Based on new translations of Pali texts and rare sources, Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns analyses the portrayal of women in the Pali canon and commentaries. Focusing on the differences between canonical and commentarial literature, the author goes bey…
Empower Your Kids to Respond Wellto the Hard Questions That Threaten Their Faith It's no secret that children of all ages are being exposed to negative criticism of Christianity as they spend time at school, with friends, or online. Are you prepared…
Two principles capture the essence of the Catholic tradition on sexual ethics: that each and every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life, and that any human genital act must occur within the framework of marriage. In the Catholic…
Acclaimed worship artist Darlene Zschech walks readers through the valley of her cancer diagnosis, and shows us all how maintaining a posture of worship before the Lord can create an oasis in the storm.Storms are an inevitable part of life. Rain fal…
One of the most devastating losses a family can experience is the loss of a child. Whether the loss is through illness, accident, drugs, suicide, or other tragedy, the pain is overwhelming and often paralyzing. Often we think of "loss" as death. How…
The release of the landmark first edition of God, Marriage, and Family provided an integrated, biblical treatment of God's purposes for the home. Since then, explain authors Andreas K stenberger and David Jones, the crisis confronting modern househo…
Do you feel that the ability to hear God's voice is for other people and not for you? Is it only for people who lived in Biblical times?Not at all The God who loved you enough to die for you loves you enough to talk to you. And wherever you are in y…
Sara Hagerty masterfully draws from her own story of spiritual and physical barrenness to birth in readers a new longing for God. With exquisite storytelling and reflection, Hagerty guides readers to a tender place that God is holding just for them-…
"This inviting text provides a useful framework for Christians to use in approaching what can be difficult conversations around gender identity."--Publishers WeeklyThis book offers a measured Christian response to the diverse gender identities that…
The women of the Qur'an are varied and fascinating. They are military leaders, advisors in business, barren women who miraculously give birth, and much more. Many are paragons of virtue, and some are morally pernicious. They contain multitudes. Cele…
Marriages have a better opportunity of thriving when couples spend time together with God. In" Just Us," David and Jan Stoop provide just what couples need to make the most of the precious time they spend together seeking God. Each week's devotions…
This candid question-and-answer book tackles the tough, yet common, issues, challenges, questions, and complaints of sexuality, morality, and Christian living in the 21st century. As the author notes, "many of the questions we will address below wou…
What Is True Beauty? Whether it's age-defying makeup or the latest diet fad, our culture continually tells women that beauty consists of flawless skin and a supermodel figure. In True Beauty, Carolyn Mahaney and her daughter Nicole Whitacre direct u…
In OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance, Mx Chris Paige has gathered together 29 transgender, non-binary, and intersex authors to share about their lived experience in relationship with Christian tradition.Having provided a detailed survey…
Cruda, ntima y oportuna, el ltimo libro Nadia Bolz-Weber ofrece una revisi n completa de nuestras ideas da inas y anticuadas sobre el sexo, el g nero y nuestros cuerpos. Los cristianos est n obsesionados con el sexo. Pero en el mal sentido. Por gene…
All of western religion springs from the veneration of a bi-gender entity, known to the ancient world as the Gynomorph. The first western god was both male and female. The worship of hermaphroditic gods like the Gynomorph surfaces in ancient pagan c…
This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Carol Meyers argues that biblical so…
Una guia practica acerca del perdon de Dios y hacia nuestros semejantes. Charles Stanley, uno de los lideres espirtuales mas influyentes de nuestra epoca, comparte la llave de la paz tanto personal como para todo el mundo en La paz del perdon. Stanl…
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LUCAS HEDGES, RUSSELL CROWE AND NICOLE KIDMAN, AND WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOEL EDGERTON `A necessary, beautiful book' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You `A brilliant memoir' Guardian
Critical Approaches to Religion: Race, Class, Sexuality, and Gender provides students with carefully selected readings that examine diverse cultural religious traditions, as well as the intersection of academic religious studies and the practice of…
This workbook is developed from the Restored Lives course that Erik Castenskiold has been running at Holy Trinity Brompton, London, over ten years. Restored Lives will help you to recover from the experience of divorce or relationship breakdown, and…
Every couple has a restless aching, not just to know God individually but to experience God together. But how do you allow God to fill the soul of your marriage? Becoming Soul Mates gives you a road map for cultivating rich spiritual intimacy in you…
In this unique collection of essays, some of today's smartest Jewish thinkers explore a broad range of fundamental questions in an effort to balance ancient tradition and modern sexuality In the last few decades a number of factors-post-modernism, f…
Gay spirituality represents a hidden strand in Western thought that was only publically declared from the Gay Liberation of the 1970s. Since "coming out", expressions of gay spirituality have proliferated in both number and diversity. Beginning with…
We all know it's important to study God's Word. But sometimes it's hard to know where to start. What's more, a lack of time, emotionally driven approaches, and past frustrations can erode our resolve to keep growing in our knowledge of Scripture. Ho…
Are you new to leadership? Are you training leaders? Lay a good foundation with these basic leadership principles. Through 5 Leadership Essentials for Women, experienced leaders guide today's Christian laywoman in how to develop necessary skills to…
The Garden of Eden was a perfect place, and everything in it was original to the core. In other words, the heavenly kingdom was in the garden, and the garden carried the seed for the entire universe (Matt. 6:10). As a husband and father, I now prese…
Everybody wants to fall in love, but so many relationships end in heartbreak instead of happily-ever-after. Now one of the nation's most trusted voices on family relationships, Dr. James Dobson, offers this practical guide to love--what it is and wh…
100 years, the popes have spoken about women on more than 40 occasions. This book is the first study, in any language, of that teaching. From speeches to encyclicals, Richard Leonard takes the reader through 27 of the most important papal documents…
