Church Publishing: 819 books
Choosing a Bible
For Worship, Teaching, Study, Preaching, and Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
How do we choose among all the different Bible translations available today? How do we know which is the right one to use for specific situations? And how do we understand what factors lie behind these translations? Oxford Bible editor Donald Kraus surveys 25 different Bible translations, and discusses...
Food Fight
Struggling for Justice in a Hungry World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
• Third book in a humanitarian trilogy that includes Where Mercy Fails: Darfur’s Struggle to Survive and Rubble Nation: Haiti’s Pain, Haiti’s Promise • Combines dramatic photojournalism and compelling narrative to give a voice and a face to the global issue of hunger • Includes authors’...
At Home in the World
A Rule of Life for the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Out of her long experience as a spiritual director, mentor, and teacher, Margaret Guenther offers a warm and sensible guide for "the rest of us" -- singles, couples, parents, extended families, members of churches -- to create a helpful and balanced rule
Baptism & Beyond Parent Booklet
Catholic Baptism Study
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Baptism and Beyond is a sacramental preparation resource for Catholic parishes. The Baptism and Beyond Parent Booklet helps parents to understand the sacrament of baptism and prepares them to celebrate it more fully by breaking open the meaning of the symbols and scriptures of the rite. It complements...
The Myth of the Shiksa
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
A renowned family therapist tackles tricky relationship issues in this heartwarming collection from the author of A Failure of Nerve.
Generational conflict, faith crises, difficult friendships—Edwin Friedman saw every side of the human condition in his years as a rabbi and counselor, for...
Soul at Work
Spiritual Leadership in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
"Working with Margaret Benefiel has helped me, in a short time, become grounded in Spirit in my corporate workplace. The power and productivity of this spiritual work gives me hope that leaders can encourage people to bring their whole selves into the workplace and that this will lead to more...
by Fae Malania
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
"The resurrection of a good book is always cause for celebration. The Quantity of a Hazelnut is a very good book indeed, neither extremely loud nor incredibly close but quietly unforgettable."--John Wilson, Editor, Books and Culture
The Language of Grace
Flannery O' Connor, Walker Percy, and Iris Murdoch - Seabury Classics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Hawkins explores both traditional and contemporary ways grace has been handled in literature. The traditional representation of grace is explained using, among other things, the parables of Jesus. Then he turns to more contemporary literature, including O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find, Percy's...
The Eastern Path to Heaven
A Guide to Happiness from the Teachings of Jesus in Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Geshe Michael Roach and Christie McNally have, for the last ten years, explored together the ancient cities, rare manuscripts, and oral traditions of India and Tibet which bear witness to teachings of Thomas - the disciple that Jesus sent to the east. The Eastern Path to Heaven presents the great...
Quenching Hell
The Mystical Theology of William Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book has a simple purpose: to show what a conversation with William Law - "England's greatest prose mystic" - can do for contemporary faith. Law composed one of the most startling and vigorous wake-up calls in the Christian tradition. Under the influence of his beloved Jacob Boehme,...
What Does a Progressive Christian Believe?
A Guide for the Searching, the Open, and the Curious
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
This book came into being about two o'clock in the morning on the day after the 2004 presidential election. It arose out of the stunned realization that the historic tradition of progressive Christian thought and action had virtually disappeared from our public discourse. Progressive Christianity,...
Transformed Lives
Making Sense of Atonement Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Even theologians have had different ideas about the theology of atonement; how are the rest of supposed to understand it? This book is a good place to start. Crysdale, whose background in both psychology and theology gives her a unique perspective, presents an overview of the history of the theology...
The Forgotten Touch
More Stories of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The author's unusual spiritual journey transformed him from a Royal Marine Commando, trained to kill or be killed, to the director of the healing ministries of Christ the King Spiritual Life Center, where he now teaches people to heal and be healed. This long-awaited sequel to Hand to Hand: From Combat...
Keepers of the Story
Oral Traditions in Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
More wonderful tales and how to tell them from master storyteller Megan McKenna. A coyote, a woodcutter, a Buddist Zen master, a boy named Samuel, a Sufi mystic, two men walking to Emmaus all are central characters in stories told by Megan McKenna. As we listen to "Once upon a time," their...