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The runaway robot (A Junior Literary Guild selection) 18 reviews
Lester Del Rey
Westminster Press, 1965
Delightful Del Rey
It's no secret that some of the best books are written for kids and teens. Baby Boomers will fondly remember Scholastic Book Services before they were a mainstream publisher, and little four page weekly reader newspapers that were passed out in class. Books cost about 50 cents and you'd order them together as a class. What a great stake in classroom reading, how fun to take home your books from ...
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Mark for Everyone (For Everyone)9 reviews
Tom Wright
Westminster John Knox Press, 2004
Contemporary translation of the Gospel of Mark
This book was tailor-made for a bible study group. I used it in law school for an inter-denominational group that included Catholics, Baptists, LDS and various other protestants. We all got a lot out of it. The book is divided by short passages from Mark interspersed with longer commentary (usually 2-3 pages) from Tom Wright. I can sincerely say this helped me on my faith journey and deepened my ...
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Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms12 reviews
Donald K. McKim
Westminster John Knox Press, 1996
Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms
I have a few theological dictionaries. None of them are complete. This dictionary fills in gaps the others do not cover.
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The forgotten door52 reviews
Alexander Key
Westminster Press, 1975
A gentle, thoughtful gem
Like so many others, I read this lovely book when I was much younger, and it has remained with me to this day. It's a deceptively simple story, told directly & clearly, which poses quite a few difficult ethical & moral questions about the world we take for granted. Yet it's never preachy or heavy-handed. Through the eyes of Little Jon, we not only see the flaws of our own society, with its ...
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A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life11 reviews
William Law
Westminster John Knox Press, 1968
Very Timely
wow - what an inspirational, hard-hitting, right on read this has been. I'm still in the process of reading it but I already love it. This should be required reading for all Christians. Then perhaps the church would live differently than the world and perhaps we'd have less scandal.
So far I can see that there needs to be a balance. One could easily tend towards legalism and a ...
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Young Children and Worship12 reviews
Sonja M. Stewart, Jerome W. Berryman
Westminster John Knox Press, 1990
The best start-up guide to Godly Play-- maybe all you need
This is the seminal volume of what became the Godly Play movement.If you haven't yet explored Godly Play, I heartily recommend the method as such, and as set forth in Young Children in Worship. Godly Play allows children to experience Bible stories and other stories that carry faith messages, told with an archetypal spareness that allows each listener to absorb and reflect on the material in his ...
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Street-Smart Ethics: Succeeding in Business Without Selling Your Soul12 reviews
Clinton W. McLemore
Westminster John Knox Press, 2003
A Very Helpful Handbook
Dr. McLemore wrote a wonderful book to help people make good ethical choices in murky situations. This book will interest several types of readers. For those readers who need the occasional reality check, the two page summary on prudent conduct will fit the bill. I recommend business professionals read the summary at least once a week. For professionals wanting a practical course to improve ...
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The Truth Shall Set You Free: A Memoir11 reviews
Sally Lowe Whitehead
Westminster John Knox Press, 1999
The Compelling Account of a Journey Toward Wholeness
In a work of rare honesty and compassion, Sally Lowe Whitehead shares her heart with the reader. While focusing on the painful reality of discovering that her husband and the father of her children is gay, this work deals with much more. It is an honest and sometimes painful account of the author's coming to terms with a Church that is often unforgiving and unloving. Whitehead's journey toward ...
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Luke for Everyone (For Everyone)8 reviews
Tom Wright
Westminster John Knox Press, 2004
Simply the BEST
I cannot say enough good things about Wright's ability to write simply, with no big words, yet maintain deep theological and historical insight into the Scripture. His interpretations and ability to follow through with the gospel's on thought are unmatched in scholarship.
Every book in this series has Tom Wright's translations (of a periscope or small section of text, followed by a quick ...
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Power in the Pulpit: How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons8 reviews
Westminster John Knox Press, 2002
The Best
I have read fifteen books on preaching in the first six months of 2005. Having read them, if I could choose just one that helped me most as a preacher, it is this text. We hear from some of the best Black preachers in America - how they preach and a sample sermon of each. You sit at the feet of masters.
I am a minister - white - who gained tremendously from these ginats in our pulpits.
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Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments8 reviews
Joy Davidman
Westminster John Knox Press, 1985
A Rich Insightful Look at the Ten Commandments
Joy Davidman, aurthor, thinker, ex-atheists turn Chrsitian, wrote this book as an examination, not only on the Ten Comamndments, but as C.S. Lewis wrote, "The Flaw in us." Her insight is only matched by her style. This book is easy to read and, quite frankly, a page turner. Her theological, yet literaturily approach, places many deeply thoughful ideas into a richly receptive form. The insights ...
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Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic7 reviews
Reinhold Niebuhr
Westminster / John Knox Press, 1991
Green, alive and leafy
Reinhold Niebuhr's small book, Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic, is perhaps his most famous and popular book. It has informed and helped to shape the lives and ministries of seminarians, educators, ministers and other prophetic and ethical people since it was first published early in this century. Niebuhr recounts with astonishing honesty the difficulties facing those who would do ...
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A Biblical History of Israel7 reviews
Iain W. Provan, V. Philips Long, ...
Westminster John Knox Press, 2003
Turns critical methodology on its head.
The first 100 pages discusses the methodology of modern historiography and demonstrates how biblical critics continue to use out of date methodologies in their attempt to destroy the concept that ancient Israel actually existed. Especially telling is his discussion on testimony. They maintain that the biblical testimony about Israel's history is as valid a source as any other. Even modern ...
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Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians (For Everyone)7 reviews
Tom (N. T.) Wright
Westminster John Knox Press, 2004
Top biblical scholarhip for the lay audience
Revd. Wright is one of the best of the advocates of the New Perspective on St. Paul and his insights on these letters area happy corretive to several centuries of erroneous interpretation. This book is accessible to the educated layman and pastorally helpful. Highly recommended.
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Philosophy for Understanding Theology6 reviews
Diogenes Allen
Westminster John Knox Press, 1985
Outstanding
Allen, of Princeton Theological Seminary, writes here of the interrelatedness of philosophy and theology within the history of Christian thought and ideas. He covers the important influence of philosophical thinking on theology from the early years with Plato and Aristotle up to today. A must read for all serious about maturing in their theology. A very helpful book for those wanting to begin ...
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Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politics (Library of Theological Ethics)7 reviews
Reinhold Niebuhr
Westminster John Knox Press, 2002
Toolbox for American Civil Rights
Niebuhr's answer to the question, "What then should we do?" influenced MLK's thinking and found its way into the action plan of the American civil rights movement. This work is well thought out and, decades later, remains truly readable to those of us who are not trained in psychology, theology or sociology. If you feel powerlessly subjected to the tyranny of the majority and want to do ...
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You Learn by Living8 reviews
Eleanor Roosevelt
Westminster John Knox Press, 1983
You Learn by Living , Eleanor Roosevelt
This is a excellent book for any graduate, no matter what stage of life.
Eleanor Roosevelt offers advice on how to be the best person one can be.
Even at middle age I found this book to be very inspirational at this stage of my life. Live life to the fullest.
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A History of Christian Theology: An Introduction
William C. Placher
Westminster John Knox Press, 1983
"This intellectual history, a story of people and their ideas, is a delight to read. I predict it will be widely used not only in colleges and seminaries but also in lay institutes and study groups"........John D. Godsey in The Christian Century.
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On the Other Side: African Americans Tell of Healing6 reviews
Westminster John Knox Press, 2001
The Power of Healing
Although I am the editor who worked with Alita Anderson on this project, I still feel objective enough to make the argument that this is a book that will inspire and motivate you, because it did those two things for me each and every day that Alita and I poured over these heart-felt testimonies by people like you and I---People who were merely on a quest to find peace and healing in a world that ...
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The Metaphor of God Incarnate: Christology in a Pluralistic Age6 reviews
John Hick
Westminster John Knox Press, 2006
The thinking man's Spong
Writing in a wonderfully lucid, ego-free way Hick subjects the traditional, literal understandings of the Incarnation to a searching philosophical analysis and concludes that there is no way to make sense of the idea except as a Metaphor. This realization he hopes can liberate Christians so that they can embrace the rest of believing humanity instead of excluding it from their unnecessarily ...
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