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by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The life and ministry of a priest are two aspects of the same journey, and beloved author and priest Barbara Cawthorne Crafton approaches this journey in four sections, envisioned as embracing a clerical life. The first, “The Dream,” contains the early years of discernment, training, and youthful...
Crossing Myself
A Story of Spiritual Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
• Revised, edgy, and engaging spiritual autobiography • An intimate first-person journey through pain and depression to hope • Prolific, popular author of more than 20 books, including My Church Is Not Dying: Episcopalians in the 21st Century Originally published by NavPress in 2006, this book...
Just Wondering, Jesus
100 Questions People Want to Ask
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
What are the questions that are really on the minds of Christians as they try to live out their faith? Author Tom Ehrich challenged readers of his weekly newspaper column and his daily e-mail meditations to pose the questions that they would like to ask Jesus “from the roadside,” as blind Bartimaeus...
by Mark Bozzuti-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
This talented and imaginative writer offers a unique perspective on the season of Advent. Along with Scripture readings and prayers, he offers four weeks of meditations that focus on the growth of Jesus in the womb of Mary as he approaches the day of his birth, learns his mother's voice, responds...
Becoming Like a Child
The Curiosity of Maturity beyond the Norm
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Berryman invites the reader into a creative process that explores what it means to be spiritually mature, starting with Jesus’ injunction to “become like a child.” What does this mean at the literal level? the figurative level? the mystical level? the ethical level? The structure of the process...
The Desert
An Anthology for Lent
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1998
The desert, with its great emptiness and silence, has long been a symbol of solitude. In our spiritual lives, we sometimes seek such isolation as a means of abandoning ourselves completely to God. At other times, solitude comes upon us uninvited and unwelcome, as we find ourselves totally alone and...
Race and Prayer
Collected Voices, Many Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2003
The damage done by hatred and prejudice—based on race, sexual orientation, religion, or gender—runs very deep. The damage done is often invisible, but it simmers beneath the surface anyway. In Race and Prayer, Malcolm Boyd and Chester Talton have collected poems, prayers, and prose that bring...
Stories of God at Home
A Godly Play Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
• A method for families to share the biblical story at home and learn the practice of sharing one another’s stories as part of God’s Story • Includes full color images of the materials described in text Using Godly Play® methods, Jerome Berryman offers families a way of nourishing faith in...
Clergy Moms
A Survival Guide to Balancing Family and Congregation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Walking the tightrope of home and parish life for clergy parents is notoriously difficult in all the mainline Protestant denominations, but most books on ordination and vocation ignore the question of family life. The ordination of women, the prevalence of two-career marriages, the increasing need to...
by John H. Westerhoff III
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Originally written in 1976, revised in 2000, and translated in six languages, this classic critique of Christian education is newly revised and expanded and includes Westerhoff’s overview and perspective on the state of Christian education over the past forty years—plus his role in that history....
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Tweet If You [Heart] Jesus
Practicing Church in the Digital Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Churches everywhere are scrambling to get linked with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. But are they ready for the Digital Reformation: the dramatic global shift in the nature of faith, social consciousness and relationship that these digital social media have ushered in? Tweet If You ? Jesus brings...
Race
Changing Society and the Churches
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
"Race does not exist. Yet in this extraordinary book Ken Leech exposes how racism grips the imaginations of Christian and non-Christian alike, shaping our relations with one another and having disastrous results not only in neighborhoods but in foreign policies. Pauline-like, Leech helps us see...
Rubble Nation
Haiti's Pain, Haiti's Promise
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
As in their previous book, Where Mercy Fails: Darfur’s Struggle to Survive, Chris Herlinger and Paul Jeffrey fuse narrative and photographs to put a human face on the massive suffering that Haiti has experienced and continues to experience since the earthquake in January 2010. A subject of special...
Pilgrim
A Course for the Christian Journey - The Bible
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Course 7: The Bible: What is it, how was it given to us, and how should we read it? These six sessions combine simple prayer, Bible reflection in the lectio divina style, an article by a modern writer, and time for questions and reflection. By the end of the six sessions, it is hoped that participants...