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by ReadHowYouWant
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Nine o Clock in the Morning is Dennis Bennett's autobiographical account of how a high church Anglo - Catholic Episcopalian was drawn to the Pentecostal experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit attended by speaking in unlearned tongues.
Pagan Babies
and Other Catholic Memories
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
As a child, Gina Cascone would hide under her bed, in the closet, and run away from her parents, hoping somehow to escape her worst fear. But she couldn't hide from the awful truth...
She had to go to Catholic school.
Do nuns have legs? Is Original Sin the "starter sin" for novices? Can the rosary...
God Underneath
Spiritual Memoirs of a Catholic Priest
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
A delightfully different approach to religion and spirituality, this collection of engaging personal tales transcends specific doctrines to reveal the presence of God in everyday life.
Father Edward L. Beck spins tales like a master, presenting with candor and a touch of irreverence incidents...
The Tulip and the Pope
A Nun's Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The story of novelist and poet Deborah Larsen's young womanhood, The Tulip and the Pope is both an exquisitely crafted spiritual memoir and a beautifully nuanced view of life in the convent.In midsummer of 1960, nineteen-year-old Deborah shares a cab to a convent. She and the teenage girls with her,...
by Leah Perrault
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Highly explored and examined, Pope John Paul II’s scripture-based reflections on human relationships and sexuality have captivated thousands of women and men around the globe. Yet few have discussed the implications of his theology for everyday life. Theology of the Body for Every Body offers us...
The Catholic Mom's Prayer Companion
A Book of Daily Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Catholic Press Association Book Award: Collections of Prayers (First Place).
Are you a Catholic mom who prays for the wisdom and patience to get through each day? Do you pray for your children, husband, family and friends, and sometimes even yourself? The Catholic Mom’s...
Becoming Catholic, Again
Connecting the Faith We Live with the Faith We Were Taught
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
We all belong to groups, whether we were born into them or have chosen to join them due to prevailing similarities or common interests. Being a part of certain groups can be the essence of our identity, and it can be devastating to lose that feeling of connection with our group members or leaders....
A Journey Just Begun
The Story of an Anglican Sisterhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
A Journey Just Begun tells the story of the only indigenous Canadian Anglican religious order for women, the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, in a way that celebrates the Sisters' past, describes their present, and looks forward to their future. It focuses on God's transforming love in the lives...
From the Pews in the Back
Young Women and Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
From the Pews in the Back is a book filled with questions about Catholic identity. How do young Catholic women see or define themselves? What is their relationship to the church? What are their struggles and joys? In a church that often consigns them to the pews in the back, what place are young women...
by The Ironic Catholic
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
In the style of The Onion, Stephen Colbert, and occasionally Jonathan Swift, the writer of "The Ironic Catholic" website offers mild satirical takes on the world of Catholic news, focusing on the rich vein of human foibles in living the life of faith. The fake news stories (Attendees of...
The Soul of the Night
An Astronomical Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Probing the depths of science and faith, scientist Chet Raymo investigates the mysteries of human spirituality and meaning contained in astronomy. Ranging through the stars and the myths humans have told about them for millennia, Raymo delves into “a pilgrimage in quest of the soul of the night.”
Chet...
Do You Hear What I Hear?
An Unreligious Writer Investigates Religious Calling
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2005
At age thirty, Minna Proctor, a child of the seventies and product of divorced parents—Jewish mother, Catholic father, had no religious orientation. In fact, her last “spiritual” foray was her perfunctory bat mitzvah. So when her father wants to become an Episcopal priest, Minna Proctor is flummoxed....
by Gretchen Wolff Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1992
Church education programs for children often substitute children's Bibles for Holy Scripture and simple moralism for imagination. Gretchen Wolff Pritchard shows how to offer the gospel imaginatively to children, with practical ideas on children's worship, liturgy, drama, pastoral care, and study of...
Liturgical Spirituality
Anglican Reflections on the Church’s Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
• Of particular interest to scholars and practitioners across the Anglican Communion with contributions from a wide breadth of scholars Liturgical Spirituality is a collection of Anglican reflections on the spirituality of the liturgy, inviting readers into the Church’s patterns of prayer, seasons...