This eccentric title recalls a collection of tales first told to grandchildren at bedtime. Each chapter begins with a fun-to-read farmer-boy story from the 1940s, an era before industrial farming when horses, cows, and chickens were still members of...Lasīt vairāk
Eberhard Arnold, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Joan Chittister, Dorothy Day, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard J. Foster, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, David Janzen, Soren Kierkegaard, C. S. Lewis...
Fifty-two readings on living in intentional Christian community to spark group discussion.Gold Medal Winner, 2017 Illumination Book Awards, Christian LivingSilver Medal Winner, 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award in Religion, Independent Book Publishers Ass...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines community identity in the post-exilic temple community in Ezra-Nehemiah, and explores the possible influences that the Achaemenids, the ruling Persian dynasty, might have had on its construction. In the book, David Janzen reads Ezr...Lasīt vairāk
Many young idealists, after a few failures, burn out and return to status quo lives. Not so with the seven radicals in this book, who met in an interracial house church and intentional community on Chicagos West Side during the civil rights era. Her...Lasīt vairāk
Many young idealists, after a few failures, burn out and return to status quo lives. Not so with the seven radicals in this book, who met in an interracial house church and intentional community on Chicagos West Side during the civil rights era. Her...Lasīt vairāk
David Janzen argues that the Book of Chronicles is a document with a political message as well as a theological one and moreover, that the books politics explain its theology. The author of Chronicles was part of a 4th century B.C.E. group within t...Lasīt vairāk
Eberhard Arnold, C. S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Joan Chittister, Dorothy Day, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard J. Foster, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, David Janzen, Sren Kierkegaard...
Fifty-two readings on living in intentional Christian community to spark group discussion.Gold Medal Winner, 2017 Illumination Book Awards, Christian LivingSilver Medal Winner, 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award in Religion, Independent Book Publishers Ass...Lasīt vairāk
The Violent Gift traces the narrative of the exilic author of the Deuteronomistic History, a narrative that provides an explanation for the trauma that the Judean community in Babylon suffered. As the book follows this explanation through the History...Lasīt vairāk
With simple, heartbreaking detail, Das Maddimadugu recalls the joys and tragedies of his childhood in a destitute family of the untouchable caste, nearly sold into slavery, and "e;adopted"e; by a single Mennonite missionary woman. In her care...Lasīt vairāk
With simple, heartbreaking detail, Das Maddimadugu recalls the joys and tragedies of his childhood in a destitute family of the untouchable caste, nearly sold into slavery, and "e;adopted"e; by a single Mennonite missionary woman. In her care...Lasīt vairāk
Denny J. Weaver, Daniel Wessner, Gerald Biesecker-Mast, Glen H. Stassen, Michael L. Westmoreland-White, J Denny Weaver, David Janzen, John Kampen, Perry Bush, James H. Satterwhite...
This book opens a new frontier in understanding nonviolence. Discussions of peace and nonviolence usually focus on either moral theory or practical dimensions of applying nonviolence in conflict situations. Teaching Peace carries the discussion of no...Lasīt vairāk
Denny J. Weaver, Daniel Wessner, Gerald Biesecker-Mast, Glen H. Stassen, Michael L. Westmoreland-White, J Denny Weaver, David Janzen, John Kampen, Perry Bush, James H. Satterwhite...
This book opens a new frontier in understanding nonviolence. Discussions of peace and nonviolence usually focus on either moral theory or practical dimensions of applying nonviolence in conflict situations. Teaching Peace carries the discussion of no...Lasīt vairāk
