Frederick B Schmidt

The Dave Test: A Raw Look at Real Faith in Hard Times

LIFE IS RAW. SO IS THE LANGUAGE IN THIS BOOK What is the Dave Test? When life is at its tattered edges and you are faced with seemingly impossible decisions, the Dave Test is a set of searingly honest questions you ask to become the best, most honest self for you, your friends, and your family. Inst...

What God Wants for Your Life: Finding Answers to the Deepest Questions

"God can and does speak to us -- even in times when things go terribly wrong. What often troubles and torments us are the assumptions that shape what we expect and how we listen ... Shaped by an open-ended, inner dialogue with God about the choices that you and I really do make, finding and doing th...

Still Small Voice: Women, Ordination, and the Church (Women and Gender in Religion)

Drawing from interviews of fifty ordained and seminary-trained women, Frederick W. Schmidt, Jr. explores the bureaucratic and cultural underpinnings of the church that continues to bar women from positions of authority. Writing as a seminary-trained sociologist, Schmidt concentrates on the roles of ...

What God Wants for Your Life: Changing the Way We Seek God's Will

A Practical and Engaging Guide for Changing the Way We Seek God's WillHow do we know God's will for our lives? This question lies at the heart of Christian life. And yet, attempting to understand our greater purpose can become a source of frustration as we look for help when making important life de...

Conversations with Scripture - The Gospel of Luke (Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars Study)

The best of therapy and spiritual direction begins with telling stories that describe where we have been and where we are going. Luke is neither a psychologist nor a spiritual director, but intuitively he understands the importance of storytelling as the key to human growth, change, and healing. Spe...

The Changing Face of God

"Does the face of God change? Years ago I would have said, 'No.' Countless hymns, passage of Scripture and confessions of faith assert or imply the changelessness of God. To take issue with traditions that are centuries, if not millennia old, seemed to be daunting and misguided....But when the great...

Conversations with Scripture - Revelation (Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars Study)

Roadmap, myth, or history? The Book of Revelation draws readers and repels them. It offers some people hope and instills fear in others. In this volume of the new AABS series Frederick W. Schmidt, also the series editor, explores the approaches that have dominated the interpretation of John's Apoc...

When Suffering Persists

Sometimes pain passes quickly and small losses are easily absorbed. But when suffering goes on and on, for people of faith, the resulting crisis can be deeper and more destructive than the loss itself. We look for ways to comfort those who are hurting. But sometimes, in spite of our good intentions,...

What God Wants for Your Life : Finding Answers to the Deepest Questions

What God Wants for Your Life: Changing the Way We Seek God's Will

A Still Small Voice: Women, Ordination, and the Church

The Changing Face of God

When Suffering Persists

Conversations With Scripture: Revelation

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