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  • Diaconia in Contexts

    Regional Case Studies and Linking Perspectives

    Edited by Johannes Eurich, Beate Hoffman, Thorsten Moos ...
    Series series Regnum Studies in Mission
    Diaconia – the Christian practice of social service and care – plays a significant role in societies across the globe. Shaped by diverse contexts, it takes on a wide range of forms and purposes, organizational models and networks, and involves both professional and voluntary engagement. Its relationships with churches, as well as with public and private welfare systems, are equally varied. This ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Cow

    by Beat Sterchi ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a Gastarbeiter. He is bound for Innenwald, a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel. It ends in the abattoir of the neighbouring city, at the end of the seven hard years of labour that have destroyed him. There he sees Blosch, the once ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Compassion and Solidarity

    by Gregory Baum ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In the forthright style that has earned him a reputation for controversy, theologian Gregory Baum presents the Faith and Justice movement in the churches -- especially the Roman Catholic Church -- together with the considerable opposition to it. He discusses why many Christians are becoming activists, turning their faith into deeds by working for the liberation of the poor, not only in South ... Read more

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  • Spill Simmer Falter Wither

    by Sara Baume ...
    An old loner and his misfit dog spend a year on the road in this acclaimed Irish novel of "singing prose [and] two unlikely Beckettian wanderers" ( The Guardian, UK).It is springtime, and an isolated man shunned by his village has forged a connection with the one-eyed dog he's taken into his tightly shuttered life. But as their friendship grows, their small seaside community becomes suspicious. ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Modern Age

    An Archaeology of Contemporary Culture

    by Bob Goudzwaard, Craig G. Bartholomew ...
    The modern age has produced global crises that modernity itself seems incapable of resolving—deregulated capitalism, consumerism, economic inequality, militarization, overworked laborers, environmental destruction, insufficient health care, and many other problems. The future of our world depends on moving beyond the modern age.Bob Goudzwaard and Craig G. Bartholomew have spent decades listening ... Read more

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  • Diakonia as Christian Social Practice

    An Introduction

    Edited by Stephanie Dietrich, Knud Jørgensen, Kari Karsrud Korslien, Kjell Nordstokke ...
    Series series Regnum Studies in Mission
    The concept of diakonia has developed over the last decades, especially within the ecumenical movement, to a degree that may be characterized as a paradigm shift. Three main features characterize this change: First, the ecclesial dimension of diakonia is now strongly underlined. While diakonia earlier often was perceived as the activity of professional diaconal workers or agencies, it is now ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Driving Over Lemons

    An Optimist in Andalucia

    by Chris Stewart ...
    Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. A man who flies to Spain, sees a peasant farm on the wrong side of the river and, with scarcely a second thought, hands over a cash deposit. And then finds he has acquired not just the farm, but the farmer, too, who has no intention of leaving. Not to mention the lack of running water, electricity or even a bridge.It would be enough to send most people ... Read more

    $11.79 CAD

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  • Globalizing Theology

    Belief and Practice in an Era of World Christianity

    Edited by Craig Ott, Harold Netland ...
    One of the most powerful forces in the twenty-first century is the increasing phenomenon of globalization. In nearly every realm of human activity, traditional boundaries are disappearing and people worldwide are more interconnected than ever. Christianity has also become more aware of global realities and the important role of the church in non-Western countries. Church leaders must grapple with ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • July's People

    by Nadine Gordimer ...
    **“So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book ReviewA startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**A violent war for equality has come to the white suburbs, driving out the ruling minorityFor years, it had been what is called a “deteriorating situation.” Now all over South Africa ... Read more

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  • Jesus vs. Caesar

    For People Tired of Serving the Wrong God

    by Joerg Rieger ...
    When we observe a tension between Jesus and Caesar, we acknowledge that a fundamental tension remains at the heart of Christianity. When this tension is poorly understood, Christians face disastrous consequences. The tension is not between religion and atheism or secularism. Nor is it between organized religion and personal spirituality. The tension is located within the heart of Christianity ... Read more

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  • African Initiated Christianity and the Decolonisation of Development

    Sustainable Development in Pentecostal and Independent Churches

    Edited by Philipp Öhlmann, Wilhelm Gräb, Marie-Luise Frost ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Religion and Development
    This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this volume seeks to elucidate how these churches reshape the very notion of sustainable development and contribute to the decolonisation of development.Fostering both overarching and comparative perspectives, ... Read more

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  • Church Planting in the Secular West

    Learning from the European Experience

    by Stefan Paas ...
    Series series The Gospel and Our Culture Series (GOCS)
    An expert study of church planting in the most secular part of contemporary EuropeIn this book Stefan Paas offers thoughtful analysis of reasons and motives for missionary church planting in Europe, and he explores successful and unsuccessful strategies in that post-Christian secularized context.Drawing in part on his own involvement with planting two churches in the Netherlands, Paas explores ... Read more

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