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As We Gather to Pray
An Episcopal Guide to Worship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
The thirteen fascinating essays in this book bring together theoretical articles and practical planning strategies to create a how-to guide for worship. The editors have compiled the work of eighteen lay people and clergy actively serving the Church today in a variety of ministries. Article topics...
by Frank Wade
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
How can we open ourselves to the transforming energy of the Bible, and how can we become biblically literate? How do we read the Bible as a “revealed text,” the Word of God, in a church and culture as diverse as ours, without pain and division? These are some of the questions Wade asks about Episcopalians...
How Then Shall We Live?
Christian Engagement with Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
• Reflections deal with issues that matter • Author is a renowned preacher, broadcaster, and internationally known ethicist Essays by a preeminent Anglican figure on the salient issues of our time, “issues on which I believe the Church should have a view,” says Wells. The issues run the gamut...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The Bible in the Life of the Church project was commissioned by the Anglican Consultative Council at its meeting in Jamaica in May 2009. Its aim is to explore how Anglicans use the Bible and to distill from and develop from these explorations the principles of Anglican hermeneutics. In part one, writers...
Talking God
Preaching to Contemporary Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Today’s church has a digital dilemma: We live in an age where “new media” is inescapable, yet many still perceive these new forms of communication as either an unmanageable challenge or at odds with the mission of the church. Clergy and lay leaders alike can be at a loss as to what methodologies,...
Other Voices Other Worlds
The Global Church Speaks Out on Homosexuality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Leading Anglican writers from around the world challenge the assumption that the communion is split between a liberal 'north' and an orthodox 'south'. Anglican churches worldwide are sharply divided on homosexuality. The dominant sterotype is that of a "global south" unanimously lined up...
I Have Called You Friends
An Invitation to Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my father. --John 15:15 These words of Jesus to his disciples teach that the mutuality of friendship...
All Shall Be Well
An Approach to Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
This relevant, timely, and substantive book addresses the CREDO approach to wellness. Chapters explore the theology of wellness and identity, core values, creativity and passion, renewal, emotional health, spiritual practices, balance, transformation, and fitness. It features a foreword by the Most...
Disciples of the Street
The Promise of a Hip Hop Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
"This is a stunner. Eric Gutierrez opens closed windows of the soul and delivers an utterly challenging, refreshingly original work. Read it." Malcolm Boyd - Author of "Are You Running with me, Jesus?" What would cause a small, 140 year-old, Episcopal Church in the heart of the...
Continuing the Reformation
Re-Visioning Baptism in the Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This book documents the church's developing focus on baptism within the context of the liturgical movement, the emerging understanding of the eucharist, prayer book revision, and the confirmation dilemma. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, th
Staying One, Remaining Open
Educating Leaders for a 21st Century Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
To honor the deanship of his predecessor, Martha J. Horne, Ian S. Markham, dean of Virginia Theological Seminary, challenged his faculty colleagues to reflect on living with a divided mind, where learning and living go hand in hand with diversity, division, protracted discussions, and lasting disagreements....
by David Finnegan-Hosey
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
• Applicable not just to those with mental health issues, but for churches and the church at large Christ on the Psych Ward is a series of reflections on the intersections among mental health, faith, and ministry. Beginning with his own experience, Finnegan- Hosey shares ways communities of faith...
What Would Jesus Sing?
Experimentation and Tradition in Church Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Ten essays about what churches are doing that is not "business as usual" in their music ministry. Includes theological and liturgical rationale, basic "how-to" information, and personal testimony to the communal advantages of each ministry, as well as descriptions of alternative/additional...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
• Revised edition of a bestseller • Sharpened focus, new sections, expanded glossary • Adapted for wider range of uses and settings The original Episcopal Handbook, published in 2008, was an instant classic and has been a bestseller ever since. Still providing helpful and insightful information...