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• As for Me and My House
• Memories of Conversion
• A Good and Faithful Servant
• Shepherding the Flock
• Parting of the Company
• New Wine, Fresh Wineskins
• Mysteries of the Gospel
• To the Ends of the Earth
• When the Day of Pentecost Came
• Defending and Innovating the Faith
• A Race Run.

A shrewd synthesizer, gifted popularizer, and inspiring founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance movement, A.B. Simpson (1843-1919) was enmeshed in the most crucial threads of evangelical Christianity at the turn of the twentieth century. Daryn Henry presents Simpson's life and ministry as a vivid, fascinating, and paradigmatic study in evangelical religious culture, during a time when the conservative wing of the movement has often been overlooked. Simpson's ministry, Henry explains, fused the classic evangelical emphasis on revivalist conversion with the intensification of that sensibility in the quest for the deeper Christian life of holiness. Recovering the practice of divine healing, Simpson emphasized a dynamically empowered and supernaturally animated Christianity that would spill over into nascent Pentecostalism. His encouragement of cross-cultural missions was part of a trend that unleashed the dramatic rise of world Christianity across the Global South. All the while, his Biblical literalism, antagonism to modernist theology, campaigns against evolution, and views on premillennialism, Biblical prophecy, and the role of Israel in the end times made Simpson a precursor of the fundamentalist melees of subsequent decades. From his upbringing in rural Canada and confessional Scottish Presbyterianism, Simpson journeyed into the heart of American evangelicalism revolving around his base in New York City. Against most previous writing on Simpson, Henry's biography presents both continuities and discontinuities in the development of modern interdenominational evangelicalism out of the denominational evangelicalism of the nineteenth century.
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• From the announcement to the resignation of Benedict XVI (February 11-28)
• The see of Peter is vacant (March 1-11)
• The conclave (March 12-13)
• Early signs of a new style of papacy.

• Formative years
• Priest in Charleston
• Advancement in the 1850s
• Slaveholdings
• The war
• Rome mission
• Slavery treatise
• War's end and return home
• Baltimore second plenary
• Reconstruction
• 1870s to his death.

• Formative years
• Priest in Charleston
• Advancement in the 1850s
• Slaveholdings
• The war
• Rome mission
• Slavery treatise
• War's end and return home
• Baltimore second plenary
• Reconstruction
• 1870s to his death.

For many Christians who experience same-sex attraction, reconciling faith and homosexuality is a lonely and painful journey. LOVES GOD, LIKES GIRLS-A MEMOIR is one woman's recollection of her journey, allowing faith to plunge her into deeper discovery of the truth about her sexuality. No other issue has been more divisive in families and in faith communities than homosexuality. Rather than providing "cookie-cutter" answers as to why someone experiences same-sex attraction and how to "make it go away, " Loves God, Likes Girls simply explores one woman's perspective on the multitude of experiences over a lifetime that impact the development of sexuality. Sally Gary's story offers hope and redemption for families torn apart by this issue. Through stories, Sally shares some of the painful and confusing lies she grew up believing about herself that shaped her views of femininity and her ability to form healthy relationships with both men and women. The book emphasizes that those who experience same-sex attraction need safe places to explore questions, to find community, and to grow deeper in relationship with God.

• Foreword by Guzmán Carriquiry Lecour
• Introduction: A Horizon Marked by Profound Contrasts
• At the Origins of a System of Thought: Gaston Fessard and the Theology of "As If"
• Juan Domingo Perón and the Church
• The Unity of Universal and Particular, Center and Periphery: The Lesson of Amelia Podetti
• City of God and Earthly City: The Relevance of Augustine
• The Pueblo Fiel as Theological Source
• A Philosophy of Polarity
• The Society of Jesus as Synthesis of Oppositions
• Jesuits and Dialectical Thought: Przywara, de Lubac, Fessard
• The Dialectical Thomism of Alberto Methol Ferré
• The Theory of Polar Opposition: Bergoglio and Romano Guardini
• Doctoral Thesis on Guardini
• Principles and Polarity: Similarities between Bergoglio and Guardini
• Polar Opposition and the Common Good: Sineidetic Thought
• Power, Nature, Technology: Guardini in Laudato Si'
• Church and Modernity: Methol Ferré and the Catholic Risorgimento in Latin America
• Vatican II as the Overcoming of the Reformation and the Enlightenment
• From Medellín to Puebla: The Latin American Catholic Risorgimento
• Catholicism and Modernity: The Lesson of Augusto Del Noce
• Libertine Atheism and the Critique of the Opulent Society
• A World without Bonds: The Primacy of the Economy in the Era of Globalization
• Globalization and the Latin American Patria Grande: Methol Ferré and Bergoglio
• Pope Benedict XVI's Caritas in Veritate
• Evangelii Gaudium's Critique of Inequality
• At the School of Saint Ignatius: Life as Witness
• Narrative Thought and Theologia Crucis: An Ignatian Tension
• Michel de Certeau's Biography of Peter Faber
• Being and the Unity of the Beautiful, the Good, and the True: Bergoglio and Hans Urs von Balthasar
• Christianity and the Contemporary World
• Mercy and Truth: Amoris Laetitia and the Morenita's Gaze
• Encounter as "Beginning": The New Balance between Kerygma and Morality
• Aparecida: The Christian Style in the Twenty-First Century

A commonly held impression is that Pope Francis is a compassionate shepherd and determined leader but that he lacks the intellectual depth of his recent predecessors. Massimo Borghesi's The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio's Intellectual Journey dismantles that image. Borghesi recounts and analyzes, for the first time, Bergoglio's intellectual formation, exploring the philosophical, theological, and spiritual principles that support the profound vision at the heart of this pope's teaching and ministry. Central to that vision is the church as a coincidentia oppositorum, holding together what might seem to be opposing and irreconcilable realities. Among his guiding lights have been the Jesuit saints Ignatius and Peter Faber; philosophers Gaston Fessard, Romano Guardini, and Alberto Methol Ferrer; and theologians Henri de Lubac and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Recognizing how these various strands have come together to shape the mind and heart of Jorge Mario Bergoglio offers essential insights into who he is and the way he is leading the church. Notably, this groundbreaking book is informed by four interviews provided to the author, via audio recordings, by the pope himself on his own intellectual formation, major portions of which are published here for the first time. -- Provided by publisher.

• Autopsy; Incalculable Territory; [John's Green and Tan Notebook #1]; I Try to Be Myself . . . as Well as; [John's Yellow Notebook #1]; Variations on Desire; [John's Blue Notebook]; Horror Vacui; [John's Green and Tan Notebook #2]; Our Feet Are the Same; [ John's Blue and Tan Notebook]; Denouncing the Xenophobic Country I Still Love; [John's Yellow Notebook #2]; Home Again; Epilogue; Acknowledgments

"T his is not a memoir. Rather, this is a fraternalmeditation on the question` Are we friends, my brother?' The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, the voices are plural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not a memoir." Thus Scott Abbott introduces the reader to his exploration of the life of his brother John, a man who died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of forty. Writing about his brother, he finds he is writing about himself and about the warm-hearted, educated, and homophobic LDS family that forged the core of his identity. Images and quotations are interwoven with the reflections, as is a critical female voice that questions his assertions and ridicules his rhetoric. The book moves from the starkness of a morgue's autopsy through familial disintegration and adult defiance to a culminating fraternal conversation. This exquisitely written work will challenge notions of resolution and wholeness. Winner of the book manuscript prize in creative nonfiction in the Utah Arts Council's Original Writing Competition.
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• 1.Simply Katie: Katharine Drexel's Family Life
• Family Background
• Academic and Religious Education
• Girlhood
• Early Travels
• Coming of Age
• The Deaths of Her Parents
• 2."Make Haste Slowly": The Discernment of a Vocation
• Keeping Spiritual Accounts and Early Religious Impulses
• The Beginning of Discernment
• Crisis in Discernment
• Vocation Acknowledged
• Founding a New Order
• 3.Growth of the Order
• St. Catherine's, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• St. Francis de Sales, Powhatan, Virginia
• St. Michaels, St. Michael's, Arizona
• Immaculate Mother, Nashville, Tennessee
• Xavier University, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Social Justice/Social Action in the 1930s
• The Retirement of Mother Katharine
• By the Numbers: Peak and Decline
• 4.The Kenotic and Eucharistic Spirituality of Katharine Drexel
• Kenotic Spirituality
• Eucharistic Spirituality
• 5.The Pope, the Times, and the Saint: "Be Not Afraid!"
• Signs of the Times
• Pope John Paul II Comes into Dialogue with Katharine Drexel
• Mission and Hope
• 6.A Coda: The Mystery Revealed.

On October 1, 2000, Pope John Paul II proclaimed Katharine Drexel (1858-1955) to be a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Only the second American-born Catholic saint in history, Drexel founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in 1891 and established more than sixty Blessed Sacrament missions and schools. In this biography Cheryl Hughes chronicles the remarkable life of St. Katharine Drexel, exploring what drove her to turn away from her family's wealth and become a missionary nun who served some of the most underprivileged and marginalized people of her time. Through her inspiration and effort "Mother" Katharine improved the lives of untold numbers of Native Americans and African Americans, overcoming open hostility to her work from various quarters, including the Ku Klux Klan. Her saintly legacy lives on today.

• Basel and Strasbourg
• Wibrandis' origins
• With Oecolampadius in Basel
• With Capito in Strasbourg
• With Bucer in Strasbourg
• Years of exile : England
• A widow in Strasbourg and Basel
• Children and grandchildren.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Beginnings: Pearl and DA
• 3. Pearl finds her profession, a husband, and a new family
• 4. Universalism in Indiana
• 5. Two sermons
• 6. Chautauqua days
• 7. The social gospel and Socialism
• 8. Votes for women
• 9. Epilogue.

• Couldn't keep it to myself: removing my mask
• What the Lord has done for me: Black theology and Black power
• You ought to be been there : a Black theology of liberation
• When he put my name on the roll: learning from my critics
• When he saved my soul: learning from my students
• I started walkin' and talkin': the cross and lynching tree
• I started singin' and shoutin': learning from Baldwin.

James Cone is widely regarded as the "father of Black Theology"--his own synthesis of Gospel message embodied by Martin Luther King, Jr., and the black pride of Malcolm X. Next year marks the 50th anniversary of his first book, Black Theology and Black Power. This new work is truly the capstone to that career, showing how he was compelled by events to articulate this theology, how it led to his career at Union and his succession of books--along the way learning from his critics, his students, and the ongoing challenge of his principal models--King, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin.

• Introduction : the forgotten millionaire
• Taking advantage of opportunities and luck
• Not by bread alone
• Some little touch of the divine
• A Jew steps in
• Conclusion : forgetting Julius Rosenwald.

The portrait of a humble retail magnate whose visionary ideas about charitable giving transformed the practice of philanthropy in America and beyond Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) rose from modest means as the son of a peddler to meteoric wealth at the helm of Sears, Roebuck. Yet his most important legacy stands not upon his business acumen but on the pioneering changes he introduced to the practice of philanthropy. While few now recall Rosenwald's name-he refused to have it attached to the buildings, projects, or endowments he supported-his passionate support of Jewish and African American causes continues to influence lives to this day. This biography of Julius Rosenwald explores his attitudes toward his own wealth and his distinct ideas about philanthropy, positing an intimate connection between his Jewish consciousness and his involvement with African Americans. The book shines light on his belief in the importance of giving in the present to make an impact on the future, and on his encouragement of beneficiaries to become partners in community institutions and projects. Rosenwald emerges from the pages as a compassionate man whose generosity and wisdom transformed the practice of philanthropy itself.
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• Intro; Praise; By the Same Author; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword by The Rt Revd Dr Michael Nazir-Ali;
• Chapter 1. An Unusual Beginning;
• Chapter 2. Turbulence;
• Chapter 3. Just Like Heaven;
• Chapter 4. Called by God;
• Chapter 5. The Academic Hothouse;
• Chapter 6. A Prophetic Word;
• Chapter 7. Life-defining Events;
• Chapter 8. A New Life;
• Chapter 9. Several Landmarks;
• Chapter 10. Sent to Coventry;
• Chapter 11. To the Middle East;
• Chapter 12. Return to Iraq;
• Chapter 13. The Road to Alexandria;
• Chapter 14. Relief and Reconciliation Go Hand in Hand

• Chapter 15. Back to Coventry
• Chapter 16. Brought Back to Life;
• Chapter 17. An Oasis of Healing;
• Chapter 18. Don't Take Care; Take Risks;
• Chapter 19. A Normal Day;
• Chapter 20. The Bigger Picture;
• Chapter 21. My Choice;
• Chapter 22. Very Special People; Afterword Tariq Aziz; Epilogue Late Fragment; Picture Section

Andrew White is something of a legend: a man of great charm and energy, whose personal suffering has not deflected him from his role as one of the world's most trusted mediators and reconcilers. As a child and young man growing up in London Andrew was frequently ill. He set his heart on working in the field of anaesthetics, an ambition he achieved, but later found himself called into Anglican ministry. He has since had a considerable role in the work of reconciliation, both between Christian and Jew and between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim. As Vicar of St George's Baghdad, the only Anglican church in Iraq, he leads a team providing food, health care, and education on a major scale and often in dire circumstances. Despite the pain from multiple sclerosis, he has nevertheless been able to mediate between opposing extremes. He is frequently involved in hostage negotiations, and played a key role in ending the siege at the Church of the Nativity in Jerusalem. His personal friendships have included Yasser Arafat and Pope John Paul II. He has been kidnapped, lives in constant danger, and ISIS is a growing threat. He is trusted by those who trust very few.
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• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part One: Formation; 1 Pain: Truth is, your identity can get you into hot water; 2 Grace: Truth is, women are the unsung heroes in this world; 3 Community: Truth is, there is no place like home; 4 Purpose: Truth is, winners don't quit on themselves; Part Two: History; 5 Consciousness: Truth is, it's time to wake up; 6 Deliverance: Truth is, freedom comes to those who demand it; 7 Trust: Truth is, we have a money problem; Part Three: Wilderness; 8 Anger: Truth is, there's something that can kill you

• 9 Death: Truth is, remembering can bring us together10 Humility: Truth is, there is hope worth holding on to; 11 War: Truth is, we must prepare to fight; Part Four: Redemption; 12 Live: Truth is, we can find a way out of the wilderness; 13 Build: Truth is, you need the right people and perspective; 14 Heal: Truth is, love will lead us home; 15 Light: Truth is, beauty can come from ashes; 16 Home: Truth is, we need courage to live redeemed; Benediction; Acknowledgments; Notes; Praise for A Sojourner's Truth; About the Author; Leadership LINKS, Inc.; Missio Alliance

Experience the journey of a young African American girl from South Carolina to the United States Naval Academy, and then into her calling as a speaker, mentor, and thought-leader. Intertwining Natasha Sistrunk Robinson's story with the story of Moses, this prophetic memoir invites you to bring along your story as well-to discover your own identity, purpose, and truth-revealing moments.

• Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by Eugene H. Peterson; Author's Note; 1 Wander as I Wonder; 2 In Want of a Husband; 3 The Binding That Bound Us; 4 If I Knew Then; 5 Needing the Vows; 6 Homeward Crawl; 7 Blessing upon Blessing; 8 All the Miracles; 9 Long Obedience; 10 For Those Who Meant Forever; 11 Flunking Ephesians 4:26; 12 With My Body, I Thee Worship; 13 The Same Choice; 14 Memento Mori; 15 There Is Mercy; 16 The Hem of Joy's Garment; 17 When Justice Rolls Down; 18 Yoked to Another Family; 19 Subject to One Another; 20 Very Married; Epilogue

Katherine Willis Pershey has never slept with the mailman or kissed an ex-boyfriend. Good thing, since she's married. But simply not committing adultery does not give you the keys to "happily ever after, " as Pershey has come to find out in her own marriage and in her work as a pastor. What is this sacred covenant that binds one person to another, and what elements of faith and fidelity sustain it? In Very Married: Field Notes on Love and Fidelity, Pershey opens the book on all things marital. With equal parts humor and intelligence, Pershey speaks frankly about the challenges and consolations of modern marriage. As she shares her own tales of bliss and blunder, temptation and deliverance, Pershey invites readers to commit once again to the joyful and difficult work of cherishing another person. For better or worse. For life. (Publisher).