religion / christian life / social issues
Showing results 1-21 of 21
Filter Results OPEN +
The Faith Factor and Social Welfare
Evidence, Practice, Policy
Price: $69.99
ISBN: 9781481323505
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-12-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-12-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
730 Pages
The Faith Factor and Social Welfare: Evidence, Practice, Policy comprises case studies and impact evaluations on the important work done by faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the United States to...
Proclamation Beyond the Pulpit
The Expansive Homiletical Practice of Black Women
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481324243
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-09-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
164 Pages
Preaching is typically considered to be a practice confined to ministry within the institutional church. Studies of preaching are often filtered through the lens of the pulpit, with Black women rarely...
John Clifford and Radical Nonconformity
1836–1923
Price: $69.99
ISBN: 9781481321976
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-09-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-07-16
Imprint: 1845 Books
373 Pages
In 1966, Michael R. Watts completed his Oxford dissertation on the life of John Clifford (1836-1923). Although Watts intended for the work to be published, he passed away unexpectedly and the dissertation...
Restlessness and Belonging
Augustinian Wisdom for the Digital Empire
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481319744
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-09-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-08-30
Imprint: Baylor University Press
312 Pages
Life is to be lived rather than consumed.In a digital environment and market society where everything is for sale, the human face is one more object to exchange. Devices often hold our attention captive...
Madness, Theocracy, and Anarchism
Political and Cultural Reflections on the Church
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481322379
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-07-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-07-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
334 Pages
According to some of the most influential thinkers of the modern era, it is madness to subordinate all one’s aims to one end. Such thinkers believe that the church in particular should limit itself...
Good News for the World
Baptist World Alliance Resolutions and Statements, 1905-2023
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481318341
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-03-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-02-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
794 Pages
Since 1905, the Baptist World Alliance has served as a prophetic witness for Jesus Christ on behalf of the global Baptist family. At its World Congress, General Council, and Executive Committee meetings,...
God of the Whirlwind
Horror, Memory, and Story in Black Waco
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9781481322560
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-02-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-02-01
Imprint: 1845 Books
168 Pages
God of the Whirlwind is a book about the power of storytelling traditions to carry memories and shape ways of living. It assembles stories from members of the Black Waco community--stories that have...
Over from Union Road
My Christian-Left-Intellectual Life
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481322416
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2024-11-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2024-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
332 Pages
Gary Dorrien, the renowned social ethicist, theologian, and intellectual historian whose many books are routinely described as magisterial and definitive, in this book turns to interpret his own life...
Entangled Being
Unoriginal Sin and Wicked Problems
Price: $47.99
ISBN: 9781481321426
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2024-10-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2024-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
262 Pages
Contemporary societies face many complex injustices, from environmental devastation that threatens our long-term prospects, to human trafficking that fuels our global economy, to health disparities...
Desire
Price: $23.99
ISBN: 9781481320061
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-10-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
128 Pages
Critically acclaimed and award-winning poet Micheal O'Siadhail's Desire is a quartet of poems which addresses the pressing global concerns of our times. He describes the devastating effects of...
Sola Scriptura
Scripture's Final Authority in the Modern World
Price: $21.99
ISBN: 9781481320467
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-10-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
230 Pages
In modern times, evangelical Protestants have advocated for the belief that the Bible is the only real standard of truth and true Christian praxis for the church. But is this how the early Jews and...
Ordinary Faith in Polarized Times
Justification and the Pursuit of Justice
Price: $47.99
ISBN: 9781481319317
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-10-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
296 Pages
Finalist in the Theology/Religious Studies category for the 2024 PROSE AwardsChristians in the United States and around the world are politically polarized today, unable to speak to one another across...
The End of Civility
Christ and Prophetic Division
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481319010
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-07-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-06-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
248 Pages
"I have come not to bring peace, but a sword." These words of Christ echo in our current times. In recent years, a growing number of commentators have decried a lack of civility in public discourse. Considered...
Justice Looks Like...
Reflections on Living the Gospel in an Unjust World
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9781481319249
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-07-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2023-07-01
Imprint: 1845 Books
248 Pages
Our world is crying out for justice--the doing of right and the righting of wrongs. George Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020 amplified this cry. In response, the Baptist Standard published a sixty-nine-week...
Empowering Charity
A New Narrative of Philanthropy
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9781481316095
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2022-04-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2022-03-15
Imprint: 1845 Books
202 Pages
Our faith is centered around giving and offering support, yet our belief about those who need "help" must be reexamined. Philanthropy is steeped in myths that hurt communities of color rather than...
Predicadores
Hispanic Preaching and Immigrant Identity
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481313902
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2021-03-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-03-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
199 Pages
Hispanic Protestants have been one of the most rapidly growing demographic groups in the United States over the last few decades. Sociologists have written about the cultural and political identities...
Commonwealth
Transformation through Christian Community Development
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481315135
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2020-12-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-12-15
Imprint: 1845 Books
189 Pages
Today the chasm between rich and poor is constantly widening. While the wealthy seem to acquire more and more, the impoverished struggle to survive and thrive. This problem pervades not only the secular...
Seeking What Is Right
The Old Testament and the Good Life
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481312882
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2020-11-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
500 Pages
The question of the good life--what it looks like for people and societies to be well ordered and flourishing--has universal significance, but its proposed solutions are just as far reaching. At the...
God and Community Organizing
A Covenantal Approach
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481313155
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2020-10-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
288 Pages
For decades, the multiple, interlocking forces of technological advances, neoliberal capitalism, and globalization have been transforming the very moral fabric and institutional underpinnings of global...
The Friends We Keep
Unleashing Christianity's Compassion for Animals
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781602582644
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2010-10-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2010-09-13
Imprint: Baylor University Press
245 Pages
Today we find ourselves in an anomaly in human history: many of our lives are empty of animals. Many of us have pets or watch documentaries on Animal Planet, but, for the most part, we humans don't...
No Enemy to Conquer
Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781602581401
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2009-02-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2009-01-07
Imprint: Baylor University Press
220 Pages
Offering dramatic evidence of the transformative power of forgiveness, No Enemy to Conquer shares the stories of people of diverse faiths and cultures who, despite all odds, found the courage to reconcile...

The Faith Factor and Social Welfare
Evidence, Practice, Policy
Price: $69.99
ISBN: 9781481323505
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-12-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-12-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
730 Pages
Proclamation Beyond the Pulpit
The Expansive Homiletical Practice of Black Women
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481324243
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-09-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
164 Pages
John Clifford and Radical Nonconformity
1836–1923
Price: $69.99
ISBN: 9781481321976
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-09-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-07-16
Imprint: 1845 Books
373 Pages
Restlessness and Belonging
Augustinian Wisdom for the Digital Empire
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481319744
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-09-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-08-30
Imprint: Baylor University Press
312 Pages
Madness, Theocracy, and Anarchism
Political and Cultural Reflections on the Church
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481322379
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-07-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-07-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
334 Pages
Good News for the World
Baptist World Alliance Resolutions and Statements, 1905-2023
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481318341
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-03-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-02-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
794 Pages
God of the Whirlwind
Horror, Memory, and Story in Black Waco
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9781481322560
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2025-02-15
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-02-01
Imprint: 1845 Books
168 Pages
Over from Union Road
My Christian-Left-Intellectual Life
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481322416
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2024-11-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2024-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
332 Pages
Entangled Being
Unoriginal Sin and Wicked Problems
Price: $47.99
ISBN: 9781481321426
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2024-10-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2024-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
262 Pages
Desire
Price: $23.99
ISBN: 9781481320061
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-10-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
128 Pages
Sola Scriptura
Scripture's Final Authority in the Modern World
Price: $21.99
ISBN: 9781481320467
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-10-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
230 Pages
Ordinary Faith in Polarized Times
Justification and the Pursuit of Justice
Price: $47.99
ISBN: 9781481319317
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-10-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-10-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
296 Pages
The End of Civility
Christ and Prophetic Division
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481319010
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-07-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2023-06-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
248 Pages
Justice Looks Like...
Reflections on Living the Gospel in an Unjust World
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9781481319249
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2023-07-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2023-07-01
Imprint: 1845 Books
248 Pages
Empowering Charity
A New Narrative of Philanthropy
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9781481316095
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2022-04-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2022-03-15
Imprint: 1845 Books
202 Pages
Predicadores
Hispanic Preaching and Immigrant Identity
Price: $44.99
ISBN: 9781481313902
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2021-03-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2021-03-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
199 Pages
Commonwealth
Transformation through Christian Community Development
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781481315135
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2020-12-15
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-12-15
Imprint: 1845 Books
189 Pages
Seeking What Is Right
The Old Testament and the Good Life
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481312882
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2020-11-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
500 Pages
God and Community Organizing
A Covenantal Approach
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481313155
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2020-10-01
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2020-09-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
288 Pages
The Friends We Keep
Unleashing Christianity's Compassion for Animals
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781602582644
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2010-10-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2010-09-13
Imprint: Baylor University Press
245 Pages
No Enemy to Conquer
Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781602581401
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: 2009-02-01
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2009-01-07
Imprint: Baylor University Press
220 Pages