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Now Available
Mission Trips That Matter: Embodied Faith for the Sake of the World
By
Don C. Richter
Upper Room Books, February 2008 {ISBN-0835899470}
Explore Christian practices for pondering the body as your group prepares for, engages in, and interprets mission trips and outreach projects. Life in the body is at the heart of Christian faith. What wisdom might the Spirit whisper as mission team members get immunization shots, pack bags, fill water bottles, lace up walking shoes, strap on cameras, and pull out maps for the journey? Focusing on faith practices can shift mission trips from being episodic and event-focused to being woven into the larger fabric of a way of life, weaving human activities into God’s redemptive activity for the sake of the world.
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Practicing
Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People
edited by Dorothy C. Bass
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publisher, Paperback-1998 {ISBN-0787938831}
This book explores twelve central
Christian practices -- shared activities that address
fundamental human needs and that, woven together, form
a way of life that is faithful and has integrity. The
book's thirteen contributors, from diverse denominational
and ethnic backgrounds, explore each practice - such as
honoring the body, forgiving one another, and keeping
Sabbath - by placing it in its historical and biblical
context, reexamining its relevance to our times, and showing
how it gives depth and meaning to daily life.
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A
Song to Sing, A Life to Live: Reflections
on Music as Spiritual Practice
by Don Saliers
and Emily Saliers
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publisher, Hardcover-2005
{ISBN-0787967173}
Church
musician and liturgical theologian Don Saliers
joins with daughter Emily Saliers of Indigo
Girls fame to reflect on the what, the how,
and the why of music as a vital spiritual
dimension of our lives. Don and Emily reflect
on how music shapes our souls in relation
to justice, grief, delight, healing, and hope.
This book bridges two generations, two approaches
to the life of faith, and two genres of music—the
music of Saturday night and Sunday morning.
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Testimony:
Talking Ourselves into Being Christian
by Thomas G. Long
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publisher, Hardcover-2004
{ISBN-0787968323}
In
this groundbreaking book, Tom Long -- a theologian
and respected authority on preaching -- explores
how Christians talk when they are not in
church. Testimony breaks the stained-glass
image of religious language to show how ordinary
talking in our everyday lives -- talking across
the backyard fence, talk with our kids, talk about
politics and the events of the day -- can be sacred
speech. In a world of spin, slick marketing, mindless
chatter, and easy deceptions, Testimony
shows that the hunger for truthful, meaningful,
and compassionate speech is ultimately grounded
in truth about God.
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Honoring
the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice
by Stephanie Paulsell
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publisher, Hardcover-2002 {ISBN-078794856X},
Paperback-2003 {ISBN-0787967572}
This winsome book offers readers a
much-needed guide for cherishing the human body and countering
the corrosive cultural messages that prevent us from knowing
that we are children of God in our bodies as in our spirits.
Written for anyone who has struggled with weight gain and
loss, body image, illness, birth and death, Honoring the
Body does more than help us cope with these issues - it
helps us enrich our practice of faith. Throughout this book,
the author leads us on a remarkable journey born of gestures
large and small, in ordinary life and in extraordinary circumstances,
in every moment of every day. From Paulsell, we can learn
how to regain a sense of awe and wonder about our bodies
and to cultivate the healing practices that lead to joyful,
mindful, and embodied living.
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Receiving
the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift
of Time
by Dorothy C. Bass
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publisher, Paperback-2001
{ISBN-0787956473}
For busy people who see time
as an adversary to be managed, manipulated, and controlled,
this book provides a fresh vision of time as a gift
from God, waiting to be unwrapped and savored with
true presence and delight.
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Practicing Theology:
Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life
edited by Miroslav
Volf and Dorothy C. Bass
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing
Company,
Paperback-2002 {ISBN-0802849318}
In a time when academic
theology often neglects the lived practices
of the Christian community, this volume seeks
to bring balance to the situation by showing
the dynamic link between the task of theology
and the practices of the Christian life. The
work of thirteen first-rate theologians from
several cultural and Christian perspectives,
these informed and informative essays explore
the relationship between Christian theology
and practice in the daily lives of believers,
in the ministry of Christian communities,
and as a needed focus within Christian education.
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Educating
People Of Faith: Exploring the History
of Jewish and Christian Communities
edited by John
Van Engen, Foreword by Dorothy C. Bass.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing
Company
Paperback-2004 {ISBN-0802849369}
Creates
a vivid portrait of the lived practices
that shaped the faith of Jews and Christians
in synagogues and churches from antiquity
up to the seventeenth century. Rather
than focusing solely on either intellectual
or social life, the authors all use
the concept of “practices”
as they attend to the embodied, contextual
character of religious form.
Contributors:
John C. Cavadini, Anne L. Clark, Lawrence
S. Cunningham, Joseph Goering, Robert
Goldenberg, Stanley Samuel Harakas,
Robert M. Kingdon, Blake Leyerle, Michael
A. Signer, Philip M. Soergel, David
C. Steinmetz, John Van Engen, Lee Palmer
Wandel, Robert Louis Wilken, Elliot
R. Wolfsonation.
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