Constructive conversations about current-day theological educationWhen people talk about how to navigate the changing landscape of theological education, it's common to hear divergent opinions. What's less common is meaningful dialogue. That's what makes At This Time unique: it brings diverse thinkers together to engage in constructive conversations about the meanings and purposes of theological education today.Contributors to At This Time...

Tony Spagnoly and Ted Smith's Salient Points One collects obscure stories of soldiers, their units, and the actions they engaged in during World War I.Introduction by Jonathan NichollsCompiled together with stories of other points of interest along the old Western Front, each account in this unique history book about life in the Ypres Sector between 1914–1918 is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as...

The prevalence of hidden disabilities and conditions cannot be underestimated: in the UK, one in five people have a disability, and eighty per cent of these disabilities are not obvious to others. Through conversations with volunteer interviewees, this book highlights the wide range of hidden disabilities and conditions that exist in the workplace, and suggests appropriate accommodations that organisations can make to help their employees play a full part in society.Ted Smith is th...

Another group of stories in the Salient Points series. A collection of stories of men, their units and the actions they took part in during the conflict of 1914–1918, together with stories other points of interest along the old Western Front. Each story is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today. The content feature-titles are: The Black Watch; Lord Worsley at Zandvoorde; The 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers at Zandvoorde; The Worc...

The West African diamond mining industry makes a good setting for this adventure mystery.Nigel Ballantyne works for the diamond mining company, WADMINCO. His job is to stop the rampant illegal digging of diamonds which goes on in the WADMINCO lease area. But he finds this is difficult in the pervading political climate.Some of the illegal miners are financed by a shadowy figure known as Mama Sia. Nigel swears he will close her operations down.But as the story unfold...

Aimed at ambitious, mid-level Human Resources and OD people, this book is full of practical tips and tricks to move from being a good HR person, to being great. Ted gives insights into the various ways that you can influence others, get change accepted, and make things happen in your organisation. Everything is tried and tested, and better still, Ted offers extra support, beyond the book, to anyone who contacts him through LinkedIn, where he runs a regular Dear Ted blog, based on questions...

Since 2016, World Impact has equipped and coached hundreds of church plant teams to create a strategy for their unique ministry contexts internationally and in the United States. The Church PLANT Manual is the equipping resource of the Evangel School of Urban Church Planting.This principle-based resource is designed to assist church plant teams to develop a strategic plan for their specific context and needs, whether they are planting a new church, preparing to re-plant (restart, r...

Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA ; R Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery and eventual burial of a Lancashire Fuslier who was killed in action in 1914; the research leading to the erection in 2002 of a 'Believed to be buried' headstone in the Strand cemetery of a...

Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality brings together a diverse group of scholars, activists and public intellectuals to consider one of the most pressing issues of our time: increasing inequalities of income and wealth that grate against justice and erode the bonds that hold society together. The contributors think through different religious traditions to understand and address inequality. They make practical proposals in relation to concrete situations like mass incarceration and s...

How to envision theological education in this time between the times  The dominant model of theological education is coming to an end—but Ted A. Smith looks to its ultimate ends as sources of hope and renewal.  Smith locates the crisis facing theological education today in a sweeping history of religion in the United States, from the standing orders of the colonial period to the voluntary associations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. H...

The third in the series of a collection of stories about the men the actions and the places of interest for the battlefield visitor to the old Western Front. This book features:- A Soldier for a Year (Private David Ross); - A Very British Grenadier (Captain Pixley); - An Artist at War (Ernest Carlos); - Into Battle - Julian of the Ard Ead Julian Grenfell); - Adolf Hitler at Ypres; - Michael OLeary V.C. The Wild Colonial Boy; - No Prisoners for The Dorsets (The Dorsetshire Regiment at Hill ...

Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit. He brings this argument to life—and dig...