Church Publishing imprint: 289 books
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...
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 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...
Teaching Faith with Harry Potter
A Guidebook for Parents and Educators for Multigenerational Faith Formation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
J. K. Rowling was less obvious than C. S. Lewis or J. R. R. Tolkien in her grounding of the Harry Potter series in deeply held Christian convictions, leaving many with a strong sense that these stories are spiritual lessons but not sure how to flesh out these theological ideas for teaching, parenting,...
Our One Word
Creating Spiritual Joy and Depth
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
• Author of best-selling book Love Feast • Chapters contain questions for group discussion and/or personal contemplation • Perfect for a Lenten practice that easily fits even a busy lifestyle Women live uniquely demanding lives as providers, managers, caretakers, and, amidst those many roles,...
Wisdom Walking
Pilgrimage as a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
"Everyone has taken a pilgrimage,” says author Gil Stafford “Some pilgrimages are intentional: I walked across Ireland. Some are unintentional: I walked my mother through the final days of her life. Life is a pilgrimage. But, do we walk intentionally, embracing the transformational process?”...
Calling Clergy
A Spiritual and Practical Guide through the Search Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
The author has extensive experience as deployment officer in the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey. This book includes guidelines for preparation of parish profile and the work of the calling committee. The web-based appendix includes sample letters, questionnaire templates, a calendar wizard for meeting...
How to Hit the Ground Running
A Quick-Start Guide for Congregations with New Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
The quick-start program described in this book is designed for the new rector or pastor who wants to "hit the ground running." It is also designed for principal lay leaders who will be instrumental in the transition to new leadership. The program takes the new pastor, vestry, or other leadership...
In the Shadows of Holy Week
The Office of Tenebrae
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
This helpful volume gives all necessary directions about how to do the Office of Tenebrae in the parish according to the form set forth in The Book of Occasional Services. This paperback book contains Antiphons and Psalms set to psalm tones, printed in a large format with permission to copy for congregational use.
by Marion J. Hatchett
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This excellent planning resource contains complete listings of hymn choices from The Hymnal 1982 for all Sundays and Holy Days in the three-year Eucharistic lectionary of the Book of Common Prayer, together with hymns appropriate for Morning and Evening Prayer for everyday of the Prayer Book's daily...
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,...
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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...