Church Publishing imprint: 289 books
An Open Place
The Ministry of Group Spiritual Direction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This book responds to the movement to expand spiritual direction beyond the classic one-with-one model. Group spiritual direction has the potential to offer the rich experience of individual spiritual direction to a much wider audience, yet very little has been written to provide guidance for starting...
Fighting with the Bible
Why Scripture Divides Us and How It Can Bring Us Together
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In times of conflict, the Bible is often used as a club to beat those whose opinions differ from one’s own. We recoil from such usage, yet the Bible actually represents many diverse and conflicting points of view. It is like a library, full of books that speak to all sides of every question. Like...
What Do We Mean by 'God'?
A Little Book of Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language about God is something like the language of poetry—intended not to increase our information about the world—we know facts about the world already—but to evoke in us a certain attitude or way of looking at things or feeling about things. What sort of view of the world, then, is language...
What Does It Mean to Be Holy Whole?
A Little Book of Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
We think of holy people as spiritual seekers, but holiness is more than being in touch with the holy. What is holiness all about? What is wholeness of life? What are practices of love? What is spirituality all about? What is worship all about? Life, according to Timothy Sedgwick, is not a series of...
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The life and ministry of a priest are two aspects of the same journey, and beloved author and priest Barbara Cawthorne Crafton approaches this journey in four sections, envisioned as embracing a clerical life. The first, “The Dream,” contains the early years of discernment, training, and youthful...
by Mark Bozzuti-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
This talented and imaginative writer offers a unique perspective on the season of Advent. Along with Scripture readings and prayers, he offers four weeks of meditations that focus on the growth of Jesus in the womb of Mary as he approaches the day of his birth, learns his mother's voice, responds...
Becoming Like a Child
The Curiosity of Maturity beyond the Norm
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Berryman invites the reader into a creative process that explores what it means to be spiritually mature, starting with Jesus’ injunction to “become like a child.” What does this mean at the literal level? the figurative level? the mystical level? the ethical level? The structure of the process...
Stories of God at Home
A Godly Play Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
• A method for families to share the biblical story at home and learn the practice of sharing one another’s stories as part of God’s Story • Includes full color images of the materials described in text Using Godly Play® methods, Jerome Berryman offers families a way of nourishing faith in...
Race
Changing Society and the Churches
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
"Race does not exist. Yet in this extraordinary book Ken Leech exposes how racism grips the imaginations of Christian and non-Christian alike, shaping our relations with one another and having disastrous results not only in neighborhoods but in foreign policies. Pauline-like, Leech helps us see...
Pilgrim
A Course for the Christian Journey - The Bible
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Course 7: The Bible: What is it, how was it given to us, and how should we read it? These six sessions combine simple prayer, Bible reflection in the lectio divina style, an article by a modern writer, and time for questions and reflection. By the end of the six sessions, it is hoped that participants...
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,...