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Interviews [3]
1. Diana Butler Bass on the Vitality of "re-traditioned" mainline Protestant Churches
2. Don Richter on the Spiritual Formation of Young People
3. Miroslav Volf on Trends in American Religion & the Challenge of Exclusion and Embrace in Christian Practice
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Products [22]
1. After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s.
2. Families in Ancient Israel
3. Golden Rule Christianity: Lived Religion in the American Mainstream
4. Grieving the Death of a Loved One
5. Growing up Religious: Christians and Jews and their Journeys of Faith.
6. Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice.
7. Practicing Our Faith website (http://www.practicingourfaith.org)
8. Practicing Our Faith: A Guide for Conversation, Learning, and Growth
9. Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People
10. Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People.
11. Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time.
12. Testimony: Talking Ourselves into Being Christians.
13. The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity and Caring
14. The Eternal Pity: Reflections on Dying.
15. The Presbyterian Predicament: Six Perspectives
16. The Re-Forming Tradition: Presbyterian and Mainstream Protestantism
17. The Revelatory Body: Signorelli's Resurrection of the Flesh at Orvieto
18. Theology as Doxology: Reflections on Theological Education
19. Vision and Discernment: An Orientation in Theological Study
20. Way to Live website (http://www.waytolive.org)
21. Witness and Remember: McVeigh's Execution Should Be Televised
22. Worship Seeking Understanding: Windows into Christian Practice.
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Projects [7]
1. Continuation of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith
2. Education and Formation of People in Faith
3. Production of a guidebook of resources for contemplative formation
4. Programs in Christian Thought and Practice at the Center for the Study of Religion
5. Research on congregations and generational cultures
6. Research on Devotional Practices
7. The Ethics of Everyday Life
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Research Articles [3]
1. Christian Practices and Congregational Education in Faith
2. New Tasks for the New Congregation: Reflections on Congregational Studies
3. The End(s) of Theological Education: Reframing the Mission of Theological Schools
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Reshaping Ministry [1]
1. Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project: A Revitalized Approach Meets Youth Needs
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Newsletters [4]
1. Initiatives in Religion: Spring, 1997 [vol. 6, no. 2]
2. Initiatives in Religion: Summer, 1995 [vol. 4, no. 3]
3. InSites into American Religion: Feb, 2004 [vol. 1, no. 1]
4. InSites into American Religion: Jun, 2006 [vol. 3, no. 2]
Related Books [15]
1. After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s.
2. Families in Ancient Israel
3. Growing up Religious: Christians and Jews and their Journeys of Faith.
4. Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice.
5. Practicing Our Faith: A Guide for Conversation, Learning, and Growth
6. Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People
7. Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People.
8. Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time.
9. Testimony: Talking Ourselves into Being Christians.
10. The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity and Caring
11. The Eternal Pity: Reflections on Dying.
12. The Presbyterian Predicament: Six Perspectives
13. The Re-Forming Tradition: Presbyterian and Mainstream Protestantism
14. Vision and Discernment: An Orientation in Theological Study
15. Worship Seeking Understanding: Windows into Christian Practice.
Clergy Sabbaticals [21]
1. A Clergy Sabbatical: God's 'Set Aside' for the Soul
2. A Desert Experience
3. An Invitation to Rest: What a Clergy Renewal Grant Can Do for You
4. Before and After: Sabbatical Reflections and Ministry
5. Being Still: A Spiritual Gift for Ministry and Mission Effectiveness
6. Beyond the Howl of Coyotes: Reflections on a Good Sabbatical
7. Bread and Breath for the Breadth of the Journey: Reflections Three Years Out
8. Constellations of Meaning: Looking Beyond the Milky Way
9. Dancing in the Sea
10. Falling in Love Again
11. Flight from Fear, Pathway to a New Song
12. Fully Alive?
13. In Search of Sanctuary: A journey into silence finds God's peace
14. O Taste and See that the Lord is Good!
15. Prayers and Dreams: Answered and Experienced
16. Reshaping Ministry in Light of My Sabbatical Experience
17. Reshaping Ministry in the Light of a Pastors Working Group
18. Sabbath: Reflections on a New Beginning
19. The Integration of Preaching & Transformational Leadership
20. The Power of Sacred Places and Practices
21. Weaving the Fabric of Our Faith
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