institutions

Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion
$14.99
I am a young (30 years old!) Pastor and am tired of all the church bashing emergent books that are starting to fill the selves of Christian Book Stores. 'Why We Love the Church' is funny, full of great quotes, and takes strong stabs at the weakness and un-biblical nature of the emergent 'church'. Please note that this book is not a text book. It is just a fun book for all of us church goers who believe that you can still be young, hip, like starbucks, and love your local church. Enjoy!

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "Do We Need Religion or Religious Institutions?"
$10.00
Taped on September 6, 1980This show suffers from comparison with ["How Does One Find Faith?" #S432], but by any other standard it is a wonderful exploration of modern man and his discontents--starting with the fact that Muggeridge, although a leading Christian apologist, was unchurched. Muggeridge: "I've, believe it or not, longed to be a Catholic. . . . I've longed for it as though it were the most marvelous thing. . . .The truth is, I think, that I take a very pessimistic view of the Catholic Church, despite the very brilliant pope you've now got. It seems to me that it's dropping to pieces, and of course it had a severe blow after the Vatican Council. Therefore, I would be joining something of which I was enormously critical, and this isn't really an honorable thing to do." Buckley: "That's never bothered you before." Muggeridge: "I've never contemplated anything so serious as joining a church. I mean, even if you were to turn to mundane things--joining a club--if you were to join it quite confident that you were going to challenge all its rules and have rows with all its members, it would be rather a foolish step to take." Buckley: "Well, I'm, to put it lightly, stupefied that you would make a decision whether or not to extend your loyalty to an institution based on the behavior of some of its communicants. I can't imagine any time in history when anybody would have become a Catholic if he had been so easily put off." (Muggeridge and his wife, Kitty, eventually submitted to Rome, in 1984.)This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

Education Next
$20.00
Presents the facts as best they can be determined, giving voice (without fear or favor) to worthy research, sound ideas, and responsible arguments. Bold change is needed in American K - 12 education, but Education Next partakes of no program, campaign, or ideology.

Brubeck: To Hope! A Celebration
$17.98
Brubeck's Mass setting using his signature 5/4 time is a successful marriage of traditional and contemporary, worship and celebration. The "Alleluia" alone is an incredible musical achievement. Brubeck her is clearly God's instrument - and a rare and virtuoso instrument he is!