Diversity Oriented Churches
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Diversity Oriented Churches
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Author : A. Brian Leander
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2025-04-26
Diversity Oriented Churches written by A. Brian Leander and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-26 with Religion categories.
Exploring the transformative movement of Diversity-Oriented Churches (DOC) in the United States, this book analyzes and assesses contemporary societal and denominational shifts, aligns with the values of biblical reconciliation, and provides practical guidance for navigating challenges and developing leaders and ministries. The book opens by highlighting the fluctuating landscape of churches in the twenty-first century, driven by globalization, immigration, and the impact of social media. It contends that the emergence of Diversity-Oriented Churches is a response to an informed, global-minded, multicultural society challenging divisive social constructs. Drawing on fifteen years of field research, the author articulates the characteristics of DOC, the motivations of leaders driving organizational change, and the specific leadership practices that foster inclusivity. The book explores the relationship between cultural intelligence, openness to diversity, and leadership practices within DOC through quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The book's heart lies in examining critical elements that support the development of Diversity-Oriented Churches. These elements include a clear biblical mandate, culturally competent leadership, collaborative organizational strategies, conflict resolution policies, and intergenerational leadership development. The author shares insights from research studies, drawing from personal experiences as a pastor, church planter, and leadership scholar. Through a careful blend of academic rigor and practical experience, the author provides a roadmap for churches seeking to navigate the transformative journey toward becoming a genuinely inclusive ministry of reconciliation. This practical perspective bridges the gap between theory and implementation, offering valuable lessons for leaders in traditional churches and church planters who are oriented toward biblical reconciliation. This book is a timely resource for those grappling with the tension between tradition and the call for a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive expression of the Gospel in the modern era.
When Collaboration Mirrors The Trinity
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Author : Avery Stafford
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-11-30
When Collaboration Mirrors The Trinity written by Avery Stafford and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with Religion categories.
“That they all may be one” was Jesus’ first-century prayer. With mind and emotions set towards Golgotha, he poured out his heart to the Father. But what is our twenty-first-century reality? Local churches are siloed. Pastors do not know one another and rarely work together. Christians drive by church buildings on their way to Sunday worship and seldom pray for one another. Vitriolic disunity spews across social media in front of an onlooking world. Our culture sees our fractured reality and increasingly dismisses Christianity as a viable option for their lives. And it is time for believers to recognize that it is our fault. But there is hope! When Collaboration Mirrors the Trinity is a timely invitation for local churches to make the practice of unity our new normal. Avery Stafford presents a biblical model to actualize this invitation. He details four rhythms that mirror the loving community of the Triune God. Each one can help pastors, lay leaders, and faith communities deepen their resolve to bless the world through effective gospel partnerships. This work is a bold call for believers to discover an untapped resource for the gospel—the believers who attend other churches in their city.
Leading Beyond
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Author : Pierre Everson Cannings
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2024-06-21
Leading Beyond written by Pierre Everson Cannings and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-21 with Religion categories.
A common cliché states that Sunday is the most racially divided day of the week. Authors have attempted to study the division in church, but it continues to be a perpetual problem for Christianity. The racial divide in Christianity demands continual study and research dedicated to finding answers in the history of the Bible. The book of Acts provides the historical account of the early church’s cultural diversity and the apostles’ leadership to spread the gospel all over the world in the first century. Therefore, it is critical to research the apostles’ leadership, specifically Peter and Paul, to the diversity of the early church following Pentecost in the book of Acts and to apply discovered leadership principles to modern-day church.
Religion In America
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Author : Lisa D. Pearce
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2020-08-04
Religion In America written by Lisa D. Pearce and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with Social Science categories.
Written in an engaging and accessible tone, Religion in America probes the dynamics of recent American religious beliefs and behaviors. Charting trends over time using demographic data, this book examines how patterns of religious affiliation, service attendance, and prayer vary by race and ethnicity, social class, and gender. The authors identify demographic processes such as birth, death, and migration, as well as changes in education, employment, and families, as central to why some individuals and congregations experience change in religious practices and beliefs while others hold steady. Religion in America challenges students to examine the demographic data alongside everyday accounts of how religion is experienced differently across social groups to better understand the role that religion plays in the lives of Americans today and how that is changing.
The Power Of Love For Reaching Out To The Other
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Author : Johnny Ramirez-Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2023-08-24
The Power Of Love For Reaching Out To The Other written by Johnny Ramirez-Johnson and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-24 with Religion categories.
Race is a result of God's design and not of sin. God loves diversity and sought it. Race biases are normal and come as a result of likes and dislikes; love of "the other" is to be learned. In this book, Bible stories and principles are combined with four intercultural communication skills to help develop love of the other. This book builds on what Sherwood Lingenfelter and Marvin K. Mayers developed for understanding cultural values and diversity of likes and dislikes. Those differences are normal. The problem comes from excluding the other. This book explores a step-wise approach to developing the love of the other. How the person, the leader, and the church see diversity defines the church's outreach, mission, and gospel fulfillment. Author's Own Words Book Description The Power of Love book explains how emotions and feelings were part of God's creation design from before sin entered this world. While departing from cognitive neuropsychology and the latest learning from science this seminar furthers the idea that race relations are not to be understood by sociology and science but by Bible and Christian beliefs. If you want to learn a non-CRT (critical race theory) approach to race relations while risking being, again, convicted of the need to reach out to the other in gospel love--enter into dialogue--with the author by reading his book and let us pray together. If you want to keep it safe and your intercultural relationships as they are--in a tongue in cheek way the author advices to--stay away from this book!
Worship Across The Racial Divide
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Author : Gerardo Marti
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-15
Worship Across The Racial Divide written by Gerardo Marti and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with Music categories.
Many scholars and church leaders believe that music and worship style are essential in stimulating diversity in congregations. Gerardo Marti draws on interviews with more than 170 congregational leaders and parishioners, as well as his experiences participating in worship services in a wide variety of Protestant, multiracial Southern Californian churches, to present this insightful study of the role of music in creating congregational diversity. Worship across the Racial Divide offers a surprising conclusion: that there is no single style of worship or music that determines the likelihood of achieving a multiracial church. Far more important are the complex of practices of the worshipping community in the production and absorption of music. Multiracial churches successfully diversify by stimulating unobtrusive means of interracial and interethnic relations; in fact, preparation for music apart from worship gatherings proves to be just as important as its performance during services. Marti shows that aside from and even in spite of the varying beliefs of attendees and church leaders, diversity happens because music and worship create practical spaces where cross-racial bonds are formed. This groundbreaking book sheds light on how race affects worship in multiracial churches. It will allow a new understanding of the dynamics of such churches, and provide crucial aid to church leaders for avoiding the pitfalls that inadvertently widen the racial divide.
Christian Cosmopolitanism
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Author : Felipe Amin Filomeno
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2024-11-08
Christian Cosmopolitanism written by Felipe Amin Filomeno and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-08 with Political Science categories.
"Investigates whether and how deliberative dialogues about immigration in Christian congregations can perform a cosmopolitan role"--
Religion And Migration
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Author : Andrea Bieler
language : en
Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Release Date : 2019-10-31
Religion And Migration written by Andrea Bieler and has been published by Evangelische Verlagsanstalt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-31 with Religion categories.
This volume explores religious discourses and practices of hospitality in the context of migration. It articulates the implied ambivalences and even contradictions as well as the potential to contribute to a more just world through social interconnection with others. The book features contributors from diverse national, denominational, cultural, and racial backgrounds. Their essays reveal a dichotomy of hospitality between guest and host, while tackling the meaning of home or the loss of it, interrogating both the peril and promise of the relationship between religion, chiefly Christianity, and hospitality, and focusing on the role of migrants' vulnerability and agency, by drawing from empirical, theological, sociological and anthropological insights emerged from postcolonial migration contexts. With contributions by Andrea Bieler, Jione Havea, Claudia Hoffmann, HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Claudia Jahnel, Isolde Karle, Buhle Mpofu, Armin Nassehi, Ilona Nord, Henrietta Nyamnjoh, Regina Polak, Ludger Pries, Thomas Reynolds, Harsha Walia, Jula Well, and Birgit Weyel. [Religion und Migration] Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit religiösen Diskursen und religiöser Praxis, die Gastfreundschaft im Kontext von Migration thematisieren. Dabei werden sowohl Potenziale identifiziert, die in Richtung größerer Gerechtigkeit und sozialer Verbundenheit weisen, als auch Ambivalenzen und Widersprüche. Das Buch präsentiert Beiträge, die verschiedene nationale, konfessionelle, kulturelle und ethnische Kontexte reflektieren. Dabei kommen die problematischen sowie die verheißungsvollen Dimensionen der Dichotomie von Gast- und Gastgebersein in den Blick, die der Fokus auf Gastfreundschaft insbesondere im Christentum impliziert. Die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von Verletzbarkeit und Handlungsmacht von Migrantinnen und Migranten wird aus empirischer, theologischer, soziologischer sowie anthropologischer Perspektive beleuchtet.
Tired Of Apologizing For A Church I Don T Belong To
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Author : Lillian Daniel
language : en
Publisher: FaithWords
Release Date : 2016-09-20
Tired Of Apologizing For A Church I Don T Belong To written by Lillian Daniel and has been published by FaithWords this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with Religion categories.
When Lillian Daniel apologized to a total stranger for every bad thing that had ever been said or done in the name of Christianity, he was surprised that she was responsible for all that. "The Inquisition? Don't even raise it, I'm way ahead of you. I was mad about it before you even heard of it, that's how open-minded I am. Salem witch trials? I know! So embarrassing. Can I hang out with you anyway? You're too kind." "Religion is responsible for all the wars in history," they would say, and I'd respond, "You're so right. Don't forget imperialism, capitalism, and racism. Religion invented those problems too. You can tell that because religious people can be found at all their meetings." In this book, Daniel argues that it's time for Christians to stop apologizing and realize that how we talk about Christian community matters. With disarming candor laced with just the right amount of humor, Daniel urges open-minded Christians to explore ways to talk about their faith journeys that are reasonable, rigorous, and real. After the publication of the much talked about When Spiritual But Not Religious Is Not Enough: Seeing God In Surprising Places, Even the Church, Lillian Daniel heard from many SBNRs as well as practicing Christians. It was the Christians who scolded her for her forthright, unapologetic stand as one who believes that religious community matters. The Christians ranted that Christians, by definition, tend to be judgmental, condemning hypocrites, which is why people hate them. By saying religion matters, she was judging those who disagree, they said, proving the stereotype of Christians. Better to acknowledge all that's wrong with Christianity and its history, then apologize. In this book, Daniel shows why it matters how we talk about Christian community while urging open-minded Christians to learn better ways to talk about their faith.
Race Discrimination In South Africa
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Author : Sheila T. Van der Horst
language : en
Publisher: David Philip Publishers
Release Date : 1981
Race Discrimination In South Africa written by Sheila T. Van der Horst and has been published by David Philip Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Social Science categories.