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Eucharist, Bread of Life

By: Joshua J. Whitfield

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God feeds his people. In the desert, God’s covenant with Israel was sealed through sacrifice and a meal. On the altars of our churches, God continues to feed us with the bread and wine of the new covenant—the food and drink that is Christ himself. In Eucharist, Bread of Life, Fr. Joshua J. Whitfield, priest and preacher, explores three Scripture passages and helps us rediscover this enduring mystery, from the heights of Sinai to the depths of our own hearts and lives.

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Why Sunday Matters

The Lord's Day in Contemporary Christian Life

By: Joshua J. Whitfield

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Why Sunday Matters

The Lord's Day in Contemporary Christian Life

By: Joshua J. Whitfield

For centuries Christians have gathered for worship and for rest on Sunday. But does that ancient practice still matter? Still deeply engrained in both the Christian and secular calendar, nonetheless, what Sunday is and why it matters is no longer clear. Why Sunday Matters explores the forgotten reasons why Sunday is essential to Christian life. It also uncovers some of the contemporary obstacles keeping people from living Sunday faithfully. From youth sports to our neglect of the poor to our addiction to technology, Why Sunday Matters takes a wide-ranging look at the importance of the Lord’s Day and why it’s urgent we recover the Christian practice of Sunday.

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The Crisis of Bad Preaching

Redeeming the Heart and Way of the Catholic Preacher

By: Joshua J. Whitfield

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The Crisis of Bad Preaching

Redeeming the Heart and Way of the Catholic Preacher

By: Joshua J. Whitfield

The Crisis of Bad Preaching is an audacious response to a long-simmering pastoral crisis: poorly prepared, often stale, and largely irrelevant homilies that are fueling the mass exodus of people from the Church. Echoing Popes Benedict and Francis, Rev. Joshua Whitfield confronts what is perhaps the most common complaint of Catholics around the world: hollow, vacuous preaching. A parish priest in Dallas, Whitfield encourages fellow preachers to profound renewal, reminding them that preaching is not just something they do, it is essential to who they are. Catholic preaching today often achieves the opposite of what it should, which is connecting the People of God with the Gospel of Christ in a compelling and motivating way. With an insider’s candor, biting honesty, and persuasive conviction, Whitfield stresses that preachers need to return to this ideal because the wellbeing of the Church depends on it. More than just another how-to book, The Crisis of Bad Preaching is at once deeply challenging and uplifting and full of practical advice for a reversal of the status quo. In Part I, Whitfield explores the essential role of the preacher as a public intellectual and member of the communion of preachers that spans the history of the Church. Whitfield offers advice about which great preachers—from Origen, Augustine , and Aquinas to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bishop Robert Barron—to study and what to learn from them. Whitfield also explains why preachers must submit in humility to the fullness of the Church—its teachings, authority, practices, and structures. In Part II, Whitfield explores the important habits of prayer, preparation, cultivating rhetorical skill, and learning to take full advantage of both positive and negative criticism. He explains how the way of the preacher must be the way of the Holy Spirit and argues that without the preacher opening his heart to the fire of evangelical proclamation, he will lack the capacity to preach the transforming grace of the Gospel, his mandate. In a brief epilogue, Whitfield encourages ten habits for listening. Addressed to both laity and the ordained, he asserts that fixing preaching will take the concerted effort of all members of the Church.

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Why Sunday Matters

The Lord's Day in Contemporary Christian Life

By: Joshua J. Whitfield

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The Lord's Day in Contemporary Christian Life

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Pilgrim Holiness

Martyrdom as Descriptive Witness

By: Joshua J. Whitfield

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Pilgrim Holiness

Martyrdom as Descriptive Witness

By: Joshua J. Whitfield

limited but vital description of the present within the various and unpredictable arenas of living, suffering, and dying. That is to say, martyrdom is not the tragic conclusion of some fatal ideological conflict but a momentary truthful glimpse of present circumstances. Martyrdom reveals, clarifies, and illumines what we take for the real. Martyrs are therefore significant for the church today because they exhibit the sort of truthful living that refuses the claims of history and power without Christ; they show the sort of living and dying that returns forgiveness upon murder, and patience beyond domination. Meditating primarily on the second-century martyrdoms in Lyons and Vienne, France, Pilgrim Holiness offers a view of Christian martyrdom that challenges prevalent misunderstandings about what martyrs are doing in sacrificing their lives, Joshua J. Whitfield argues that martyrdom is a moment of truthful disclosure and thus a moment of forgiveness and peace---gifts for which we are in desperate need. "In a time when critics of Christianity, and religion in general, point to the practices of martyrs as examples of the inherently irrational, violent, and dangerous character of religious devotion, Whitfield challenges Christians to reconsider Christ's call to "take up one's cross" by suspending our suspicions and listening to the stories of the martyrs in conversation with contemporary theological voices such as Rowan Williams, Stanley Hauerwas, Sam Wells, and others."---J. Warren Smith, Duke University. "We are not superior or inferior to those who came before us, we are simply in the same situation as them: called to bear witness---in our lives and perhaps in our deaths---to the nonviolent truth embodied by Jesus Christ. This book, which is steeped in the patristic martyr narratives, unpacks this simple statement in skillful dialogue with contemporary thought. Its goal is to show that the hoped for unity of Christians has no other plausible basis than peaceful limitation of Christ."---Charles K. Bellinger, Brite Divinity School "Joshua Whitfield has concocted a perceptive and important antidote to the secular politics of death-making . Insisting that martyrs die for love of truth armed only with the power of description. Whitfield stands against the acrimonious caricatures du jour by uncoupling Christian martyrdom from power but not from truth. This book is clarion call to any church tht has brokered an unholy trade-off in producing members who would more readily kill than die."---Craig Hovey, author of To Share in the Body: A Theology of Martyrdom for Today's Church

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Eucharist, Bread of Life

By: Joshua J. Whitfield

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American Empire

The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000

By: Joshua Freeman

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American Empire

The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000

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A landmark history of postwar America and the second volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner In this momentous work, acclaimed labor historian Joshua B. Freeman presents an epic portrait of the United States in the latter half of the twentieth century, revealing a nation galvanized by change even as conflict seethed within its borders. Beginning in 1945, he charts the astounding rise of the labor movement and its pitched struggle with the bastions of American capitalism in the 1940s and '50s, untangling the complicated threads between the workers’ agenda and that of the civil rights and women’s movements. Through the lens of civil rights, the Cold War struggle, and the labor movement, American Empire teaches us something profound about our past while illuminating the issues that continue to animate American political discourse today.

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The Crisis of Bad Preaching

Redeeming the Heart and Way of the Catholic Preacher

By: Joshua J. Whitfield

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Redeeming the Heart and Way of the Catholic Preacher

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Why Sunday Matters

The Lord's Day in Contemporary Christian Life

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Uncertain Justice

The Roberts Court and the Constitution

By: Laurence Tribe,Joshua Matz

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Uncertain Justice

The Roberts Court and the Constitution

By: Laurence Tribe,Joshua Matz

An assessment of how the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts is significantly influencing the nation's laws and reinterpreting the Constitution includes in-depth analysis of recent rulings and their implications.

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Pilgrim Holiness

Martyrdom as Descriptive Witness

By: Joshua J. Whitfield

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Martyrdom as Descriptive Witness

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Eucharist, Bread of Life

Eucharist, Bread of Life

Why Sunday Matters

Why Sunday Matters

The Crisis of Bad Preaching

The Crisis of Bad Preaching

Why Sunday Matters

Why Sunday Matters

Pilgrim Holiness

Pilgrim Holiness

Eucharist, Bread of Life

Eucharist, Bread of Life

American Empire

American Empire

The Crisis of Bad Preaching

The Crisis of Bad Preaching

Why Sunday Matters

Why Sunday Matters

Uncertain Justice

Uncertain Justice

Pilgrim Holiness

Pilgrim Holiness

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