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Gifts from Within
Women's Meditations for Lent
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
This volume eschews the negative, penitential focus of Lent, recognizing the needs of women who already struggle with issues of worth and self-esteem. Instead, it uses the words of women from various backgrounds to explore their uniqueness and the gifts of their feminine spiritual nature. Through...
What Size are God's Shoes
Kids, Chaos, and the Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
“It’s hard to have a God complex when your kids expect you to play garbage truck every night. This is the game where I lie on the floor as the boys stuff trucks, action figures, and plastic dinosaurs into my shirt. When the garbage truck is full to the point of overflowing, I go to the town dump...
Better Get It in Your Soul
What Liturgists Can Learn from Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This book offers hope to parishes searching for a way to make their liturgies more meaningful in the local context. Written by a priest and a musician who have worked together for many years in the Canterbury House ministry at the University of Michigan, Better Get It In Your Soul describes methods...
Christ Walk Crushed
A 40-Day Journey toward Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
• Applies popular Christ Walk approach as a path to reconciliation and healing • Combines physical and spiritual avenues in a holistic program that anyone can use “Walk it off,” that much-used advice of coaches, turns out to work in the spiritual realm, too. Take a walk with Anna and David...
The Adventures of Cancer Girl and God
A Journey of Faith, Health, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
• Popular health and fitness author/nurse • First-hand experience living with cancer in 30+ "days of journaling" through the course of a year • Help for Christians struggling with health and illness who want to connect spiritual beliefs to their whole life, including the illness experience,...
The Dream of God
A Call to Return
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
A new way to cut out the noise of the world and focus on faith: “A small masterpiece.****” —Marcus Borg
The oversaturation of news and constant arguments about politics, biases, and differences has changed how we look at the world. So much focus is placed institutions and establishments,...
by Peter Ball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
An overview of the distinctive Anglican tradition of spiritual guidance, looking at five centuries of history alongside an analysis of contemporary practice.
by Christopher L. Webber
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This useful book falls in the category of resources for structuring liturgies to fit local occasions. In addition to seven complete vigil services inspired by the ancient monastic discipline of nighttime prayer and meditation, there are new models such as
by David Gortner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Provides models and spiritual practices to feed the growing hunger in our churches for good news.
by Julie B. Sevig
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The dinner table may be the only time that today’s busy families sit down together — and pray together. This book meets families where they are, offering prayers of thanks for macaroni and cheese, fast-food meals, and, yes, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Includes rhyming prayers for little...
Reweaving the Sacred
A Practical Guide to Change and Growth for Challenged CongregationsA Practical Guide to Change and Growth for Challenged Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Ideal growth and development tool for small congregations in all mainline denominations Simple, clear exercises and techniques to help leaders and members pinpoint problems and claim and identify gifts and values of their shared history, in order to engage in a ministry of renewal, welcome, and growth...
Wholeness After Betrayal
Restoring Trust in the Wake of Misconduct
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
• Focuses on healing and reconciliation for congregations that have experienced physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and financial misconduct or betrayal by a leader • Explores the unintended consequences of “moving on” after misconduct without fully going through a process toward healing...
by James Lemler
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
How can our patterns of congregational life and mission renew themselves and adjust to changing culture without selling out what Episcopalians stand for? How can local faith communities stay resilient and hopeful? What styles and practices of spirituality do most to enrich our mission? These are some...
Day by Day
Loving God More Dearly
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The popular song, "Day by Day", from Godspell was actually written in the Middle Ages by Richard of Chichester, a saint remembered for his humility, his perseverance in times of hardship, his care for the poor, and the strength and generosity of his faith. After his death, miracles of healing...