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Questions from the Pews

Author : S. P. King
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 153267547X
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Questions from the Pews written by S. P. King and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastors are privileged to hear questions of faith. These questions often arise from people who engage in critical thinking, value intellectual integrity, and want an authentic conversation regarding their inquiries. S. P. King skillfully engages historical, biblical, and spiritual elements to squarely tackle some of the paramount issues of the Christian faith. Each chapter provides the theological background necessary for a thorough response. The answers are not presented in a manner to sway one's faith in a particular direction, but rather serve as a framework in which beliefs can be objectively examined. With each chapter capable of being a stand-alone resource, the book delivers in-depth but concise narratives on each topic. There are no efforts to indoctrinate, making the book a resounding invitation to explore Christianity in an impartial environment.

Life, Death, and Catholic Medical Choices

Author : Kevin O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764819537
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Life, Death, and Catholic Medical Choices written by Kevin O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the many medical options available for ourselves and loved ones, how do we make informed decisions which draw upon our Catholic tradition and so respect our human dignity and the dignity of others? This small book, using question-answer format, addresses topics that touch: On the beginning of human life medical responses to infertility, stem cell research, etc. On life "in between" organ donation, genetic testing, experimental treatment, etc. On the end of life pain management, euthanasia, withdrawing life support, cremation, etc. "In "Life, Death, and Medical Choices: 50 Questions from the Pews, " Revs. Black and O'Neil bring professional training in Catholic ethics into dialogue with questions that people in the pews must face. Using precise language they help us understand the core values of respect for life and human dignity that are the heart of moral analysis and pastoral theological reflection. Fr. Kevin O'Neil, C.Ss.R., coauthor of "50 Questions from the Pews: Life, Death, and Catholic Medical Choices," was interviewed by Fr. Dave Dwyer on The Busted Halo Show (Sirius Satellite Radio) on April 26, 2011. http: //www.bustedhalo.com/videoandaudio/interview-father-kevin-oneil-co-author-life-death-and-catholic-medical-choices-50-questions-from-the-pews View sample pages. "Paperback"

From the Pews in the Back

Author : Kate Dugan
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 081463902X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book From the Pews in the Back written by Kate Dugan and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pews in the Back is a book filled with questions about Catholic identity. How do young Catholic women see or define themselves? What is their relationship to the church? What are their struggles and joys? In a church that often consigns them to the pews in the back, what place are young women claiming? This collection of twenty-nine essays approaches these questions from a multitude of angles. These brief memoirs, to 'her with the insights of editors Kate Dugan and Jennifer Owens, offer a glimpse into what it means to be young, Catholic, and female in today's church. These women wrestle with the Catholic faith and with the church. They ask hard questions of the institution and are not willing to take easy answers. From the Pews in the Back is a new chapter in the dialogue about the role of women in the church. The voices of these women range from inspiring and energetic to challenging and wounded. Ultimately, though these women are stubbornly hopeful. They are claiming a place in the church and are calling other Catholics to talk with them about this claim.

Questions from the Pews

Author : S. P. King
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532675453
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Questions from the Pews written by S. P. King and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastors are privileged to hear questions of faith. These questions often arise from people who engage in critical thinking, value intellectual integrity, and want an authentic conversation regarding their inquiries. S. P. King skillfully engages historical, biblical, and spiritual elements to squarely tackle some of the paramount issues of the Christian faith. Each chapter provides the theological background necessary for a thorough response. The answers are not presented in a manner to sway one’s faith in a particular direction, but rather serve as a framework in which beliefs can be objectively examined. With each chapter capable of being a stand-alone resource, the book delivers in-depth but concise narratives on each topic. There are no efforts to indoctrinate, making the book a resounding invitation to explore Christianity in an impartial environment.

Pew

Author : Catherine Lacey
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720134
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Pew written by Catherine Lacey and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER of the 2021 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Finalist for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize. Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction Books of 2020. One of Amazon's 100 Best Books of 2020. “The people of this community are stifling, and generous, cruel, earnest, needy, overconfident, fragile and repressive, which is to say that they are brilliantly rendered by their wise maker, Catherine Lacey.” --Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers A figure with no discernible identity appears in a small, religious town, throwing its inhabitants into a frenzy In a small, unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives for a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless and racially ambiguous and refuses to speak. One family takes in the strange visitor and nicknames them Pew. As the town spends the week preparing for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, Pew is shuttled from one household to the next. The earnest and seemingly well-meaning townspeople see conflicting identities in Pew, and many confess their fears and secrets to them in one-sided conversations. Pew listens and observes while experiencing brief flashes of past lives or clues about their origin. As days pass, the void around Pew’s presence begins to unnerve the community, whose generosity erodes into menace and suspicion. Yet by the time Pew’s story reaches a shattering and unsettling climax at the Forgiveness Festival, the secret of who they really are—a devil or an angel or something else entirely—is dwarfed by even larger truths. Pew, Catherine Lacey’s third novel, is a foreboding, provocative, and amorphous fable about the world today: its contradictions, its flimsy morality, and the limits of judging others based on their appearance. With precision and restraint, one of our most beloved and boundary-pushing writers holds up a mirror to her characters’ true selves, revealing something about forgiveness, perception, and the faulty tools society uses to categorize human complexity.

Pews, Prayers, and Participation

Author : Corwin E. Smidt
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589012186
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Pews, Prayers, and Participation written by Corwin E. Smidt and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pews, Prayers, and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility in America" offers a fresh approach to key questions about what role religion plays in fostering civic responsibility in contemporary American society. In the course of their study the authors examine whether an individual exhibits a diminished, a privatized, a public, or an integrated form of religious expression, based on the individual's level of participation in both the public (worship) or private (prayer) dimensions of religious life. They question whether the privatization of religious life is counterproductive to engagement in public life, and they show that religion does indeed play a significant role in fostering civic responsibility across each of its particular facets.--From publisher description.

Blood on a Pew

Author : W. S. Gaines
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1617774022
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Blood on a Pew written by W. S. Gaines and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 18, 2003, at two thirty in the morning, my eldest son, Billy, fell through the tile ceiling of a church, crashing into a hard, wooden pew thirty feet below. At the time, he was temporarily staying in the shuttered convent of this Catholic church located just outside Pittsburgh and was attending a late-night party in the church rectory with a few of his University of Pittsburgh football teammates and the parish priest. The priest hosted the event and provided the alcohol. Every one of the football players in attendance, including my son, was underage. Tragically, later the same day, Billy was pronounced brain dead at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh. He was nineteen years old. Billy Gaines was a gifted athlete and promising wide receiver on the University of Pittsburgh football team. His untimely death shook his father, Bill Gaines, to the core. He felt grief as any parent would after the loss of a child. He also felt anger, not just toward the priest who provided alcohol to Billy that tragic night, but also toward God for letting Billy die. As the details surrounding his son's death surfaced, Bill faced some tough questions: What was Billy doing in a church crawlspace at two thirty in the morning? Who was responsible for Billy's death? What could he as a father have done to prevent Billy's death? Why did God allow Billy to die? As Bill Gaines puts the pieces together and tries to find answers to his questions, he finds himself on a spiritual journey. Join him as he finds healing and forgiveness in his faith and learns what led to Blood on a Pew.

A Voice From The Pews

Author : Ershwyn Thibou
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book A Voice From The Pews written by Ershwyn Thibou and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simply because you are a regular guy or gal who sits in the pews does not mean that you are unable to use your God given capacity to think on important matters in our world. A Voice From The Pews shows that with the guidance of scripture, a willingness to take the time necessary to go deeper than the surface, and using one's God given capacity to think, Joe or Jane Church Goer can find answers to tough questions and contend for the faith. The book is an easy read. It is written in a simple, easy flowing, yet thoughtful, interesting, and effective style, dealing with the topics it covers. It covers an eclectic mix of subjects that at some point crosses the minds of many. it touches on faith and science, right and wrong, suffering, thankfulness, the compassion of Jesus and an array of other issues. A voice from the pews demonstrates that the ordinary believer can ponder the issues, reason, and come to smart conclusions on many of the questions that we all face at some time or the other in our lives. Many believers find themselves challenged at some point, dealing with the tough questions that sometimes fog their minds. They feel overwhelmed, inadequate to deal with these matters because they seem to be too heavy. Church leaders are often very busy and they do not always have time to answer some of the questions the average church goer has. The book does not pretend to be what it is not. It is not a scholastic work from an erudite academic. It presents the thoughts of an ordinary guy giving a sense making taking on the issues about which he writes. The hope is that others sitting in the pews could be inspired by a fellow pew member who has a deep passion to learn more of the things of God. It is meant to show that with a little self application, a desire to go beyond the surface, and a commitment to learn, anyone sitting in the pews can find a voice that adds value to the conversation.

Blood Stained Pews

Author : Carl Kuhl
Publisher : FEDD
ISBN 13 : 1949784908
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Blood Stained Pews written by Carl Kuhl and published by FEDD. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the church became more than a home for the hypocrites? What if the church became a hospital to heal the hurting? When the carnage of war broke out on D-Day, the wounded were brought to an empty, nearby church and laid on the pews so medics could treat them. When the war was over, and the blood-stained pews discovered, the townspeople decided to preserve the stains to remind all who would come afterward: This is the place where the wounded are welcome. Blood Stained Pews is a chance to examine Jesus’ original intent for the church, a hospital for the broken. Pastor and author Carl Kuhl is clear: Christians have been getting this wrong, but in this book, he gives clear steps to change our hearts, our practices, and ultimately our churches through the power of open brokenness. Through personal stories and powerful insights, Carl implores us to more deeply consider God’s grace and turn our churches into the places people run to when they’re wounded.

Springing from the Pews

Author : Day Mattar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913642488
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Springing from the Pews written by Day Mattar and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Day Mattar's Springing from the Pews is an explosive pamphlet which explores an episode of sexual violence through a verse play interwoven with confessions and journal entries. Mattar's poetry is eloquent, with a dark intensity underlying the sugary surface, with echoes of Frank O'Hara and Sharon Olds. A breathtaking read, Mattar's splenetic energy gushes out like water from a fire hydrant.

Empty the Pews

Author : Chrissy Stroop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946093073
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Empty the Pews written by Chrissy Stroop and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Witchcraft in the Pews

Author : George Bloomer
Publisher : Whitaker House
ISBN 13 : 1603746625
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft in the Pews written by George Bloomer and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deception, witchcraft, and occult practices reign worldwide—and these evils have even infiltrated the Christian church! So, fasten your seatbelt as you read the most provocative book of our time, in which you will learn to recognize: Ministers who use intimidation and fear Controlling power in families Spiritual discernment and its many uses Manipulative media techniques Distractions coming from Satan It's time to take a stand and engage in spiritual warfare. Bishop Bloomer shows how to prevent others from unfairly taking advantage of you.

Pagans in the Pews

Author : Peter Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780830727988
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Pagans in the Pews written by Peter Jones and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straightforward discussion about how the new spirituality, or paganism, is creeping into the Church, & how to stand firm in Biblical Christianity.

Questions and Answers from the Justice of the Peace

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Questions and Answers from the Justice of the Peace written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Parenting in the Pew

Author : Robbie F. Castleman
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830866477
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Parenting in the Pew written by Robbie F. Castleman and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this upbeat book Robbie Castleman shows parents how to guide their toddlers and teenagers to participate more fully in the worship of the church. This significantly revised and updated edition includes a new preface and new appendices with ideas for children's sermons and intergenerational community.

The Devil in Pew Number Seven

Author : Rebecca Nichols Alonzo
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414338295
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The Devil in Pew Number Seven written by Rebecca Nichols Alonzo and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Retailers Choice Award winner! Rebecca never felt safe as a child. In 1969, her father, Robert Nichols, moved to Sellerstown, North Carolina, to serve as a pastor. There he found a small community eager to welcome him—with one exception. Glaring at him from pew number seven was a man obsessed with controlling the church. Determined to get rid of anyone who stood in his way, he unleashed a plan of terror that was more devastating and violent than the Nichols family could have ever imagined. Refusing to be driven away by acts of intimidation, Rebecca’s father stood his ground until one night when an armed man walked into the family’s kitchen . . . And Rebecca’s life was shattered. If anyone had a reason to harbor hatred and seek personal revenge, it would be Rebecca. Yet The Devil in Pew Number Seven tells a different story. It is the amazing true saga of relentless persecution, one family’s faith and courage in the face of it, and a daughter whose parents taught her the power of forgiveness.

Why Do We Have to Be So Quiet in Church?

Author : Clare Simpson
Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9781640604513
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Why Do We Have to Be So Quiet in Church? written by Clare Simpson and published by Paraclete Press (MA). This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wiggly kids may have this book in church! This fun book is meant to accompany a child to church - or sit in the pews waiting for him or her. Exploring questions young children naturally have, the answers are both educational and entertaining, such as: Why do we have to be so quiet in church? Does God hear me when I sing? Why do we say "Amen" at the end of everything? Does God like it when I kneel or bow my head? What does God look like? Does God remember my Baptism? Can God see me, no matter where I go or what I do? Does God see me when I do something wrong? Does God really forgive my sins?