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How to Be a Disciple and Digital
A Little Book of Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Social media has become a virtual world in which all manner of human communities are being formed, including many centered on prayer, faith, and spirituality. But with the benefits also come liabilities in terms of attentiveness vs. distraction, self-assertion, consumption, and anonymity—all enemies...
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around
Stories of Contemplation and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
• Second volume from Spiritual Directors of Color Network • Addresses the contemporary issues of racism and contemplation Following up on the popularity of the groundbreaking anthology Embodied Spirits: Stories of Spiritual Directors of Color, published by Morehouse in March 2014, this new book...
The Complete Guide to Godly Play
Volume 2, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
• Incorporates the latest in Godly Play® theory and practice. • Revised lessons throughout, plus one brand-new lesson. Godly Play® is an imaginative approach to working with children, an approach that supports, challenges, nourishes, and guides their spiritual quest. It is more akin to spiritual...
The Complete Guide to Godly Play
Volume 4, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
• Incorporates the latest in Godly Play® theory and practice • Revised lessons throughout The Godly Play® approach helps children explore their faith through story, to gain religious language, and to enhance their spiritual experience through wonder and play. Based on Montessori principles and...
The Complete Guide to Godly Play
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In this volume Jerome Berryman has gathered together the presentations that form the suggested cycle of lessons for Fall. The ideal Godly Play session has four parts: Opening, Hearing the Word of God, Sharing the Feast, and Leaving the Space. In this volume you'll find all the information you need...
The Complete Guide to Godly Play
Volume 7
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Every part of the Christian tradition has its special people who are looked up to and respected as examples of what each denomination or group best exemplifies. These heroes are called by different names, yet we call them all saints. Welcome to The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Volume 7. In this volume...
How to Motivate, Train and Nurture Acolytes
Five Workshops and Other Resources
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
This guide for acolyte directors includes ideas for training new and veteran acolytes, encouraging team spirit, and providing a strong spiritual foundation. Presents five workshops with detailed activities. Helps trainers impart a deeper understanding of the acolyte's vital role in church liturgy.
God the Ingenious Alchemist
Transforming Tragedy into Blessing
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
"God's goodness is bigger than all human badness," writes best-selling author John Claypool in this timely new book. "God's power and willingness to forgive are greater than our human capacity to sin." The Bible is often held up as a source of family values, but it is also full...
The Song Forever New
Lent and Easter with Charles Wesley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A daily devotional inspired by the hymns of Charles Wesley, this new book paves the way for spiritual pilgrimage throughout this sacred period of the Christian year. Wesley’s lyrical theology and hymns represent a monumental devotional treasure within both the Anglican and Methodist heritage. Sacred...
Speaking Our Faith Leader Guide
Equipping the Next Generations to Tell the Old, Old Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
This Leader Guide offers five session plans designed to bring the process described in Kit Carlson’s book, Speaking Our Faith, to small groups of adults (including millennials) in a congregational or school chaplaincy setting, in order to help them learn how to speak and share their faith. Guidance...
by Liz Hoare, Daniel L. Prechtel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Spiritual direction is increasingly popular among Christians of all mainstream traditions, with demand for directors outstripping supply in many places. And although the Bible is central to the practice of spiritual direction, very little has been published on how best to use it in this form of ministry....
Supervision of Spiritual Directors
Engaging in Holy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
The last decade has seen increased interest in the practice of spiritual direction, both from people feeling called to be spiritual directors, and from those seeking direction. But with the growth in the number of directors has come an increased need to train their supervisors. This collection of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
As neighborhoods, cities, and churches become gathering places for people from an astonishing variety of cultures, traditions, races, and ethnicities, racism us a profoundly spiritual concern and it’s more important than ever for Christians to see the face of God in one another. This book takes...
by Marilyn McCord Adams
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Why are the sermons of Marilyn Adams so great? First, she has the most extraordinary intimacy with Holy Scripture; it's truly a living, breathing body of work in her experience. Second, as a human being she remains passionately in the given moment; her acute awareness of raw life all around her is...