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Congregations Neighborhoods Places(Calvin Shorts)
Mark T. Mulder
This book offers a brief overview to stimulate congregational thinking about community engagement in a manner that includes insights regarding social science and local context.
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Christians and Cultural Difference (Calvin Shorts)
David I. Smith and Pennylyn Dykstra Pruim
"Encountering cultural differences in the classroom, in the workplace, in the church, and in the public square is an everyday part of contemporary life. The chances that we will live our lives interacting only with those who share our cultural identity and ways of thinking are shrinking. Understanding culture and how cultural difference affects how we understand one another and live well together is no longer just for travelers. It has become a basic life skill. Past Christian ways of thinking about cultural difference as most important for missions to far away places do not harmonize with today's realities. This book offers a brief, critical overview of how Christians have been rethinking their relationship to cultural difference. Creation and fall, the image of God, the body/temple that is the church, neighbor ethics, the trinity, the incarnation and cross of Christ, and the call to welcome strangers - each of these offers distinct challenges to think in Christian ways about how we deal with differences. Exploring the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches, this book provides a concise guide to current Christian discussions of otherness. It points to rich ways in which Christians can responsibly and graciously embrace cultural difference." -- Publisher's description.
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The Church and Religious Persecution(Calvin Shorts)
Kevin R. Den Dulk and Robert J. Joustra
So begins The Divine Comedy, a classic meditation on the Christian life, written by Dante Alighieri in the fourteenth century. Dante’s three images—a journey, a dark forest, and a perplexed pilgrim—still feel familiar today, don’t they? We can readily imagine our own lives as a series of journeys, not just the big journey from birth to death, but also all the little trips from home to school, from school to job, from place to place, from old friends to new. In fact, we often feel we are simultaneously on multiple journeys that tug us in diverse and sometimes opposing directions. We recognize those dark woods from fairy tales and nightmares and the all-too-real conundrums that crowd our everyday lives. No wonder we frequently feel perplexed. We wake up shaking our heads, unsure if we know how to live wisely today or tomorrow or next week
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Mission-Directed Governance: Leading the Christian School with Vision, Unity, and Accountability
Leonard Stob
Christian school leaders need to reflect carefully on the leadership and governance processes that can best guide their schools. This book introduces a mission-directed governance system designed to define educational ideals, focus leadership energies, advance the school, create accountability, and measure results. While holding fast to essential positions of Christian faith and educational philosophy, these ideas can help leaders of Christian schools more effectively address purpose, priority, and organization through fresh approaches to governance.
The Calvin Press works to make Christian perspectives on contemporary topics more accessible. By empowering great scholars in higher education to share their expertise, The Calvin Press advances Christian thinking in a variety of fields, all the way from how to best prepare for an excursion abroad to what it means to be a young person in today’s churches.
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