on the most up-to-date research, this magnificent volume covers such topics as domestic and work life, cultural expression, and religious practice. An ideal resource for students, scholars, and interested laypeople.
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Study Guide For Making Room (Student/Study Guide)
$7.99Christine Pohl’s 1999 book Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition has helped foster renewal of the central but long-neglected practice of Christian hospitality. This new study guide for Making Room provides a variety of ways in which people can learn more about the practice.
Designed for use by small groups _ though individuals will also profit from it _ the study guide is divided into nine lessons corresponding to the chapters of Making Room. Each lesson begins with an introduction briefly highlighting the main points of the book, followed by sections on group building, Scripture, discussion, reflection, and personal application. Each lesson also provides aids for group leaders and suggested activities to help participants begin to make the practice of hospitality part of their daily life.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Gathering At The Hearth
$16.9928 Stories
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What narratives have molded and nurtured Mennonites? What stories have the power to reshape and transform? These 28 stories reveal Mennonites’ core values, who they are and want to be. The writers present an array of accounts: Peacemaking Native Americans, pioneer life, revolution in Russia, migration, optimistic David Toews, Annie Funk on the Titanic, a near hanging in Kansas, Orie Miller, dismantling racism, Emma Richards, Marilyn Miller, Mesach Krisetya, searching for Clayton Kratz, and more.In this book Mennonites from varied backgrounds and experiences are pooling their stories. Ordinary people draw together in heart and mind, sharing events that mark their life and faith, and showing how God works in extraordinary ways.
God has redeemed the church and endowed it with a rich heritage of faithfulness. As agents of transformation, God’s people can translate this legacy into a vibrant witness.
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Ethnic Chicago A Print On Demand Title (Revised)
$57.99This award-winning study of ethnic life in Chicago richly details the various peoples and ethnic institutions in America’s heartland city. This newly revised and expanded edition also includes chapters on African-American migration, Chatham, Latino Chicago, the Chinese in Chicago, Asian Indians, Korean-Americans, the new entrepreneurial immigrants, and the Swedes. There is also a new six-chapter section that examines saloons, sports, crime, churches, neighborhoods, and cemeteries.
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Ancient Israel : Its Life And Institutions
$55.99Reprint of a modern classic! Complete in one volume, it depicts early nomadic existence, family, civil, military, and religious institutions as reflected in the Old Testament, ancient history, and archaeology.
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Rachel A Hutterite Girl
$12.9948 Pages
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Rachel Maendel grew up in a special place; a Hutterian colony in Canada, where many families lived together on one big farm, sharing their work and play.Rachel had a large family and many aunts, uncles, and cousins. The warmth and love of her extended family come through in the true stories in this book. The stories show us that it is possible to have a happy childhood with few material things.
Rachel’s Hutterite colony had its own school, kitchen, and dining room. Their tradition of working, eating, and worshiping together as one large family goes back to Anabaptist beginnings in Europe, five hundred years ago.
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Hispanic Challenge : Opportunities Confronting The Church
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Ortiz first explores the unique needs and concerns of Hispanics in the United States. Then he turns to key missiological issues, including Protestant-Catholic relationships, justice, racial reconciliation and ecclesiastical structures. The book focuses on leadership training, education, and contains interviews with Hispanic leaders which describe their models of ministry.
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Peculiar People : The Church As Culture In A Postchristian Society
$30.99Contents
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Christians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as “sponsoring chaplains” to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically oriented, consumer-based culture, Christianity has become largely irrelevant.The solution is not to sentimentally capitulate to the way things are. Nor is it to retrench in an effort to regain power and influence as the sponsor of Western civilization. What is needed is for Christians to reclaim our heritage as a peculiar people, as unapologetic followers of The Way.
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1 New People
$27.99If you are aware of the rich benefits of fellowship that crosses racial lines, but aren’t sure how to make that happen in your church, then this book is for you. Loaded with models from those who have done it, One New People will inspire you to broaden the ministry of your church. With questions to help groups process the material, it will give you everything you need to find the model that fits your situation so you can begin the process of change and growth. And if you are already in a multiethnic church, you’ll find ideas and principles for improving communication, developing new leadership and managing conflict from someone who has been there.
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Strange Virtues : Ethics In A Multicultural World
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Strange Virtues is one of the first books to comprehensively consider ethics across cultures, addressing the ethical import of other religions and gender relations, exploring how the Bible and culture interact to produce ethical stances, and examining such particular case studies as bribery. It will be invaluable not only for missionaries, ethicists and students, but for all Christians who want to better understand neighbors right here at home.
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Making Peace With Conflict
$14.99200 Pages
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Does conflict still surprise or overwhelm you? Do you wish you had a better understanding of how to transform life’s inevitable conflicts from problems to opportunities? Do you wonder what power has to do with conflict?Here is a practical guide to understanding and transforming conflict based on biblical and Anabaptist principles. Over twenty noted authors shaped by many experiences and cultures tell of lessons taught by walking conflict’s holy ground. Some insights will be familiar, some new, and some may trigger new conflict!
Study groups will find this an excellent resource. Study questions continue the conversation of the seventeen chapters and highlight common ground as well as differences readers may have with authors.
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Anglo Saxon Christianity
$18.99Here is a lively, carefully researched and fascinating introduction to the culture and spirituality of the Anglo-Saxons. Following the immense interest in recent years in Celtic spirituality, Paul Cavill’s book looks at the impact of Christianity on the pagan Germanic peoples who invaded Britain from the fifth century onwards. Drawing on historical and archaeological evidence, he paints a vivid picture of Anglo-Saxon culture and belief, contrasting this with the Celtic world view, and explaining how the powerful warrior code of the Anglo-Saxon peoples became merged with new Christian values. Quotes from Anglo-Saxon literature include the mighty epic Beowulf, and The Dream of the Rood–surely the most spectacular expression of Anglo-Saxon Christianity–along with Caedmon’s beautiful Hymn to creation, a translation of Psalm 136 and numerous miracle stories.
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Worship Across Cultures
$28.99This book is a uniquely valuable resource whether for pastors who regularly lead Christian worship in cultural contexts beyond their own, or for persons visiting worship in another context to attend a marriage or a funeral. By approaching the study of worship through description of actual practices, it will inspire cross-cultural sensitivity, as well as providing food for thought and new ideas for worship.
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Exploring The New Testament World
$26.99The timeless message of the New Testament applies to people of every culture and generation. Yet there is great value in understanding the world in which that message was first revealed – its social manners, politics, religious customs, and culture. Exploring the New Testament World, written by classics and Bible scholar Dr. Albert A. Bell, Jr., illuminates the living context of the New Testament, immersing its readers in the intriguing world of Jesus and the early church. An authority on ancient Greek and Roman language, culture, and history, Dr. Bell writes in a readable style that is accessible and enjoyable to any reader – an uncommon accomplishment among New Testament scholars today. Surveying Jewish factions of the era, the social and political structure of the Roman Empire, and the philosophies and religions that surrounded the early church, Dr. Bell helps his readers learn to think like first-century Jews, Greeks, and Romans, illuminating puzzling New Testament passages for clear understanding. Comprehensive Scripture and Subject Indexes make this volume even more useful as a “manners and customs” Bible companion. This authoritative guide receives high praise from college professors and Sunday school teachers alike, proving its appeal to both popular and academic audiences. A “must-have” reference for every pastor and an indispensable resource to any Bible reader.
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Where The Nations Meet
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Peppered with inspiring and challenging stories from multicultural congregations, this book not only provides a theological basis for multicultural ministry but also suggests how such ministry can be successfully conducted in all churches. This book for all pastors and laypersons who want their church to be a place of unbounded celebration where the nations meet.
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Jewish People In Classical Antiquity
$48.00Taking a critical stance toward the texts that have come down to us from antiquity, Hayes and Mandell attempt to reconstruct what were the most significant movements and events from 333 B.C.E. to 135 C.E., referring to excavations, Qumran texts, linguistic research, and the latest European reappraisals.
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Masorah Of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
$38.99Ideal for beginning students of biblical Hebrew! Designed as a parallel text, this excellent resource offers a solid introduction to the field of Masoretic studies and clearly explains the mechanics of using the Masorah of BHS. An annotated glossary covers basic definitions for terms found in BHS, including pertinent examples.
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Following Jesus Without Dishonoring Your Parents
$20.99Introduction: Learning Our Names / Paul Tokunaga
Pressure, Perfectionism & Performance / Paul Tokunaga
Your Parents Love You, My Parents Love Me / Jeanette Yep
Honor & Obey / Greg Jao
Doctor Or Lawyer? / Susan Cho Van Riesen
Relating To Others-Understanding Yourself / Greg Jao
Marriage & Singleness / Peter Cha & Susan Cho, Van Riesen
The Gender Trap / Peter Cha & Jeanette Yep
Racial Reconciliation / Susan Cho, Van Riesen &-Peter Cha
Spiritual Growth / Greg Jao
Finding A Church Home / Peter Cha
Gifts Asian Americans Bring / Paul Tokunaga
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These are some of the hopes of our Asian parents. Knowing that our parents have sacrificed for us, we want to honor their wishes. But we also want to serve Jesus, and sometimes that can seem to conflict with family expectations. Discovering our Asian identity in the midst of Western culture means learning to bridge these conflicting values. This book can serve as our guide along the way as we explore
our parents’ ways of loving us
vocations that show respect for our parents and allow us to serve God
the “model minority” myth and performance pressures
marriage, singleness, and being male and female
racial reconciliation
spirituality and church experiences
unique gifts Asians bring to Western cultureAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Families In The New Testament World
$60.00In many places the New Testament reflects the Roman Empire’s values of social stability, but at the same time, other passages make strong statements that seem to be against the family. What was the family like for the first Christians? How did they combine their family values and their new faith? When there were conflicts between family and faith, how did early Christians make choices between them? Osiek and Balch provide solid scholarship on these issues, informed by archaeological work and illustrated by figures and photographs.
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Santa Biblia : The Bible Through Hispanic Eyes
$20.99Exploring how a Hispanic perspective illumines biblical text in ways that are valuable for Latino readers and for the church at large, Santa Biblia introduces five paradigms for Latino biblical interpretation – marginality, poverty, mestizaje, exile and alienness, and solidarity – discussing theory and providing concrete examples of texts that gain new meaning when read from a different perspective.
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Jewish Life And Thought Among Greeks And Romans
$65.00A huge, masterful treasury of source material grouped under 10 headings: Greeks Discover Jews, Beginnings of Hellenization, The Diaspora, Pro-Jewish Views of Government, Pro-Jewish Views of Intellectuals, Conversion, God-Fearers, Palestine, Revolts, and Anti-Semitism.
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Sage Priest Prophet
$37.00In this volume in the Library of Ancient Israel, the author investigates three forms of biblical Israel’s intellectual and religious leadership; the sage, the priest, and the prophet. He looks at the development and character of these roles and how they functioned in their particular time and place. This investigation will lead to a keener understanding of the literature of the Old Testament and the society in which it evolved. It will also shed light on how certain religious traditions originated and how they have developed.
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Ancient Orient A Print On Demand Title
$31.99This book represents the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary presentation of ancient Near Eastern civilization. Concentrating on Mesopotamia and North Syria and focusing particularly on the cultures of Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria, von Soden covers the earliest times to Hellenization. His study of ancient “humanity in its wholeness” includes treatments of the history of language and systems of writing, the state and society, nutrition and agriculture, artisanry, economics, law, science, religion and magic, art, music, and more. A valuable background work for students of the Bible. Includes 18 black-and-white photographs.
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Radical Monotheism And Western Culture
$29.00This classic work of H. RICHARD NIEBUHR, one of the most influential theological ethicists of the 20th century, anticipates the substance of his mature thinking. NIEBUHR provides a thorough analysis of faith as confidence and loyalty and the forms as henotheism, polytheism, and radical monotheism. He answers directly the question “How is faith in God possible?”
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Come To Christmas (Revised)
$7.99From Advent wreaths to Christmas Trees, from Mistletoe to Lumiminarias, from, Hanging of the Greens to Epiphany,Come To Christmas provides families and Christian educators with a treasury of information and worship ideas for the season. Learn about the season of Advent, Advent Wreaths, Hanging of the Greens, Chrismon Trees, The Jesse Tree, the origins of popular traditions such as Santa Claus, mistletoe, and poinsettias, and much, much, more. Also includes a brief set of Advent services for lighting the Advent candles and the songs “The Holly and the Ivy,” and “The Friendly Beasts.”
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Spiritual Traditions For The Contemporary Church
$38.99This volume offers a comprehensive intellectual and experiential introduction to Christian spirituality. It embraces spiritual traditions from the Patristic period to the present day. Part I, “The Roots of Contemporary Western Spirituality,” covers spiritual types that have been fundamental in shaping spiritual practice. Part II, “Distinctive Spiritual Traditions,” offers major introductory essays on spiritual traditions formed by such notable figures as Luther, Wesley, Ignatius, and John of the Cross, as well as ecclesiastical traditions such as Anglicanism. Part III, “The Feminine Dimension in Christian Spirituality,” is devoted to Marian Spirituality, holy women, and feminism. Each of the fourteen chapters is followed by a practicum which enables readers to assimilate the practice prescribed into their own devotional life .
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Moral World Of The First Christians
$34.00How did the early Christians develop a distinctive morality? Meeks explores the social setting of the early believers, shows how they cultivated their own identity and moral language from contemporary Greek, Roman, and Jewish traditions, and describes the patterns of moral concern and behavior which characterized their community.
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Presbyterian Creeds : A Guidebook To The Book Of Confessions
$35.00This book provides clergy, laity, and students with a thorough introduction to their faith as set forth in the Book of Confessions. Jack Rogers explains technical terms and places current issues in perspective by examining the meaning of the creeds, confessions, and declarations found in the Book of Confessions. He examines their role in history, their full meaning, and their continued relevance to the Christian community.
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Sharing Blessings
$26.99What is the spiritual message of each of the Jewish holidays?
How do we teach it to our children?
Many books tell children about the historical significance and customs of the holidays. Now, through engaging, creative stories about one family’s spiritual preparation, Sharing Blessings explores ways to get into the spirit of the holidays all year long.
Musleah, mother and journalist, and Klayman, father and rabbi, gently give our children the spiritual message and help adult and child explore it together. For 13 different holidays and festivals, there is a story about David, Ilana, and their mom and dadi 1/2a story focusing on the spiritual value embodied in each holiday.
Being afraid of the dark, taking a walk in the woods with Grandpa, arguments between David and Ilana, sharing family photos; all become opportunities for learning about how each holiday’s meaning is related to our daily life. Each story begins with a brief explanation of the holiday and concludes with a special prayer that child and adult can share to bring the spiritual meaning of the holiday into their own lives.
Shabbat Family * Rosh Hashanah Responsibility * Yom Kippur Prayer * Sukkot Peace * Simchat Torah Joyousness * Hanukkah Convictio * Tu B’Shevat Wonder * Purim Gratitude * Pesach Continuity * Yom Ha-shoah Free Will * Yom Ha-atzma’ut Community * Shavuot Education * Tisha B’Av RebuildingAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
