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  • The Stories Congregations Tell

    Flourishing in the Face of Transition and Change

    Edited by Joel Thiessen, Arch Chee Keen Wong, Mark Chapman ...
    Congregations are story-telling communities. The stories they tell, which link a community's past, present, and future, can play an important role in whether a congregation flourishes or not. The Stories Congregations Tell features detailed case study research from seven dynamic Canadian congregations across theological traditions and geographical regions. Readers will encounter narratives that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Millennial Mosaic

    How Pluralism and Choice Are Shaping Canadian Youth and the Future of Canada

    by Reginald W. Bibby, Joel Thiessen, Monetta Bailey ...
    The bottom line: Millennials are looking goodThere’s a lot of consternation about the Millennial generation — Canada’s youngest adults born since the mid-1980s and now reaching their thirties. But the speculation has not been accompanied by sound and comprehensive information — until now.Highly respected sociologist and veteran trend-tracker Reginald W. Bibby teams up with two Gen X colleagues, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • God Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

    Decline and Resilience in the Canadian Church

    by Michael Wood Daly ...
    The church in Canada is in trouble. Media reports suggest that nine thousand churches are likely to close over the next ten years. The United Church of Canada reports closing a congregation a week. The Anglican Church of Canada anticipates closing its last congregation by 2040, and the Roman Catholic Church, Canada's largest religious denomination, reports having closed one-fifth of the tradition ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Meaning of Sunday

    The Practice of Belief in a Secular Age

    by Joel Thiessen ...
    Fewer Canadians identify with a religion, believe in a god, or attend weekly religious services than in past decades. What explains higher and lower levels of religiosity? Is secularization a myth or reality? What impact does religiosity or secularity have on a society’s social and civil fabric?In The Meaning of Sunday, Joel Thiessen addresses these questions by weaving together narratives from ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • None of the Above

    Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada

    by Joel Thiessen, Dr. Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme ...
    Series Book 4 - Secular Studies
    Compares secular attitudes characterizing “religious nones” in the United States and CanadaAlmost a quarter of American and Canadian adults are nonreligious, while teens and young adults are even less likely to identify religiously. None of the Above explores the growing phenomenon of “religious nones” in North America. Who are the religious nones? Why, and where, is this population growing?While ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • The New Parish

    How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community

    by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, Dwight J. Friesen ...
    Christianity Today Award of MeritReaders' Choice Awards Honorable MentionBest Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore"When . . . faith communities begin connecting together, in and for the neighborhood, they learn to depend on God for strength to love, forgive and show grace like never before. . . . The gospel becomes so much more tangible and compelling when the local ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Benedict Option

    A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

    by Rod Dreher ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Already the most discussed and most important religious book of the decade." —David BrooksIn this controversial bestseller, Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life.**From the inside, American churches have been hollowed out by the departure of young people and by an insipid pseudo ... Read more

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  • Multi-Voiced Church

    by Stuart Murray, Sian Murray ...
    Multi-voiced Church argues strongly and persuasively for churches in which everyone is important for the well-being and growth of the community.The New Testament indicates that the early churches were multi-voiced, participative and expectant that the Holy Spirit would speak through all members of the community. First-generation renewal movements have typically been multi-voiced, recovering this ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Lowering Higher Education

    The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education

    by James Cote, Anton L. Allahar ...
    What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Emergence Christianity

    What It Is, Where It Is Going, and Why It Matters

    by Phyllis Tickle ...
    Whatever else one might say about Emergence Christianity, says Phyllis Tickle, one must agree it is shifting and re-configuring itself in such a prodigious way as to defy any final assessments or absolute pronouncements. Yet the insightful and well-read Tickle offers us a dispatch from the field to keep us informed of where Emergence Christianity now stands, where it may be going, and how it is ... Read more

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  • Failure: What Jesus Said About Sin, Mistakes and Messing Stuff Up

    The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2023

    by Emma Ineson ...
    'A superb book on failure . . . humorous, realistic and absolutely not judgemental.'JUSTIN WELBYIn 2019, Emma Ineson wrote about ambition and what it means for Christians to be successful. And then there was a global pandemic . . . Suddenly failure began to feel very much more familiar than success.But what is failure? What did Jesus think of it? What did he say about sin, mistakes and generally ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Is Technology Good for Education?

    by Neil Selwyn ...
    Series series Digital Futures
    Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts, the rapid digitization of education over the past ten years has undoubtedly been a ‘good thing’.Is Technology Good For Education? ... Read more

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