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As America approaches her 250th birthday, she is also approaching a fork in the road. The choice before us is moral and boils down to two terms: liberty or social justice? We cannot have both. This book, written by a Swedish immigrant, lays out the moral case for returning America to the Christian, libertarian values that the Founding Fathers wrote into the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These values guarantee liberty and opportunity, but they also require responsible citizenship in return. In understanding the latter, we can resurrect the former. By contrast, the failure to understand responsible citizenship and its critical role in defending liberty opens the door for America to irrevocably change character. Our country is already on the cusp of becoming a full-fledged egalitarian welfare state, defined not by liberty, but by the endless pursuit of social justice. As this book explains, there is a path back to freedom, one illuminated by faith, paved with practical, sensible policy reforms and traveled by people ready to exercise responsible citizenship.""Sven Larson's Faith and Freedom is a timely defense of the ideas that serve as the foundation for American liberty. It tackles modern threats like egalitarian social justice and the welfare state head on, pushing back against the view that diminishing liberty is a morally righteous pursuit.""--Andrew F. Quinlan, Co-founder and President, Center for Freedom and ProsperitySven R. Larson is a political economist, public-policy scholar, and the author of several books, including The Rise of Big Government: How Egalitarianism Conquered America (2018). His research covers economic policy, the welfare state, and the bridge between political values and practical policy. He regularly publishes in peer-reviewed journals and writes for conservative think tanks.

Frederick McSnoogle is haunted by a strange monster that lives in his pocket, plays in his mind, and fills him with worry and dread. He tells his mother he can't go to his first year in school. As Frederick wrestles with his monster, he learns to overcome his fears as he faces new challenges with prayer and Bible verses he's learned at home or in Sunday school. This book is not just for children; as parents, we too need to rely on the precious and powerful promises in God's word for our daily lives. ""This is a wonderful story helping children discover the importance of knowing God's Word, developing a relationship with Him through prayer, and trusting God above all when we are afraid. Children will enjoy the rhyming storyline and parents will appreciate a helpful tool to direct their children back to God's Word and the power of His love over our fears.""--Kristine Jung, Children's Ministry Director""Mrs. Proctor has created a children's book that is good for all ages! Even as an adult, I am Frederick! Fear has no age limit, yet the use of Bible verses calms the reader as with Frederick. I can see using this book in my seventh grade classroom to help students understand the concept of theme as well as giving them a subject to which they can readily relate.""--Susan Sieg, Middle School Language Arts Teacher, Seattle Christian SchoolAnnette Proctor has a bachelor's degree in art, and taught the subject to children from kindergarten through twelfth grade at three different Christian schools in two states for twenty-three years. She also has four children of her own. Frederick McSnoogle came as a result of the many years with students and parents dealing with all the challenges school can present and how marvelously our Lord God can provide wonderful answers, peace, and confidence to both children and parents.

How has the Christian movement grown and changed in the last five hundred years? From Luther to Tillich and the Virgin Mary, from Protestant initiatives and Catholic dialogues, from Charles Taylor to progressive Christianity, this book runs the gamut. The urgency of ecology, the sacramentality of foot-washing, the complexities of biblical interpretation, the theology of the cross, and the ongoing work of reformation are all under the microscope. A distinctively ecumenical project, this book presents a variety of perspectives on these pressing questions, drawing together authors from the Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, United Church of Canada traditions, and more. Each contributor provides unique insights into Christianity's ongoing processes of re-forming as contexts and circumstances change. Readers will find resonances of the familiar interwoven with new research about the project of ecumenical Christianity. ""Living Traditions is an apt title for this intriguing collection of voices exploring how the Reformation, for better or worse, continues to shape church and society. This text is both provocative and evocative; it challenges simplistic slogans and is an elixir for historical amnesia. Living Traditions is a finely crafted polyphony of both praise and lament.""--Allen Jorgenson, Martin Luther University College""This book goes beyond traditional theological categories of reflection on five hundred years of the Reformation, and offers interesting, creative contributions related to the environment, Mariology, trauma studies, and interreligious dialogue. The chapters are short, engaging, and illuminating for many aspects of the life of the church in the years to come.""--Kristin Johnston Largen, United Lutheran Seminary""'And teach your followers that there are times when dogmas need to make room for human sympathy.' We can still hear the echoes of Rabbi Albert Friedlander's letter to Martin Luther throughout the essays in Living Traditions! Whether it is through the lens of L'Arche, the environment, Mary, or numerous other topics, McNabb and Fennell have gathered together an excellent variety of materials for us to ponder. Truly Luther's rose, after all these years, still has a beautiful fragrance for us to enjoy, in the pages of this book.""--Jeffrey Crittenden, Huron University at Western""Is there a way to be Christian without the pope and without sola scriptura as a sort of distorted image of the papacy? These essays suggest there is, that we have good news to share from Jesus Christ to the world God loves, stewarded in our traditions, back to the apostles. However you lean liturgically and on authority, and on congregation-based small groups and discipleship, these essays will enlighten, challenge, and delight you.""--Jason Byassee, Vancouver School of Theology, author of Surprised by Jesus AgainKimberlynn McNabb is the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, the dean of the Atlantic Ministry Area of the Eastern Synod (ELCIC), and a sessional professor at the Atlantic School of Theology.Robert C. Fennell is the academic dean and an associate professor of historical and systematic theology at Atlantic School of Theology, and the author of The Rule of Faith and Biblical Interpretation: Reform, Resistance, and Renewal (Cascade, 2018).

While there are plenty of books by men, for men, on the topic of "Christian masculinity," these books generally fail to address men's propensities for violence and the traditional inequity between men and women, often endorsing inequity and sanctioning aggressive behavior as an appropriate "manly" response to conflict. Peaceful at Heart cuts through this conversation by offering a uniquely Anabaptist Christian perspective on masculinity. The vision of masculinity presented in this book is more peaceful, just, caring, life-giving for men, and more sensitive to women and children than both traditional images of masculinity and the hypermasculine images promoted by contemporary popular culture and wider evangelical Christianity. Peaceful at Heart addresses men and masculinity using Anabaptist theological themes of discipleship, community, and peace. As a collaborative project by men, for men, this book demonstrates through personal narratives, theological reflection, and practical guidance the importance of collective discernment, accountability, and mutual encouragement regarding how to live as a peaceful man in a violent world.

These guidelines for raising and understanding youths are valuable tools for parents and caretakers worldwide. The suggested approach allows easy reflection in remembering our teenage trials and tribulations. The relatively easy application of our past experiences will help cultivate some of our future leaders, who may otherwise get lost in a negative social or legal system. If that happened, they would quickly become that ""loser"" we spend our time attempting to help our youths avoid. Anyone and everyone with children, or preparing to have children, should have this guideline in their possession and on their bookshelf.Born in Elgin, Illinois, John M. Bradley grew up on the West Side of Chicago, one of the city's worst neighborhoods. Although he dropped out of high school at 16, he overcame the influence of gangs and crime by joining the Job Corps program at the age of 17. After receiving his GED in Job Corps, he went on to earn an AA degree from Elgin Community College and a BA degree in applied behavioral science from National-Louis University out of Evanston, Illinois. He now lives in Minot, North Dakota.