Mcchurched

Author : Phd Stan Moody,Stan Moody
Publisher : Just Write Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 9780977761449

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McChurched! by Phd Stan Moody,Stan Moody Pdf

In McChurched, Stan Moody tells us of the ?Thousand Points of Light,? a vision that could be bursting from candles of faith flickering from the church for all to see. Moody reflects how little light and how much darkness is being displayed in the influence of this new moralistic wave.Nevertheless, Moody has long believed in a Church in Exile?a community of faithful believers no longer at home in McChurch. Moody calls us to dis-arm?from arms of fear, defense and destruction?to arms of faith. Moody?s message is that in every community in today?s America there are ?A Thousand Tongues of Praise.? He offers this for their encouragement. ?We?ve ordered from the value menu and gorged on the extra-sized full-meal combos. The body of Christ is now bloated, lethargic and spiritually malnourished. Dr. Moody?s McChurched calls the Bride of Christ (the church) back to the lush banquet table overflowing with the fruit of the Spirit. This book is long overdue and should be devoured by all who hunger and thirst after righteousness. Come let us dine.? Karen Horst Cobb ??The Christian Right, having tired of trusting in the power of God to change hearts and nations, intends to override the transcendence of God over the State and replace it with the transcendence of the State over the church.? So says Stan Moody. His McChurched is an accurate refutation of the myth that the U.S. was ?founded on Christian principles? and a vivid demonstration of the basic emptiness of what passes for Christianity these days. At a time of intense debate about the role of religion in public life, Moody?s book could not be more timely.?H. R. Coursen

Author : Ed Young
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780805431773

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The Creative Leader by Ed Young Pdf

Young, who leads one of the ten largest churches in the United States, and his ministry team teach the importance of creativity among visionaries and those who benefit from it, detailing how creative pastors, ministries, and churches are made.

Author : Randall Balmer
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465003716

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Thy Kingdom Come by Randall Balmer Pdf

For much of American history, evangelicalism was aligned with progressive political causes. Nineteenth-century evangelicals fought for the abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, and public education. But contemporary conservative activists have defaulted on this majestic legacy, embracing instead an agenda virtually indistinguishable from the Republican Party platform. Abortion, gay marriage, intelligent design -- the Religious Right is fighting, and winning, some of the most important political battles of the twenty-first century. How has evangelical Christianity become so entrenched in partisan politics? Randall Balmer is both an evangelical Christian and a historian of American religion. Struggling to reconcile the contemporary state of evangelical faith in America with its proud tradition of progressivism, Balmer has headed to the frontlines of some of the most powerful and controversial organizations tied to the Religious Right. With a skillful combination of grassroots organization, ideological conviction, and media savvy, the leaders of the movement have mobilized millions of American evangelical Christians behind George W. Bush's hard-right political agenda. Deftly combining ethnographic research, theological reflections, and historical context, Balmer laments the trivialization of Christianity -- and offers a rallying cry for liberal Christians to reclaim the noble traditions of their faith.

Author : Peter Laarman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807077216

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Getting On Message by Peter Laarman Pdf

In the 2004 election, 80 percent of those who claimed "moral values" was the most important issue affecting their vote cast their ballots for Bush, as did 63 percent of frequent churchgoers. Since then, the Religious Right has continued to cement an association between "Christian" and "moral" values and conservative policies. Getting On Message challenges this association from the very heart of the Christian tradition. These readable and incisive essays use biblical framing to discern the personal and social ethics that truly embody Christian values in the contemporary world. Marilynne Robinson discusses the link between personal holiness and a generous spirit. Garret Keizer looks at the growing wealth/class divide from a Christian perspective. Rev. Heidi Neumark examines hospitality as a core Christian value. Rev. Chloe Breyer explores a justice criterion for women's decisions on abortion. Rev. Bill Sinkford asks what really constitutes a God-approved marriage and family. Getting On Message is a book for clergy, for politically active people of faith, and for progressive organizers and strategists who want to learn how to talk to religious believers about the values they share.

Author : Stan Moody
Publisher : Higherlife Development Service
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 195453311X

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Finding Our Way Home by Stan Moody Pdf

Have We Traded the Power of the Gospel for the American Dream? God is calling His children to live authentic, relevant lives, where the power of the Gospel, the peace, security, wisdom, direction, and joy of a life transformed, become a living witness to those around us. But what happens when we sometimes subtly, even unknowingly, exchange the truth of the Gospel for a pursuit of the American Dream? We like to dress up our desires with Bible verses and Christian sayings, but somewhere along the way, we find ourselves pursuing something other than God's Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. This book provides a wake-up call to devoted Christ-followers to return to the simplicity of the Good News, the saving, transforming power of God to change a life for eternity. Whether you fall on the political left or right, consider yourself conservative or liberal, focus more on grace or works, this book is written to both encourage and challenge you, to stir your soul and perhaps ruffle your feathers. In the end, this is a message that will point you towards spiritual renewal!

Author : Jean Casella,James Ridgeway,Sarah Shourd
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620971383

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Hell Is a Very Small Place by Jean Casella,James Ridgeway,Sarah Shourd Pdf

“An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books). On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Now, in a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe the devastating effects of isolation on their minds and bodies, the solidarity expressed between individuals who live side by side for years without ever meeting one another face to face, the ever-present specters of madness and suicide, and the struggle to maintain hope and humanity. As Chelsea Manning wrote from her own solitary confinement cell, “The personal accounts by prisoners are some of the most disturbing that I have ever read.” These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement. “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day, for months, sometimes for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. That’s not going to make us stronger.” —President Barack Obama “Elegant but harrowing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Peter Moore
Publisher : Bristol House Limited
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0917851765

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A Church to Believe in by Peter Moore Pdf

Author : Wilbert Rideau
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781847654649

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In the Place of Justice by Wilbert Rideau Pdf

In 1961, young, black, eighth-grade dropout Wilbert Rideau despaired of his small-town future in the segregated deep south of America. He set out to rob the local bank and after a bungled robbery he killed the bank teller, a fifty-year-old white female. He was arrested and gave a full confession. When we meet Rideau he has just been sentenced to death row, from where he embarks on an extraordinary journey. He is imprisoned at Angola, the most violent prison in America, where brutality, sexual slavery and local politics confine prisoners in ways that bars alone cannot. Yet Rideau breaks through all this and finds hope and meaning, becoming editor of the prison magazine, going on to win national journalism awards. Full of gritty realism and potent in its evocation of a life condemned, Rideau goes far beyond the traditional prison memoir and reveals an emotionally wrought and magical conclusion to his forty-four years in prison.

Author : Stan Moody
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1449789056

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Let My People Go! by Stan Moody Pdf

The judgment scene in Matthew 25 is a call for believers in Jesus Christ to get out of our clubhouses and onto the streets, where the "least of these my brothers" (v.40) may be found. Let My People Go is a twelve-step invitation to our American church culture to examine what we are supposed to be doing as Christians, what we are doing, and whether what we are doing is standing in the way of what we are supposed to be doing. The man who deeply affected author Stan Moody as a Christian was a brilliant, sixty-four-year-old convicted sex offender by the name of Sheldon Weinstein. On April 24, 2009, Shelly died in solitary confinement at Maine State Prison of a ruptured spleen about an hour after Moody requested toilet paper for him. Moody has chronicled his death in a narrative titled "Death in B117." With America now boasting 25 percent of the world's prisoners, the last vestige of hope for these discarded citizens in our jails and prisons and on our streets is a faith community now facing declining membership and shrinking revenues. Poverty and homelessness has at last come home; how we respond to it is a reflection of the seriousness of our faith.

Author : Monica Hayes
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798676015091

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Pure Pleasure by Monica Hayes Pdf

Pure Pleasure references fantasies that are missing the formality of partners' names, safe sex practices, and the dynamics of relationships because the book focuses more on creativity and spontaneity. Pure Pleasure creates an environment that stirres the imagination and encourages permission to experiment and enjoy great sex. "Nasty" really can be wonderful in this context.

Author : Colleen June Glatzel
Publisher : Rogue Phoenix Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781624203329

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Hey, Joey Journal by Colleen June Glatzel Pdf

After the psychologically scarring death of her father, wild child Rosie Dwyer is introduced to journal keeping. She initially considers this writing form to be cliché. Before the death, Rosie valued chaos and rebellion- from “protest-peeing” in class to shoving a Twinkie in a classmate’s eye. However, once Rosie gives into this mode of writing, a cathartic obsession begins. Her entries often focus on her childhood enemy, Logan Fields, after he becomes Rosie’s permanent peer editor in creative writing class. While Rosie loses touch with both loved ones and reality, an unlikely friendship builds between her and Logan. Together, they must try to find the meaning behind insanity--in the school theatre, in the public library, and in the middle of a false Apocalypse.

Author : Alice Benson
Publisher : Black Rose Writing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684333349

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A Year in Her Life by Alice Benson Pdf

Bonnie is a young woman, engaged and passionate about her new job, her feminist ideals, and her friends. Bonnie is also single and looking for a soulmate. Her last boyfriend dumped her after she supported him through law school. Her new boyfriend is nice, but a little boring and they’re not attuned politically. Then Bonnie meets Jane. She’s a little older, experienced, and compelling. They share a commitment to feminism and social justice. Unfortunately, Jane is married. Still, Bonnie finds her attraction growing. She denies it because Jane is off limits, but Bonnie is compelled and sure the attraction is mutual. Set in 2016, the election is a backdrop to Bonnie’s turbulent year of searching for love. This is a story of growth and maturation told in a voice that grows from timid to hopeful to confident and explores the complexity of relationships as well as themes relevent to the current times.

Author : Jim Landwehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948278286

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Cretin Boy by Jim Landwehr Pdf

Cretin High School, located in Saint Paul, Minnesota was a Catholic, all-male, military academy that brought unique twists to the already difficult high school experience. Cretin Boys, as they were called, were subject to the oppression of both church and state as they navigated the diverse teaching styles of Christian Brothers, military instructors, and lay teachers. Cretin Boy looks at those menial first jobs, takes you dancing with a girl at that first high school formal, and peels down the street in a Corvette-on-loan with a teen at the wheel. It is a coming of age story with a military dress code, a coming to faith story while smoking in the boy's room. What people are saying about Cretin Boy "Jim Landwehr never disappoints, and Cretin Boy is no exception. This often times hilarious, just as often poignant, journey captures the nostalgia of the late 1970s and mingles it with timeless examples of how every young person strives to reach adulthood. Landwehr captures what makes us human at our weakest and at our best, in a way that touches on the divine beauty of truth. A must read for your emotional journey, Cretin Boy will leave you deeply moved, and smiling." --Summer Hanford, national and international Amazon best-selling author "A B-minus GPA from an all-male Catholic Military High School named Cretin doesn't tell the whole story. With humor and insight, Jim Landwehr, shares his ups and downs of dealing with high school. Not only that, he shares how those experiences shaped him in ways even better grades couldn't have." --Bill Mathis, author of Revenge is Necessary, The Rooming House Gallery, The Rooming House Diaries, and Face Your Fears. "Military discipline and religious doctrine drilled into the cadets of Cretin High each day leads the author down the traditional path to self. At the same time, testosterone, teen angst and the hedonistic pop culture of the 1970's bombard him with endless distraction. Ironic twists of the adolescent free-fall towards adulthood abound. Looking for a slice-of-life story that nails the All-American Experience with humor, drama, pathos, tension and struggle? I recommend Cretin Boy!" --Robert Goswitz, author of The Dragon Soldier's Good Fortune.

Author : Kathie Giorgio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646622383

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No Matter Which Way You Look, There Is More to See by Kathie Giorgio Pdf

This full-life collection includes poems nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net awards, and poems on exhibition or performed on stage. The reader experiences the phases of a romantic relationship, plus motherhood, cancer, and living with nature.

Author : Carrie Newberry
Publisher : EDGE-Lite
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770531543

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Pick Your Teeth With My Bones by Carrie Newberry Pdf

Part wolf, part human, part rush hour twelve car pileup... Kellan is a shape-shifter and a member of a secret society, the Sankhain, who protect a fountain of youth hidden in an invisible forest outside Madison, Wisconsin. When a stranger asks Kellan for her help with some documents, documents which shouldn’t exist, about the Sankhain, Kellan uses her unique sense of smell to follow the trail, which leads to the very heart of the Sankhain. What Kellan uncovers will shake her world to its core.