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These Are Our Bodies
Talking Faith & Sexuality at Church & Home - Young Adult Leader Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
• Faith formation resource for young adults on human sexuality • For use in congregational and campus ministry settings Our inherent value and worth comes from God’s love for us, but our modern world is filled with sexual expression that too often leads us away from the life of Christ. As Christians...
A Life of Grace for the Whole World
A Study Course on the House of Bishops’ Pastoral Teaching on the Environment: Leader Guide
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...
Reasonable and Holy
Engaging Same-Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Reasonable and Holy addresses the conflict over homosexuality within the Anglican tradition, demonstrating that the church is able to provide for and support faithful and loving relationships between persons of the same sex, not as a departure from that tradition, but as a reasonable extension of...
Faithful Living, Faithful Dying
Anglican Reflections on End of Life Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
What do faithful living and faithful dying mean as we near life’s end? With all the technology and choices available to us today, making decisions about the end of life grows ever more difficult. As a result of all the theological and ethical issues that have arisen around the dying process in recent...
These Are Our Bodies
Talking Faith & Sexuality at Church & Home – Intermediate Parent Book
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
• Faith formation resource for children on human sexuality • For use in congregational, home, and school settings This sexuality education resource from a mainline/progressive denominational prospective aids the leader, child (participant), and parent in learning about their body and using skills...
These Are Our Bodies
Talking Faith & Sexuality at Church & Home – Preschool & Elementary Leader Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
• Faith formation resource for children on human sexuality • For use in congregational, home, and school settings This sexuality education resource from a mainline/progressive denominational prospective aids the leader, child (participant), and parent in learning about their body and using skills...
by Betty Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
This newly revised edition of Betty Wolfe's classic manual covers all the essential steps and information needed for quick-and-easy church banner construction, including 49 patterns, complete instructions, and tips for designing your own patterns. Worship spaces can be enlivened by the use of colorful...
Faith and Science in the 21st Century
A Postmodern Primer for Youth and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
• Eight noted theologians, each speaking on a topic of science • Builds on popular videos from the Day 1 radio program Science or faith? The battle rages, from millennials and GenXers questioning the relevance of religion to older adults who doubt the validity of science (and vice versa), but...
Expectant
Advent Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019
• Author of What We Do in Advent: An Anglican Kid’s Activity Book looks at Advent through adult eyes • Meditations for each day of Advent • Keyed to Daily Lectionary psalms We don't like to wait, but the season of Advent is all about waiting--a time of expectation, when Christians have traditionally...
by The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, Office of the General Convention of The Episcopal Church
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Nuevo material para la disciplina de la oración diaria Uso autorizado por la Convención General de la Iglesia Episcopal Disponible en inglés y en español (volúmenes apartes) Apenas se comenzó a dividir el día en horas, personas de diversas tradiciones religiosas incluyendo el judaísmo y el...
We Are Theologians
Strengthening the People of God
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
A “thoughtful, clear, and stimulating” look at how lay people can fully participate in the life of the church (John Coburn).
With its focus primarily on clergy, Christian churches have often been behind the times in pursuing the fullness of the biblical vision of all the People of God....
A Pilgrim People
Learning Through the Church Year
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
As a people whose faith is formed and nourished by the Bible's stories of creation and fall, salvation and redemption, Christians hunger to order their lives by the church's story and their own. Our journey to God leads us through the cycle of the church year - from Advent and Christmas to Easter...
Liturgical Sense
The Logic of Rite
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Louis Weil looks back on his work shaping the liturgical life of the Episcopal Church through his involvement with the development of The 1979 Book of Common Prayer— and looks forward to the future of the church and its liturgical life. Through stories and first-person anecdotes, Weil does “narrative...
Why is There a Menorah on the Altar?
Jewish Roots of Christian Worship
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A desire and demand to know more about the Jewish legacy of Christian identity is growing among laity. A similar desire to foster interfaith understanding and dialogue is growing among leaders of local churches. Why Is There a Menorah on the Altar? seeks to meet these demands by providing information...