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Who's Going Where and Why
By Deborah Bruce, Cynthia Woolever
In 2001 the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) conducted the U.S. Congregational Life Survey. More than 1.2 million worshipers and 12,000 congregations across three continents were surveyed to provide a portrait of congregational life. The findings were pu...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 3/2/2010
ISBN: 9780664235147
Format: 8 x 8
Pages: 160
Confessing Jesus Christ for the 21st Century
By P. Mark Achtemeier, Andrew Purves
These essays and sermons articulate the basics of the Christian faith and are by some of the best-known evangelical voices in the Presbyterian Church today. The main ideas in these essays are congruent with the basic theology contained in "Union in C...
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Publisher: Geneva Press
Publication Date: 6/1/2000
ISBN: 9780664501280
Format: 5x8
Pages: 221
Reflections on Pastoral Ministry
By J. Philip Wogaman
J. Philip Wogaman offers candid reflections on his service as Senior Minister at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., an unexpected journey that he began at the age of sixty following a full career as an ethics professor. Wogaman chro...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 1/4/2003
ISBN: 9780664225858
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 192
The Public Obligation of the Professional
By William F. May
Professionals today wield an enormous public power. Collectively, their decisions affect the patient's plight, the client's fate, the student's future, the city's scape, the Earth's sustainability, the worker's fair treatment, and the durability of i...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 9/1/2001
ISBN: 9780664226718
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 296
Wisdom on Ministry from 30 Leading Pastors and Preachers
By William J. Carl III
This book gathers a diverse group of leading pastors and preachers and asks them, what is your best advice to colleagues in ministry about preaching and being a pastor? The responses are full of wisdom and practical advice, illuminating and helpful ...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 2/2/2009
ISBN: 9780664232436
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 208
Guidance for Pastors and Congregations under Attack
By G. Lloyd Rediger
Though some conflict in the church may be normal, there are some types of conflict which are abnormal and abusive. Within some congregations there are personalities who seek to unsettle the relationship between minister and congregation. In this enga...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 4/1/1997
ISBN: 9780664257538
Format: 6 x 8
Pages: 208
An Uphill Calling
By Adair T. Lummis, Patricia Mei Yin Chang, Barbara Brown Zikmund
Perhaps the most significant event in twentieth-century American Protestant churches has been the entry of tens of thousands of women into the church's ordained ministry. How are these women's experiences as ministers different from those of their ma...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 3/1/1998
ISBN: 9780664256739
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 216
A Feminist Vision of Ministry
By Lynn N. Rhodes
Examining the thought of prominent feminist theologians and the view of practicing clergywomen, Lynn Rhodes articulates a vision of ministry that can enrich the whole church. She focuses on feminist approaches to the vital questions of authority, sal...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 1/1/1987
ISBN: 9780664240325
Format: 5 x 8
Pages: 132
A Call to Begin Again
By Chuck Meyer
Make a new church. That's the challenge Chuck Meyer lays down for readers. He writes that the institutional church we know so well is dying. In fact, it may already be dead. Its structure and theology make no sense today, and haven't for decades. It ...
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Publisher: Woodlake Books
Publication Date: 1/1/2000
ISBN: 9781896836393
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 160
Churches Making Their Way Forward
By Donna Sinclair, Christopher White
Using as their guide the story of the two disciples who meet the risen Christ on the road to Emmaus, Donna Sinclair and Christopher White move congregations beyond a search for silver bullet solutions, beyond a preoccupation with technique and progra...
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Publisher: Woodlake Books
Publication Date: 1/1/2003
ISBN: 9781551454856
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 224
Ways to Grow in Effectiveness
By Donald P. Smith
Over a period of years, Donald Smith probed, analyzed, interpreted, and reinterpreted data pertaining to what makes for effective ministry. Through all his research, one fact kept emerging: pastors who focus on empowering others are recognized as the...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 2/1/1996
ISBN: 9780664254797
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 240
A Reader on Urban Ministry
By Eleanor Scott Meyers
This book compiles essays by over thirty urban pastors, community organizers, seminary professors, and church leaders. Their essays seek to present creative opportunities for urban ministries to bring hope and renewal to their congregations and commu...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 1/1/1992
ISBN: 9780664253158
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 364
Wrestling with Scripture in the Midst of Church Conflict
By Frances Taylor Gench
Conflict is all too common in the church today. But as Frances Taylor Gench reminds us in this book, conflict over scriptural interpretation has been with the church since its earliest days. Gench reflects on those early experiences of conflict, pres...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 4/2/2009
ISBN: 9780664233389
Format: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: 152
A Guide to Personal and Professional Fitness
By G. Lloyd Rediger
In this important and urgent message to pastors, G. Lloyd Rediger emphasizes the necessity of integrating fitness of body, mind, and spirit in order to attain fulfillment of personhood and calling. Not immune from the debilitating unfitness that is e...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 11/1/1999
ISBN: 9780664258443
Format: 6 x 9
Pages: 200
The Renewal of the Church according to Its Own Theology and Practice
By John H. Leith
Based on years of experience as a pastor and professor of theology, John Leith reflects on the dilemma of the church today as primarily "a crisis of faith." He states that renewal is found within Scripture and the tradition of a believing, worshiping...
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 10/1/1990
ISBN: 9780664251222
Format: 5 x 8
Pages: 224
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