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"A companion to her previous Hidden Women of the Gospels, this new volume tells stories or "midrash" based on named or unnamed women who appear in the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles"--

The chaotic individualism of these times demands a prayer practice that summons a communal prophetic action with those who are marginalized in our fractured economic system and broken world. Written by the author of A Nun on the Bus, this book explores the quest for a justice that works for all and explores what it means to be "holy" in today''s world.

This is the first volume of "Walking with God," the best of Howard Thurman''s "sermon series," previously unpublished sermons that Thurman organized about a common theme. The sermons presented in Moral Struggles and the Prophets, all delivered in the 1940s and 50s, cover Jesus, Paul, and the great prophets of Israel, as well as figures who exemplified the "moral struggle" and others who "walked with God," including Albert Schweitzer, Tolstoy, Blake, Buddha, St. Francis, and Meister Eckhart.

Here is a book of deep wisdom from a prophetic rabbi who has for fifty years worked to promote a progressive spirit of renewal that connects Jews, Christians, and people of other faiths. We all experience earthquakes in our lives-social, personal, religious. From those earthquakes, Rabbi Wolpert explains, renewal and new life can come forth if we learn to "dance" in the midst of the earthquake.

The case method approach is carefully explained and illustrated in this popular classroom text. Designed specifically for use in undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, this new edition has eleven revised and five new cases, including cases on gun violence, immigrant detention, genetic manipulation and enhancement in humans, hookup culture and sexual violence, and families with transgender children.

In 1987 Pope Francis published a small collection of letters by Jesuit Superiors General written in the eighteenth century at a time of grave suffering for the Society of Jesus as it faced suppression by the Vatican. These documents outlined a spiritual path for the church as a whole in times of "confusion and tribulation." Now Pope Francis has authorized this new edition, to which are added his own reflections in a time of renewed suffering for the people of God-specifically, the scandal of abuse.

In these heart-stirring reflections by Pope Francis, readers will meet Jesus and discover hidden treasure in the individual lines and words of Mark''s Gospel. Useful for both study and preaching, these pages simply allow us to be guided by Pope Francis, a master of prayerful silence, so that we may embrace a simple and living intimacy with Jesus, the Word made flesh.

In her latest book, scientist and theologian Ilia Delio takes up the challenge of reconciling evolution and religion with particular attention to the role of Artificial Intelligence. She argues that AI represents the latest extension of human evolution, which has implications not only for science but also for religion. If the "first axial age" gave rise to the great religions, she sees us now on the cusp of a "second axial age," in which AI, oriented by new religious sensibilities, can bring about an ecological re-enchantment of the earth.

This book brings together God''s call, the cries of the world and of the earth today, and charisms in consecrated life in a way that dynamically engages the vows, prayer, community, and ministry for the particular time and contexts in which we live. Here is a valuable theological and pastoral resource for the conversion, transformation, and revitalization needed in consecrated life today.

Through stories of real children and families, Dignity and Justice explores the issue of migration to the southern border of the United States and why, including the historical, social, legal and political dynamics. It highlights the almost insurmountable legal hurdles they face if they actually reach their destination and defines and encourages a Catholic response to this heartbreaking situation.

This volume presents selected lectures on pastoral, theological, and mission themes by Cardinal Tagle, the Archbishop of Manila, a leader in the Asian Church, and a key figure in promoting Pope Francis's vision for the church.

Through the lens of Christology, a new approach to the theology of religions.

Essays, fiction, poems, meditations, and inspired ideas by renowned writers from around the world offer readers inspiring reflections on the grace and rewards of being kind. Included are selections by Victor Hugo, Anne Lamott, James Martin, Dorothy Day, George Saunders, Mother Teresa, and many others.

Pope Francis shares wisdom and inspiration with those he calls the "hope and future" of the world.

Drawn from the 2017 conference of the College Theology Society, these essays by prominent academics, ecclesiastics, and social scientists present historical analyses, theological investigations, and literary reflections, all seeking to parse the future of American Catholicism by reaching a greater understanding of its present moment.

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the archbishop of Manila, has emerged in recent years as an important voice of the Asian Church. In this autobiographical work, Cardinal Tagle, with openness and frankness, freely shares his thoughts on religious pluralism, social justice, an ethic of ecology, and the challenges facing the church in the 21st century. His deep commitment to the poor and his ardent faith in the gospel message shine throughout these memories and reflections.

Hill-Fletcher shows that the Christian habit of seeing themselves as the ΓÇ£chosen onesΓÇ¥ has often been translated into racial categories as well. In other words, Christian supremacy has historically lent itself to white supremacy, with disastrous consequences. Hill Fletcher proposes educational strategies to disentangle the two that will help us move forward toward racial healing in America.

Mitchell argues that Christian global development work should be celebrated for the unique perspectives and gifts it brings to the world s poor precisely because of its faith-based roots and expressions."

Interreligious dialogue has encouraged many theologians in all major religious traditions to consider whether other religions may offer a different but nevertheless genuine and valid path of salvation or liberation. Perry Schmidt- Leukel, in this extended version of his 2015 Gifford Lectures, argues that this position often called "religious pluralism must be developed within particular insights supplied by each of the major traditions. Although severe barriers to religious pluralism exist within each tradition, he shows nevertheless that possibilities for a pluralist understanding exist in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Chinese religions. Interreligious theology, he argues, carries the promise of being the theology of the future.

One of the foremost Catholic proponents of ecological awareness provides an overview of the development of Catholic teaching on the environment up to the present, and offers a commentary on the Encyclical "Laudato Si" by Pope Francis, the full text of which appears in this volume.

For many years the theology of liberation, which emerged from Latin America in the 1970s, was viewed with suspicion and even hostility in Rome. In this historic exchange, Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, one of the original architects of liberation theology, and Cardinal Gerhard Müller, current Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, offer a new and positive chapter. Cardinal Müller, who as a student of Gutiérrez spent many summers working in Peru, writes with deep feeling and conviction about the contributions of liberation theology to church teaching--particularly in its articulation of the preferential option for the poor. In his own contribution here, Gutiérrez lays out the essential ideas of liberation theology, its ecclesial location, and its fresh enunciation of the gospel for our time.

This is the personal story of a modern-day mystic and prophet that will inspire seekers from all faiths. The memoir begins with a childhood mystical experience and continues with the author's responses to the Christ she began to recognize in her brothers and sisters everywhere.

A comprehensive survey fo Christian spirituality. Complete enough to use as a textbook and general enough to attract the general reader.

This comprehensive study of African Christology includes accounts of academic Christologies from French- and English-speaking Africa, but perhaps most importantly, reports on the views of ordinary Africans on Jesus and their relationship with him.

This rich collection of nearly a hundred stories from every part of Africa--legends and folktales, myths and parables, poems, prayers and proverbs--probes deeply into the heart and our relationships with God and one another.