Episcopalianism category: 259 books
by Society of Saint John the Evangelist
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
Christians of all denominations are looking today to the ancient discipline of a rule of life to strengthen their sense of living in Christ and participating in a wider community. For the first time the brothers of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist are making their rule—completely rewritten...
by Jeffrey Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1999
Opening the Prayer Book introduces us to the history and liturgies of The Book of Common Prayer, and helps us understand why the prayer book is such an important aspect of Anglican self-understanding.
Miter Fits Just Fine
A Story about the Rt. Rev. Barbara Clementine Harris: The First Woman Bishop in the Anglican Communion
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
In this charming biography especially for young people, Mark Bozzuti-Jones gives us a warm and caring glimpse of Barbara C. Harris, the first woman to be ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion.
Based on conversations with Bishop Harris, her family, and her close friends, Bozzuti-Jones...
by John Claypool
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
In this revised second edition of Stories Jesus Still Tells, John Claypool brings fresh insight to a selection of parables, allowing us to hear Jesus' calm, persuasive voice still speaking to us through stories like the great banquet, the rich fool, and the final judgment. By providing us with a clearer...
Religion, Art, and Money
Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This cultural history of mainline Protestantism and American cities--most notably, New York City--focuses on wealthy, urban Episcopalians and the influential ways they used their money. Peter W. Williams argues that such Episcopalians, many of them the country's most successful industrialists and...
Where You Go, I Shall
Gleanings from the Stories of Biblical Widows
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Where You Go, I Shall is a book that was born of experience and need. The authors, two of whom are widows and the third an Episcopal priest, were participants in a monthly support group for widows and discovered that many of the Bible's remarkable women—Mary, Ruth, Naomi, Abigail, Anna, Tamar, Judith,...
The Comforting Whirlwind
God, Job, and the Scale of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
In The Comforting Whirlwind, acclaimed environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben turns to the biblical book of Job and its awesome depiction of creation to demonstrate our need to embrace a bold new paradigm for living if we hope to reverse the current trend of ecological destruction.
With...
Lent, Holy Week, Easter and the Great Fifty Days
A Ceremonial Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1996
This long-awaited companion volume to Howard E. Galley's classic The Ceremonies of the Eucharist provides clergy, liturgical assistants, and altar guild members with clear, step-by-step guidance for the liturgies of Lent and Easter. In addition to background material for the traditions and theology...
Spirited Men
Story, Soul and Substance
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2004
In this remarkable collection of essays, acclaimed writer Brian Doyle offers “resurrections, restorations, reconsiderations, appreciations, enthusiasms, headlong solos, laughing prayers, imaginary meetings with most unusual and most interesting men.”
Geographically and chronologically diverse—Plutarch...
Becoming Human
Core Teachings of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2005
Christians and non-Christians alike have long recognized that Jesus' life was characterized by vibrancy, love, commitment, clarity, and joy. We all yearn to share in these traits, and by studying Jesus we can discern that he sees in us the potential to become as he was. After all, Jesus didn't go...
Celebrating the Rites of Initiation
A Practical Ceremonial Guide for Clergy and Other Liturgical Ministers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Celebrating the Rites of Initiation continues the standard of scholarship set by Patrick Malloy’s Celebrating the Eucharist, and offers similar aids around issues of baptism and confirmation. It is an ideal book for students and practicing clergy who seek to strengthen their knowledge—and parochial practice—of baptismal theology.
Celebrating the Eucharist
A Practical Ceremonial Guide for Clergy and Other Liturgical Ministers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In this first new Eucharistic customary in nearly 20 years, Patrick Malloy, an Episcopal priest and liturgical scholar, presents a clear, illustrated guide for the presider and other leaders of the liturgy, contemporary in approach but based on ancient and classic principles of celebration. Like its...
Baptism and Ministry
Liturgical Studies One
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
A collection of essays issued under the direction of the Standing Liturgical Commission (SLC) on baptism and ministry. Topics addressed are welcoming new ministers, reaffirmation of ordination vows, confirmation/reception, and baptismal ministry. (116 pp)
by John H. Westerhoff III
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Episcopalians consider themselves to be people whose individual and corporate lives are shaped by the Book of Common Prayer, but aside from worship on Sunday morning, few know what fills its nearly 1,000 pages. John Westerhoff, Episcopal priest and Christian educator, walks readers through the ways...