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  • What Makes Our Relationships Meaningful, Satisfying, or Fulfilling?

    Answers from Social Scientists and the Wisdom of Ordinary People

    by Thomas G. Kirkpatrick ...
    This book features a unique research project: it spans fifty years. It seeks to replicate in 2025 findings from research in 1975 asking this question: What makes our relationships meaningful, satisfying, or fulfilling? Look for answers from the expertise of social scientists and the wisdom of ordinary people. The original research centers on four relational qualities: communication openness, being ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Signs of Hope and Health in Mainline Churches

    Guidelines for Creating Hopeful and Healthy Congregations

    by Thomas G. Kirkpatrick ...
    This book features findings from a new research project with this surprising conclusion: It's time to replace lament over problems facing twenty-first-century mainline churches with aspirations of hope and possibilities for health. Core beliefs about hope and guidelines for making hope happen are introduced. Eighteen models of healthy congregations over four decades are highlighted--some research ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Better Ways to Better Relationships in the Church

    Guidelines for Practicing Humility, Experiencing Empathy, Feeling Compassion, Showing Kindness, Expressing Appreciation, and Doing Justice

    by Thomas G. Kirkpatrick ...
    Most congregations and faith communities are eager to help people transform their relationships for the better--especially in these controversial and divisive times. This book targets six topics to create healthier relationships and repair relationship breakdowns: practicing humility, experiencing empathy, feeling compassion, showing kindness, expressing appreciation, and doing justice. You will ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Small Groups in the Church

    A Handbook for Creating Community

    by Thomas G. Kirkpatrick ...
    This planning and leader training handbook offers a distinctive broad-based, small-group approach to building community. From the Jewish havurot to Christian koinonia, you will gain a thorough understanding of community, learn how to plan an effective small-group ministry, how to select and train leaders for all kinds of small groups, and how to start small groups that are a part of and not apart ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Communication in the Church

    A Handbook for Healthier Relationships

    by Thomas G. Kirkpatrick ...
    Communication is integral to the mission of the church, but it can go awry in myriad ways, both obvious and subtle. Communication in the Church helps congregations create healthier ways for their members to relate to one another for greater personal and congregational success. The book offers practical guidelines to help readers become more effective in how they build relationships, lead meetings, ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

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    The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    Revised for the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication, Alfie Kohn's landmark challenge to carrot-and-stick psychology features updated reflections and research in a major new afterword by the author.Our basic strategy for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summed up in six words: Do this and you’ll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Growing Young

    Six Essential Strategies to Help Young People Discover and Love Your Church

    by Kara Powell, Jake Mulder, Brad Griffin ...
    All churches grow old. Strategic churches grow young.Churches are losing both members and vitality as increasing numbers of young people disengage. Based on groundbreaking research with over 250 of the nation's leading congregations, Growing Young provides a strategy any church can use to involve and retain teenagers and young adults.This strategy includes six core commitments for growing young:● ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • Against Empathy

    The Case for Rational Compassion

    by Paul Bloom ...
    “Like a tough-to-crack case against an idea that most of us have long known is key to repairing the world… will legitimately change how you think about the world and your own sense of morality.” —New York MagazineNew York Post Best Book of the YearWe often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Will to Lead,The Skill to Teach: Transforming Schools at Every Level

    Transforming Schools at Every Level

    by Anthony Muhammad, Sharroky Hollie ...
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    School improvement begins with self-examination and honest dialogue about socialization, bias, discrimination, and cultural insensitivity. The authors acknowledge both the structural and sociological issues that contribute to low-performing schools, and offer multiple tools and strategies to assess and improve classroom management, increase literacy, establish academic vocabulary, and contribute ... Read more

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  • The Making of a Leader

    Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development

    by Dr. J. Robert Clinton ...
    You can be a great leader. Here's how.Your job title, education, and training won't make you a great leader—only God can do that. But The Making of a Leader can help you see where you are in the process and what steps you should take next. After examining the lives of hundreds of historical, biblical, and contemporary leaders, Dr. J. Robert Clinton gained perspective on how leaders develop over a ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fierce Self-Compassion

    How to Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Your Power, and Thrive

    by Kristin Neff ...
    The bestselling author of Self-Compassion follows up her groundbreaking book with new ideas that expand our notion of self-kindness and its capacity to transform our lives, showing women how to balance tender self-acceptance with fierce action to claim their power and change the world.Kristin Neff changed how we talk about self-care with her enormously popular first book, Self-Compassion. Now, ten ... Read more

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  • Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World

    Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Home and at School

    by Katharine Beals ...
    Empowering advice for parents of bright, quirky, socially awkward kids—an educator’s clarion call to better understand, appreciate, and nurture our “left-brainers”Does your child:• Have impressive intellectual abilities but seem puzzled by ordinary interactions with other children?• Have deep, all-absorbing interests or seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of certain subjects?• Bring home mediocre ... Read more

    $14.99 USD