The nucleus of the church’s vocation is to join the Spirit in giving communion in Christ to others, in the form of new Christian communities, for the benefit of the world. But can the church be a welcome gift?” In Giving the Church leading ecclesiologist Michael Moynagh draws together recent thinking from the worlds of ecclesiology and missiology with significant sociological work on the idea of ‘gift’, to provide a much-needed theological rationale for some of the key missiological and ec...

The first comprehensive textbook on the theology and methodology of Fresh Expressions, one of the most important developments within the contemporary church.

Taking account of the significant developments in practice and thinking around the emerging church, this book will quickly establish itself as a key text for all interested in pioneer ministry, fresh expressions, church planting, church growth and ecclesiology.

The concept of political tourism is new to cultural and postcolonial studies. Nonetheless, it is a concept with major implications for scholarship. Political Tourism and Its Texts looks at the writings of political tourists, travellers who seek solidarity with international political struggles. With reference to the travel writing of, among others, Nancy Cunard, W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, Ernesto Che Guevara, and Salman Rushdie, Maureen Moynagh demonstrates the ways in ...

Christians worldwide are learning new ways to connect their faith to everyday life. Gospel communities are popping up everywhere; in cafes, gyms, tattoo parlours, laundromats. This movement, called Fresh Expressions, is attracting thousands and growing rapidly. With over 120 real-life examples, Michael Moynagh describes easy ways for ordinary Christians to embrace this highly effective approach to local mission. Anyone can do it!

Am Anfang braucht es nur ein paar Freunde, die die Vision teilen, eine neue christliche Gemeinschaft zu gründen "Startup: Kirche" ist der praktische Leitfaden, um eine neue christliche Community mit Menschen zu gründen, die bisher nicht in die Kirche gegangen sind.Beispiele aus dem wirklichen Leben illustrieren Themen wieHören auf den KontextOrganisieren von praktischer Nächstenliebemit den Beteiligten eine Community bildenden christlichen...

Contemporary feminists are used to juggling many different identities at once, balancing affiliations based on race, nation, class, and sexuality. First-wave feminists also negotiated—or failed to negotiate—similar tensions in their international organizing. Using primary documents dating from the abolitionist movement to the Second World War, Maureen Moynagh and Nancy Forestell investigate the tensions inherent in organizing early transnational feminist movements.Documenting F...

This book is the second of a two-volume anthology of primary source documents on feminism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unique in its extensive treatment of the first-wave feminist movement in Canada, it highlights distinct elements of its origins and evolution.The book is organized into thematic rubrics that address key issues, debates, and struggles within the first wave in Canada, as well as international influences and Canadian engagement in transnational net...

"Fresh Expressions of Church": Neue Glaubensgemeinschaften sprießen plötzlich an den ungewöhnlichsten Orten aus dem Boden – in Cafés, Fitnesscentern, Pubs und unter Leuten, die ein gemeinsames Interesse verbindet wie Fahrräder reparieren, filzen oder kochen. Und Christen lernen auf ganz neue Art, ihren Glauben im Alltag zu leben. Michael Moynagh erklärt, was eine Fresh X ist, wie sie funktioniert und warum es sie geben sollte. Er erläutert die Schritte, die man gehen muss, um eine Fresh-X ...

By exploring the life and work of the influential feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir, this book shows how each of us lives within political and social structures that we can--and must--play a part in transforming. It argues that Beauvoir’s careful examination of her own existence can also be understood as a dynamic method for political thinking.As the contributors illustrate, Beauvoir's political thinking proceeds from the bottom up, using examples from individual lives as the bas...