For Good : The Church and the Future of Welfare
For Good : The Church and the Future of Welfare
Original price was: £10.99.£6.99Current price is: £6.99.
It is often claimed that local churches provide a significant proportion of social care today. This important new study considers the reality of the church’s involvement to offer compelling and concrete recommendations for the future. It proposes a transformational model of welfare that breaks free from the default approach of `eradicating the five giant evils – squalor, ignorance, want, idleness, and disease’.
Instead the authors focus on fostering five assets – relationship, creativity, partnership, compassion, and joy – and empowering people to regain control of their lives. With bold and innovative practical recommendations for churches, civil society and public policy, and compelling theological reflection on welfare and poverty, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the church’s contribution to society.
In stock
Additional information
| Weight | .146 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 21.5 × 14 × 1.4 cm |
| Format |
Add a Review
Be the first to review “For Good : The Church and the Future of Welfare”
Sale
Into the depths: A Journey of Loss and Vocation
Everyday Life, The Inner Journey
In January 1984, Sr Mary Margaret Funk, a Benedictine nun from Indiana, paid a visit to Maryknoll missionary nuns working in Bolivia. On what should have been a routine trip to the local town for a convocation ceremony, a flash flood swept away the jeep in which she, three nuns, a priest, and a disabled boy they had adopted were travelling. Only she and the priest survived
What happened that night catapulted Sr Meg into twenty-five years of prayer and self-examination. She relentlessly explored her relationship with the transcendent and immanent God, the profundities of her religious tradition, her commitment to spiritual practice, and her very human failings. It was a journey that left her spiritually naked before the terrible love of God; a journey to keep one's heart open to the transforming wounds of suffering.
In the great tradition of spiritual confessions from Augustine to Thomas Merton's The Seven-Story Mountain, Into the Depths is a fearlessly honest and simply told account of one woman's struggle to engage at the deeper levels with the most profound questions of faith.
Original price was: £12.99.£8.99Current price is: £8.99.
Hidden Wings: Emerging from troubled times with new hope and deeper wisdom
Everyday Life, Spiritual Growth, The Inner Journey
You must become the change you long for.
Fine words, a great vision, but where to begin? We caterpillars know. From the moment we are conceived in our parents' mating dance, we already contain the cells that hold our future butterfly. Let us tell you our story...
Tumultuous changes are occurring in the world around us, and the structures and values by which we have charted our lives seem to be collapsing. Many of us are struggling to plot a spiritual path through this unfamiliar landscape, and to believe in a positive future. Hidden Wings is a book offering hope and understanding.
Using the example of a caterpillar entering the devastating, world-altering stage of the chrysalis, before emerging – transformed – as a butterfly, Margaret Silf helps us to see that these times of chaos could in fact be an opportunity for profound spiritual transformation.
£12.99
Desperately Seeking Spirituality: A Field Guide to Practice
Everyday Life, The Inner Journey
In Desperately Seeking Spirituality, sacred spelunker (someone who explores caves as a hobby!) Meredith Gould combines practical wisdom with lived experience to explain why and when traditional practices don't work for today's seeker and then how to choose ones that will. In short, easy-to-read chapters and with characteristic wit, Gould provides counsel for reframing perception to discover the sacred in everyday life.
This guide for self-identified seekers who have tried some, many, or even all the classic spiritual practices and then given up on them when they stop working.
£9.99
The Sacred Way: spiritual practices for everyday life.
Everyday Life, Spiritual Exercises, The Inner Journey
In a world that thrives on fast food and facile political slogans, where feeling comfortable seems to be the American high ideal, The Sacred Way is an invitation to explore spiritual practices that will quicken and expand our everyday lives. Tony Jones is a patient and loyal companion and guide, one who anticipates our hesitations and doubts with good-humoured understanding. His informed style and personal conviction are compelling. His insights, rooted in solid research and reflection, are often inspiring.
£7.99
Reviews(0)
There are no reviews yet.