Paraclete Press: 276 books
Where Jesus Prayed
Illuminating the Lord's Prayer in the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Danielle Shroyer went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land at a time when she was tired of wordy prayers. She entered a church intending to pray only silently, focusing on the feeling of the place and God’s presence within it. What happened instead was that the Lord’s Prayer bubbled up, simple, open,...
Visions of Mary
Art, Devotion, and Beauty at Chartres Cathedral
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Through image and word, the story of Mary at Chartres unfolds on the pages of this book. Author and photographer Jill Geoffrion has unusual access to Chartres Cathedral and offers a unique visual and meditative journey in this newest addition to the Mount Tabor Books series. Readers will discover...
Three Simple Men
And Other Holy Folktales
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
“Folktales have the ability to live long and deep. These ones, beautifully refashioned by Jon Sweeney, make you think beyond the Christian references Tolstoy craved for himself and his readers. They can be easily ‘converted’ for all faiths. They are readable, tellable, lovely, to be relished and...
Drawn In
A Creative Process for Artists, Activists, and Jesus Followers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Troy Bronsink shows how the rhythms of God's creative work can be rediscovered through design thinking and creative processes. By understanding God in this new way, Christian creatives are then invited to be "drawn in" to the creative, ongoing, divine work. Exercises throughout the book invite participation...
Be Still and Listen
Experience the Presence of God in Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The various crises we experience in society and culture today, at their root, reveal a spiritual problem: a profound lack of meaning. The mystical truths revealed in scripture can surely help. With Be Still and Listen it is possible to explore the contemplative dimensions of the Bible, either on your...
All Creation Waits
The Mystery of New Beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Twenty-five meditations paired with original woodcuts reflect on how wild animals adapt when darkness and cold descend. We hear as if for the first time the ancient wisdom of Advent: The dark is not an end but the way a new beginning comes.
The Lost Gospel of Mary
The Mother of Jesus in Three Ancient Texts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Some Christians have piled the status of the mother of Jesus so high that it rivals that of her Son. Others ignore the Virgin Mary entirely. Behind all of the images is a girl who grew up to be the mother of Christ. How did the first Christians view her? What were the commonly understood facts about...
Joy to the World
The Forgotten Meaning of Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Few people know that “Joy to the World” – the world’s most popular Christmas song – wasn’t written for Christmas at all. Isaac Watts wrote it in imitation of Psalm 98. That psalm has nothing to say about the coming of the Messiah as a child; it is instead about the Messiah who comes in...
The Lion, the Mouse, and the Dawn Treader
Spiritual Lessons from C.S. Lewis's Narnia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
From the author of the new BIG BOOK OF CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM comes an engaging look at how the principles and practices of Christian mysticism are illustrated in C. S. Lewis's Narnia series. The Lion, The Mouse and The Dawn Treader shows the reader how C. S. Lewis was guided by two "templates"...
Seeds of Faith
Practices to Frow a Healthy Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Seeds of Faith by Jeremy Langford covers an astonishing variety of spiritual practices, and does so in such a joy-filled and inviting way that we instantly feel at home. Buy this book. --Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline and Life with God Jeremy Langford's multiple talents as...
by Frederica Mathewes-Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.” This very simple prayer was developed in the deserts of Egypt and Palestine during the early centuries of Christian faith, and has been practiced in the Eastern Orthodox Church ever since. It is a prayer inspired by St. Paul’s exhortation to...
The Real Mary: Why Evangelical Christians Can Embrace the Mother of Jesus
Why Evangelical Christians Can Embrace the Mother of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
The real Mary was an unwed, pregnant teenage girl in first century Palestine. She was a woman of courage, humility, spirit, and resolve, and her response to the angel Gabriel shifted the tectonic plates of history. Join popular Biblical scholar Scot McKnight as he explores the contours of Mary’s...
Embracing Grace: A Gospel for All of Us
A Gospel for All of Us
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
This fascinating book explains that the gospel is about the restoration of "cracked Eikons" (fallen humans) so that humans can be in union with God and in communion with the saints. In the candid and lucid style that has made McKnight's The Jesus Creed so appealing to thousands of pastors, lay leaders,...
The Jesus Creed
Loving God, Loving Others - 15th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
For the 15th anniversary of The Jesus Creed, Scot McKnight offers a fresh edition of this life-giving classic with a new introduction and the foreword by John Ortberg. With more than 50,000 copies sold, The Jesus Creed is Scot McKnight’s bestselling book, a remarkable summary of what biblical Christianity...