Chalice Press: 181 books
Creation-Crisis Preaching
Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
How can we proclaim justice for God's Creation in the face of global warming? How does fracking fit with "the earth and its fullness are the Lord's?" Creation-Crisis Preaching works with the premise that all of Creation, including humankind, needs to hear the Good News of Jesus' resurrection...
Piloting Church
Helping Your Congregation Take Flight
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Prepare your church for take-off
A majority of churches are grounded - shrinking in membership and resources, unsure how to make the changes needed to be vital again. Pastor and pilot Cameron Trimble has helped hundreds of congregations get airborne again, and Piloting Church: Helping Your...
America's Holy Ground
61 Faithful Reflections on Our National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
In America's Holy Ground: 61 Faithful Reflections on Our National Parks, dive deeper into a unique aspect of each park, from Acadia to Zion, and reframe how you think about the parks and your faith. Connections, sabbath, reflection, perspective, beginnings, art, restoration - these are just a few...
Coming Home
Ministry That Matters with Veterans and Military Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Coming home from military service is a process of reconnection and reintegration that is best engaged within a compassionate community.
There are almost 20 million veterans and service members living in the United States, including more than one million Americans deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan...
Organic Student Ministry
Trash the Pre-Packaged Programs and Transform Your Youth Group
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Do you find other youth ministry programs promise you can "plug and play," only to fall short of expectation, forcing you to "adopt and drop"? An organic student ministry allows each student ministry to exist and live in its best possible way, its natural way! In his book Organic...
Preaching as Resistance
Voices of Hope, Justice, and Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
30 new sermons to empower your prophetic voice for solidarity and justice.
As nationalism, patriarchy, and alt-right fear-mongering threaten our troubled nation, the pulpit has again become a subversive space of sacred resistance. In this provocative and powerful collection of sermons from...
Fellowship of Prayer
2015 Lenten Season
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
“Lent is a journey, but so is this life.” In daily posts with titles such as “Cleaning House,” “Peach Pie,” and “Standing on the Wings,” Traci Smith relates present-day experiences to provide context for Lent, with accompanying scripture and a prayer for each day’s reading.
Hearing the Sermon
Relationship, Content, Feeling<BR>Channels of Listening series
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Hearing the Sermon is a total revolution in the "how-to's" of preaching. It is the result of an extensive study that made those who listen to sermons the teachers of effective preaching. Using Aristotelian categories of rhetoric as a basis for analyzing the effectiveness of the sermon —...
The Lifesaving Church
Faith Communities and Suicide Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
"There's so much silence around suicide in the church that it is quite literally killing us." --Rachael Keefe
Would you know how to respond if the person sitting next to you in your pew was contemplating suicide? Every year, millions of people engage in suicidal activity, including...
Outlandish
An Unlikely Messiah, a Messy Ministry, and the Call to Mobilize
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Discover the improbable methods and ministry of a radical and revolutionary Jesus.
Jesus did everything wrong: Poor judgment picking a team of disciples. Ministering to the wrong people. Angering the wrong people. Having outrageous expectations of his followers. Questionable teaching methods....
by Jill Suzanne Shook
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
The national housing crisis is something congregations and faith-based groups often want to address, yet feel powerless to do so in the face of this daunting and confusing problem. Making Housing Happen clearly shows how churches are addressing the housing crisis from Los Angeles to New York City. The...
by D. Duane Cummins
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
This updated edition, now in a more readable format, offers concise information on Disciples heritage, thought, worship, mission, and structure, making it a valuable resource for church members and members-to-be, and for those who simply want to know more about the church.
Saved from Silence
Finding Women’s Voice in Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
In this postmodern age, women preachers are finding their "voice" a distinctive way of proclamation. This book looks at the metaphor of voice, how women are moving to voice from silence, and how individuals can make themselves heard by those who don't want to hear.