The Answer To Bad Religion Is Not No Religion Leader S Guide

Author : Martin Thielen,Jessica Miller Kelly
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664259600

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The Answer to Bad Religion Is Not No Religion- -Leader's Guide by Martin Thielen,Jessica Miller Kelly Pdf

Perfect for group study, the leader's guide provides everything needed to facilitate sessions and provide options based on the time and style of each group. If you think the only logical response to bad Christianity is to leave Christianity completely, this book is for you. In an effort to help those who’ve been hurt by or turned off by negative religion, Martin Thielen explains that there is an alternative to abandoning religion: good religion. Thielen uses personal stories to illustrate the dangers of religion that is judgmental, anti-intellectual, and legalistic. While addressing the growth of the new atheism movement and the “Nones” (people that have no religious affiliation), this book argues that leaving religion is not practical, not helpful, and not necessary. Thielen provides counterparts to the characteristics of bad religion, explaining that good religion is grace-filled, promotes love and forgiveness, and is inclusive and hope-filled. This study is perfect for individual, group, or congregational study.

Author : Martin Thielen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-26
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 0664259618

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The Answer to Bad Religion Is Not No Religion - Worship and Outreach Kit by Martin Thielen Pdf

If you think the only logical response to bad Christianity is to leave Christianity completely, this book is for you. In an effort to help those who've been hurt by or turned off by negative religion, Martin Thielen explains that there is an alternative to abandoning religion: good religion. Thielen uses personal stories to illustrate the dangers of religion that is judgmental, anti­intellectual, and legalistic. While addressing the growth of the new atheism movement and the "Nones" (people that have no religious affiliation), this book argues that leaving religion is not practical, not helpful, and not necessary. Thielen provides counterparts to the characteristics of bad religion, explaining that good religion is grace­filled, promotes love and forgiveness, and is inclusive and hope­filled. Perfect for individual, group, or congregational study, a Leader's Guide and a Worship and Outreach Kit are also available to further the discussion and increase community involvement.

Author : Martin Thielen
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611643756

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The Answer to Bad Religion Is Not No Religion- -Leader's Guide by Martin Thielen Pdf

In an effort to help those who've been hurt by or turned off by negative religion, Martin Thielen explains that there is an alternative to abandoning religion: good religion. Perfect for group study, the leader's guide provides everything needed to facilitate sessions and provide options based on the time and style of each group.

Author : Martin Thielen
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611643749

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The Answer to Bad Religion Is Not No Religion by Martin Thielen Pdf

If you think the only logical response to bad Christianity is to leave Christianity completely, this book is for you. In an effort to help those who've been hurt by or turned off by negative religion, Martin Thielen explains that there is an alternative to abandoning religion: good religion. Thielen uses personal stories to illustrate the dangers of religion that is judgmental, anti-intellectual, and legalistic. While addressing the growth of the new atheism movement and the "Nones" (people that have no religious affiliation), this book argues that leaving religion is not practical, not helpful, and not necessary. Thielen provides counterparts to the characteristics of bad religion, explaining that good religion is grace-filled, promotes love and forgiveness, and is inclusive and hope-filled. Perfect for individual, group, or congregational study, a Leader's Guide and a Worship and Outreach Kit are also available to further the discussion and increase community involvement.

Author : Martin Thielen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664239381

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What's the Least I Can Believe and Still be a Christian? by Martin Thielen Pdf

Pastor and author Martin Thielen has compiled a list of ten things people need to believe, and ten things they don't, in order to be a Christian. This lively and engaging book will be a help to seekers as well as a comfort to believers who may find themselves questioning some of the assumptions they grew up with. With an accessible, storytelling style that's grounded in solid biblical scholarship, Thielen shows how Christians don't need to believe that sinners will be "left behind" to burn in hell or that it's heresy to believe in evolution. And while we must always take the Bible seriously, we don't always have to take it literally. At the same time, Christians do need to believe in Jesus--his life, his teachings, his death and resurrection, and his vision for the world. A great benefit of those beliefs is that they provide promising answers to life's most profound questions, including: Where is God? What matters most? What brings fulfillment? What about suffering? Is there hope? Thielen articulates centrist, mainline Christianity in a way that's fresh and easy to understand, and offers authentic Christian insights that speak to our deepest needs. This new edition includes a leader's guide, previously only available online, and a new introduction from the author that reflects on the book's reception. The leader's guide features unique and easily implemented aids for carrying out a seven-week, congregation-wide initiative that will help local churches reach out to their communities. More information is available at thielen.wjkbooks.com.

Author : Dan Spainhour
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780615172798

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Coach Yourself: A Motivational Guide for Coaches and Leaders by Dan Spainhour Pdf

As coaches and leaders it is easy to focus so much attention on others that we can lose sight of ourselves. Burnout, fatigue, and health issues are all too common occurrences. Coaching can be a tremendous amount of stress, and sometimes if you're not in control of it problems arise. Long hours, poor eating habits, loss of family time are just a few examples that can cause you to become out of balance. This book is about maintaining a healthy balance. I have had the opportunity to observe successful coaches and some not so successful. I know coaches who love their job and some who hate what they do. I've worked with people who were consumed so much that they never took a vacation and others who seemed to be on permanent vacation. Coaches who are in balance and feel good do a better job. The purpose of this collection is to provide you with an instrument to help you maintain proper balance and motivation.

Author : Greg Paul
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781631466670

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Resurrecting Religion by Greg Paul Pdf

There’s lots of bad religion out there. But the answer isn’t no religion, it’s true religion: living out—publicly and communally—what we say we believe privately and individually. True religion puts flesh on the bones of faith. Resurrecting Religion offers an inspiring, stretching vision for finding our way back to the good news of our faith. At a time when most people practice their faith in the extremes—either extremely publicly, with a legalistic, combative tone that creates division, or extremely privately, to the point that our faith becomes functionally irrelevant—award-winning author Greg Paul offers a vision for religion that is good for us and good for the world.

Author : Ross Douthat
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781439178331

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Bad Religion by Ross Douthat Pdf

Traces the decline of Christianity in America since the 1950s, posing controversial arguments about the role of heresy in the nation's downfall while calling for a revival of traditional Christian practices.

Author : Martin Thielen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664236830

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What's the Least I Can Believe and Still be a Christian? by Martin Thielen Pdf

A national worship and preaching consultant offers a provocative look at the core elements of Christian faith, articulating centrist, mainline Christianity in a way that is fresh and easy to understand. Original.

Author : Stephen T. Asma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190469696

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Why We Need Religion by Stephen T. Asma Pdf

How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder and the sublime--we can feel the sacred depths of nature--but there are many forms of human suffering and vulnerability that are beyond the reach of help from science. Different emotional stresses require different kinds of rescue. Unlike secular authors who praise religion's ethical and civilizing function, Asma argues that its core value lies in its emotionally therapeutic power. No theorist of religion has failed to notice the importance of emotions in spiritual and ritual life, but truly systematic research has only recently delivered concrete data on the neurology, psychology, and anthropology of the emotional systems. This very recent "affective turn" has begun to map out a powerful territory of embodied cognition. Why We Need Religion incorporates new data from these affective sciences into the philosophy of religion. It goes on to describe the way in which religion manages those systems--rage, play, lust, care, grief, and so on. Finally, it argues that religion is still the best cultural apparatus for doing this adaptive work. In short, the book is a Darwinian defense of religious emotions and the cultural systems that manage them.

Author : Kevin Davis
Publisher : Secularvoices Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692954260

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Understanding an Atheist by Kevin Davis Pdf

Everyone knows an atheist. You may not know it, but you do. Many atheists are closeted because of the social and familial stigma that comes with being an open atheist in a society full of religious believers. Often referred to as the fastest growing demographic in America, those with no religious affiliation make up about 10-15% of the US population. That means it's likely that 1 out of every 10 people you know either doesn't subscribe to an organized religion or doesn't believe in a supreme being at all. Understanding an Atheist is a book written by Kevin Davis, head writer at SecularVoices.org, a popular blog on the Patheos network. This book was written for anyone who knows a nonbeliever, whether they're open about their beliefs or not. In it, Kevin takes you through his own experiences, raised Catholic, once devout Christian, then closeted atheist, now openly a nonbeliever and active in the atheist/secular community. Through this journey, readers will gain an understanding of what it's like for someone to abandon faith in the supernatural and gravitate toward evidence-based reasoning, ultimately facing the taboo of being a nonbeliever. The purpose of this book is not to tear down religion or the religious, but to answer questions that believers may not yet be comfortable asking their atheist loved ones. Understanding an Atheist will provide some insight into how the mind of an atheist operates, what they stand for, what prejudices they face, and how they feel, surrounded by religion every day.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Free thought
ISBN : WISC:89077082543

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The Radical Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ali A. Rizvi
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781250094452

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The Atheist Muslim by Ali A. Rizvi Pdf

In much of the Muslim world, religion is the central foundation upon which family, community, morality, and identity are built. The inextricable embedment of religion in Muslim culture has forced a new generation of non-believing Muslims to face the heavy costs of abandoning their parents’ religion: disowned by their families, marginalized from their communities, imprisoned, or even sentenced to death by their governments. Struggling to reconcile the Muslim society he was living in as a scientist and physician and the religion he was being raised in, Ali A. Rizvi eventually loses his faith. Discovering that he is not alone, he moves to North America and promises to use his new freedom of speech to represent the voices that are usually quashed before reaching the mainstream media—the Atheist Muslim. In The Atheist Muslim, we follow Rizvi as he finds himself caught between two narrative voices he cannot relate to: extreme Islam and anti-Muslim bigotry in a post-9/11 world. The Atheist Muslim recounts the journey that allows Rizvi to criticize Islam—as one should be able to criticize any set of ideas—without demonizing his entire people. Emotionally and intellectually compelling, his personal story outlines the challenges of modern Islam and the factors that could help lead it toward a substantive, progressive reformation.

Author : Richard Weikart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781621575511

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Hitler's Religion by Richard Weikart Pdf

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Author : Erbey Valdez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1425717004

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101 Tough Christian Questions by Erbey Valdez Pdf

101 Tough Christian Questions is a book for all people from all walks of life. It is a source of guidance for those who are lost and a great support for those who have gained maturity as Christians. 101 Tough Christian Questions looks at 101 of the most common and oft-asked questions that mankind has pondered over history. What about the dinosaurs? Does the Bible give us insight? What is the meaning of life? Can we find the answer in God's Word? Who is God and is there proof of His existence? What will happen to worshippers of other religions? Will they be saved? Why does God allow bad things to happen? Why hasn't God answered my prayers? Is drinking wrong? What about just one? Why doesn't God appear like in the Old Testament? Is the Old Testament outdated? Can you lose your salvation? 101 Tough Christian Questions helps to answer such questions by using the Holy Bible as the sole reference. The Biblical scholar can use this book as a source of key scriptures to related topics, and the "doubting Thomas" can build faith by gaining answers to questions that may have appeared "unanswerable" in the past. Spiritual leaders can use 101 Tough Christian Questions as a handy reference for Biblical verses to help direct new Christians, and churches can use the book as a gift and starting tool for "born again" Christians. Written by Erbey Valdez, a veteran and expert in the field of public education and a lifelong student of God's Ministry, Mr. Valdez realized early on that a guide was needed for those people who sought knowledge in Christ. After struggling with difficult questions as a youth, Erbey Valdez soon realized that there was a need to provide guidance for others by eliminating confusion.101 Tough Christian Questions aims at removing doubt and pessimism from the Christian spirit by addressing questions collected from youth, Bible study students, skeptics and church leaders. 101 Tough Christian Questions is not a religious book; only the Bible is used and referenced in order to demonstrate God's answers.not religious doctrines. Readers will soon find this book easy to share with others no matter what religious affiliation they may belong to. What happens after someone commits to Christ? How does one help others begin their journey as Christians? 101 Tough Christian Questions helps to start someone on their walk with Christ by addressing questions compiled from a diverse group of people including children, new Christians and religious leaders. Simple and easy to read, 101 Tough Christian Questions can be used as a Bible study resource, a bathroom reader, a gift for Christians, or a reference for the Bible student. After studying 101 Tough Christian Questions, readers will feel more confident in their faith, build a stronger relationship with Christ and gain the ability to witness to those who are critical or skeptical of the Christian faith. Readers will have the answers ready at their fingertips and will no longer feel helpless against challengers or nonbelievers. Specific Bible verses that address particular questions will be easy to find and use with this book, but most importantly, readers of 101 Tough Christian Questions will recognize that all of life's answers have always been available to them through the Holy Bible.