Episcopalianism category: 259 books
My Soul in Silence Waits
Meditations on Psalm 62
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2000
“For God alone my soul in silence waits....”
In these reflections on Psalm 62 Margaret Guenther provides the foundation for a time of reflection and retreat without ever leaving home. The book's first chapter introduces us to ways of making a retreat wherever we are, at a place apart or...
The Soul of the Night
An Astronomical Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Probing the depths of science and faith, scientist Chet Raymo investigates the mysteries of human spirituality and meaning contained in astronomy. Ranging through the stars and the myths humans have told about them for millennia, Raymo delves into “a pilgrimage in quest of the soul of the night.”
Chet...
Do You Hear What I Hear?
An Unreligious Writer Investigates Religious Calling
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2005
At age thirty, Minna Proctor, a child of the seventies and product of divorced parents—Jewish mother, Catholic father, had no religious orientation. In fact, her last “spiritual” foray was her perfunctory bat mitzvah. So when her father wants to become an Episcopal priest, Minna Proctor is flummoxed....
by Gretchen Wolff Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1992
Church education programs for children often substitute children's Bibles for Holy Scripture and simple moralism for imagination. Gretchen Wolff Pritchard shows how to offer the gospel imaginatively to children, with practical ideas on children's worship, liturgy, drama, pastoral care, and study of...
Liturgical Spirituality
Anglican Reflections on the Church’s Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
• Of particular interest to scholars and practitioners across the Anglican Communion with contributions from a wide breadth of scholars Liturgical Spirituality is a collection of Anglican reflections on the spirituality of the liturgy, inviting readers into the Church’s patterns of prayer, seasons...
She Flies On
A White Southern Christian Debutante Wakes Up
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In Carter's words: I’m persuaded by decades of teaching in seminary and work as a priest in the church that countless women, and many men as well, are faithful “Jesus people” and yet alienated to various degrees from organized religion. Jack Spong and Barbara Brown Taylor are two of the better...
Letters from the Farm
A Simple Path for a Deeper Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The social activist who founded Thistle Farms, one of CNN’s “Heroes,” writes about the healing power of love in this compelling collection of essays.
“Love is the most powerful source for social change in the world.”
As the founder of Thistle Farms—a community of women survivors...
by Suzanne Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2000
In Praying the Hours Suzanne Guthrie offers us a contemporary way to practice the ancient tradition of hallowing time throughout the day by marking the hours with prayer and thanksgiving. With humor and wisdom she draws on her experience as a wife, mother, Episcopal priest, and teacher of children,...
Where God Happens
Discovering Christ in One Another
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
The place "where God happens," according to Rowan Williams's striking new reading of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, is between each other. It's a truth that we of the twenty-first century most urgently need to learn in order to heal the experience of alienation that has become endemic to...
by Margaret Guenther
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
In this down-to-earth book on the essentials of prayer, Margaret Guenther answers many of the common questions of the spiritual life.
Spiritual Theology
The Theology of Yesterday for Spiritual Help Today
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
The author turns to the great teachers of the past—Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, Bonaventure, Hugh of St. Victor, Calvin and Luther, George Herbert—to recover a spirituality that is rich with the doctrines and disciplines of theology.
No Moment Too Small
Rhythms of Silence, Prayer, and Holy Reading
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1994
In No Moment Too Small, Vest focuses on three of the foundations of the Benedictine way: silence, the exploration of Scripture and other spiritual writings (lectio divina), and the hours of prayer. These essentials of Benedict's sixth-century rule of life offer a practical framework for spiritual...
We Are Theologians
Strengthening the People of God
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
A “thoughtful, clear, and stimulating” look at how lay people can fully participate in the life of the church (John Coburn).
With its focus primarily on clergy, Christian churches have often been behind the times in pursuing the fullness of the biblical vision of all the People of God....
by Roger Ferlo
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
For many people the Bible is strange and unfamiliar territory, impossible to navigate without a certain kind of knowledge and skill. Roger Ferlo leads his readers through the practical difficulties of reading the Bible, offering advice that is true to the way Anglicans have read Scripture from the...