Holy Mischief
Holy Mischief

Author: Mindy Makant

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-09-23

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 153264924X

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The ELCA has been ordaining women for fifty years. Mindy Makant interviews eighty-five female pastors across the Southeast about their lives as women in ministry in a culture that has been slow to embrace them. This book is their story.

Authority Vested
Authority Vested

Author: Mary Todd

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780802844576

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Like other major Protestant denominations in the United States, the 2.6-million-member Luther Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), founded in 1847, has struggled with issues of relevance and identity in society at large. In this book Mary Todd chronicles the history of this struggle for identity in the LCMS, critically examining the central--often contentious--issue of authority in relation to Scripture, ministry, and the role of women in the church. In recounting the history of the denomination, Todd uses the ministry of women as a case study to show how the LCMS has continually redefined its concept of authority in order to maintain its own historic identity. Based on oral histories and solid archival research, Authority Vested not only explores the internal life of a significant denomination but also offers critical insights for other churches seeking to maintain their Christian distinctives in religiously pluralistic America.

Through These Doors and Beyond
Through These Doors and Beyond

Author: First Evangelical Lutheran Church

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-10-06

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1456798936

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Through These Doors and Beyond is a history of First Evangelical Lutheran Church taken from early records and stories shared by members of the church. The history answers questions about the beginning of traditions and describes changes that have taken place over the past 150 years. It tells the story of a church established in 1860 by German immigrants who came to a new country and settled in Wisconsin shortly after it became a state. These settlers in the Beaver Dam area brought skills and talents important to the development of a new land. They also brought strong religious beliefs resulting in the formation of the Lutheran Society in the community. As the history of the church reveals there is a long tradition of keeping pace with the needs on the local scene as well as reaching out beyond its doors.

The Ways of the Alongsider
The Ways of the Alongsider

Author: Bill Mowry

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1631465724

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The Ways of the Alongsider is more than a Bible study. It's a new pathway for making disciples in life2life ways!

Seculosity
Seculosity

Author: David Zahl

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1506449441

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At the heart of our current moment lies a universal yearning, writes David Zahl, not to be happy or respected so much as enough--what religions call "righteous." To fill the void left by religion, we look to all sorts of everyday activities--from eating and parenting to dating and voting--for the identity, purpose, and meaning once provided on Sunday morning. In our striving, we are chasing a sense of enoughness. But it remains ever out of reach, and the effort and anxiety are burning us out. Seculosity takes a thoughtful yet entertaining tour of American "performancism" and its cousins, highlighting both their ingenuity and mercilessness, all while challenging the conventional narrative of religious decline. Zahl unmasks the competing pieties around which so much of our lives revolve, and he does so in a way that's at points playful, personal, and incisive. Ultimately he brings us to a fresh appreciation for the grace of God in all its countercultural wonder.