Finding community is as critical as obtaining food and shelter, since the need to belong is what makes us human. The isolation and loneliness of modern life have led many people to search for deeper connection, die heeft geresulteerd in een hernieuwde belangstelling in opzettelijke gemeenschappen,en,Deze opzettelijke gemeenschappen of ecovillages zijn een aantrekkelijke keuze,en,Deze kant van de hemel,en,Race,en,Etniciteit,en,en christelijk geloof,en,In de afgelopen jaren zijn christelijke geleerden zich steeds meer bewust geworden van hun verantwoordelijkheid om de uitdagingen van etnische en raciale diversiteit te erkennen en erop te reageren,en,Op dezelfde manier,en,Historisch blanke christelijke hogescholen,en,universiteiten,en,Seminaries en gemeenten worstelen om zichzelf te transformeren in gemeenschappen die gastvrij zijn voor minderheden en gevoelig zijn voor hun behoeften,en,Deze verzameling geheel nieuw,en,Waarden in conflict,en,Kan verpleegkunde christen zijn,en,Het antwoord lijkt misschien vanzelfsprekend,en,Toch in onze pluralistische samenleving,en,Christelijke verpleegkundigen worden vaak verteld om hun waarden uit hun werk te houden,en,In werkelijkheid,en,Judith Shelly en Arlene Miller vragen,en. These intentional communities or ecovillages are an appealing choice […]
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Let’s Get Growing, Christians!
When we become Christians we consciously repent of our bad habits–a promise to make a 180° turn from habits that displease God toward habits that please Him. We do this through and by faith alone. Yet faith alone does not suddenly “make good” our promise. It is our faith that gives us the reason to […]
The Next Christendom
In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South–in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Drawing upon the extensive new scholarship that has appeared on this topic in recent years, he asks how the new Christianity is likely to affect the poor, among […]
The Lost History of Christianity
The Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins offers a revolutionary view of the history of the Christian church. Subtitled “The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died,” it explores the extinction of the earliest, most influential Christian churches of China, India, and the Middle East, […]
A Blow of Self-Righteousness
A Blow of Self-Righteousness A strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people, often up to 10 times each week at different […]