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Church as Network
Just as the emergence of print and literacy created conditions for vast religious change at the time of the Reformation, the emergence of a digital culture shaped by computers and the internet has led to radically different assumptions about religious identity, how people connect and maintain transformative relationships, and how people follow and give authority to leaders. The central issues concerning this digital culture are not technological but theological and anthropological. Old models of stable religious identity and community seem irrelevant in a culture in which everyone is in motion. The book identifies three profound changes produced by digital culture which challenge existing understandings of church: 1) a shift to seeing Christian identity as an ongoing constructive project, 2) the development of fluid networked forms of community, and 3) the emergence of less hierarchical more conversational forms of leadership.
Church of the Wild
2024 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner in "Religion / Spirituality of Western Thought" Category Winner of the Living Now Book Award, Church of the Wild reminds us that once upon a time, humans lived in an intimate relationship with nature. Whether disillusioned by the dominant church or unfulfilled by traditional expressions of faith, many of us long for a deeper spirituality. Victoria Loorz certainly did. Coping with an unraveling vocation, identity, and planet, Loorz turned to the wanderings of spiritual leaders and the sanctuary of the natural world, eventually cofounding the Wild Church Network and Seminary of the Wild. With an ecospiritual lens on biblical narratives and a fresh look at a community larger than our own species, Church of the Wild uncovers the wild roots of faith and helps us deepen our commitment to a suffering earth by falling in love with it--and calling it church. Through mystical encounters with wild deer, whispers from a scrubby oak tree, wordless conversation with a cougar, and more, Loorz helps us connect to a love that literally holds the world together--a love that calls us into communion with all creatures.
The Trials and Triumphs of Down Syndrome
Down Syndrome and Much More! For those that have children born with Down syndrome, this book encourages you to seek help early. This book also stresses the importance of focusing on the good, positive things in daily life in the midst of the challenges. Many of the reflections inside this book apply to us all.
Adjusting to God's High Calling
Adjusting to God¡¦s High Calling is about God¡¦s desire, intentions and interactions with the humans, which He intended from time immemorial. It is a call to the Divine realms of higher living in Christ Jesus. It explains that within the Divine purpose, God¡¦s desire is the flowing forth of His life into and through His people, but which can be hindered. It also points out that true Christianity is presently being inundated in the human traditions and philosophies within the religious sector, turning it into many things it is not. The book posits it is simply God¡¦s dynamically balanced life of grace in the Spirit, lived in oneness with the reigning Lord. True Christianity, therefore...
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Social Censure and Critical Criminology
This edited collection focuses on the sociology of 'social censure' – the sociological term advocated by Colin Sumner in his seminal writing of the 1980s and 1990s. Social censure has become increasingly important in contemporary criminological writing. This can especially be seen in recent writing on gender and race and also in terms of the way that the state's relationship to crime is now understood. This collection addresses a deficit in the published literature and both revisits themes from an earlier era and looks forward to the development of new writing that develops Sumner’s seminal work on social censure. The contributors are drawn from leading scholars from across the Social Sciences and Law and they address a wide range of issues such as: race, youth justice, policing, welfare, and violence. The resulting volume is an interdisciplinary text which will be of special interest to scholars and students of Critical Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies, as well as those interested in the operation of the criminal justice system and criminological theory.
