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Faith Shift

Author : Kathy Escobar
Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 1601425449
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Faith Shift written by Kathy Escobar and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope for spiritual refugees, church burnouts, and freedom seekers. After years of participating in a comfortable faith tradition, many find themselves in a spiritual wilderness, feeling disillusioned with church, longing for more freedom and less religion in their lives. If that describes you, you’re in good company. Countless men and women are in the middle of a shifting faith—and aren’t sure where to turn. But losing beliefs doesn’t mean you have to lose your faith. Pastor, friend, and spiritual director Kathy Escobar has journeyed with many who have experienced significant shifts in the faith they once considered unchangeable. Through their stories and her own, Kathy has discovered that growth and change are natural parts of life in our relationship with God. Filled with honest stories and practical insights, Faith Shift gives language to what many experience as their faith evolves. With an inviting blend of vulnerability and hope, it addresses the losses that come with spiritual shifts and offers tangible practices for rebuilding a free and authentic faith after it unravels. Includes personal reflection and group discussion questions at the end of each chapter.

The Shift

Author : Colby Martin
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506455506
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Shift written by Colby Martin and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Christians are kicked out of their conservative churches or leave because they no longer feel at home, they embark on a journey of freedom and fear, love and loneliness, empowerment and pain. The movement from conservative to progressive Christianity is a serious shift. Colby Martin has traversed this treacherous territory, survived its hardships, and is now turning around to share what he's learned. This book is a friendly survival guide to help followers of Jesus navigate the strange and confusing landscape when shifting from conservative to progressive Christianity. This book will prepare progressive Christians (from long-time progressives to those just starting out) for the pitfalls awaiting them as they shift out of their conservative world, and it will equip them for a more abundant, thriving, and peace-filled spiritual life.

Cosmic Shift

Author : Christopher Paul Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988337060
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Shift written by Christopher Paul Carter and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Church Shift

Author : Sunday Adelaja
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1599790971
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Church Shift written by Sunday Adelaja and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigerian-born Adelaja, pastor of the largest charismatic church in Europe, shares his remarkable life story, including how he has overcome prejudice and persecution in predominantly white, Orthodox Ukraine, and how his church members influenced the regime change during the Orange Revolution in 2004.

A Faith of Their Own

Author : Lisa Pearce
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199792844
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book A Faith of Their Own written by Lisa Pearce and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adding to the contributions made by Soul Searching and Souls in Transition--two books which revolutionized our understanding of the religious lives of young Americans--Lisa Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton here offer a new portrait of teenage faith. Drawing on the massive National Study of Youth and Religion's telephone surveys and in-depth interviews with more than 120 youth at two points in time, the authors chart the spiritual trajectory of American adolescents and young adults over a period of three years. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the authors find that religion is an important force in the lives of most--though their involvement with religion changes over time, just as teenagers themselves do. Pearce and Denton weave in fascinating portraits of actual youth to give depth to mere numerical rankings of religiosity, which tend to prevail in large studies. One teenager might rarely attend a service, yet count herself profoundly religious; another might be deeply involved in a church's social world, yet claim to be "not, like, deep into the faith." They provide a new set of qualitative categories--Abiders, Assenters, Adapters, Avoiders, and Atheists--quoting from interviews to illuminate the shading between them. And, with their three-year study, they offer a rich understanding of the dynamic nature of faith in young people's lives during a period of rapid change in biology, personality, and social interaction. Not only do degrees of religiosity change, but so does its nature, whether expressed in institutional practices or personal belief. By presenting a new model of religious development and change, illustrated with compelling personal accounts of real teenagers, Pearce and Denton offer parents, scholars, and religious leaders a new guide for understanding religious development in teens.

Shift

Author : Brian Haynes
Publisher : Group Publishing (Company)
ISBN 13 : 9780764438981
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Shift written by Brian Haynes and published by Group Publishing (Company). This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're just getting started ministering to families or you've got a full-blown family ministry, Shift helps you equip parents to become spiritual leaders in their homes.

Resilient Faith

Author : Gerald L. Sittser
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1493419986
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Resilient Faith written by Gerald L. Sittser and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our Western, post-Christendom society, much of Christianity's cultural power, privilege, and influence has eroded. But all is not lost, says bestselling author Gerald Sittser. Although the church is concerned and sobered by this cultural shift, it is also curious and teachable. Sittser shows how the early church offers wisdom for responding creatively to the West's increasing secularization. The early Christian movement was surprisingly influential and successful in the Roman world, and so different from its two main rivals--traditional religion and Judaism--that Rome identified it as a "third way." Early Christians immersed themselves in the empire without significant accommodation to or isolation from the culture. They confessed Jesus as Lord and formed disciples accordingly, which helped the church grow in numbers and influence. Sittser explores how Christians today can learn from this third way and respond faithfully, creatively, and winsomely to a world that sees Christianity as largely obsolete. Each chapter introduces historical figures, ancient texts, practices, and institutions to explain and explore the third way of the Jesus movement, which, surprising everyone, changed the world.

Fertility and Faith

Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481312608
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Fertility and Faith written by Philip Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demography drives religious change. High-fertility societies, like most of contemporary Africa, tend to be fervent and devout. The lower a population's fertility rates, the greater the tendency for people to detach from organized or institutional religion. Thus, fertility rates supply an effective gauge of secularization trends. In Fertility and Faith, Philip Jenkins maps the demographic revolution that has taken hold of many countries around the globe in recent decades and explores the implications for the future development of the world's religions. Demographic change has driven the secularization of contemporary Western Europe, where the revolution began. Jenkins shows how the European trajectory of rapid declines in fertility is now affecting much of the globe. The implications are clear: the religious character of many non-European areas is highly likely to move in the direction of sweeping secularization. And this is now reshaping the United States itself. This demographic revolution is reshaping Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism. In order to accommodate the new social trends, these religions must adapt to situations where large families are no longer the norm. Each religious tradition will develop distinctive emphases concerning morality, gender, and sexuality, as well as the roles of clergy and laity in the faith's institutional structures. Radical change follows great upheaval. The tidal shift is well underway. With Fertility and Faith, Philip Jenkins describes this ongoing phenomenon and envisions our collective religious future.

The Out of Bounds Church?

Author : Steve Taylor
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310873487
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Out of Bounds Church? written by Steve Taylor and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s Going on Out There?Author Steve Taylor takes trips to the edge of the church envelope and sends us back what he’s finding inside the emerging church around the globe. From the revival of ancient spiritual practices to the rise of multimedia, each of his posts sketches a view of the body of Christ in wild flux. Topics include: birth; pilgrimage; community; creativity; DJing; and leading and following.

Shifting Allegiances: Networks of Kinship and of Faith

Author : Isabel Moyra Dale
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498237185
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Allegiances: Networks of Kinship and of Faith written by Isabel Moyra Dale and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when Muslim women gather together at the mosque to read the Qur'an, learn, and pray? How does family loyalty interact with mosque attendance for women? This book explores the growing Muslim women's piety movement through looking at one women's program in a Syrian suburban mosque. Community models shape individual behavior. The place and power of blessing help define the boundaries between orthodox and popular Islam. Modesty and shame, feasts and fasting, purity and prayer, interact to shape daily life possibilities for women involved in the mosque program. At the same time, the growing accessibility of religious teaching for women allows them to take up new places of authority in the Muslim ummah. Women read the Qur'an not just for blessing, but for what it has to say to issues of daily female and family life. And the words of communal dhikr devotion offer a window into the worshippers' consciousness of God and of Muhammad, Prophet of Islam. This detailed examination of a women's mosque program places it within the wider contemporary movement of piety and da'wa (mission) in Islam, offering an insight into the forces that are shaping communities and countries today.

Faith After Doubt

Author : Brian D. McLaren
Publisher : St. Martin's Essentials
ISBN 13 : 125026278X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Faith After Doubt written by Brian D. McLaren and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world and your faith. ONE of the Best Spiritual Books of 2021—Spirituality & Practice "Will help you live fuller and breathe easier..” —Glennon Doyle Sixty-five million adults in the U.S. have dropped out of active church attendance and about 2.7 million more are leaving every year. Faith After Doubt is for the millions of people around the world who feel that their faith is falling apart. Using his own story and the stories of a diverse group of struggling believers, Brian D. McLaren, a former pastor and now an author, speaker, and activist shows how old assumptions are being challenged in nearly every area of human life, not just theology and spirituality. He proposes a four-stage model of faith development in which questions and doubt are not the enemy of faith, but rather a portal to a more mature and fruitful kind of faith. The four stages—Simplicity, Complexity, Perplexity, and Harmony—offer a path forward that can help sincere and thoughtful people leave behind unnecessary baggage and intensify their commitment to what matters most.

Hospitable Planet

Author : Stephen A. Jurovics
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0819232548
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Hospitable Planet written by Stephen A. Jurovics and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United Methodist Women’s Reading Group Selection “What can I do about the environment? What has God said about the environment?” Most books about climate change only address one of these questions. Those from a religious perspective do not address what individuals can do to help society transition from fossil fuels, other than changing personal behavior. Readers know instinctively that will not suffice, and so are left feeling the situation is hopeless. In contrast, books that primarily address environmental issues fail to reach people motivated more by faith than science, leaving out many who could constitute the tipping point for full American engagement on the issue. Borrowing an approach from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership, which brought together both secular and religious arguments for ending segregation, this book addresses physical evidence of climate change while demonstrating through biblical teachings the religious imperative for preserving our inherited world. The compelling biblical case for creation care is grounded in environmental teachings Jesus knew, primarily in the Hebrew Scriptures. Topics addressed include air pollution, treatment of the land, preserving biological diversity, and treatment of animals, and each is connected to contemporary issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, care of the needy, the extinction of species, and factory farming.

Climate Church, Climate World

Author : Jim Antal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538178915
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Climate Church, Climate World written by Jim Antal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Church, Climate World contends that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced. This revised and updated edition includes a new chapter on political and policy shifts in recent years; the influence of Greta Thunberg and climate change activists; and updated information on the current science of climate change.

Changing Faith

Author : Darren E. Sherkat
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814741266
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Changing Faith written by Darren E. Sherkat and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than anywhere else in the Western world, religious attachments in America are quite flexible, with over 40 percent of U.S. citizens shifting their religious identification at least once in their lives. In Changing Faith, Darren E. Sherkat draws on empirical data from large-scale national studies to provide a comprehensive portrait of religious change and its consequences in the United States. With analysis spanning across generations and ethnic groups, the volume traces the evolution of the experience of Protestantism and Catholicism in the United States, the dramatic growth of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, and the rise of non-identification, now the second most common religious affiliation in the country. Drawing on that wealth of data, it details the impact of religious commitments on broad arenas of American social life, including family and sexuality, economic well-being, political commitments, and social values. Exploring religious change among those of European heritage as well as of Eastern and Western European immigrants, African Americans, Asians, Latin Americans, and Native Americans, Changing Faith not only provides a comprehensive and ethnically inclusive demographic overview of the juncture between religion and ethnicity within both the private and public sphere, but also brings empirical analysis back to the sociology of religion.

Experiencing the Knowing of Faith

Author : Sharon Warner
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761817307
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Experiencing the Knowing of Faith written by Sharon Warner and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2000 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is religious faith? And how does modern society view truth? Sharon Warner, in Experiencing the Knowing of Faith, discusses the understanding formed by "deep truth," or knowledge intrinsic to a person's self-identity. She critiques today's susceptibility to the paradigm of Cartesian dualities such as mind-body and subject-object, and in doing so utilizes the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Michael Polanyi. Concluding with an exploration of the relevance of this theory for teaching faith, the work will be of great use to religious scholars and to philosophers.

Faith and Beauty

Author : Edward Farley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351937367
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Faith and Beauty written by Edward Farley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Aesthetics' and 'theological aesthetics' usually imply a focus on questions about the arts and how faith or religion relates to the arts; only the final pages of this work take up that problem. The central theme of this book is that of beauty. Farley employs a new typology of western texts on beauty and a theological analysis of the image of God and redemption to counter the centuries-long tendency to ignore or marginalize beauty and the aesthetic as part of the life of faith. Studying the interpretation of beauty in ancient Greece, eighteenth-century England, the work of Jonathan Edwards, and nineteenth and twentieth-century philosophies of human self-transcendence, the author explores whether Christian existence, the life of faith, and the ethical exclude or require an aesthetic dimension in the sense of beauty. The work will be of particular interest to those interested in Christian theology, ethics, and religion and the arts.

Future Faith

Author : Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506438199
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Future Faith written by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping the Practice of Christianity, author Wesley Granberg-Michaelson provides a lucid view of how the top ten winds of change blowing through global Christian faith are reshaping the practice of Christianity today. He is uniquely qualified to identify and interpret connection points between global Christian trends and the American church. Drawing on the stories, examples, and personalities of pastors and congregations from throughout the U.S. as well as those from Africa, Asia, Latin America, who are the faces of Christianity's future, Future Faith is designed to inform and empower followers of Jesus to seek new ways of becoming the face of Christ to a rapidly changing world. Leaders and practitioners in church growth, renewal, and planting will be a primary audience for this book. Students of religion from Catholic, evangelical, Pentecostal, and historic Protestant streams will find this book an informative and stimulating resource for pondering together the future of their faith. Small groups engaged in congregational nurture and growth will find in the author a welcome companion for guiding them through the multi-cultural landscape of contemporary faith.