• Ex-Gays?: A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation, By Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse
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    Ex-Gays?

    A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation

    by Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse

    Is it possible to be an ex gay? Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse present social science research on homosexuality designed to answer the questions:

    • Can those who receive religiously-informed psychotherapy experience a change in their sexual orientation?
    • Are such programs harmful to participants?

    The results show that outcomes for this kind of religiously-informed ...

  • Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community, By Andrew Marin
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    Love Is an Orientation

    Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community

    by Andrew Marin
    Foreword by Brian McLaren

    Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year Award winner

    Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner

    Relevant Magazine: Top 20 Best Overall Books winner

    Englewood Review of Books: Top 20 Best Overall Books winner

    Christian Manifesto Lime Award winner

    Andrew Marin's life changed ...

  • The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition, By James A. Herrick
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    The Making of the New Spirituality

    The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition

    by James A. Herrick

    • A 2004 ECPA Gold Medallion Finalist
    • One of Preaching magazine's 2004 "Top Ten Books Every Preacher Should Read"

    Neo-paganism.
    The paranormal.
    Astrology.
    Nature religion.
    Holistic thinking.
    Healing.
    New Age.
    New spirituality.

    A massive shift in Western religious attitudes has taken place almost ...

  • The Galileo Connection, By Charles E. Hummel
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    The Galileo Connection

    by Charles E. Hummel

    The church disagreed with Galileo. That set off a controversy that rages on today. The passion remains but the issues have changed and the arguments have become more complex. Do miracles conflict with scientific laws? How did the universe begin? Does the creation story in Genesis conflict with evolution? Hummel sets these controversies in historical perspective by telling the fascinating stories ...

  • Science & Its Limits: The Natural Sciences in Christian Perspective, By Del Ratzsch
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    Science & Its Limits

    The Natural Sciences in Christian Perspective

    Contours of Christian Philosophy

    by Del Ratzsch

    Science, especially naturalistic science, has come under fire of late. No longer does it command the near universal respect it once held. From the right has come a fresh attack on Darwinism and arguments for intelligent design. From the left postmodern theorists have attacked the very notion of objective truth claims, scientific or otherwise.

    Into the fray Del Ratzsch breathes a breath of ...

  • Science & Christianity: Four Views, Edited by Richard F. Carlson
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    Science & Christianity

    Four Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Edited by Richard F. Carlson
    Contributions by Wayne F. Frair, Gary D. Patterson, Jean Pond, Stephen C. Meyer, and Howard J. Van Till

    Science and Christianity. Are they partners or opponents?

    Christians have long debated the relationship of science to faith. With the rise of Darwinism, however, the issue took on new significance. Darwinism appeared to undermine the authority of the Bible and the credibility of Christianity by freeing science of the need for a Creator. Rethinking the relationship between ...

  • The Right Questions: Truth, Meaning  Public Debate, By Phillip E. Johnson
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    The Right Questions

    Truth, Meaning Public Debate

    by Phillip E. Johnson
    Foreword by Nancy Pearcey

    • An ECPA 2003 Gold Medallion Finalist

    Phillip E. Johnson pries the lid off public debate about questions of ultimate concern--questions often suppressed by our society's intellectual elite. Moving far beyond matters of creation and evolution, Johnson outlines the questions we all ought to be asking about the meaning of human history, the limits of scientific inquiry, ...

  • Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age, By J. Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh
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    Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be

    Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age

    by J. Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh

    • Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year

    The carnivalesque, pluralistic culture in hich we live can be seen as a consequence of the breakdown of modernity (which touted itself as the "greatest show on earth"), combined with a recognition of the socially constructed character of reality.

    Since the old construction has ...

  • Politics for the Greatest Good: The Case for Prudence in the Public Square, By Clarke Forsythe
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    Politics for the Greatest Good

    The Case for Prudence in the Public Square

    by Clarke Forsythe

    With a level-headed voice, leading policy strategist Clarke Forsythe speaks clearly into the fray of political striving. Here he campaigns for a recovery of a rich understanding of the virtue of prudence, and for its application by policymakers and citizens to contemporary public policy. As Forsythe explains, prudence, in its classical sense, is the ability to apply wisdom to right action. In ...

  • The Limits of Liberal Democracy: Politics and Religion at the End of Modernity, By Scott H. Moore
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    The Limits of Liberal Democracy

    Politics and Religion at the End of Modernity

    by Scott H. Moore

    Exploring the question of the place of religion in the modern nation-state, Scott H. Moore observes that the easy alliance between the modern liberal democracy and Christian faith in particular is showing some serious stress fractures. He offers an incisive analysis of the ways government, operating according to the ideals of a liberal democracy, has encroached on religious freedom and how the church, ...

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