This is a series of linked essays critically reflecting on sacrifice and the Cross in relation to the memorialization of urban violence, particularly the death of children. The essays offer a serie…
This book offers a soundly integrated approach that helps counselors enter the child's world--the world of play--to help them heal. Through play-therapy relationships, counselors, social workers, a…
Starting with Horace Bushnell's classic 19th-century study, Christian Nurture, Leander Harding brings the discussion up to date with the help of insights from contemporary psychoanalytic thought an…
The book consists of seventeen chapters arranged in four parts-Nurture and Instruction, Congregational Education, Educational Theory: Goals and Process, and Theological Education. Bender's vision o…
In this book, Robin Greenwood argues that in the Local Ministry movement every Christian person has a gift to offer. Everyone in their particular charism, and integrated with everyone else, is set …
The Brethren of the Common Life was a religious organization in the Netherlands founded by Gerhard Groot in the last quarter of the fourteenth century. Groot was a lay preacher who spoke out agains…
This book is a series of letters from a seasoned pastor to "Lee" in his first year as pastor of a congregation. There is some excellent advice in these letters, but not for every context, for examp…
Richard Robert Osmer provides a strong understanding of the teaching office, which is a part of Reformation heritage. He discusses why the teaching office is important in mainline churches. This bo…
This book offers Malcolm Warford's well-reasoned, articulate reflections on what meeting this challenge means. For Warford, renewal is not a matter of restoring what already has been, but being com…
You teach to make a difference. Now, revitalize your classroom by learning and mastering these seven time-tested principles being taught around the world! Written for teachers, including Sunday sch…