Church Publishing Inc : 785 books
All Our Children
The Church's Call to Address Education Inequity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The church understands community as unity in diversity: Paul’s vision of the Body of Christ as a physical body, with all parts welcomed and honored as parts of the whole, is an image of community as revolutionary in our day as it was in first century Rome. And the church’s call to act in the world,...
Cultivating the Missional Church
New Soil for Growing Vestries and Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
• Offers church leaders and vestries a robust and missional perspective on the church in the 21st century • Each chapter is concluded with recommendations for further study and questions for discussion. Written from a post-Christendom and missional worldview, this book was born of a singular question...
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Theologies of Confirmation for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
• An all-in-one volume sharing the history, practice, and viewpoints of Confirmation in the Episcopal Church and the first book on the subject for at least 15 years • Resolutions regarding Confirmation are coming to the 2015 General Convention • Includes questions for reflection and study by...
Unexpected Consequences
The Diaconate Renewed
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
• First book in years to look critically at the diaconate in the Episcopal Church Times change, and the Order of Deacons in the Episcopal Church has not remained static. While the book seeks to update contemporary knowledge about deacons, it also shows how the diaconate may be well positioned to...
A Church for the Future
South Africa as the Crucible for Anglicanism in a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Examines current issues facing the Anglican Communion through the prism of the history of the Southern African church and people. Through this combined narrative of the global and local church, the author offers a remarkable story combining history, race, class and culture in Africa. He traces the...
The Word Made Fresh
Communicating Church and Faith Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
More than a how-to guide, this book helps readers appreciate the significance, value, and role of church communications as a ministry, inviting communicators to understand the role they play in transmitting the Gospel. The author explains how the history of church communications, starting with the...
Ten Dumb Things Churches Do
And How to Avoid Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Ten Dumb Things Churches Do is about making the system we call the local church into one that truly reflects what we believe the body of Christ is supposed to be--a community that exemplifies the gospel through its life together and its presence in the world. Knowing when we’ve done that, however,...
Church Wellness
A Best Practices Guide to Nurturing Healthy Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
All churches, no matter the denomination, are faced with similar challenges: membership development, leadership development, communications strategy, spiritual development, young adult ministry, listening to parishioner needs, and measuring progress. The author provides a guide for clergy and lay...
A Church Beyond Belief
The Search for Belonging and the Religious Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As we move beyond the “emergent” or “missional” church paradigm, pastors and other church leaders are discovering a new reality: people (especially younger generations) are coming to church not as believers, but to find a place to belong—with or without faith. This book describes the dilemma...
The Art of Transformation
Three Things Churches Do That Change Everything
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
It’s all too common for Christians to wonder, if Jesus came to bring transformation and wholeness, why do I still feel like the same old me and struggle with the same issues as always? Paul Fromberg, rector of St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco, offers a practical approach to...
Vocātiō
Imaging a Visible Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
• Popular author with broad appeal • New vision for shaping future church leaders The Church’s mission is not dependent upon economic or worldly boundaries. The gospel will expand and grow where people respond to God’s grace in their lives. The Episcopal Church, along with all denominational...
Re-membering God
Human Hope and Divine Desire
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
• Reflections on tradition and change for the twenty-first-century church • Something for both newcomers and those familiar with liturgy and spirituality Like the scribe and master of the household cited by Jesus in Matthew 13, Re-membering God “brings out of treasure what is new and what is...
by Jesse Zink
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
• Next generation of classic Episcopal Teaching Series • Interactive, accompanied by online materials • Author is a popular blogger and scholar who has traveled the world listening to Anglicans talk about God The New Church’s Teaching Series has been one of the most recognizable and useful...
by Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr., David Hein
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
The story of Episcopalians in America is the story of an influential denomination that has furnished a large share of the American political and cultural leadership. Beginning with the Episcopal Church's roots in sixteenth-century England, The Episcopalians offers a fresh account of its rise to prominence....