Resource Publications imprint: 228 books
The Collector of Bodies
Concern for Syria and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A 1994 trip to Syria and Jordan as an Arts America Speaker for the United States Information Agency began the group of poems for The Collector of Bodies. The manuscript stayed in a file until the Civil War began in Syria, March 18, 2011, the author's 70th birthday. The poems were retrieved, and the...
by Diane Glancy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Love in one form or another is the commanding force of this new collection of short fiction. The Servitude of Love holds the revelations of love in different manifestations--love of work, love of another, love of journey, love of mission, love of justice, of foolishness, of duty. These thirteen stories...
The Better Way
The Church of Agape in Emerging Corinth
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
When Paul came to Corinth he found a culture emerging from the ashes of Roman power. As Julius Caesar rebuilt the fallen city he brought Roman culture to this Greek community. Likewise, Paul's message of salvation in Jesus rebuilt the fallen lives of people dominated by a culture of power. This power...
Adverbs for Advent
Quiet Reflections for a Noisy Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
These daily reflections for the season of Advent focus on the question of how we are to live into the promise of the season and the challenges of our historical moment, and how we might, as we focus again on the great theme of waiting in Christian life, practice the presence of God. They include pieces...
The Practice of Philosophy in Plato and Plotinus
An Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Plato said over 2,500 years ago that "an unexamined life for a man is not worth living." To examine one's life, on a regular basis, cannot but lead to a consideration of virtue, which in turn leads to a search for the Good, which both Plato and Plotinus say all men naturally seek. What we...
Faith in Society
13 Profiles of Christians Adding Value to the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Christian high school and college students have inadvertently been led to believe that working in non-Christian settings is the preferred way of making the world a better place. This book takes the opposite view. Anthony Bradley argues that it is perfectly honorable and praiseworthy for Christians...
Benedict’s Daughter
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
These poems offer a spiritual biography of a remarkable woman of faith, a Benedictine Oblate and spiritual adviser who lived her life according to St. Benedict's Holy Rule ("ora and labora"--pray and work). Juxtaposed with poems on her life, others reflect on Benedictine traditions such...
Sermons to Self
Touching God
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The Christian faith is difficult--intellectually, morally, and spiritually. People struggle to make sense of it, and to live it. Many give up. Sitting in the pew (an increasing rarity), with a Christian upbringing and education behind him, Christopher Ward finds the practice and the preaching of the...
Metaphor: Its Therapeutic Use and Construction
A Professional Guide to Using Metaphor in Psychotherapy and Counseling
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book helps counselors/therapists in all treatment modalities effectively use the extended metaphor as a therapeutic tool. It is a needed addition to every therapist's tool kit. The book will show you how to create a personalized and carefully constructed metaphor to reach a resistant client....
A Catholic Reading Guide to Conditional Immortality
The Third Alternative to Hell and Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Like many other people, the long tradition about hell has been a source of serious confusion and distress for me. Over the past six years or so I was relieved to discover two other alternatives that are also part of the Christian tradition, though less prominent--universalism and the subject of the...
by Robert Wild
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This reading guide to some of the philosophical and theological literature on universalism offers practical help in providing informed material on a topic that is often treated in a superficial and unenlightened manner. The reader may be surprised to learn that universalism was the predominant belief...
by Matt Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
There are unexpected, beatific moments when Rev. Elijah Lovejoy Parish is swept up by the divine intrusion into the ordinary. Yet, he knows he cannot tarry there, for his calling also compels him to resume his shift as the traffic cop down at the intersection of Pathological and Whine. Told from the...
God Likes Ants: Every Week
Fifty-two Scripture Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Ants are diligent when they undertake a task. In order to understand and follow the Scripture for better living, follow their example. God Likes Ants: Every Week features Andrea Gilson's thoughts, perspectives, and interpretations in a weekly reader format. Scripture verses from the Authorized King...
Work and Wealth in Scripture
How to Grow, Prosper, and Work as a Christian
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
What do you do with your money? What do you think of your boss? Do you like your work? Is it satisfying? Are you satisfied with your answers? Do you know that God, through Scripture, offers us answers? Two of the most fundamental challenges for all humankind are deciding how to live and, if we accumulate...