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From Survival to Celebration: Leadership for the Confident Church by Howard Hanchey 9781561011001 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.50Booksplease Price: $5.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561011001Author Howard HancheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint -
Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets by Kenneth Paul Kramer 9781561012855
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.51This exploration of T. S. Eliot's last major poem, Four Quartets, examines the poem's potential to transform readers' faith journeys. Kramer shows that the power of Four Quartets is its ability to... -
Paul Today: Challenging Readings of Acts and the Epistles by Stephen W. Need 9781561012961
Booksplease Price: $25.86Paul Today discusses and challenges popular interpretations of familiar Pauline texts in view of important controversies and debates. Who was Paul? What do we know about his relationship to Jesus?... -
Sheer Christianity: Conjectures on a Catechism by Sam Portaro 9781561012688
Booksplease Price: $25.86Calling 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... -
Organic God: Lenten Meditations on the Words of Jesus by Kate Moorehead 9781561012831
Booksplease Price: $22.02In these Lenten meditations, Kate Moorehead devotes each of the seven weeks to a theme that Jesus addressed frequently, particularly through Earth-centered parables of planting. Each day of the week... -
Desiring Life: Benedict on Wisdom and the Good Life by Norvene Vest 9781561011827
Booksplease Price: $31.61In Desiring Life, Norvene Vest brings the insights of Benedict's Rule to the wisdom tradition. Desiring Life is the third book in her series on Benedictine spirituality for people living in the world... -
The Twelve Days of Christmas: Unwrapping the Gifts by Curtis G. Almquist 9781561012930
Booksplease Price: $23.93The twelve days of Christmas follow from December 25 until January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, the traditional date when the Magi arrived to present gifts to infant Jesus. For many, the meaning of... -
On Being a Priest Today by Rosalind Brown 9781561012534
Booksplease Price: $27.77This important book on priestly identity embraces the many contemporary varieties of priestly ministry: male and female, paid and unpaid, parish and work-based, catholic, evangelical, charismatic... -
Matter of Life and Death: Preaching at Funerals by Charles Hoffacker 9781561012152
Booksplease Price: $22.02With the sensitivity born of time and experience, Charles Hoffacker presents an unusually warm and caring approach to preaching at a pivotal transition in human life, one which goes to the very heart... -
Discerning Your Spiritual Gifts by Lloyd Edwards 9780936384658
Booksplease Price: $27.77Edwards 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... -
Theology of Worship by Louis Weil 9781561011940
Booksplease Price: $23.93In this exploration of the foundations of Anglican worship, Louis Weil invites the laity to claim their true baptismal role and serve alongside the ordained as ministers and celebrants of the liturgy... -
Christian Social Witness by Harold T. Lewis 9781561011889
Booksplease Price: $18.88In this volume of The New Church's Teaching Series, Harold T. Lewis surveys the teachings and witness of Anglicanism and the Episcopal Church concerning the Christian vision of a righteous social... -
Always Open: Being an Anglican Today by Richard Giles 9781561012596
Booksplease Price: $23.93Seventy million assorted individuals comprise a church family that is renowned for its rich diversity. Christians of all shades of belief together make up the Anglican Communion, a fellowship of... -
Discovering Girard by Michael Kirwan 9781561012299
Booksplease Price: $27.77"Really wonderful; an elegantly written initiation into the mimetic theory. I am lucky to have interpreters who understand what I want to say and who can write so well." -Rene Girard The work of... -
Mending the Heart by John Claypool 9781561011650
Booksplease Price: $18.88In three meditations John Claypool speaks eloquently of the wounds all of us carry through life-the wounds of grievance, guilt, and grief-and how they can be healed. The wound of grievance comes from... -
Becoming Bridges: The Spirit and Practice of Diversity by Gary Commins 9781561012947
Booksplease Price: $25.86Pastor of a bilingual, multicultural church for more than a decade, Gary Commins knows that "diversity" is a spiritual exercise that can be as charged with anxiety as it is laced with hope. In... -
The Shattering Sound of Amazing Grace: Disquieting Tales from Saint John's Gospel by David J. Schlafer 9781561012473
Booksplease Price: $22.02David J. Schlafer, acclaimed preacher, teacher, and writer, weaves words and ideas like a Celtic braid. He places us in the company of some of the people who appear in the Gospel of John-Nicodemus,... -
Becoming Human: Core Teachings of Jesus by Brian C. Taylor 9781561012572
Booksplease Price: $25.86Christians and non-Christians alike have long recognized that Jesus' life was characterized by vibrancy, love, commitment, clarity, and joy. We all yearn to share in these traits, and by studying... -
Sensing God: Reading Scripture with All of Our Senses by Roger Ferlo 9781561012022
Booksplease Price: $27.77Think of all the senses you use when you pick up a Bible. What do you see? What do you smell? What do you touch? Reading scripture attentively is more than a matter of sight. Most of us have been... -
Compassion as a Subversive Activity: Illness, Community, and the Gospel of Mark by David K. Urion 9781561012794
Booksplease Price: $25.86To Dr. David Urion's question, "How can I help you?" the father of the young boy with autism responded in a small voice that choked back some tears, "Be with us. Keep us company. This is so lonely." ... -
Sabbath Keeping by Donna Schaper 9781561011636
Booksplease Price: $22.02The third in Cowley's Cloister Book series, Sabbath Keeping is a collection of ten meditations, each exploring a different aspect of keeping the sabbath and ending with a prayer. Since it is a... -
Ridiculous Packaging: Or, my long strange journey from atheist to Episcopalian in two acts by Karen Favreau 9781561012657
Booksplease Price: $23.93Karen 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... -
Learning the Language of the Fields: Tilling and Keeping as Christian Vocation by Daniel Deffenbaugh 9781561012824
Booksplease Price: $25.86Deffenbaugh calls us to "live in a reciprocal relationship" with our biotic communities-the plants, animals, and other non-human cultures that share our particular places in the world. By rerooting... -
Meditating on the Word by Dietrich Bonhoeffer 9781561011841
Booksplease Price: $29.70"Daily, quiet reflection on the Word of God as it applies to me becomes for me a point of crystallization for everything that gives interior and exterior order to my life," wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer... -
Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening by Cynthia Bourgeault 9781561012626
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.06Practitioners of Centering Prayer are known for the great enthusiasm they bring to the practice of this ancient discipline. Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening is a complete guidebook for all who... -
Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction by Margaret Guenther 9781561010561
Booksplease Price: $25.86Guenther uses the images of the spiritual director as host, teacher, and midwife to describe the ministry of spiritual direction today. She pays particular attention to spiritual direction for women,... -
My Soul in Silence Waits: Meditations on Psalm 62 by Margaret Guenther 9781561011810
Booksplease Price: $16.98"For God alone my soul in silence waits...." In these reflections on Psalm 62 Margaret Guenther provides the foundation for a time of reflection and retreat without ever leaving home. The book's... -
Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalog by Raewynne J. Whiteley
Booksplease Price: $25.86Get Up Off Your Knees is a thoughtful and provocative collection of sermons by a group of preachers from across the international church spectrum who have been moved to theological reflection on the... -
The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation by Bill McKibben 9781561012343
Booksplease Price: $23.93In The Comforting Whirlwind, acclaimed environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben turns to the biblical book of Job and its awesome depiction of creation to demonstrate our need to embrace a bold new... -
Conflict and a Christian Life by Sam Portaro 9781561012169
Booksplease Price: $22.02From the earliest days of recorded history, conflict has been an integral part of human life. Although conflict and crisis are painful, they are visible and vital signs of the perpetual work of the... -
Ethics After Easter by Stephen Holmgren 9781561011766
Booksplease Price: $27.77In this volume of The New Church's Teaching Series, Stephen Holmgren introduces us to the world of Anglican ethics and moral theology. He focuses on questions all people of faith must ask: How will I... -
Trustworthy Connections: Interpersonal Issues in Spiritual Direction by Anne Winchell Silver
Booksplease Price: $25.86Although God is at the center of the process of spiritual direction, the more readily visible participants are human beings. Like all other people, directors and directees are subject to relationship... -
Steeped in the Holy: Preaching as Spiritual Practice by Raewynne J. Whiteley 9781561013012
Booksplease Price: $31.61Preaching is a central task in the lives of clergy, and yet it sometimes seems as though the pressure to produce, combined with other duties of parish life, becomes a burden and contributes to the... -
Light Theology and Heavy Cream: The Culinary Adventures of Pietro and Madeline by Robert Farrar Capon
Booksplease Price: $23.17Robert Farrar Capon is well known as the author of the modern classic The Supper of the Lamb ("awesomely funny, wise, beautiful, moving, preposterous," said The New York Times) and other acclaimed... -
Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament by Ellen F. Davis 9781561011971
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.10"This is a book about getting, and staying, involved with God-what it takes, what it costs, what it looks and feels like, why anyone would want to do it anyway. It is at the same time a book about... -
Lent, Holy Week, Easter and the Great Fifty Days: A Ceremonial Guide by Leonel L. Mitchell
Booksplease Price: $31.61This long-awaited companion volume to Howard E. Galley's classic The Ceremonies of the Eucharist provides clergy, liturgical assistants, and altar guild members with clear, step-by-step guidance for... -
Where You Go, I Shall: Gleanings from the Stories of Biblical Widows by Jane J. Parkerton 9781561012374
Booksplease Price: $25.86Where You Go, I Shall is a book that was born of experience and need. The authors, two of whom are widows and the third an Episcopal priest, were participants in a monthly support group for widows... -
Friend of the Soul: A Benedictine Spirituality of Work by Norvene Vest 9781561011384
Booksplease Price: $31.61In this second book in her series on Benedictine spirituality, Norvene Vest brings the insights of Benedict's Rule to the world of work. A gifted interpreter of Benedict's wisdom, Vest examines with... -
Home By Another Way by Barbara Brown Taylor
Booksplease Price: $33.07In these sermons, Barabra Brown Taylor walks us through the church year from the expectancy of Advent to the fires of Pentecost and beyond. Her themes arise not only from a particular feast or fast,... -
Living With History by Fredrica Harris Thompsett 9781561011605
Booksplease Price: $18.88Fredrica Harris Thompsett, a scholar of the English Reformation, introduces us to the role that history has played in creating and shaping the Episcopal Church as we know it today. In giving us the...