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Calling upon teachers G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis, Sam Portaro wades into the abyss of confronting a life of faithfulness in a world where the Church has created a dictionary unintelligible to anyone not part of itself. Acknowledging it a risky...

Karen Favreau is a Generation X seeker who has run the spiritual gamut. Raised Catholic, she lapsed into atheism and began a long, strange journey back to Christian faith. In Ridiculous Packaging she chronicles her trip, offering a humorous, non-preachy,...

"Praying the Song of Songs is indeed risky business, for it asks God to send us head over heels in love." Falling in Love with God is an invitation to enter into a deeper level of intimacy with God. Through a series of mediations on the...

Although Mary is a preeminent figure in Christianity and one of the most celebrated women in history, to many Christians she seems distant and unapproachable, a porcelain perfection of abstract motherhood that is irrelevant to their everyday existence...

"This is no simple `how-to' book, but rather a profound challenge to consider a totally different kind of life. Lawrence Hart approaches these life changes from several different angles-each leading to the deep kind of knowing that is God's gift to...

What are Christians to make of religious diversity? Are other religions simply wrong? Is this great multiplicity something to appreciate and foster? Is there any way to judge whether one religion is better than another, or are all equally good options?...

In this third and final volume in a series of ceremonial guides to worship in the Episcopal Church according to The Book of Common Prayer, Leonel L. Mitchell focuses on the pastoral and occasional liturgies. Beginning with the celebration of the Daily...

In this first volume to the New Church's Teaching Series James Griffiss provides an introduction to the Anglican tradition. He focuses especially on Anglicanism's ability to hold together theological continuity (especially the emphasis on the...

Being a priest is likened to being a shepherd. People do, from time to time, need a poke here or a prod there. But mostly, they need to know someone is watching out for them. Rev. William Billow has been that gentle guiding hand for multiple communities...

With the vote to bless same-sex marriages, the Episcopal Church becomes the largest U.S. denomination to officially sanction same-sex relationships. Homosexuality has become a flashpoint at the intersection of religion, family, and politics. A Thorn in...

Edwards discusses spiritual gifts from a biblical perspective, and guides us in the discovery of our particular spiritual gifts through step-by-step exercises and challenging self-evaluation. This book is particularly useful for those leading workshops...

The dioceses of San Joaquin, Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, and Quincy recently voted to secede from the Episcopal Church. The bishop of Pittsburgh was recently deposed for abandonment of communion, with several other bishops removed from ministry in the...

This unique new service book includes liturgies for blessing and healing as related to childbearing and childbirth. It includes prayers, Scripture readings and hymn suggestions organized around the blessing of a pregnant woman; loss of a pregnancy;...

In the Anglican churches of North America, and sometimes elsewhere, there are two complaints about deacons in the liturgy: Bishops and priests complain that deacons don't know how to do liturgy. Deacons complain that bishops and priests won't let them do...

At once "travel guide" and vision for the future, the Transformation series is good news for the Episcopal Church at a time of fast and furious demographic and social change. Series contributors - recognized experts in their fields - analyze...

Ideal growth and development tool for small congregations in all mainline denominations Simple, clear exercises and techniques to help leaders and members pinpoint problems and claim and identify gifts and values of their shared history, in order to...

At once "travel guide" and vision for the future, the Transformation series is good news for the Episcopal Church at a time of fast and furious demographic and social change. Series contributors - recognized experts in their fields - analyze...

At once "travel guide" and vision for the future, the Transformation series is good news for the Episcopal Church at a time of fast and furious demographic and social change. Series contributors - recognized experts in their fields - analyze...

This clear, beautifully written tool for congregations engaged in the discernment and search process is a balanced combination of spiritual reflection and practical advice, born of the author's extensive experience as deployment officer in the Episcopal...

This short book has a dual purpose and is aimed at two audiences: Through practical instruction and guidance, it equips bishops to minister effectively as the chief pastor in the diocese, while helping clergy and congregations reduce the eternal anxiety...

These newly authorized rites are intended to be a supplement to the burial services in the Book of Common Prayer, adding a rich variety of new material from many sources, including prayers for one who has died in military service, for one of unknown...

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...

Throughout the 20th century lay women in the Episcopal Church, often acting in isolation and without institutional support, offered a powerful witness of leadership, vocation, and theological resilience. Deeper Joy studies groups of women with similar...

Every Sunday we walk through those (probably red) doors and enter a sacred space. It is familiar . . . maybe comforting . . . maybe not . . . maybe downright uncomfortable and unwelcoming. In twelve thoughtful and provocative essays, the writers ask...

A significant collection of articles on expanding our language about God; compiled by Ruth A. Meyers for the Standing Liturgical Commission. Topics discussed include: theological, biblical, and historical perspectives on Supplemental Liturgical...

A collection of essays issued under the direction of the Standing Liturgical Commission (SLC) on baptism and ministry. Topics addressed are welcoming new ministers, reaffirmation of ordination vows, confirmation/reception, and baptismal ministry. (116...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819232977Author Ian S MarkhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Morehouse PublishingPublisher Morehouse PublishingWeight(grams) 113g

* 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 *...

A distinctive resource that deals with all the practicalities of the Episcopal culture for those preparing for--and exercising--ministry in the Episcopal ChurchWhat is the appropriate attire for an Episcopal priest at the events associated with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819223746Author William S. CraddockFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Morehouse PublishingPublisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819221582Author Beth Wickenberg ElyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Morehouse PublishingPublisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

There is a renewed conversation about identity and mission in American Anglicanism today, based on the recognition that the church's context in the U.S. has dramatically changed. The legacies of establishment, benefactor approaches to mission, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898696677Author Edwin Augustine WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 684Imprint Church PublishingPublisher Church PublishingWeight(grams) 898g

Practical ideas for connecting and building communities of service.Bishop Andy Doyle understands that the church must change. Every day, he presides over parishes that are no longer vital, that have not adapted to the "VUCA" (volatile, uncertain,...

The scriptures are full of topophilia—love of place—in stories of pilgrimage and promised land, shrines and sanctuaries, births and deaths, and of the metaphysical “place” that Jesus called the kingdom of God. Our lives, too, are marked by the places we...

“The season of Advent offers us, each year, an opportunity to seek God within the geography of our souls—while living outwardly amid the roar and tumult of worldly events,” Isabel Anders writes in her preface to this new edition of Awaiting the Child: An...

Humane Christianity examines how the institutional church, which should be a shining example of God’s love in the world, has so often throughout history been the very opposite—corrupt, oppressive, abusive, and inhumane. In analyzing why this has been so,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819229427Author Matthew HochFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Morehouse PublishingPublisher Morehouse PublishingWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819217264Author Peter C. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Morehouse PublishingPublisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

From the earliest days of Christianity, faithful women and men have reflected on the events surrounding Jesus’ death and resurrection. Indeed, more than twenty-five percent of the Gospels are devoted to the last week of Jesus’ life! Holy places and holy...