2025 Christianity Today **Book Award Winner, Politics and Public LifeEvangelicals are choosing heresy**Evangelicals fight for a place at the table, but we are in danger of losing our house. The church has become consumed by politics--political priorities and allegiances. Christian brothers and sisters have become opponents. We are no longer united by shared faith, but divided by shared heresy.When Politics Becomes Heres...

Death will strike your congregation. Are you ready? Are they?Death has become a four-letter word. Whereas in previous generations, the practice of memento mori ("remember death") was embedded in family life, people today have found ways to distance themselves from death. As Western culture becomes increasingly more secular, the Christian understanding of death and the funeral appear more and more strange.Fear of death affects us all, and so pastors have significant...

American Sean Mahoney's life is dull. On a whim he enters a contest to win a pub in Ireland. Travel to the home of his ancestors, flips his world upside down. Death cloaked coffins of pine and mahogany are spirited away by a sacred ruby cross necklace and a beautiful heroine. The worlds of past and present collide introducing villains, kidnappers,pirates and romance. Ultimately its the year 1907, an unsolved robbery, and the answer to: Who stole the Irish Crown Jewels from Dublin Castle?

An exploration of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as a model disciple and a Lenten devotional on faith.But in Blessed Is She, Timothy Perry presents a Mary who belongs in Lent as much as in Advent, who shows what it means to die and live with the crucified and risen Jesus. Drawing primarily from the Gospel of Luke, this lovely book of devotions sketches a Lenten Mary who teaches us about being disciples. The result is a complex, inviting, strong character a dis...

This volume provides a concise, nontechnical historical introduction to the church's thinking about Mary, the mother of Jesus. The first part of the book sketches the development of Marian thought from the second century to the twentieth century. The second part contains an annotated bibliography of the most important and accessible English-language works on Mary.Tim Perry, an evangelical Anglican priest, and Daniel Kendall, a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, have joined across the Ref...

What God wants his people to know about the end timesChristians' fixation on the end times is not new. While eschatological speculation has sometimes resulted in distraction or despair, Scripture does speak about the end. So what does God most want us to know and do with prophecy?After Dispensationalism sympathetically yet critically sketches the history, beliefs, and concerns of dispensationalism. Though a minority view in the sweep of church hist...

A chilling vampire horror anthology featuring original short stories from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors—including Charlaine Harris (whose novels inspired HBO’s True Blood) and Scott Smith, in his first published fiction since The Ruins.Before vampires became romantic antiheroes, they were creatures of shadow and blood. In this terrifying collection, some of the biggest names in horror and dark fantasy restore the va...

Effective classroom management is an essential skill for teachers and student teachers alike. Packed full of practical examples and evidence-informed guidance, this book offers a comprehensive approach to classroom management that emphasises the importance of building positive teacher-student relationships and fostering a supportive classroom climate that promotes student well-being, engagement, and learning.Drawing from interpersonal theory, 40 years of research in the field, and ...

Vierter Band des amerikanischen Standardwerks zu traditionellem Bogenbau. Band 4 dokumentiert, welche Qualität der wiederentdeckte Holzbogenbau mittlerweile erreicht hat. Die konzentrierten Erkenntnisse der letzten 15 Jahre ermöglichen Anfängern im Bogenbau einen erfolgreichen Erstlingsbogen, und bieten den Fortgeschrittenen detailliertes Wissen über Bogendesign, Bogenholz und die Prinzipien um höchste Leistung bei einem Bogen zu erzielen Inhalt: Bogenholz, Heißbehandelte Bögen, Ein Bogen ...

Religion und Moderne Herausgegeben von Thomas Großbölting, Detlef Pollack, Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger und Ulrich Willems Die Debatten zur »religiösen Pluralität« sind meist von der Annahme getragen, dass die Vielfalt von Religionen ein spezifisch modernes Phänomen ist. Historische Forschungen fördern gleichwohl ein anderes Bild zutage: Religiöse Pluralität erscheint darin nicht als ein Novum der Religionsgeschichte. Wie aber unterscheidet sich die Wirklichkeit religiöser Pluralität in der ...

More than a biography, this book is an exploration of ambition, transformation, and the discipline of staying relevant in a changing world. From uncertain beginnings to global recognition, *KATY PERRY: Reinvention, Pop Stardom, and the Strategy Behind Staying Relevant* traces the evolution of one of modern pop culture's most recognizable figures. Through success, public expectations, reinvention, and expansion beyond music, this book examines the choices, pressures, and mindset behind sust...

Ghosts walk in the open and infidelities are conducted in plain sight. Two teenagers walk along a perfect beach in the anticipation of a first kiss. Time stops for nothing – not even for death. Sometimes time cracks, disrupting a fragile equilibrium. The stories are peopled with locals and incomers, sailors and land dwellers; a diver searches the deep for what she has lost, and forbidden lovers meet in secret places. Throughout, the writers' words reveal a love of the inco...