Resource Publications imprint: 228 books
Help My Unbelief!
Doubt, Faith, and the Gospel of Mark
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Help My Unbelief! is for a small but growing number of Christians who are asking critical questions about their faith, their church's history, and the Bible. Around the 60s CE doubts arose as tensions within Judaism escalated, questions about Jesus and his delayed return were voiced, and Roman persecutions...
by Harold J. Recinos
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Recinos fell in love with poetry growing up on the streets, after being abandoned by immigrant Latino parents. Finding shelter in public libraries, Recinos discovered that poetry was a way to make sense of living on the streets in the pitiable condition of teen homelessness and heroin addiction. After...
by Harold J. Recinos
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Recinos discovered a love for poetry living on the streets after being abandoned by immigrant Latino parents. At age sixteen, a White Presbyterian minister made him part of his family and guided him back to school. Recinos finished high school, attended undergraduate school in Ohio and later graduate...
by Harold J. Recinos
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Harold J. Recinos is the son of a Guatemalan father and Puerto Rican mother who at age twelve was abandoned to New York City streets. After living on the streets between the ages of twelve and sixteen, Recinos met a Presbyterian minister who had discovered the God of the oppressed while active in...
God and the Spiritual Tsunami
Responding to Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
God is clearly at work today. There is a cultural, political, and religious metaphorical tsunami gathering power under the surface of ordinary world events, and when it is fully released, it will turn the world as we now know it upside down. Thousands upon thousands of Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus,...
Such a Dark Thing
Theology of the Vampire Narrative in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Evil, death, demons, reanimation, and resurrection. While such topics are often reserved for the darker mindscapes of the vampire subgenre within popular culture, they are equally integral elements of religious history and belief. Despite the cultural shift of presenting vampires in a secular light,...
The Vulgarization of Christ’s Church
Combating Progressivism’s Damning Influence upon Christian Thinking and Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
This book seeks to clarify and demonstrate the incalculable and injurious influence that progressive education has had and is having upon preaching, thinking Christianly, and the local church. Progressive education began at the turn of the twentieth century, replacing classical education with what...
Reading Jesus’ Parables with Dao De Jing
Appendix: A New Translation of the Dao De Jing
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Dao De Jing is an ancient wisdom book, purportedly written by Laozi, who flourished in the sixth century BCE according to the Chinese tradition. It is comprised of eighty-one short poems of which the source is diverse, ranging from personal life to communal and political life. It uses abundant metaphors...
Jesus’s Truth
Life in Parables
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Parables of Jesus are stories about everyday life, ranging from a person's worldview to economic justice in society. This book examines most parables of Jesus from a critical literary perspective. Twenty-three narrative parables in the Synoptic Gospels are rearranged by their source: Markan parables,...
Silentium
And Other Reflections On Memory, Sorrow, Place, and the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
With this collection of meditative, personal, memoir, and lyrical essays and narrative poetry, Connie T. Braun explores the multi-valences of silence within themes of loss, displacement, identity, heritage, and faith. Reflecting on her childhood in Canada, and her ancestral Mennonite homeplace, these...
Divine Disclosure
Meditations on Godly Matters or Licorice from the Box of God
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
DIVINE DISCLOSURE By Robert Paul Roth Table of Contents 1. Sounds and Silence, Colors, Touch, and Fragrance 2. The Sinking Sadness of Death 3. Power and Pain 4. Time For, Place Where 5. And Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche 6. Paradox and Contradiction 7. A Water Droplet Yearning 8. Two Loves 9. God Calling Yet 10. Ad Futurum et Mysterium
Matty and Matt
A Conversational Approach to Matthew’s Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
If you sit in a pew, Sunday by Sunday, you will hear parts of Matthew's Gospel read. But you might never have read it yourself from start to finish. And if you are not a churchgoer, you might not think to read any of it. Yet it has been, and continues to be, an important part of our heritage. This...
Balanced Living
Don't Let Your Strength Become Your Weakness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
In Balanced Living: Don't Let Your Strength Become Your Weakness, Robert Knight develops the theme of balance as central to good mental health, to moral and spiritual health, to emotional well-being, and to social functioning. This theme emerges from his more than thirty years of experience as a Christian...
A Journey in Imagination
Stories We Want Our Grandchildren to Hear
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A Journey In Imagination offers the hope of an alternative to a world convulsed by hostility and violence. Through an imaginative journey into Bible stories, incidents, and verses, the possibility of reversing hostility in both personal and communal life is explored. Biblical hospitality is neither...