Morehouse Publishing imprint: 392 books
Welcome to Sunday
An Introduction to Worship in the Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2003
The perfect book for newcomers who are often confused by the worship service, Welcome to Sunday is also an excellent book for those who have been sitting in the pews without fully understanding what happens on Sunday morning. Episcopal priest Christopher Webber takes the reader from the sidewalk outside...
by Evelyn Underhill
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1985
Originally part of a series of broadcasts made by the author prior to World War II, this small book was meant "to present some of the great truths concerning man’s spiritual life in simple language.” As one critic has noted, “Underhill has admirably and eloquently achieved her objective.”...
Power Lines
Celtic Prayers About Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Celtic prayers have always offered everyday needs to God in a straightforward way. Power Lines incorporates the insights of the Celtic tradition into a series of modern prayers about the concerns of work—whether paid, unpaid, in factory, home, or office. This book opens up Celtic patterns of prayer...
by Vicki K. Black
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Part of the well-established “Welcome to…” series from Morehouse Publishing, this book addresses church history from the grassroots perspective of how Anglicans have prayed, thought about, and lived out their faith through the centuries.
Let Us Bless the Lord, Year One: Advent through Holy Week
Meditations for the Daily Office
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Popular author, retreat leader, and priest Barbara Crafton rises early each morning, lights a candle, opens her Book of Common Prayer, and reads the morning office—the ancient Christian service that praises God at the beginning of a new day. When she is done, Crafton usually sits down at her computer...
by Christopher L. Webber
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
Become a full partner in the worship of God using these guides, which illuminate the theology, history, and practical concerns of each part of the liturgy. These two new guides are designed to help newcomers, confirmation classes, and lay members understand and appreciate the Episcopal liturgy. They...
Meditations on the Psalms
For Every Day of the Year
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
"I hope that the ancient texts upon which these reflections are based will come alive for you in a new way," writes Barbara Crafton in Meditations on the Book of Psalms. The Psalms, written by ordinary people, are filled with all the same emotions and issues that challenge, comfort, and...
Retreat Designs and Meditation Exercises
With Guidelines for Retreat Leaders and Covenant Groups
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994
Step-by-step retreat designs, accompanying meditation exercises, and leader’s guidelines based on the bestseller Listening Hearts, are presented in this unique resource. Songs, from the Listening Hearts Songbook, specially-planned Eucharists, Scripture readings, meaningful projects, and meditation...
The Sewing Room
Uncommon Reflections on Life, Love and Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
In these insightful essays, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton reflects on a broad range of experiences ministering among merchant seafarers, the homeless, the bereaved, AIDS patients, and others in need of personal and spiritual help. She shares honestly her own emotions as she grapples with the harsh realities...
Keeping Silence
Christian Practices for Entering Stillness
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
When C. W. McPherson asked the members of his congregation to practice just ten minutes of silence each day during Advent, it seemed like a simple task. “It sounded easy,” said one of his parishioners, “but then I actually tried to do it.” This concise, conversational, and engaging book is...
by Kenneth Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
As the Church continues to try to clarify the meaning of baptism, well-known liturgical scholar Kenneth Stevenson provides important insights into the historical issues with which we still wrestle. Is baptism a private or a public act? Is the symbolism of the rite still appropriate? Does the language...
Love Human and Divine
Reflections on Love, Sexuality, and Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Questions around sexuality have been major ones for the Episcopal and other mainline churches in recent years. Those questions have heated up substantially in the last couple years in most mainline denominations, particularly in the Episcopal Church. In this short book, based on lectures that Bill...
Let Us Bless the Lord, Year One: Easter through Pentecost
Meditations on the Daily Office
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Popular author, retreat leader, and priest Barbara Crafton rises early each morning, lights a candle, opens her Book of Common Prayer, and reads the morning office—the ancient Christian service that praises God at the beginning of a new day. When she is done, Crafton usually sits down at her computer...
Walking the Way of Sorrows
Stations of the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Each year on Good Friday and throughout Lent, Christian congregations all over the world walk the Stations of the Cross, a commemoration of Jesus' walk to Calvary. In Walking the Way of Sorrows, artist Noyes Capehart and writer/journalist Katerina Whitley provide a fresh resource for congregations...