This invaluable resource offers older children ways to fully enter the gospel stories and their teachings. It follows the gospels for every Sunday of the three-year Lectionary. Each easy-to-duplicate activity sheet reinforces the Sunday gospel message with age-appropriate questions and activities.

The Franciscan vision offers a powerful antidote to the moral malaise that prevents ordinary Christians from making the necessary choices to live more simply and share the worlds goods more equitably. Ecological Footprints unfolds the theological, spiritual, and ethical treasure trove of Christianityespecially as it has been developed and lived in Franciscan theology and traditionas it relates to our efforts to achieve sustainable living.

This book traces one exegetical, interpretative principal, divine accommodation, in Jewish and Christian thought from the first to the nineteenth century. The focus is upon major figures and the place of accommodation in their work. Divine accommodation, the idea that divine revelation had to be attuned to the human condition, is a vital interpretive device in the history of both Judaism and Christianity. Accommodation is present not only in the language, style, and tone of Scripture but in all of human history. This is the first systematic study of the concept of accommodation, and shows how both religions employed the same interpretative tool for different purposes and to different ends.

Christian spirituality with attitude. Fourteen provocative pictures, from Radical Mystic to Messianic Anarchist, that explore identity, destiny, values and activism

Sometimes life brings us blessings through adversities, and if we are lucky we grow from what we learn.Monday Moments is full of optimism and promise, hope, faith, and a disposition of never giving up. Curated from the author's long-running Monday Moments blog, this is a collection of the most inspiring and thoughtful entries. Through this careful selection, Ann reveals the inner emotions of living through challenges as she learned patience, embraced the feeling of comfort, knew peace and became stronger digging ever deeper for courage, all the while recognizing and cherishing prayer as the stepping stone to God's guiding light. As you read this book you will find a golden thread of gratitude running through it. This is the book you will want to cozy up with and enjoy as Ann shares with you what she found were really the treasures in life after all.

Carol Kuykendall invites moms to sit down, relax, and benefit from her experiences. Looking back over her shoulder, Carol sees a pattern of footprints--of defining moments when she recognized God's presence and took a step of growing faith. While Carol was chasing toddlers, God was guiding her own steps, helping her deal with life's longings, transitions from marriage to motherhood, daily problems such as sick kids, and temptations such as perfectionism and business. For mothers everywhere, here is guidance for their own faith-filled journey.