"In our anonymous and dehumanized world, the simple practice of friendship is radically countercultural. But sometimes Christians inadvertently marginalize and objectify the very ones they most want to serve. Chris Heuertz, international director of Word Made Flesh, and theologian and ethicist Christine Pohl show how friendship is a Christian vocation that can bring reconciliation and healing to our broken world. They contend that unlik ..."
Making Room Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition by ChristineD. Pohl Paperback, 219 Pages, Published 1999 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-4431-6, ISBN: 0-8028-4431-6
"Although hospitality was central to Christian identity and practice in earlier centuries, our generation knows little about its life-giving character. Over the past three hundred years, understandings of hospitality have shrunk to entertainment at home and to the hospitality industry's provision of service through hotels and restaurants. But for most of the history of the church, hospitality was central to the gospel and a crucial pract ..."
Living into Community(11th Edition) Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us by ChristineD. Pohl Paperback, 219 Pages, Published 2011 by Eerdmans ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-4985-4, ISBN: 0-8028-4985-7
Good Works Hospitality and Faithful Discipleship by Wasserman, Keith, Pohl, ChristineD. Paperback, 188 Pages, Published 2021 by Eerdmans ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-7701-7, ISBN: 0-8028-7701-X
""A book about Christian mission, hospitality, and discipleship within local community, with insights drawn from Good Works, Inc., a ministry in rural southeastern Ohio"--"
""Both evangelicalism and feminism are controversial movements that provoke complex loyalties and ambivalence within the church and the world at large. In spite of a considerable degree of shared history, they are quite often defined against each other. Most of the rhetoric from and about the movements assumes that there are few connections and little overlap, and that individuals might locate themselves within one or the other, but not ..."
Study Guide for Making Room Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition by ChristineD. Pohl, Pamela J. Buck Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2001 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-4989-2, ISBN: 0-8028-4989-X
"Christine Pohls 1999 book Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition has helped foster renewal of the central but long-neglected practice of Christian hospitality. This new study guide for Making Room provides a variety of ways in which people can learn more about the practice. Designed for use by small groups _ though individuals will also profit from it _ the study guide is divided into nine lessons corresponding t ..."
"The selections in this volume are, by and large, written by practitioners--people who have pioneered life in intentional community and have discovered in the nitty-gritty of daily life what it takes to establish, nurture, and sustain a ..."
Making Room, 25th Anniversary Edition(Anniversary) Recovering Hospitality As a Christian Tradition by Pohl, ChristineD. Paperback, 237 Pages, Published 2024 by Eerdmans ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-8381-0, ISBN: 0-8028-8381-8
"This revitalized edition, with a new foreword and afterword by the author, introduces the theology of hospitality to a new generation."
Living into Community Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us by ChristineD. Pohl 219 Pages, Published 2011 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4674-3186-6, ISBN: 1-4674-3186-9
"See her essay in The Philosophical Review 106, no. 2 (April 1997): 155, 157. 11.
Richard M. Fox and Joseph P. DeMarco, The Immorality of Promising (Amherst,
N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2000), p. 158. 12. Jean Vanier, Community and Growth,
rev. ed. (New York: Paulist Press, 1989), pp. 3132. See also Reinhold Niebuhr's
classic work, Moral Man and Immoral Society (New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1932). 13. This is one reason why some den ..."
"Their overall reaction to these instruments was enthusiastic.19 One pastor, who
had been anxious about us- ing these materials, simply said, “It is freeing to
finally come to peace with my temperament.” It was a powerful experience for the
pastors to compare the report of their personality style with the responses of
others in the 360 survey. One pastor discovered a clear disparity between his
personality style and the way he funct ..."
"we will be less interested in the appearance ofparticular vocabulary and more
concerned with the concept of“atonement,”2 which we will define broadly as “the
saving significance ofJesus' death.”3 Any exploration ofJesus' death in the ... this
reality has been enough for some to exclude from discussion any notion of Jesus'
self-understanding— including whether he anticipated his own death or whether
he reflected theologically on its ..."
Practicing the Kingdom Essays on Hospitality, Community, and Friendship in Honor of Christ... ISBN-13: 978-1-4982-1803-0, ISBN: 1-4982-1803-2