Chalice Press: 181 books
Wilderness Blessings
How Down Syndrome Reconstructed Our Life and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
From the emotional and poignant blog entries posted during his son Jacob’s uncertain birth, trying surgeries, and first year of living with Down syndrome, author and pastor Jeffrey M. Gallagher reflects honestly and candidly on disability theology, God’s place in tragedy and hardship, how the...
Organizing Church
Grassroots Practices for Embodying Change in Your Congregation, Your Community, and Our World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The 21st century is the age of community organizing, from rallies in the streets to online movements for change. What if congregations embraced community organizing? Organizing Church offers a unique perspective that blends proven principles of community organizing and research on socially active...
Anxious to Talk About It
Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully about Racism
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
"What if I say the wrong thing?" "I'm white--is race really something I need to talk about? I'm worried I'll be called a racist!" "What does race have to do with faith, anyway?" "Why do we have to keep talking about this?"
If talking about racism makes...
Holy Currencies
Six Blessings for Sustainable Missional Ministries
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Money is not the only currency your ministry can use to become sustainable, grow, and thrive. In Holy Currencies, author Eric H.F. Law teaches us how the six currencies of time and place, gracious leadership, relationship, truth, wellness, and money flow through successful missional ministries. He...
Unified We Are a Force
How Faith and Labor Can Overcome America’s Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The American dream of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is no longer possible, if it ever was. Most of us live paycheck-to-paycheck, and inequality has become one of the greatest problems facing our country. Working people and people of faith have the power to change this-but only...
Planning for Christian Education Formation
A Community of Faith Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2010
This book was written to help congregational leaders, clergy, staff, and laypersons, plan and organize a Christian education ministry from the approach of Christian formation in a community of faith context. This book provides a model for organizing the Christian education leadership committee or...
Courageous Church Leadership
Conversations with Effective Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Courageous Church Leadership offers a window into the minds and hearts of some of North America's top church leaders through a series of interviews with twelve extraordinary pastors. The aim of the book is to help the reader learn about innovative and even daring leadership and ministerial practices...
Welcoming Children
A Practical Theology of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
This book develops a theology of childhood both from a theoretical basis in biblical theology (especially the gospel of Mark) and practical experience in children and youth ministry. Mercer builds on classical theologians such as Augustine, Calvin, Barth, and Rahner as well as modern feminist theologians...
Gentle Shepherding
Pastoral Ethics and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Named "One of the Top Ten Books for Parish Clergy" for the year 2006 by the Academy of Parish Clergy! Gentle Shepherding offers a rare balance in an introduction to pastoral ethics, one that identifies deeply with the pastoral vocation and brings it into conversation with a developed body...
by Gary Straub
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
New elders and veteran leaders alike will find wisdom, biblical guidance, and useful suggestions in Gary Straub's examination of the crucial role of elders in Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) congregations. This simple and easy to read overview of Disciples eldership examines the nature of the...
As one without authority
Fourth Edition Revised and with New Sermons
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
This update of Craddock's original work on inductive preaching remains one of the most important contributions to homiletic scholarship. Revised with three new sermons, inclusive language, and NRSV texts, it is still as fresh and provocative as ever.
Marvelous Myths
Marvel Superheroes and Everyday Faith
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
What makes someone a hero? In the early 1960’s the image of a superhero was someone with a square jaw, a muscular build, and a quick smile whose biggest personal problem was trying to keep their girlfriends from guessing their secret identities. Then, writer Stan Lee and artists Jack Kirby and Steve...
Reclaiming the Imagination
The Exodus as Paradigmatic Narrative for Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Reclaiming the Imagination: The Exodus as Paradigmatic Narrative for Preaching, focuses on the paradigm of the exodus as developed in scripture. This book proposes that we allow the world imagined in the exodus narrative to form, inform, and transform the lives of preachers and congregations. The...
Bless Her Heart
Life as a Young Clergy Woman
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Comprising essays from young women clergy, this book is a reflection on the everyday realities of pastoral ministry for the young, female professional.
Presenting real-life, first-person scenarios from young, female pastors in a variety of denominations, church sizes and ministries, this book is intended...