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With Your Latte

A Little Wisdom to Lighten Your Way

by Charles R. Ringma ...

Living in challenging times it is easy for us to become nostalgic or disgruntled. However, we can also become more reflective and empowered. With Your Latte is a small resource to help you move in the direction of hope and human agency. Here is a little wisdom for your engagement to lighten your way. ... Read more

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Living in challenging times it is easy for us to become nostalgic or disgruntled. However, we can also become more reflective and empowered. With Your Latte is a small resource to help you move in the direction of hope and human agency. Here is a little wisdom for your engagement to lighten your way.
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A Fragile Hope

Cultivating a Hermitage of the Heart

by Charles R. Ringma ...

We are living in challenging times. And it is easy to escape, pine for the "good old days," or unrealistically dream our way into the future. Instead, we are invited, in this book, to face our troubled world, to identify our inner struggles of faith, and to voice our anxieties and pain. And most importantly we are invited to wrestle with the God who so often seems absent. Living with a fragile ... Read more

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We are living in challenging times. And it is easy to escape, pine for the "good old days," or unrealistically dream our way into the future. Instead, we are invited, in this book, to face our troubled world, to identify our inner struggles of faith, and to voice our anxieties and pain. And most importantly we are invited to wrestle with the God who so often seems absent. Living with a fragile
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In the Shadow of a Rugged Cross

Reflections on the Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

by Charles R. Ringma ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is well-known for his resistance to Hitler's Nazification of the Lutheran Church in Germany and his opposition to Hitler's broader political agenda. He is also celebrated as an innovative theologian and as a faithful pastor. His Cost of Discipleship is now a Christian classic. What animated Bonhoeffer's life and mission was a profound christological spirituality. This ... Read more

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer is well-known for his resistance to Hitler's Nazification of the Lutheran Church in Germany and his opposition to Hitler's broader political agenda. He is also celebrated as an innovative theologian and as a faithful pastor. His Cost of Discipleship is now a Christian classic. What animated Bonhoeffer's life and mission was a profound christological spirituality. This
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A Pocket Christian Catechism

Keeping the Faith in the Challenges of the 21st Century

by Charles R. Ringma ...

We are living in an age of confusion and uncertainty. This has also impacted the Christian church. It is important, therefore, to get some ground under our feet. And we will need more than only a Sunday service. There are things we will need to do ourselves to strengthen our faith. A Pocket Christian Catechism may be of help. It contains the basics of the Christian faith, such as prayers, creedal ... Read more

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We are living in an age of confusion and uncertainty. This has also impacted the Christian church. It is important, therefore, to get some ground under our feet. And we will need more than only a Sunday service. There are things we will need to do ourselves to strengthen our faith. A Pocket Christian Catechism may be of help. It contains the basics of the Christian faith, such as prayers, creedal
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Living and Sharing the Story: Being Good News for the World

Mission Series: One

by Charles R. Ringma ...

These are challenging times. And the church and its people, including those who are young in the faith or in years, are ever struggling with how to be the followers of Jesus in the present-day world. This book may well be of help. It lays the foundation of understanding the nature and purposes of God in creation and redemption, the calling of the church, and how to live in love and service to the ... Read more

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These are challenging times. And the church and its people, including those who are young in the faith or in years, are ever struggling with how to be the followers of Jesus in the present-day world. This book may well be of help. It lays the foundation of understanding the nature and purposes of God in creation and redemption, the calling of the church, and how to live in love and service to the
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When All Else Fails

Poetic Wisdom

by Charles R. Ringma ...

When All Else Fails is a book of poetic reflections that taps into the hopes and anxieties of a humanity that is no longer as self-assured as it once was. Marked by a pandemic and loss of faith in our political systems, the workplace, and the faith community, we are all struggling for a surer pathway for our feet. While When All Else Fails is no cheap recipe for recovery, it does provide a deep ... Read more

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When All Else Fails is a book of poetic reflections that taps into the hopes and anxieties of a humanity that is no longer as self-assured as it once was. Marked by a pandemic and loss of faith in our political systems, the workplace, and the faith community, we are all struggling for a surer pathway for our feet. While When All Else Fails is no cheap recipe for recovery, it does provide a deep
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Of Martyrs, Monks, and Mystics

A Yearly Meditational Reader of Ancient Spiritual Wisdom

Edited by Irene Alexander, Charles R. Ringma ...

Everywhere there are voices calling for a new Reformation, marked by a return to the older sources of Christian wisdom, and for drinking anew the inspiration of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, the church fathers, those from the monastic tradition and the medieval Christian mystics. This anthology of original sources in contemporary English, structured in a meditational mode, could well be the rich ... Read more

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Everywhere there are voices calling for a new Reformation, marked by a return to the older sources of Christian wisdom, and for drinking anew the inspiration of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, the church fathers, those from the monastic tradition and the medieval Christian mystics. This anthology of original sources in contemporary English, structured in a meditational mode, could well be the rich
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Living a Sheltered Life

Christian Life Lessons through Homeless Youth

by Paul Cummings ...

As I reflected on working in a Teen Challenge Youth Emergency Accommodation Shelter, I began to realize that in serving others, I too had been greatly served. I didn't work at the shelter to receive blessings or any such thing. My understanding was that I worked there to help others less fortunate than I, in obedience to God's will for my life. But I did get blessed. Abundantly! It's a spiritual ... Read more

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As I reflected on working in a Teen Challenge Youth Emergency Accommodation Shelter, I began to realize that in serving others, I too had been greatly served. I didn't work at the shelter to receive blessings or any such thing. My understanding was that I worked there to help others less fortunate than I, in obedience to God's will for my life. But I did get blessed. Abundantly! It's a spiritual
... Read more
Hear the Ancient Wisdom

A Meditational Reader for the Whole Year from the Early Church Fathers up to the Pre-Reformation

by Charles R. Ringma ...

There is a hunger in the modern world for spirituality. One vast resource of spiritual wisdom comes from the pre-Reformation church--from the martyrs of the first centuries of Christianity, through the long tradition of monasticism, to the medieval Christian mystics. These are the deep wells of Christian reflection from persons such as John Chrysostom, Augustine, Benedict, Francis of Assisi, ... Read more

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There is a hunger in the modern world for spirituality. One vast resource of spiritual wisdom comes from the pre-Reformation church--from the martyrs of the first centuries of Christianity, through the long tradition of monasticism, to the medieval Christian mystics. These are the deep wells of Christian reflection from persons such as John Chrysostom, Augustine, Benedict, Francis of Assisi,
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In the Midst of Much-Doing

Cultivating a Missional Spirituality

by Charles R. Ringma ...

How are we to sustain activism and compassion amidst the never-ending crises of the twenty-first century? While the concern for social justice is deeply biblical, cynicism, burnout, and despair are all too common side effects when action is divorced from contemplation. To effectively serve as the hands and feet of Jesus, the church must attend to the revitalization of its inner life through the ... Read more

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How are we to sustain activism and compassion amidst the never-ending crises of the twenty-first century? While the concern for social justice is deeply biblical, cynicism, burnout, and despair are all too common side effects when action is divorced from contemplation. To effectively serve as the hands and feet of Jesus, the church must attend to the revitalization of its inner life through the
... Read more
Plunging into the Kingdom Way

Practicing the Shared Strokes of Community, Hospitality, Justice, and Confession

by Tim Dickau ...

Series Book 7 - New Monastic Library: Resources for Radical Discipleship
What practices might a community of faith take up that will bear witness to the alternative world Jesus envisions and calls us towards? That is the question that Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, an initially small and fragile group of Christ followers, has kept asking over the last twenty years. Along the way, this small group has spawned a vibrant community of faith that has traveled along four ... Read more

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What practices might a community of faith take up that will bear witness to the alternative world Jesus envisions and calls us towards? That is the question that Grandview Calvary Baptist Church, an initially small and fragile group of Christ followers, has kept asking over the last twenty years. Along the way, this small group has spawned a vibrant community of faith that has traveled along four
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A Glimpse of the Kingdom in Academia

Academic Formation as Radical Discipleship

by Irene Alexander ...

Series Book 11 - New Monastic Library: Resources for Radical Discipleship
University is a major way that our society prepares professionals and leaders in education, health, government, business, arts, church--all components of our communal lives. Although the beginnings of the first universities were Christian, academia has become more and more adrift from these foundations. We have lost not only the union, the interwovenness of theological and academic understandings, ... Read more

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University is a major way that our society prepares professionals and leaders in education, health, government, business, arts, church--all components of our communal lives. Although the beginnings of the first universities were Christian, academia has become more and more adrift from these foundations. We have lost not only the union, the interwovenness of theological and academic understandings,
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