The American evangelical church today faces profound political and cultural challenges. It is vitally important for the church to understand these challenges more fully and to think about them more theologically. It is also important for the church to repent of how we have failed to be the edifying and countercultural influence we ought to be, and craft an approach to public and political life that bears authentic and life-giving witness to who our God is and what he is like. In this book, the author shows how Justin Martyr, a prominent second-century church leader, provides a useful and powerful...
Opposites Attract introduces readers to the genre of philosophical dialogue and to dialectic, which the author defines as "a back-and-forth that gets us somewhere we couldn't have gotten without the back-and-forth." In an easy-to-follow (and sometimes humorous) way, the book analyzes classical and modern examples to argue that direct, monologic communication is not always the most persuasive form of argumentation. By presenting ideas that seem to contradict one another, or by presenting one's case as a dialogue between opposing parties, others can engage your thought processes in a dynamic way. Dialectic, at its best, makes readers active participants in the...
Christian graduate students often enter environments where intellectual rigor is high but spiritual support is limited. Stewarding Studentship: Navigating Faith and Learning in the Graduate Experience brings together student voices from across disciplines to illuminate what it means to pursue advanced study while remaining rooted in the Christian tradition. In settings where faith is sidelined or simply overlooked, these authors—these students—offer honest accounts of the tensions, hopes, and daily practices that sustain them.
Each chapter blends personal narrative with practical wisdom, showing how emerging scholars integrate their faith into research, teaching, leadership, and community life. Rather than abstract theory, readers...
For decades, Christian scholarship has been shaped by worldview approaches that frame faith primarily as an intellectual system. Re-imagining the Kingdom invites a starting point rooted in desire, formation, and the embodied practices that shape the Christian imagination. Chapters explore how Christian scholarship might move beyond worldview approaches to embrace practices that cultivate trust, credibility, relational presence, and spiritual depth. Emerging from a dialogic unconference hosted by the Christianity and Communication Studies Network by the same name, and drawing on the insights of James K. A. Smith, this volume gathers scholars and educators who are rethinking academic life through the...
Going to the Movies with C.S. Lewis is an edited collection exploring the thought and theology of C.S. Lewis as it relates to film and media. Lewis’s insights have had a profound effect on Christian life and thought for almost 80 years, and this book is an attempt to take some of those insights and apply them to film and media studies. It makes connections between Lewis’s work and film theory, specific films, and adaptations of his work. In many ways it is a book meant to explore how Lewis’s thought can help us view films as well as how...
In our rapidly evolving digital landscape, our lives are changed in ways we frequently fail to notice. We work faster and longer, but at what cost? This book explores seven pivotal terms—Authenticity, Buzzfeed, Connectivity, Device, Environment, Instagram, and Productivity—that define our digital interactions and reshape our consciousness. But there’s hope. For each term, Cali introduces a counter-term—Accompaniment, Beauty, Communitas, Dasein, Encounter, Inscape, and Presence—that guides us toward a more balanced and meaningful existence. This journey is both a diagnosis of the digital age's challenges and a practical guide for reclaiming our humanity amidst the noise.
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Kipper and crew help siblings Finnley and Connor when their fight over a last cookie leads to finger pointing and shouting. Children learn that clear rules, kindness, and the “balance out” principle can guide our talk when life isn’t fair. (Recommended for kids ages 6–10)
Reuben "Uncle Bud" Robinson, born a moonshiner's son in Tennessee and converted under the preaching of a traveling circuit rider while working as a Texas ranch hand, persevered to become the Mark Twain of the early twentieth-century holiness movement. And, at the height of his ministry, he was dubbed "the most popular man in America." This book explains how a man who originally came from nothing eventually came to personify an entire subset of American Christianity and what it means for Christianity and evangelicalism today. The author examines how "Uncle Bud's" preaching brought together people from all...
This collection of 52 devotionals (one per week for a full year) is designed for college or university professors, so all entries are connected to some aspect of faculty life: the classroom experience, research, or participation in the academic community (either intra- or extramural). Readers will be challenged to think of new ways to live out their God-given calling in their teaching, research, and leadership lives. They will be invited to meditate on reflections from some of the most thoughtful and spiritually sensitive members of their profession, both youthful and seasoned. Also, readers will understand ways to become godly mentors...
Kipper Kidd and crew help Abigail and Jonas cool their jets when playtime turns ugly over a broken Jungle Jumper. Children learn how to deal with conflict by counting to five, sharing emotions, and using words to apologize and forgive rather than make demands.
Stressful. Overwhelming. Too much. If these words describe the tone of your everyday life, it's time for a change. In the midst of a fast-paced world we need strong friends and family relationships more than ever. The digital devices used to connect us often inhibit even the best efforts to communicate effectively, pulling us into more remote exchanges that isolate us rather than bring us together. This book addresses these challenges head-on. With stories from Scripture and real life, the author helps readers find help and inspiration for love and friendship that flourish rather than simply survive.
This book helps leaders discover, develop, and deliver their leadership lifestories. Through examples of Jesus's 12 disciples, readers will understand more about the relationship between storytelling and leadership from first-century followers of Jesus. In a world that seems to separate people, Leadership Lifestories bring people back together by pointing to the peace found in the redeeming work of Jesus Christ. Each chapter includes simple steps so that individuals can uncover their unique strengths and discover how they can better serve their families, their organizations, and their communities.
Since the publication of Mark Noll's The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994) and George Marsden's The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship (1997), Christian educators have worked to challenge anti-intellectualism within American evangelicalism and to demonstrate how religious and theological commitments can deepen our understanding of the world. Yet questions remain about the lasting impact of these efforts: How much progress has been made? To what extent does anti-intellectualism still hinder evangelical thought? And what new challenges and opportunities face faith-informed scholars today? From the Outrageous to the Scandalous explores these questions through a rich and wide-ranging collection of essays....
In October of 1938, two evangelists/faith healers, Burroughs Walters and Kathryn Kuhlman, elope to Iowa to be married. The bride fainted at the civil ceremony. The play covers the first one hundred minutes of their wedding night, the bride seriously second-guessing her decision to marry, feeling compelled to return to her flock in Denver. The bridegroom, frustrated on his wedding night, compels her to stay. Lifting the Veil is a play depicting the battle of two scripture-filled minds and wills. This play is a "what-if" tale, loosely based upon the obscure marriage of Kathryn Kuhlman and Burroughs Waltrip. Burroughs became...
Kipper Kidd and crew help Jennifer and Amy learn that being kind online, and unplugging from time to time, help us stick together. Kids learn how phones can push us apart or pull us together in this primer on using phones responsibly.