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Celebrating Liturgical Time
Days, Weeks, and Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
• 2nd installment in the “Celebrating” series: an overview of liturgical theology and praxis • Written by a well-known liturgical scholar • Includes history, theology, and practical information Celebrating Liturgical Time continues the standard of scholarship set by Patrick Malloy’s Celebrating...
Crazy Christians
A Call to Follow Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
An invigorating view of faith from the first African American Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
“What the Church needs, what this world needs, are some Christians who are as crazy as the Lord. Crazy enough to love like Jesus, to give like Jesus, to forgive like Jesus, to do justice,...
Occasions of Grace
An Historical and Theological Study of the Pastoral Offices and Episcopal Services in the BCP
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This latest offering of Byron Stuhlman is the third in his trilogy on the Prayer Book. It is also the conclusion of his study of the liturgy of the church begun in his previous book, Redeeming the Time. This book deals with the pastoral offices and episco
The Chant of Life
Liturgical Studies Four
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
What does it mean to inculturate liturgy? Why is it necessary? What value does it hold for the people? Does it impact the church as a whole? What does the process of inculturation teach about liturgy? Bishop McDonald, as editor, has assembled a broad list
Hands and Hearts
Intergenerational Activities throughout the Church Year
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Hands and Hearts includes easy-to-follow instruction for activities, based on the liturgical year, designed to help your church family experience faith-based learning together. A source of fun and biblical learning, this interactive book is a great way to draw together a congregation of all ages for spiritual growth and learning.
Christian Holiness and Human Sexuality
A Study Guide for Episcopalians
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Marilyn McCord Adams, Wil Gafney, A. Katherine Grieb, Louis Weil, Ellen K. Wondra, Rowan Smith, and Sylvia Sweeney, CONTRIBUTORS Christian Holiness & Human Sexuality is a study guide for Episcopalians who want to understand how all Christian people can exercise their baptismal vocation in the...
Gospel in the Global Village
Seeking God's Dream of Shalom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
In this second book by Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori, she explores issues and challenges of deep concern to the Episcopal Church, the wider Body of Christ, and the world at large. Arranged thematically, her essays reflect on the travel, issues, people, and passions that have driven the first three...
by Jenifer Gamber
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
• Newly available in print and eBook editions • Supports a foundational book for youth in the Episcopal Church • Releases along with the revised edition of primary text In addition to a book for teens, My Faith, My Life is a curriculum. With this guide, leaders can create short, intermediate,...
Beyond a Binary God
A Theology for Trans* Allies
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
• How the inclusion of trans people in our communities of faith has the potential to broaden our understanding • Written by a priest and parent of a trans person • Discussion/journaling questions included All are made in the image and likeness of God. If this is what we believe, then trans people,...
A Heart for the Future
Writings on the Christian Hope
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Prominent thinkers, writers, and well-known voices in the Episcopal Church come together to present a very broad spectrum of Christian thought and eschatology. Ultimately, what they have in common is the belief that the choice Christian must make is not between the now and the eternal; it is between...
Faith Rules
An Episcopal Manual
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Modeled on Michael Pollan's best-selling Food Rules: An Eater's Manual, this book seeks to introduce both faith and the Episcopal Church to the seeker with a deft touch through a series of extended one-page epigrams. Taken together, the eight sections comprise a sage and accessible introduction to...
The Wideness of God's Mercy, Revised and Updated Edition
Litanies to Enlarge Our Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This new, updated edition of 150 litanies - responsorial prayers of the people for use in the liturgy and other gatherings - draws from a wealth of Anglican and ecumenical material from all parts of the world, and is suitable for most mainline churches. Contents include: Prayer and Worship Prayer and Time Prayer and the World Prayer and the Church Prayer and the Local Community
A Life of Grace for the Whole World
A Study Course on the House of Bishops’ Pastoral Teaching on the Environment: Youth Booklet
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Using the House of Bishop’s Pastoral Teaching on the Environment, A Life of Grace engages participants in understanding how the teaching informs and deepens appreciation and love for God and God’s work in Creation, and how that finds expression in their life of faith. As the first pastoral teaching...
by Ruthanna B. Hooke
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Preaching is one of the more “transformable” aspects of the church’s life. Performance teacher Ruthanna Hooke, writing for both clergy and lay leaders, delivers the good and bad news about Episcopalians and preaching. She explains why preaching is more difficult than ever today, and provides...