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Calling on the Spirit in Unsettling Times
Anglican Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Based upon addresses given to Anglican audiences in North America and Australia, Bill Countryman directly confronts the challenges that face Anglicans and other Western Christians at a time of internal division and increasing indifference to religion on the part of educated elites. He regards these...
Difficult Gospel
The Theology of Rowan Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Rowan Williams is widely recognized as a creative and powerful theologian, but his theological writings are frequently complex and difficult. This book provides a clear and simple guide to all the main themes of his theology, and shows how they are related to his reading of the Bible, his careful...
Embracing Emergence Christianity
Phyllis Tickle on the Church's Next Rummage Sale
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Embracing Emergence Christianity is a six-session small group church study for adults and young adults incorporating a Participant Workbook and a DVD. This eBook is of the Participant Workbook with the corresponding Small Group DVD available separately. The Participant Workbook is available in this...
Saints, Signs, and Symbols
The Symbolic Language of Christian Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
This thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition enhances the well-loved and often-used earlier work as a guide to symbolism in Christian liturgical art, architecture, manuscripts, stained glass, and more. The new book is more heavily pictorial in an effort to provide an even stronger resource...
The Challenge of Change
The Anglican Communion in the Post-Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Author Mark Harris, an Episcopal priest, says that Anglicans mostly define themselves by reflecting on their experience rather than by defining distinct theology or doctrine. Anglicans feel that their reason for being is bound up not with being Anglicans
Click 2 Save REBOOT
The Digital Ministry Bible
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
• A “reboot” of a popular and practical how-to guide for leaders bridging digital social media and parish ministry Six years ago, the original Click2Save’s breakthrough introduction to adopting social media for ministry energized outreach and was embraced across denominations by seminaries...
by Clifford W. Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1988
Deepen the lay minister's knowledge of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and the various duties of this ministry with this guidebook to lay participation in the Eucharist and Offices of the Church.
Twelve Months of Sundays
Twelve Months of Sundays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Covering all the Sundays and major festivals of all three years in the lectionary cycle, renowned scholar Tom Wright offers reflections on the readings in the Revised Common Lectionary for Years A, B and C. Drawn from his hugely popular columns in the British Church Times, and with new material, Twelve...
by Jim Cotter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Neither a translation nor a paraphrase of the psalms, psalms for a Pilgrim People aims instead "to make the psalms prayable for those who find stumbling blocks in many of them as they have been variously translated into English," writes Jim Cotter. There is much in the psalms, written many...
Still Listening
New Horizons in Spiritual Direction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
In this inspiring volume, spiritual directors share the wisdom gained from their personal experience in helping those who face challenges and crises.
Everyone struggles from time to time, and spiritual direction is the careful and compassionate listening one person offers to another as both...
Celebrating the Rites of Initiation
A Practical Ceremonial Guide for Clergy and Other Liturgical Ministers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Celebrating the Rites of Initiation continues the standard of scholarship set by Patrick Malloy’s Celebrating the Eucharist, and offers similar aids around issues of baptism and confirmation. It is an ideal book for students and practicing clergy who seek to strengthen their knowledge—and parochial practice—of baptismal theology.
Baptism and Ministry
Liturgical Studies One
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
A collection of essays issued under the direction of the Standing Liturgical Commission (SLC) on baptism and ministry. Topics addressed are welcoming new ministers, reaffirmation of ordination vows, confirmation/reception, and baptismal ministry. (116 pp)
by John H. Westerhoff III
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Episcopalians consider themselves to be people whose individual and corporate lives are shaped by the Book of Common Prayer, but aside from worship on Sunday morning, few know what fills its nearly 1,000 pages. John Westerhoff, Episcopal priest and Christian educator, walks readers through the ways...
The Desert Mothers
Spiritual Practices from the Women of the Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
In the same format as Holy Companions and the forthcoming Praying with the Anglican Saints, this book includes summaries of the thoughts and spiritual approaches of the Desert Mothers, along with spiritual practices based on their writings. Although scholars have paid attention to the Desert Mothers,...