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A Season for the Spirit
Readings for the Days of Lent - Seabury Classics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Spiritually hungry readers who want to breakthrough to a deeper experience of prayer and want practical help for Lent need look no further than to Martin Smith's A Season for the Spirit. Originally commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1991, A Season for the Spirit provides forty daily meditations...
First Reconciliation & Beyond Leaders Guide
Catholic Reconciliation Program
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
First Reconciliation and Beyond is a resource for Catholic parishes. The Leader Guide contains everything a catechist needs to lead one parents' session and four children's sessions to prepare for celebrating the sacrament of reconciliation. The emphasis is not just on "first reconciliation"...
The Fat Jesus
Christianity and Body Image
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
We are living in a food and body image obsessed culture. We are encouraged to over-consume by the marketing and media that surround us and then berated by those same forces for doing so. At the same time, we are bombarded with images of unnaturally thin celebrities who go to enormous lengths to retain...
Undiscovered Country
Imagining the World to Come
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Why do most contemporary Christians pull a blank when it comes to imagining a life with God after death? Although the Bible is largely silent on the issue, our world is completely riveted by the up-to-date visions of heaven and hell that stock bookstore shelves and are found everywhere on the Internet....
The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me
The Writings of Suzanne Hiatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
• To release in anticipation of the 40th anniversary of the ordinations • Gathers the bulk of Sue Hiatt’s writings, never before published • Reflections from Sue’s peers and colleagues As we approach the 40th anniversary of the irregular ordination of the group of women who became known...
Faith in the neighborhood: Praying
The Rituals of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Praying is the second in a series of books that offer Christians a new way of understanding what it means to live and worship among America's many faiths, and introduces them to the religions that make up the American neighborhood. Praying will explore public, family, and individual worship in Judaism,...
Divine Communion
A Eucharistic Theology of Sexual Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Food, sex, and God – these intertwine at the heart of Christian faith and practice. This book invites Christian communities to reflect theologically and spiritually on the desire for God and the desire for sexual intimacy as the same fundamental desire for communion. This is likewise God’s own...
Loving the Questions
An Exploration of the Nicene Creed
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Taking us through the creed step-by-step, Maryanne Micks not only poses the questions most asked by contempoarary Christians, but also teaches us to delight in the questions themselves. Faith accompanied by doubt, she believes, is far healthier that faith
The Complete Guide to Godly Play
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In this series of books, Jerome Berryman doesn't make any universal claims, such as "Everyone should do Godly Play, and this is exactly how they should do it." Godly Play isn't something that everyone can or should do. You will need to practice these lessons, use them with children, reflect...
On Second Thought
Essays Out of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
In this, Don Shriver’s fifteenth book, the socially involved ethicist and former president of Union Theological Seminary reveals some of the challenging experiences and ideas that have informed his work. In a book both personal and honest, Shriver reflects on the nature and importance of books,...
Children and Christian Initiation Parent/Sponsor Guide
Catholic Program
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Children and Christian Initiation is a resource for Catholic parishes. This easy-to-use resource gives parents and sponsors the confidence to accompany children to full sacramental initiation. It helps them prepare children to receive the sacraments of baptism, confirmation and eucharist by providing...
Life Lessons
From Alpha to Omega
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
The lessons in this book are those Schmidt did not and probably could not have learned in school.
by Stephen Burns
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
What does it means to be engaged in Christian ministry in a shifting spiritual and religious landscape? Given the divergence of types and contexts of Christian ministry today, this book invites readers to think anew about the distinctiveness of public practices of pastoral presence. Rather than narrowly...
Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling
Women Religious Leaders in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This collection of lively Q&A interviews with key contemporary female religious leaders focuses not only on the discrimination faced by some of the most important women in religion, but documents the emerging leadership of women in several faith traditions.