Charles R. Foster

Being in Ministry

Church Leadership & Ministry

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Created in Delight

Children & Youth

“With a theologically robust and educationally rigorous vision of youth ministry, Tim Van Meter challenges churches to take seriously the possibility of youth responding to the initiative of God as world citizens and stewards of the earth. The result is a remarkably hopeful discussion of a future for young people beyond the spiritual naivete, media saturation, and consumerism of much contemporary religious youth culture.”

Mother, Creature, Kin

“A luminous, compellingly readable account of the power of wild kindness and of the extraordinary things that happen if we pay proper attention to the world. This is potent literary alchemy. Let it transform you.”

Nurturing Faith

Discipleship & Christian Education

Foreword

“Nurturing Faith conveys a robust vision and is a compelling guide for pastors and lay leaders, Christian education faculty and students, curriculum producers, and denominational staff engaged in the nurture of a faith deeply rooted in Christian tradition with the constructive capacity to address challenges of living faithfully in our postmodern world. At a point in time when young adults are not just leaving, but often fleeing our various religious communities, Edie and Lamport offer a fresh and powerful alternative way of living into the practices of Christian education in nurturing faith in Jesus Christ.”

Seventy Images of Grace in the Epistles . . .

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“Grace abounds--often in surprising places, at surprising times, in surprisingly unexpected ways! That is the prevailing message of this new work by Norma Everist. Exploring encounters of grace across the range of contemporary human experience and through the lens of a rigorous engagement with accounts and descriptions of grace in the biblical record, Everist provocatively affirms the abundance of grace available to those open to its abiding presence and its persisting power.”

The Grace of Playing

Discipleship & Christian Education

“The Grace of Playing is an important new book. Drawing on theological, psychological, and aesthetic discussions of play, Goto re-envisions playing as revelatory experience--encounters with divine mystery, ourselves, and others culminating in new life-giving ways. In this original, robust, and highly accessible work, Goto transforms how we think about imagination, grace, Spirit, and faith in liturgy and religious education, and offers a powerful, fresh framework for doing practical theology.”

Youth Ministry as Peace Education

Children & Youth

“Youth Ministry as Peace Education is a biblically inspired and theologically robust guide and resource to equip youth for the life changing experience of being co-learners, fellow citizens, and members of the body of Christ in ministries of love, peace, and justice in their congregations and communities.”