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The politics category at Energion is designed to accomplish our mission to educate, energize, and empower in community involvement and civic responsibility. While small in number, our books cover the ground from conservative to progressive and from policy issues to engagement by people of faith in their community. You will find places to agree and to disagree, to debate and to go into action.
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Can you imagine reading the Lord’s Prayer as a gateway to adventure? Bruce Epperly, who has introduced process theology to the masses through concise, readable guides, presents this well-known prayer through a vision of a relational, open-spirited, profoundly personal, always creative, and forward-looking God, who invites us to be companions in the holy adventure…
This book discusses the challenges faced by democracy, such as an expanding government, polarization, questioning of elections, and differing views of the Constitution. The solutions, according to the author, lie in a deeper understanding of the issues and the ability to work together to create effective solutions based on facts and evidence.
For more information, see PreservingDemocracy.com.
“What does it mean to render to Caesar what is his and render to God what is His? How a believer understands this text will, to a large degree, determine how they will approach matters of nationalism and politics as they follow Jesus.” – Dr Chris Surber Matthew 22:15-22 is a passage usually seen as…
Can a church that is compromised through dependence on temporal, political power speak with a powerful prophetic voice in the world? As the body of Christ, the church has a prophetic role in the world. Prophets have always spoken clearly to people in power. They have been willing to challenge the decisions made by people…
What could possibly be wrong with social justice? We like justice. We are social beings. Should not our communities be just ones? Author Elgin Hushbeck, Jr. maintains that social justice is not justice. When we pursue social justice, it is at the expense of true justice and in its pursuit of equality, social justice threatens…
