Church Institutions Organizations category: 259 books
by Lynne M. Baab
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
"I can only shake my head in the face of the irony that all too often the very place where we look for life and health, the very place where we expect to nurture and deepen a loving relationship with God, can cause so many to experience the exact opposite." So remarks author Lynne Baab in...
Reaching Out in a Networked World
Expressing Your Congregation's Heart and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
A congregation communicates its heart and soul through words, photos, actions, programs, architecture, decor, the arts, and countless other aspects of congregational life. In Reaching Out in a Networked World, communications expert and pastor Lynne Baab examines technologies such as websites, blogs,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Congregations that seek growth are often frustrated at hitting a plateau-caught in a transition zone between sizes. The Alban Institute has long been recognized as a leader in size transition research and learning, and this anthology offers an in-depth collection of resources, through new articles...
Against Indifference
Four Christian Responses to Jewish Suffering during the Holocaust (C. S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, André and Magda Trocmé)
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Against Indifference analyzes four responses to Jewish suffering during the Holocaust, moving on a spectrum from indifference to courageous action. C. S. Lewis did little to speak up for victimized Jews; Thomas Merton chose to enclose himself in a monastery to pray for and expiate the sins of a world...
by Jerome K. Jerome
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This early work by Jerome K. Jerome was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Fanny and the Servant Problem' is a drama in four acts. Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, England in 1859. Both his parents died while he was in his...
The Economic Decoding of Religious Dogmas
Ranking World Religions in Terms of Economic Consistency
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
This book proves that each religious dogma, in any of their components, contain in an encoded manner a specific ranking of human comprehensive mega-objectives, implicitly, a specific preference for absolute wealth or, in a more common parlance, for the objective of economic performance. In turn,...
by Charles Jeffrey Woods
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
This book is written as a resource to help pastors and laity (1) talk about the changes transpiring in congregations and (2) shape a new congregation for the future.
Mandato de sangre
El poder de los judíos en Uruguay
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Una investigación que indaga en el aparente y en el real poder de los
judíos en Uruguay. Un intento por despejar las dudas en torno a esta
colectividad.
Según el imaginario popular, la colectividad judía es omnipresente,
poderosa y cerrada. Pese a ser pocos en términos comparativos, los
judíos...
by François-J. Lessard
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Les héritiers de l'impérialisme romain est un solide monument bâti sur les erreurs de l'Église romaine depuis les siècles les plus reculés. Erreurs que l'Église n'a jamais avouées, bien sûr, mais qui lui ont ravi des milliers de fidèles. Rome est infaillible! Critiquer ses agissements et...
by Baudouin Burger
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2012
La lutte des catholiques contre les francs-maçons est bien connue. Ce qui lest moins est la forme quelle a prise au Québec, surtout à la fin du XIXe siècle alors quon lance force accusations et excommunications contre les quelques Canadiens français hérétiques. Mais les sectaires ne sont pas forcément...
Seventh Day Adventism
Briefly Tested by Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
To go to the writings of the Seventh-Day Adventists for a true delineation of their teaching will be just to them. To compare it with Holy Scripture will test its truth or error.
The Prophetess of the Movement
is Mrs. Ellen G. White, whose late husband, Elder White, was for long their...
Riflessioni sulle quattordici opere di misericordia
Sopportare pazientemente le persone moleste
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Testimoni della misericordia: questo è il senso del Giubileo straordinario, proclamato da Papa Francesco, per mezzo della bolla pontificia Misericordiae Vultus. Un po’ quello che hanno scelto di fare Pier Luigi Leoni e Mario Tiberi in questo scritto epistolare: essere testimoni delle Opere della...
Europa im Islam Islam in Europa
Islamische Konzepte zur Vereinbarkeit von religioeser und buergerlicher Zugehoerigkeit
Language: German
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Wie ist es möglich, Bürger Europas und gleichzeitig Muslim zu sein? Die Autorin vergleicht aus differenzhermeneutischer Perspektive die Antworten von drei zeitgenössischen muslimischen Denkern. Sie zeigen, dass Europa und Islam durchaus zusammen gedacht werden können. Durch den Vergleich wird...
Schweizerisches Jahrbuch fuer Kirchenrecht. Bd. 18 (2013) / Annuaire suisse de droit ecclésial. Vol. 18 (2013)
Herausgegeben im Auftrag der Schweizerischen Vereinigung fuer evangelisches Kirchenrecht / Edité sur mandat de lAssociation suisse pour le droit ecclésial protestant
Language: German
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Inhalt: Ulrich Cavelti: Die Kirchensteuerpflicht juristischer Personen. Neue Erkenntnisse aufgrund des NFP 58 «FAKIR» (Finanzanalyse Kirchen)? – Charles Landert: Die Leistungen der Kirchen aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Sicht – Christian R. Tappenbeck: Zum Vorentwurf einer «Verfassung der Evangelischen...