Winsome Wisdom provides 366 meditations -- one for each day of the year. Each reading spotlights a thought for the day, amplified by a short reflection and concluding with an affirmation distilling the message into a single sentence with a positive application. Erdahl shares sage advice on a wide range of topics ranging from marriage to money, from science to sex, from writing to war. An excellent source of illustrations for speeches or sermons, this remarkable book is sure to appeal to anyone seeking to be nourished by generous helpings of spiritual guidance and practical experience....

The point in turning to faith is not to escape, but to engage.

Introduces readers to one of the most important 19th century Christian thinkers, Soren Kierkegaard. Paul R. Sponheim, unfolds Kierkegaard's Sickness unto Death.

Arnold of Brescia (ca 1100-1155), exiled twice and finally martyred, takes us into the student world of Paris during the blossoming of the twelfth-century Renaissance, through an infamous heresy trial, to teaching in Paris, then Zurich, and into Rome where he was the spiritual leader of the city for almost a decade. Arnold believed the church should be separate from civil government. He supported the revived Roman Senate and the Roman people who were foremost among the many who loved and admired him. An Augustinian canon regular, Arnold made the authorities, ecclesiastical and imperial,...

In The End of Divine Truthiness, Paul Joseph Greene confronts stark realities of terrifying theologies that make a mockery out of divine love. With urgent resolve, Greene answers Martin Luther King, Jr.s pointed challenge to overcome ""reckless and abusive . . . power without love,"" and ""sentimental and anemic . . . love without power."" Too many theologies cast God either as the tyrant whose loveless power lifts up the mighty or the victim whose powerless love sends the poor away empty. Wielding Stephen Colberts word ""truthiness"" as a scalpel, Greene slices out one perilous theology...