What a title and how appropriate, Mad Church Disease - a title I wish I had thought of. Who can forget the Mad Cow disease epidemic of a few years ago when pictures of cattle carcasses were stacked in a heap for all to see...
A 'wild Jesus?' Exactly, say these two native Australians whose earlier writings have helped to shape the ongoing theological conversation about 'missional church' in recent years (The Forgotten Ways, Exiles, The Shaping of Things to Come, Seeing God in the Ordinary)....
In SimChurch Doug Estes takes as his basic assumption that the world has moved into the digital age, bound together by technology....
Given the many demands placed upon pastors, and the hectic pace of life in which we all live and die, The Bereavement Ministry Program: A Comprehensive Guide for Churches is an invaluable resource....
Two words in the title of this book may have grabbed your attention as they did mine: “spirituality” and “community”. Both are hot topics in the church and academy, although they often generate more heat than light....
As a leader, who among us has not felt like we have become the sacrifice when someone has shifted their stuff onto us or have blamed us in order to cover their own issues?...
Through winsome stories, thought-provoking questions and the offer of engaging spiritual practices, Soul Graffiti: Making a Life in the Way of Jesus offers a fresh consideration of what it means to follow Jesus....
Jody Seymour's book, A Time for Healing, is as the subtitle states, about overcoming the perils of ministry....
At the mention of the emerging church movement, those of us in the so-called traditional church may often respond by dismissing it as a fad for self-indulgent members of the Millennial generation or seizing upon it as the latest church growth scheme to bring in...
Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross: Contemporary Images of the Atonement is a collection of articles, speeches and thoughts on the atonement from an eclectic collection of Christian thinkers, from C.S. Lewis to Brian McLaren....