Morehouse Publishing imprint: 392 books

“To love is to give yourself away. You can dare throw yourself into the pilgrimage, because God has fallen in love with you so much that he has sent his son into the world to bring you home. That is the basic message of Christianity.” - Alan Jones The Christian spiritual journey is a pilgrimage...

Responding to the controversy and divisiveness within the Anglican Communion – particularly over the issue of homosexuality – Alan Jones offers a more balanced look at the middle way to be found within Anglican orthodoxy. With its focus on careful listening and prayerful deliberation, Jones’s...

Preaching Through the Year of Matthew is the tenth in a series of books devoted to presenting examples of preaching excellence. These sermons, collected from clergy nationwide, use biblical passages for the liturgical year A, which focuses on the Gospel of Matthew. Sermons for the major holy days as...

• A wide-ranging exploration of the past, present, and future effects of women’s ordination on the church • Edited by a well-respected theologian and featuring a diversity of voices from across the Anglican Communion This book gauges the impact and implications of women’s ordination on today...

Most Christians are familiar with the story told in Mark’s gospel — from the fishermen leaving their nets, to the miracle of the loaves and fishes, to the political rumblings and the crucifixion. But no one knows who “Mark” really was or why this gospel was written or why it’s charged with...

Church has changed—this book shows how to follow the Spirit out into the community, and reimagine our mission for the 21st century. The decline in mainstream religious denominations is palpable. For years, the question has been: How can we “fix” the church? With thirty years of experience...

Candlelight offers an intimate view of spiritual direction through written narratives of actual spiritual direction sessions. The experiential practice is accompanied by theoretical and theological understandings that guide it. The book includes the stories of nine men and women, illustrating how the journey of Christian discipleship is helped by spiritual direction.

• Next generation of classic Episcopal Teaching Series • Accessible for newcomers and adults; content for church leaders and seminarians • Interactive, accompanied by online materials • Topics and approach relevent to today’s issues The New Church’s Teaching series has been one of the...

“The only way you can really get to know God is through prayer,” says author Christopher L. Webber, “and the Prayer Book sets out a pattern that has been used by saints and sinners for centuries.” This guide will help readers–newcomers and longtime Episcopalians alike–get started on the...

"The first thing to say in our exploration of priesthood is this: priesthood is a fundamental and inescapable part of being human. All human beings, knowingly or not, minister as priests to one another. All of us, knowingly or not, receive priestly ministrations from one another. Unless we begin...

In this latest addition to the Spiritual Directors International Series, professional spiritual directors and those in formation programs learn to extend traditional forms of hospitality by living out its deeper meaning as they explore ways in which the spirit of hospitality enriches the spiritual direction experience.

In 1994 William Ritter's adult son committed suicide, sending Ritter and his family on a journey no family wants to take. Part of Ritter's own process of healing the loss of his son was to preach about it occasionally from the pulpit. This book is a collection of the sermons he preached, the first...

With a light touch and warm voice, and just a hint of a Southern accent, Martha Sterne tells the stories of her encounters with Christ – in the supermarket and the beauty parlor, in the garden, the kitchen, and sometimes even church.

Almost everywhere throughout the greater church are unsustainable trends—endowments are being depleted, building maintenance deferred, congregations are aging and dwindling, and budgets are too far out-of-whack. And although there is much literature on what to do to grow congregations, little has...