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Each year this award-winning preacher set himself the discipline of preparing a Christmas Eve sermon for people who had no previous exposure to the Christian message. The result: sermons about flying saucers, aliens, teddy bears and angels and above all about the costly love of God for the human race.

"In the midst of the struggles of our personal history and of world history, it is easy for us to whom it has been revealed to forget that the Angels are singing. So we come here to have our ears tuned and our sight refined that we might hear this song and see this invisible glory."

Berlin baut. Baut auf, baut um, reißt ab - baut neu. Dieses Buch ist ein mitreißender Steckbrief über sieben Jahrzehnte Baugeschichte einer Stadt in ständigem Wandel. Mit frischen Illustrationen im Comicstil und Infokästen voller spannender Fakten erzählt Leander Zerwer anhand eines Bauwerks für jedes Jahr die Geschichte der Stadt und ihrer Architektur von 1946 bis heute. Spielerisch und anregend lässt sich Berlin erkunden: entlang von Beispielen des Wiederaufbaus nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, Prestigeprojekten und Architekturikonen im geteilten Ost- und West-Berlin, des Baubooms der...

Keck shows how the church is suffering from malaise brought on by oversecularization in aspects of church life including worship, theology, ethos, and communication.

This penetrating clarion call to renewal cuts through the conventional ideological labels of "liberal" and "conservative." Keck argues with passion that mainline churches today must neither pretend to be culturally triumphant nor whimper in fear. Rather, the church has grounds to be confident about its proper nature and mission.

Keck envisions a renewed church that has recovered a sense of what is basic to its...

What drives state officials to force development projects on resisting "beneficiary" populations? In his new analysis of the Tanzanian state's 1960s and 1970s campaign to settle the country's rural population in socialist villages, Leander Schneider traces the discourses and practices that authorized state officials to direct the lives of peasants--by coercive means if necessary. Government of Development shows that the practices constituting this project's mode of government far exceeded political elites' pursuit of their own narrow interests, the go-to explanation for many accounts of...