Church - General

Evangelical. Sacramental. Pentecostal. Christian communities tend to identify with one of these labels over the other two. Evangelical churches em...

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4,000 years ago, a momentous meal took place

A new introduction to the rebel rabbi named Jesus.

Unique insights from an atheist's Sunday-morning odyssey When Hemant Mehta was a teenager he stopped believing in God, but he never lost his...

Silence is Shusaku EndoÆs most highly acclaimed novel. It is the story of an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest, Father Sebastian Rodrigues, who ...

During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has focused on renewing the church as an instrument of social change...

According to  The Book of Discipline , Wesley believed that the "living core of the Christian faith" is revealed in Scripture, illumined by traditi...

A helpful theological rethinking of the ministry of the church in and with the world in light of various forces that create despair. Where is God p...

Why the small- to mid-sized church remains God's best means to make disciples of Jesus Christ Dizzying changes have taken place in American religio...

Argues that the church must re-envision its sense of vocation and mission for the world Drawn from the Twelfth Oxford Institute of Methodist Theolo...

God wants to do a new thing in the African American Church. Author, Douglas Powe suggests that the African American church, while once the bedrock ...

An upgrade to the ground-breaking book that has shown thousands of congregations how to overcome the destructive attitudes and systems that prevent...

How can the church respond to the divisions within society that leave many persons marginalized? This book refocuses our notions of what mission is...

What decisions must be made now if The United Methodist Church is to have a future? Few would argue that many challenges face The United Methodist ...

Dudley's work in  Making the Small Church Effective  (1978) broke new ground in understanding the dynamics of life in the small congregation. In th...

Many in our day think that it is no longer possible to have big, strong, vital, influential, mission-minded downtown congregations. Those who predi...

Abingdon Press is pleased to offer  Daughters of Imani: Christian Rites of Passage for African American Young Women  by Rev. Richelle White, the cr...

A leading Christian educator offers a practical guide for revisioning a church's educational program. After identifying the weaknesses in current e...

Whether your church is healthy or struggling, the biblical principles in this book point the way to greater spiritual vitality. A pastor, seminary ...

Come Into the Light is an illustrated handbook for understanding the architecture of a church and the arrangement of its interior for the celebrati...

In studying the book of Titus, John Benton deals with the problem of how the modern world affects, almost unconsciously, the way we think. Many of ...

Flavell’s fascinating look at the love feast, a ‘lost’ meal, explores its extensive history and extols its wonders in an inspirational call to revi...

In the words of Michael Forster himself, ‘As churches, we can offer no greater gift to others … than the experience of truly being heard, valued an...

What you don’t know can kill you. A church can be a dangerous place. The perils may be so obvious, they become “elephants” standing in the fellowsh...

As the church continues to hear and heed Christ's call to reflect the multiethnic character of his people, pastors and lay leaders need to gain ski...

This practical guide will help you identify your church's strengths and weaknesses, discovering what action to take to improve its health. Focusin...

This book has been written to help churches find a way of having a ministry among the local children, even if they have no children or very few at ...

In a time when churches across denominations face a steady decline in attendance, smaller congregations often find themselves overshadowed by the p...

With his trademark reverence and revelry, The Revd. Fergus Butler-Gallie travels through time and place to get to the heart of the religion he is s...

Jesus commanded his disciples to love one another. It's a simple command to understand, but very difficult to obey. And in the local church, it som...

Most Christians think they know what makes people tick. But do they? If the truth be told, this is often more anecdotal than factual. Are the unchu...

Perhaps no other doctrine has more tangible impact on Christians than their doctrine of the church. In a cultural climate where the very word 'chur...

In a society whose moral fabric is rent can the church recover its moral character enough to make a difference? This compelling critique of the inf...