Product Description: Stations of the Heart is a father’s heartbreaking and hopeful story about his beloved son, in which a young man teaches his family “a new way to die” with wit, candor, and grace.As the book opens, Richard Lischer’s son, Adam, calls to tell his father, a professor of divinity at Duke University, that his cancer has returned...read more

Product Description: Parables make up one-third of Jesus' speech in the New Testament. In this volume, Richard Lischer provides an expert guide to these parables and proposes an important distinction between reading and interpreting the parables.Emphasizing the importance of reading the parables versus interpreting them, Lischer asserts that reading offers a kind of breathing space to explore historical, literary, theological, and socio-political dimensions of the parables and their various meanings, whereas interpreting implies an expert and critical position that must be defended...read more

Product Description: Joseph A. Sittler (1904-1987) was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, distinguished for his pioneering work in ecology and for his preeminence as a preacher. He gave both the Beecher Lectures at Yale and the Noble Lectures at Harvard...read more

With chapters on vocation, interpretation, narration, and reconciliation, "The End of Words" shows how faithful reading of scripture rather than flashy performance paves the way for effective preaching. Lischer challenges conventional storytelling with a deeper and more biblical view of narrative preaching. The ultimate purpose of preaching, he argues, is to speak God's peace, the message of reconciliation.

The author describes the joys and challenges of taking on his first parish as a young Lutheran pastor in the early 1970s, describing the clash of cultures that occurred when a young, liberal, educated suburbanite came to a rural, farming community in Illinois, a conservative, tightly knit community plagued by poverty and other problems. Reprint.

Product Description: Book by Lischer, Richard

The author describes the joys and challenges of taking on his first parish as a young Lutheran pastor in the early 1970s, describing the clash of cultures that occurred when a young, liberal, educated suburbanite came to a rural, farming community in Illinois, a conservative, tightly knit community plagued by poverty and other problems. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Chronicles Martin Luther King, Jr.'s religious development from his childhood as a 'preacher's kid' in segregated Atlanta to the most influential orator of the twentieth century. Reprint. K. PW. AB. UP.