Most of us have no idea how others see or process their experiences. And that can make relationships hard, whether with intimate partners, with friends, or in our professional lives. Understanding the motivations and dynamics of these different pers…
Emotions can be confusing. At times, we live at the mercy of our emotions, feeling helpless to understand them and powerless to control them. But the Bible brings clarity to this confusion, showing women that emotions are ultimately a gift from God.…
'Why can't he remember our anniversary, when he can recite every Super Bowl winner since 1967?' 'He just doesn't understand that after working all day and caring for the kids, I'm just too tired to have sex.' 'Trying to get him to tell me how he fee…
Why are all the major religions consumed with sex? What makes sex so important, whether Buddhism or Islam, Christianity or Mormonism? What is the impact of religion on human sexuality? This book explores this and more. It ventures into territory tha…
It's time to get the love and relationship GOD has had waiting for you all along. "GOD Where's My Boaz" is a woman's guide to understanding what is hindering her from receiving the love and relationship she truly deserves. A straight forward and eas…
Sex. In a world overwhelmingly obsessed with it, why is the church so silent about it? While our secular culture twists, perverts, cheapens, and idolizes sex, there are gaping holes in the church's guidance of young people. The result is generations…
In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumi/Santeria, and Brazilian Candomble to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divin…
From New York Times bestselling author of Uninvited and The Best Yes, Lysa TerKeurst brings you the missing link between a woman's desire to be healthy and the spiritual empowerment necessary to make that happen. The reality is we were made to crave…
A fresh and innovative guide for mothers of young children who want to bring laughter and faith to life in their home. In This House, We Will Giggle empowers moms to capture the hearts of their kids in fun and creative ways, teaching core virtues wh…
Reveals the tradition of goddess worship in early Judaism and how Jesus attempted to restore the feminine side of the faith * Provides historical and archaeological evidence for an earlier form of Hebrew worship with both male and female gods, inclu…
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…
Oh God, Oh God, Oh God addresses issues of love, sex(uality) and embodiment from the perspectives of young adults who work for or are involved with the church. Discussions about sex, sexuality, and theology are taboo in many churches. What about the…
Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow with Semon notes This beautiful prayer journal and the SOAP Bible Study Journal is wonderful for studying God's word. When Evangelical Sunday School can sermon notes on grace. Whether it's for group Bible Stu…
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…
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…
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…
Within this close textual analysis of the Babylonian Talmud, Yishai Kiel explores rabbinic discussions of sex in light of cultural assumptions and dispositions that pervaded the cultures of late antiquity and particularly the Iranian world. By negot…
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…
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…
Female monks have been discussed within the spheres of socio-history, theology, and literary analysis, but no comprehensive study has focused on their historical and gendered context until now. This book reexamines their hagiographies to reveal that…
A chronicle of Craig's journey through life with Down syndrome, as he and his parents face medical, social, educational and vocational challenges with patience, persistence, humor, and a loving God.
Since the 1960s a fresh wave of new religions and what has come to be termed 'spiritualities' have been evident on a global scale. This volume in The Library of Essays on Sexuality and Religion focuses on these 'new' religions and their often conten…
Sex God, Rob Bell's follow-up to the bestselling Velvet Elvis, tackles the controversial relationship between sexuality and spirituality. Published as part of the Rob Bell Classic relaunch, Sex God explores the links between love, sex, and God.
Diese Arbeit untersucht die ekklesiologischen Ansatze der bedeutendsten kontextuellen Theologien der Gegenwart: der Befreiungstheologie und der feministischen Theologie, reprasentiert durch Leonardo Boff, Rosemary Radford Ruether und Elisabeth Schus…
This book addresses the increasing role of queer politics within forms of Islamophobia, both by exploring the framing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues as a key marker of western superiority and by identifying the ways in whic…
