Product Description: In this volume, the complex relationships between religion and the family is explored by fourteen scholars across a range of disciplines. Grounded in a shared focus on the evolving realities of family life and religious beliefs and practice in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, past and present, the essays address key questions: How has religion shaped conceptions of and life in the family? How have experiences of the family shaped religion? Drawing on Biblical studies, theology, spirituality, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and law, the contributors offer a new, more complex, picture and historically nuanced of this symbiotic relationship...read more

Product Description: In the wake of dramatic, recent changes in American family life, evangelical and mainline Protestant churches took markedly different positions on family change. This work explains why these two traditions responded so differently to family change and then goes on to explore how the stances of evangelical and mainline Protestant churches toward marriage and parenting influenced the husbands and fathers that fill their pews...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The metaphor of the flood is what this book is about. Floods surround us. They threaten to undo us. Nowhere is the coming flood of change more ominous than in the basic unit of society: the family. The purpose of New Millennium Families is to offer a roadmap of encouragement and hope to families facing their own personal floods, and to say, "You can soar above whatever flood that comes your way...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Easy Ways to Put Fun into Family Life Whether your children are toddlers or teens, it’s no too late to improve your family life. In Family Moments, companion to their popular book Marriage Moments, the Arps have assembled thirty-one fun-filled, fresh ideas for blessing your children...read more

Product Description: Secret to a Happy Home

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Analyzes the structure of families, examines the unexpresssed rules used to raise children, and discusses family violence, child abuse, and dysfunctional families (view table of contents)

Hundreds of practical, simple ideas designed to strengthen family ties during the holidays include suggestions for fun projects, special meals, and attractive, inexpensive gifts. Original. IP.

Product Description: Help for the American Family.

Product Description: A practical-skills book for parents of newborns through toddlers-with tips from effective parents across the country. Mueller's warm, anectodal style conveys advice on discipline, communication, sharing faith, developmental stages and more, all in the light of God's love for families...read more

Product Description: Without knowing what you believe or what is important to you, there is no foundation for building a strong family. Building Family Values: Using the Tools of Bonding and Boundaries offers a unique perspective specifically designed to help you establish that foundation as you: • set goals and determine values • gain insight on how to bond as a family • learn to set clear boundaries, respecting each other’s identity • learn ready-to-use communication skills • discover how to solve problems and manage anger • see a scriptural viewpoint of the equalitarian relationship between a husband and wife • gain understanding and ideas for improving relationships through case examples...read more

Product Description: Of the many wounds that mark modern families the most significant is the anguish of religious loss. Even when it isn't connected with a church or synagogue, the family is always a sacred unit and today finds itself in exile, increasingly out of step with a desacralized, technological world...read more

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Describes marriages between Christians and Jews, discusses conversion, wedding arrangements, religious holidays, and the instruction of children, and looks at potential problems mixed couples face

The author provides a personal historical review of his seventy-seven years as a journalist and a critic of the press and includes his insights into events and personalities of the twentieth century.