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Ministry and Mission In Uncertain Times [EPUB ebook] 

11 September 2001 in New York; 11 March 2004 in Madrid; 7 July 2005 in London: these dates remind us that suicide bombings, or “martyrdom operations“, have become the common coin of international p …

Will people of other faiths be “saved“ and to what extent should the response to this question shape Christian engagements with people of other faiths? Historically, the predominant answer to these …

Indispensable for anyone trying to understand Islam in the West When the Western mass-media talk of conversion to Islam, we are bombarded with accounts of vulnerable people brainwashed into a culture …

By considering transformative ideas and experiences which are explicitly articulated or implicitly structured in languages of religion and spirituality, Alternative Salvations probes concepts includi …

This study sheds light on the work of the evangelical scientists who sought to bridge the cultural divide Christianity and evolutionary theory. In the well-known Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925, famous …

A book of modern, engaged prayers following the rhythm of the Iona Community’s daily prayer cycle. Concerns include: health and wholeness and the ministry of healing * church renewal * the ecumenical …

Evil perplexes us all and threatens to undermine the meaningfulness of our existence. How can we reconcile the reality of evil with the notion of a God who is perfectly good and powerful? Process the …

The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals t …

In the era of “post-Christendom“, how can church as a sociological reality be switched on to the destructive dangers, yet constructive possibilities, of “power“ flowing in and around its communit …