Product Description: What does God expect of us?Is our faith only about going to church, studying the Bible, and avoiding the most serious sins—or does God expect more?Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it?Fifteen years ago Rich Stearns came face-to-face with that question as he sat in a mud hut in Rakai, Uganda, listening to the heartbreaking story of an orphaned child...read more

Tax practitioners today face numerous professional and ethical issues that can be quite taxing. CPAs, tax attorneys, and return preparers must comply with an array of AICPA, ABA, IRS, and Tax Court rules to avoid costly penalties, malpractice liability, or censure. Standards of Tax Practice-Fifth Edition will help you protect yourself and your practice by explaining the rules and standards of professional conduct and a practitioner's professional, ethical, and legal obligations. Now you can get expert advice from the most distinguished authorities in the field. Bringing unsurpassed experience, authors, Bernard Wolfman, James P. Holden, and Kenneth L. Harris evaluate the roles of the practitioner as both advocate and advisor in the settings of compliance, controversy, and tax planning, including such hot topics as corporate tax shelters and the new tax practitioner privileges.

While much progress has been made toward poverty alleviation, many well-intentioned efforts have led Christians to actions that are not only ineffective, but leave the most vulnerable in a worse situation than before. Is there a better answer? Combining biblical exegesis with proven economic principles, For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty equips Christians with both a solid biblical and economic understanding of how best to care for the poor and foster sustainable economic development. With contributions from fifteen leading Christian economists, theologians, historians, and practitioners, For the Least of These presents the case for why markets and trade are the world’s best hope for alleviating poverty.

Product Description: Debates on public policy in the United States are shaped, in part, by moral and religious commitments of individuals and communities. Heclo (2003) writes in Religion Returns to the Public Square, Government policy and religious matters ...read more

Product Description: In order to fight for a more just society, it is necessary to elaborate upon the theoretical reflections that critically analyze the faith and myths that support and legitimize the trajectory of contemporary capitalism and its utopia, as well as the faith and the complex relation that exists in between the notions of the subject and societies...read more

Product Description: People are hungry to make a difference in their community, yet most don’t know where to start. In fact, “serving the least” is often one of the most neglected biblical mandates in the church.Barefoot Church shows listeners how today’s church can be a catalyst for individual, collective, and social renewal in any context...read more

Product Description: Tax practitioners today face numerous professional and ethical issues that can be quite taxing. CPAs, tax attorneys, and return preparers must comply with an array of AICPA, ABA, IRS, and Tax Court rules to avoid costly penalties, malpractice liability, or censure...read more