"I'll dress the way I want!", "You wouldn't understand!", "I'm not going to church!","You never trust me!", "You aren't going to tell me what to do!" Comments like these evoke a host of responses from parents of adolescents: anxiety, anger, detachment, despair. But Eugene Peterson believes that these kinds of encounters offer important opportuniti
If you try to fit in with the pack, you'll look the same as everyone else. You'll be a part of the group, but you'll lose parts of yourself. Eventually you won't even recognize yourself anymore. Breaking free from the pack isn't easy, but it is possible. If you find the courage to leave conformity behind, you can finally discover who you are. ......
Amid the wealth of biographical material on Winston Churchill, little has been said about his faith. Duty and Destiny rectifies this, offering a nuanced portrait of a great historical figure considered everything from a "God-haunted man" to a "stalwart nonbeliever." Churchill was far from transparent about his religious beliefs and never ......
The Lord's Prayer is one of the oldest and most widely used short summaries not only of how Christians pray but of what they believe about God, the world, and humankind. Justo Gonzalez, whose textbooks have taught Christian doctrine and history to thousands of pastors, draws on scripture, the Church Fathers, and his own life experience to make ......
Welcome to the spiritual neighborhood of Fred Rogers "I like you as you are Exactly and precisely I think you turned out nicely And I like you as you are." Fred Rogers fiercely believed that all people deserve love. This conviction wasn't simply sentimental: it came directly from his Christian faith. God, he insisted, loves us just the way we ......
A best-selling text thoroughly updated, including new chapters on the last 30 years "An excellent study that will help historians appreciate the importance of Christianity in the history of the United States and Canada." - The Journal of American History "Scholars and general readers alike will gain unique insights into the multifaceted ......
Rethinking Dinner, Worship, and the Community of God
Explore the practice of eating together as Christian worship... The gospel story is filled with meals. It opens in a garden and ends in a feast. Records of the early church suggest that believers met for worship primarily through eating meals. Over time, though, churches have lost focus on the centrality of food - and with it a powerful tool for ......
What are we doing when we gather around the sacraments- or when we make the same breakfast every morning? Embodying rituals, says Dru Johnson. And until we understand what we're doing and why, we won't know how these rituals work, what they mean, or how we might adapt them. In Human Rites Johnson considers the concept of ritual as seen in ......
