Church Publishing imprint: 289 books
Prayers from the Darkness
The Difficult Psalms
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
The "difficult psalms" which amount to more than a third of the Psalter, shock us with their cries of pain, anger, and alienation. They call on God for help in moving from suffering and grief to trust and mercy. Lyn Fraser, following the lead of Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann,...
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018
• Popular author with devoted following • Non-threatening way to start conversations about Jesus The inimitable Barbara Crafton describes the birth of this book: “We have to learn about Jesus from somebody. Somebody has to tell us. Jesus has been told to people by other people for better than...
How Can Anyone Read the Bible?
A Little Book of Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
• Offers basic information to make the Bible less formidable to beginning readers • Author is a preeminent Biblical scholar and prominent retired Episcopalian seminary professor In How Can Anyone Read the Bible? preeminent biblical scholar Bill Countryman provides a basic introduction for those...
Beyond Business as Usual
Vestry Leadership Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
This book is full of resources for forming the vestry as a learning community. It deals with the “soft” side of leadership that enables the pastor and vestry to journey together along the leadership path. Each chapter can be read and reviewed during a series of vestry meetings, or as part of a vestry...
Hanging by a Thread
The Questions of the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
• Incisive theology, yet accessible • Small book with large possibilities for group study and personal reflection • Makes a marvelous Lenten resource This brilliant series of theological reflections from internationally known scholar and Anglican cleric Samuel Wells reflects on the challenges...
On Sexuality and Scripture
Essays, Bible Studies, and Personal Reflections by the Chicago Consultation, the Ujamaa Centre, and Their Friends
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
• Of interest to biblical scholars, students, and those following the international debate on same-sex issues • Internationally-known authors • Demonstrates serious students of Scripture can find good news for LGBTQ people and churches that affirm them in the Bible and the life and teachings...
The Complete Guide to Godly Play
Volume 3, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
• Incorporates the latest in Godly Play® theory and practice • Revised lessons throughout, plus one brand-new lesson The Godly Play® approach helps children explore their faith through story, to gain religious language, and to enhance their spiritual experience through wonder and play. Based...
Pioneers of Modern Spirituality
The Neglected Anglican Innovators of a "Spiritual but Not Religious" Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
• Recovery of forgotten figures in Anglican spirituality with import for today • Written by an eminent scholar of the Anglican Communion Distinguished Anglican theologian Jane Shaw presents four of the early 20thcentury Anglican innovators in spirituality and assesses how they might help us develop...
Priesthood in a New Millennium
Toward an Understanding of Anglican Presbyterate in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
David Cox's important new book examines priestly identity as it has evolved within Anglicanism over the last 150 years. Central to this evolution, is the manner in which - and the extent to which - the once nearly synonymous terms "English" and "Anglican"
Holy Hospitality
Worship and the Baptismal Covenant
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
What does it really mean to "proclaim the good news of God in Christ" and to "continue in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers?" These promises from the baptismal rite of the Book of Common Prayer have become very familiar to most...
How to Be a Disciple and Digital
A Little Book of Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Social media has become a virtual world in which all manner of human communities are being formed, including many centered on prayer, faith, and spirituality. But with the benefits also come liabilities in terms of attentiveness vs. distraction, self-assertion, consumption, and anonymity—all enemies...
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around
Stories of Contemplation and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
• Second volume from Spiritual Directors of Color Network • Addresses the contemporary issues of racism and contemplation Following up on the popularity of the groundbreaking anthology Embodied Spirits: Stories of Spiritual Directors of Color, published by Morehouse in March 2014, this new book...
The Complete Guide to Godly Play
Volume 2, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
• Incorporates the latest in Godly Play® theory and practice. • Revised lessons throughout, plus one brand-new lesson. Godly Play® is an imaginative approach to working with children, an approach that supports, challenges, nourishes, and guides their spiritual quest. It is more akin to spiritual...
The Complete Guide to Godly Play
Volume 4, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
• Incorporates the latest in Godly Play® theory and practice • Revised lessons throughout The Godly Play® approach helps children explore their faith through story, to gain religious language, and to enhance their spiritual experience through wonder and play. Based on Montessori principles and...