Clergy category: 219 books
Workers of Wonders
A Model for Effective Religious Leadership from Scripture to Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Why do people follow a leader, particularly a religious leader? Is it because of personality, or a particular vision or set of values, or perhaps a felt need for direction or authority? And why, given that Americans are still an overwhelmingly religious people, is the clergy declining in influence?...
A Spider Trap
Partners in Evil
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2004
Pope John Paul II - Tear down your wall of sins
"As a victim of sexual abuse by an alcoholic, pedophile priest at the age of 11, I endorse this book and this message." - Gerald Payne (June 11,2004)
A Spiders Trap the sequel to Dont Holler at Me, I Didnt Write the Bible, gives...
Neuroplasticity, Performativity, and Clergy Wellness
Neighbor Love as Self-Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
This book invites readers, particularly clergy members, to rethink their understandings of the human person in light of recent developments in neuroscience. In addition to bringing together religion and neuroscience, it engages narrative theory, exercise physiology, and constructions of wellness to...
A Dedicant's Guide to First Degree Priesthood
A First Step to Clergy in the Craft of the Wise
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
A first step to Clergy in the Craft of the Wise. A Dedicant's Guide to First Degree Priesthood is the first in a three-part series designed to teach the steps needed to advance to the first level of Priesthood in the Pagan/Wiccan community. This book, in concert with the second and third degree books...
Clergy, Retirement, and Wholeness
Looking Forward to the Third Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
What would you wish for in retirement? Good health? Financial Stability? A supportive social community? Retiring well is everyone's goal, but accomplishing this end requires planning and effort. Family physician Gwen Halaas recognizes the challenges professional caregivers such as clergy experience...
by Marcus Grodi
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Non-Catholic clergymen and women who become Catholics find great joy in answering God's call. But the road home can be long, weary, and full of obstacles. Along the way they must wrestle with difficult questions, the opposition of family and friends, anxieties about finding a new livelihood, and much...
When a Congregation Is Betrayed
Responding to Clergy Misconduct
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2005
Other books have been written about clergy misconduct and its effects on congregations. Some are by victims. Others are written by professionals for a professional audience. Until now, however, there hasn't been a book for the congregational leaders who must deal with the fallout of clergy misconduct....
by William Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
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William Law (1686-1761) was an English writer and mystic who challenged Christians to return to a holy life and a fervent faith. His writings have impacted countless others, including John Wesley and, more recently, Andrew...
Caught in the Pulpit
Leaving Belief Behind
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
What is it like to be a preacher or rabbi who no longer believes in God? In this expanded and updated edition of their groundbreaking study, Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola comprehensively and sensitively expose an inconvenient truth that religious institutions face in the new transparency of...
by John Zehring
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This booklet practices what it preaches: it is concise, to the point, and encourages effectiveness over efficiency. The goal: to give you tools that are quick to comprehend, easy to implement and will multiply what you can accomplish. In short, it will help you to work smarter, not harder. It will...
A Matter of Discretion
The Politics of Catholic Priests in the United States and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Clergy are pillars of local religious communities, and Roman Catholic priests are perhaps the quintessential examples of pastors functioning as political elites. The political science literature demonstrates that priests (indeed, clergy more generally) are well-positioned to influence the faithful,...
Preparing the Pastors We Need
Reclaiming the Congregation's Role in Training Clergy
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Amid the widespread discussion about 'the future of the church,' an important point is sometimes overlooked: tomorrow's church will depend to a great extent on the new pastors of today who will serve and guide our churches in the years ahead.
George Mason's Preparing the Pastors We Need: Reclaiming...
A Republic of Righteousness
The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2001
This book examines the debate over the connection between religion and public life in society during the fifty years following the American Revolution. Sassi challenges the conventional wisdom, finding an essential continuity to the period's public Christianity, whereas most previous studies have...
Inferior Office?
A History of Deacons in the Church of England
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The book's purpose is to present the first extensive historical treatment of deacons in the Church of England, in an effort to explain why lifelong or 'distinctive' deacons have so far failed to become a major part of life in the Church of England, as they are in other parts of the Anglican Communion....