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Sunday worship is the central act of the Christian faith, yet few
people truly understand what is happening during the service, and
why, and how. Based on numerous visits with congregations of many
denominations, Jane Rogers Vann examines how we can eliminate the
barrier between the preacher and the people in the pew and offers
practical advice directed not just toward church leaders but to
worship committees and church members--all who are yearning to be
fully engaged in worship. Photographs of many of the churches she
visited are included.
The ancient people of Israel and contemporary Western society share
a preoccupation with the idea of leadership. In this perceptive and
engaging book, David Runcorn reveals just how deeply one world can
speak to the other. The story of 1 and 2 Samuel opens with a woman
weeping. But grief is often the precursor of change, and the
answering of Hannah's prayer is revealed in her song as a prophetic
sign of God's ways in all the world. As the author then helps us
reflect on various revealing episodes, time and again, he enables
us to trace the true presence of God in the words, actions or
faithful endurance of people on the edge of the 'main' script. And,
he suggests, it is in the kind of honest, disciplined attentiveness
they display, that the greatest hope for leadership will be found
today.
The magnitude of the problem of environmental degradation and
climate change requires a complete rethinking and reorienting of
our way of being in the world. Responding to the environmental
crisis requires not only a conversion of the will but even more
fundamentally a transformation of the imaginationthat is, the
capacity to think of other ways of being, thinking, and acting in
the world. These essays, by a distinguished group of Catholic
scholars, assess the gravity of the situation and offer resources
from the biblical and theological traditions for the necessary
mobilization of will and the conversion of our imaginations.
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