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Chemo Pilgrim
An 18-Week Journey of Healing and Holiness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In the first section of this very personal book of illness, spirituality, and healing, the Rev. Cricket Cooper receives a diagnosis of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, for which she will need to undergo an eighteen-week/six-cycle chemo treatment plan. She decides to pair each of the chemo treatments, if possible,...
by Mario L. Aguilar
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
“Mario Aguilar skillfully, elegantly, and clearly presents the life and thought of some of the major spiritual forces of our time as a starting point for his own compelling reflections on the relationship between contemplation and politics... We need more books like this one.” —Professor Ivan Petrella,...
by Beth Wickenberg Ely
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Further the awareness and understanding of the role and duties of the lay eucharistic minister with this easy-to-understand manual. This book is "a precious gift to the church … practical wisdom abounds here." -- John Koenig, General Theological Seminary
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Make the transition from consumer religion to participatory faith by building congregational relationships that nourish people spiritually and empower them to risk living, worshipping, learning, and serving God and each other in new and enlivening ways.
by J. Chester Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
• A “first person narrative,” key to the work and prayer of the current Book of Common Prayer • Appeal to those interested in literature or in the history of the BCP In the nearly 40 years since the advent of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, the retranslation of the Psalter created for that...
A Greening of Imaginations
Walking the Songlines of Holy Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2019
How do the scriptures speak to us today?
Where do our stories mirror biblical stories? Herbert O’Driscoll, beloved Anglican preacher, storyteller, author, and hymn writer, invites us to imagine what the “back story” of our favorite scriptures might have been.
By doing Christian...
Children at Worship
Congregations in Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
The author shows in this book how a parish can incorporate its children into full participation with the worshiping community. Tapping their creativity to design a spectacular array of materials for worship -- a storyteller's cloak, prayer cards, confessi
Building Faith Brick by Brick II
An Imaginative Way to Explore the Parables with God’s People
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
• Follow-up to popular first volume • 32 new stories with lesson plans • Can be used at home or Sunday school Building (no pun intended) upon the success of Building Faith Brick by Brick, Emily Slichter Given has created more lesson plans to tell Bible stories in a relevant, hands-on way for...
Hospital Handbook
A Practical Guide to Hospital Visitation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1984
Hospital visitation is a vital part of any church’s ministry. Written for the divinity student, the beginning or experienced pastor, and the lay person, this helpful handbook offers comprehensive guidance on many important aspects of pastoral care of the hospitalized. In The Hospital Handbook, readers...
Faith at Home
A Handbook for Cautiously Christian Parents
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
• Growing need for resources to help parents engage in faith conversations at home • Talking points, practices, and resources included Home (not the congregation) and parents (not clergy, youth ministers, or Sunday School) are the key mechanisms by which religious faith and practice are transmitted...
Admirable Simplicity
Principles for Worship Planning in the Anglican Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Author Wayne Smith has written a why-to rather than a how-to book that clearly presents the argument that Anglican worship is unique. This highly sensible book is written for worship committees and lay people interested in this uniqueness. It does not pro
God's Word, My Voice
A Lectionary for Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
• For congregations who are trying to engage their kids in God’s Word in worship • For clergy who don’t have a knack for creative children’s liturgy, but the deep desire to connect with kids • For use in additional settings, including Christian day schools, children’s chapels, family...
Beyond Business as Usual
Vestry Leadership Development, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The revised and expanded edition will include new information, new teaching resources, and perspectives gained in the last eight years, as well as the General Convention resolutions of 2015. Beyond Business as Usual is full of resources for forming the vestry as a learning community. It deals with...
40 Days
The Daily Office for Lent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Many people want to "take on" a discipline for Lent rather than "give up" something. One of the disciplines that many Episcopalians--and other Christians--wistfully think about taking on is the regimen of structured daily prayer that includes the course-reading of Scripture. Forty...