Clergy category: 219 books

Paul Bradshaw, one of the world's foremost scholars on the history of Christian liturgy, has shared this expertise in several works that have become standard texts for students of liturgy. In Rites of Ordination, Bradshaw turns his attention to the ways that Christians through the ages have understood...

  When Cecily Reardon is found murdered with unusual circumstances the evidence leads Veteran Detective Mario Grimes to St. Mark Church and his one true love. Pastor June Harris, formerly a very talented police detective who left the police force to pursue her call in the ministry. The...

In 1631, Marie Guyart stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, leaving behind her eleven-year-old son, Claude, against the wishes of her family and her own misgivings. Marie concluded, “God was dearer to me than all that. Leaving him therefore in His hands, I bid adieu to him...

Many professional ministers struggle at some point with the desire to pursue another career. For those at such a place on their journey, this book poses questions, offers practical suggestions gathered from other ministers who have traveled this path, and shares insights from the authors' own experiences...

This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early...

Lauren Faulkner Rossi plumbs the moral justifications of Catholic priests who served willingly and faithfully in the German army in World War II. She probes the Church’s accommodations with Hitler’s regime, its fierce but often futile attempts to preserve independence, and the shortcomings of Church doctrine in the face of total war and genocide.

Through the reception of diaconate a man becomes a cleric. Canon 277 §1 states: "Clerics are obliged to observe perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of the kingdom of Heaven and therefore are bound to celibacy...." Accordingly, it would seem that clerics have two distinct obligations:...

Change your life with God - Is a life changing e-book spiritually. It contains a collection of sermons and illustrations from different people and a good reference for preaching.

Dr. Johnson breaks down the meaning of the name Immanuel, as it was given to the Prophet Isaiah, in its original syllable sequence Imm/anu/El and shows that God arranged the syllables in their order on purpose.  In the syllable arrangement God spelled out the entire spectrum of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as Immanuel; from His birth in Bethlehem to His Glorious Enthronement on High.

Alois Schifferle führt zu den Wurzeln des Konflikts um die von Erzbischof Marcel Lefebvre gegründete Pius-Bruderschaft. Dazu zeichnet er die Entwicklung der traditionalistischen Bewegung von den Anfängen bis hin zu den jüngsten Ereignissen nach. Anhand zentraler Themen - Kirchenbild, Auffassung...

You probably have read about the successful pastors, and their mega churches: the top ten richest pastors in the world; the top 50 megachurches in America; millionaire pastors and their celebrity lifestyles; top fifty ridiculously wealthy pastors, and so on. What most of these reports don't include...

Pastors say goodbye to congregations. Sometimes their goodbyes are timely and sweet; sometimes they are jarring and painful. But as they leave, they face a unique journey of grief, one shaped by their role. They face both the outward grief of leaving people behind and the inward grief of leaving an...

I vårt moderna samhälle har ledarskap blivit nedvärderat och i många sammanhang vänder man sig starkt mot hela företeelsen. Behovet av ett rättfärdigt ledarskap, både i församlingen och i samhället, är dock mycket stort. I En...

Rev. Anne Barber takes an in-depth look at a difficult subject for Christians to talk about. Since the first Christian flocks were formed, the cause of Christ has been hurt by predatory shepherds. Much media attention is given to the fallen pastor when his sins are exposed, but what becomes of the sheep...