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Carl S. Dudley
Carl S. Dudley was professor of church and community at Hartford Seminary and former director of the Institute for Religious Research.
Transforming the City, by Eldin Villafane
Thumbnail sketches of six pioneering efforts to bridge the gap between traditional seminary programs and the needs of leaders in multiethnic urban communities open this book....
Choices for churches
Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing. By Dennis A. Jacobsen. Fortress, 128 pp., $14.00 paperback. ...
Champion churches?
Excellent Protestant Congregations: The Guide to Best Places and Practices. By Paul Wilkes. Westminster John Know, 258 pp., $18.95....
Charitable choice: A closer look
What do faith-based groups and social agencies really make of President Bush’s effort to try to expand the role of faith-based groups in addressing social needs?...
Creative conflict
Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life, by Penny Edgell Becker...
Explosive issues: Emotional disarmament
Sometimes society faces issues that seem to defy rational solution....
Lived Religion in America, edited by David D. Hall
David D. Hall addresses the gap between academic theology and the diverse ways people of faith “live religion” in their circumstances....
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