Most pastors become pastors because of their love for people—not for spreadsheets. But in order to love people well, pastors and church leaders must be able to manage their ministries responsibly.In Managing the Ministry: A Practical Guide for Church Administration, Jody Dean provides an up-to-date and accessible guide to church operations. He covers essential topics such as:How to manage property, programs, and peopleChallenges of workflow, generat...

Church Administration has given churches in religious nonprofits a guide to the business of ministry. Filled with practical advice that has been trusted for nearly a decade, the second edition of Church Administration has provided practical information that has assisted churches and organizations in the practical decision-making that allows the organization to flourish for years to come.In the post-Covid world, church administration has changed drastically from th...

In Together We Equip, you will discover the biblical foundation for equipping others. Equipping others in ministry is a process you bring with you as the leader! Its both personal and public. Its you as an individual and your church. This book will challenge you to take responsibility to grow spiritually, engage the culture, and share the gospel. Further, you will discover the impact of discipleship in the local church by examining mentoring small groups and preaching as relevant means to ...

Between mass participation in two world wars and mass participation in Communist parties, in the 20th century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as 'comrade'. Now, it's more common to hear talk of 'allies' on the left than it is of comrades. In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem with the contemporary left: the substitution of political identity for a relation of political belonging that must be built, sustained, and defende...

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR* Cranky Goblin Cooks* Unscrupulous Chemists* Lecherous Space Pirates* Disagreeable Alien Symbiotes* Soul-Searching Snot ElementalsThe Unidentified Funny Objects series serves an annual dose of funny. zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! Our sixth volume features a Mad Amos story by Alan Dean Foster, a Harry the Book tale by Mike Resnick, and an Alexande...

Bringing together analyses from different fields-law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis-Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism. Feudalism isn't just a metaphor. It's the operating system for the present. Politics and plunder thrive in the capitalist pursuit of profit, and the many are bound to serve the few, coerced into a system of rents, destruction, and hoarding driven by privilege and dependence.The question is: In a society of serfs...

Jodi Dean schreibt die bislang fehlende Theorie des Genossen und greift dabei auf viele kulturelle und historische Beispiele zurück, von Zetkin bis Obama, von Lubitsch bis Sartre. Sie ruft die Linken auf, die Möglichkeit spontaner, unorganisierter Veränderung aus dem Alltag heraus nicht zu überschätzen. Denn nur als Genossen vermögen wir in den Weltenlauf einzugreifen – und das ist in Zeiten des Neoliberalismus und Klimawandels dringender denn je. Der Begriff »Genosse« entstand im 16. Jahr...

Cats possess the ability to snub you faster than anything alive. They turn on the charm when it suits them, but then freeze your soul into an apologetic lump of ice with a single look.The cats in these stories go to sea, work in the mines, foil burglars, engage in political infighting, solve crimes, and engage in dirty tricks to make their owners comply with their wishes. Not much escapes the scope of their powers.With classic tales from Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain, as w...

Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of the Soviet Union. In the new capitalism of networked information technologies, our very ability to communicate is exploited, but revolution is still possible if we organise on the basis of our common and collective desires. Examining the experience of the Occupy movement, Dean argues that such spontaneity can't develop into a revolution and it needs to constitute itself as a party. An innovative work of pressing relevance, The C...

Blog Theory offers a critical theory of contemporary media. Furthering her account of communicative capitalism, Jodi Dean explores the ways new media practices like blogging and texting capture their users in intensive networks of enjoyment, production, and surveillance. Her wide-ranging and theoretically rich analysis extends from her personal experiences as a blogger, through media histories, to newly emerging social network platforms and applications.Set against the bac...

Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the political party. Rejecting the emphasis on individuals and multitudes, Jodi Dean argues that we need to rethink the collective subject of politics. When crowds appear in spaces unauthorized by capital and the state-such as in the Occupy movement in New York, London and across the world-they create a gap of possibility. But too many on the Left remain...

Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete materialist analysis of the conditions of Black workers, these women argued that racial and economic equality can only be achieved by overthrowing capitalism.The first collection of its kind, Organize, Fight, Win brings together three decades of Black Communist women's political writi...