Ingram
Все книги издательства IngramFrom the Dark Domain
A child of abuse and neglect, Arthur Gilliam finds solace in the yawning arches and resounding melodies of the church. But the broken healer leaves a wake of failure and disappointment until he faces the most ominous trial of his life.
From the lush forests of Oregon and the ebbing tides of Washington's majestic waterways, Arthur's journey leads to an exotic Rwandan jungle that grows darker each day with growing unrest. Feeding on the worst of human impulses, can genocide draw something better out of Arthur?
From the Dark Domain is the first published book in the Luke Thomas Series by Keith Potter.
The Chest of Visions: Secrets of Caperston
Mattpaul is from the privileged Valley Community and is about to begin a prestigious job. When Chihaysu, a «prophet» who preaches equality amongst the «Haves» and «Have nots» in the world of Caperston, appears, introducing the idea of an unseen ruler named God, chaos follows. The idea of a God is unheard of in Caperston. Chihaysu also speaks out against the inequality of the classes in Caperston and Mattpaul decides to give up his promised job to follow Chihaysu. He enters a conflict where resisting powers, led by his father, cannot accept the idea that there is a God who sees all people as equals. Other young people join in the movement and tension arises as Mattpaul faces the ultimate test of faith. The book concludes with eight pages of activities for Christian youth leaders to use, when discussing the events taking place in the story.
The Chest of Visions: New Pathways ‘cross Broken Highways
Alex, a troubled youth from Earth, travels to the world of Caperston via a wormhole in hopes of resolving his struggles. He meets a messiah, who preaches equality amongst the «Haves» and «Have nots» in Caperston, and his youth followers. Alex finds himself enmeshed in the challenges of their world. The youth, while asking for equality, are attacked as they march to see the Ruler. Alex steps in to stop the carnage but tensions are ready to explode. A short time later the messiah is arrested. Great drama follows over an eighteen-month period. Alex, hearing from Earth friends, isn't sure whether he should return home. Is it even possible? The book concludes with ten pages of activities for Christian youth leaders to use, when discussing the events taking place in the story. Themes of forgiveness and prayer are highlighted.
Chateau de Paix
Whenever grief and stress rule our emotions, we can lose touch with reality. We begin to see what is not there and confuse realism with fantasy. Margaret Anderson is a Christian who believed God would heal her mother. When her mother dies, her foundation crumbles and her world seems to be unbalanced. She becomes angry with God for taking her mother. He had taken her father when she was only two years old. Now, she believes her fiance is going to call off their wedding. She accuses God of taking everyone she loves. People try to convince her that she needs to grieve and heal from such a loss. Finding a brochure inviting her to get away for peace and tranquility at a chateau in the French Alps, she decides to take time off from work. As Margaret meets others who are struggling with storms in their life, she realizes she isn't the only one going through a tough time. This reality allows her to begin receiving the healing needed. However, as she begins to be enthralled by the serenity of the chateau, she discovers a nightmare is hiding in paradise.
Song of Songs
This book explores the Jewish world of King Solomon and his lover Shulamite. Experience their human intensity and passion. Examine God's love for you through their historic romance. This verse-by-verse study will change and challenge your thinking about human relationships and God's love.
The Gathering, A Womanist Church
A womanist church has great power to transform church and society, primarily because womanist theology centers the experiences of Black women while working for the survival and wholeness of all people and all creation. Experiences of the triple oppression of racism, sexism, and classism give Black women an epistemological insight into recognizing injustice and creating solutions that benefit all. The Gathering is unique, the only church founded and identified as «womanist,» applying womanist theology to the full life and worship of a church. The Gathering, a womanist faith community in Dallas, Texas, welcomes all people to partner in pursuing racial equity, LGBTQ equality, and dismantling PMS (patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism), following Jesus in liberating the oppressed and lifting up the marginalized. The Gathering, A Womanist Church tells the story of the birth and ongoing development of a womanist faith community. This book includes personal narratives of people transformed in this community, womanist co-pastors' sermons informed by their experiences and those of other Black women, and litanies for womanist worship.
The Doctor and the Apostle
What could a first-century church planter and tentmaker who helped forge the earliest years of a new religious movement possibly have in common with a British time traveling alien who first appeared in the 1960s to teach children about history?
Doctor Who has been a beloved science fiction franchise for over fifty years. Paul's letters have been around for quite a while longer, with the earliest ones that he wrote dated less than a generation after the life of Jesus. Both have inspired and instructed people on how to live and have stoked the imagination for what individual and communal life can be in their own way. And both were or are deeply flawed, sometimes struggling against their own tendencies or those of others in order to help bring about something greater for their respective worlds.
The Doctor and the Apostle explores the similarities and differences between Doctor Who's title character and Paul of Tarsus, comparing and contrasting the stories of each. Whether a fan of one or the other or both, the reader will gain a greater understanding of the possibilities of a life of faith, as well as a deeper appreciation of how pop culture and Scripture may help inform one another.
Keeping Alive the Rumor of God
Can't you hear those little bells tinkling? Down on your knees–"they're bringing the sacraments to a dying God," wrote Heinrich Heine in 1834. It took a while but today it is happening. Across the Western world the traditional picture of God is dying, and institutional religion collapsing. Today we are trying something never done before, living with no agreed narrative that tells us who we are and with a materialist view of life. It isn't enough. An idea of God may have died but the mystery of our human life is of an inner depth which is not simply physical or material. Marvel, mystery, wonder, beauty, love, the numinous, the mysterium tremendum, remain the essence of who we are. What I am trying to do is describe this experience in such a way that those who have not had it can get a glimpse of it from inside and understand how it can give a life meaning and purpose. This is explored through a liberal Christian tradition committed to social justice and honest exploration. Scripture is vital to this but so are art, poetry, music, and beauty. When most people are looking the other way, we must keep the rumor of God alive.
Subordinated Ethics
With Dostoyevsky's Idiot and Aquinas' Dumb Ox as guides, this book seeks to recover the elemental mystery of the natural law, a law revealed only in wonder. If ethics is to guide us along the way, it must recover its subordination; description must precede prescription. If ethics is to invite us along the way, it cannot lead, either as politburo, or even as public orthodoxy. It cannot be smugly symbolic but must be by way of signage, of directionality, of the open realization that ethical meaning is en route, pointing the way because it is within the way, as only sign, not symbol, can point to the sacramental terminus. The courtesies of dogma and tradition are the road signs and guideposts along the longior via, not themselves the termini. We seek the dialogic heart of the natural law through two seemingly contradictory voices and approaches: St. Thomas Aquinas and his famous five ways, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's holy idiot, Prince Myshkin. It is precisely the apparent miscellany of these selected voices that provide us with a connatural invitation into the natural law as subordinated, as descriptive guide, not as prescriptive leader.
Reconciling Places
Jesus said, «Blessed are the peacemakers»–but in our increasingly polarized communities and nation, where can a person of faith begin? In Reconciling Places, pastor and scholar Paul Hoffman introduces laypeople and ministry leaders to a «theology of reconciliation» that equips Christians to act as reconcilers and bridge builders, wherever they are and whatever issues divide their communities.