Church Publishing imprint: 289 books
Faithful Celebrations
Making Time for God in Autumn
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
• Experiential activities for celebrating secular and sacred seasons of the year • Activities can be used in any setting: church, home, school Many of our experiences in life happen when several generations are together—at church, at home, in our communities. Holidays and family events are times...
by Carl P. Daw, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A planning guide for church musicians and clergy for selecting hymns, songs, and anthems, for the three-year liturgical cycle following the Revised Common Lectionary. • Hymns and songs keyed to the appropriate liturgical occasion for Sundays in the Revised Common Lectionary for the three-year cycle....
Ambassadors for God
Envisioning Reconciliation Rites for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In 2006, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church called upon the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to develop and revise Reconciliation Rites for the new century. Before the task of drafting liturgical materials for new rites begins, the Commission felt it would be helpful to gather...
Backpacking Through the Anglican Communion
A Search for Unity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
• A fresh first-hand take on the Anglican Communion • Of special interest to younger Episcopalians/Anglicans Travel with Jesse Zink as he literally walks us through many of church’s most representative provinces—Nigeria, front line of opposition to the American church; South Sudan, leading...
by The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, Office of the General Convention of The Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Fresh new material for a daily prayer discipline Authorized for use by the General Convention of the Episcopal Church Available in English and Spanish (separate volumes) People in all kinds of religious traditions, including Judaism and Christianity, have been marking time with prayer for almost as...
Longing for Home
Daily Reflections for Lent
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This Lent, join the many biblical characters who wrestle with a longing for home. These devotions—one for each of the 40 days in Lent, plus Sundays—include a Bible verse, a reflection, a prayer, questions to ponder, and suggested hymns, all exploring aspects of the theme of displacement; a study guide follows.
Community Rules
An Episcopal Manual
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
• Practical guide to church community life Taking the approach of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules, Community Rules seeks to distill the basics of “good church” into a set of memorable rules. Working with three sections, the authors draw on their years of combined experience in academic and church...
Cohabiting Couples and Cold Feet
A Practical Marriage-Preparation Guide for Clergy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Clergy today are faced with a profound shift in American attitudes about marriage that affects the role they play with each couple. Our society at large today has strikingly different attitudes from those of just fifty years ago. Couples today are more likely to have cohabited before marriage, more likely...
Doing Holy Business
The Best of Vestry Papers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Vestry Papers is an award winning newsletter published by the Episcopal Church Foundation and is designed to provide vestries with information that is spiritually grounding, yet offers practical illustrations and resources to assist them in their job as the elected lay leadership in their congregations....
Report to the 76th General Convention
Otherwise Known as the Blue Book
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Reports of the Committees, Commissions, Agencies and Boards of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church to the 76th General Convention, Anaheim, California, July 8-17, 2009.
Done and Left Undone
Grace in the Meantime of Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
• An original and thoughtful approach to a grace-filled theology of leadership • Incorporates insights from biological and behavioral sciences and popular culture In a post-Christian culture, parish clergy can find themselves at a loss, ill-equipped to deal with a reality for which seminary did...
Searching for Sacred Space
Essays on Architecture and Liturgical Design in the Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
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 important questions about the relationship between...
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
Three Christmas Pageants for Church Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Here are three different Christmas pageants complete with music, staging directions, scenery and costume suggestions, plus pointers about how to organize your event. The pageants are for grades K-8, but one also calls for adults and teens. The first pageant is a traditional Nativity play with carols;...
by Betty Lynn Schwab
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Today, creation is in distress, human beings hurt one another with increasing violence, and church communities use numbers—head counts and dollars—to measure faithfulness. Yet the health of soul, community, and creation are so intricately interwoven that we cannot have one healthy without the...