Morehouse Publishing imprint: 392 books
The Word Made Fresh
Communicating Church and Faith Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
More than a how-to guide, this book helps readers appreciate the significance, value, and role of church communications as a ministry, inviting communicators to understand the role they play in transmitting the Gospel. The author explains how the history of church communications, starting with the...
Letters from Samaria
The Prose and Poetry of Louie Clay, 1974-2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"Letters from Samaria" gathers together much of Louie Crew’s best and most influential prose and poetry, written from 1974 until the present day, including an essay that will be composed especially for the volume. Much of the material has not appeared since its original publication in...
Joy in Disguise
Meeting Jesus in the Dark Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
How can Paul rejoice when he’s got nothing to rejoice about? How can he talk about joy when he’s in prison? This book follows Paul as he writes to his friends in Philippi, helping us to understand his experience of joy as a totally consuming emotion. Paul highlights four reasons why joy fills...
by David J. Schlafer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Preaching as Pastoral Caring is the thirteenth in a series of books devoted to presenting examples of preaching excellence from parishes throughout the Episcopal Church. This volume addresses the difficult and essential area of pastoral preaching as a kind of spiritual leadership in which compassionate...
Walking in Valleys of Darkness
A Benedictine Journey through Troubled Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
How do we deal with and attempt to understand God’s presence and overarching love for us when life goes wrong, when we encounter difficulties and tragedies? This noted Benedictine monk and priest shares his personal journeys through troubled times, using the discipline of meditating on single words...
Doing the Bible Better
The Bible Challenge and the Transformation of the Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
• Bible-reading program that transforms lives and the church experience • Develops the power of a daily disciplined spiritual practice Despite the fact that Episcopalians are among the best-educated Christian groups in the United States, they also rank among the least biblically literate denomination....
A Wing and a Prayer
A Message of Faith and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Katharine Jefferts Schori is a bishop on the move—she pilots her plane to remote parishes around the sprawling diocese of Nevada and shares her passionate message of reconciliation and peace. As the first female primate in the 500-year history of Anglicanism, she’ll have the opportunity to speak...
Resurrecting Easter
Meditations for the Great 50 Days
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
American Christians have forgotten the Easter season. We celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus on one day and then we return to ordinary time. But Christ appeared over and over again for forty days in resurrected form. We cannot sustain this resurrection season because that kind of sustained joy overwhelms...
Another Brush with God
Further Conversations about Icons
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This is the sequel to the author’s previous work, A Brush with God, for advanced beginners, intermediate, and advanced iconographers. It presents greater detail and instructions for creating entirely new icons. One major feature of the new book is the full-page sketches that artists can photocopy...
A Brush with God
An Icon Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
For more than a thousand years, Eastern Christians have used their hands and hearts to create icons, proclaiming God’s reality in a visible–and breathtakingly beautiful–way. This ancient art is enjoying a renewed interest in the West, as people of faith create icons and use them to meditate...
Eyes to See
The Redemptive Purpose of Icons
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
• Written by a Protestant for a non-Orthodox readership • Includes full-color images of eight icons • Strong potential for group study Eyes to See: The Redemptive Purpose of Icons offers the discovery of life-giving spiritual insights found through learning to read the language of religious...
by W. H. Vanstone
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
We set great store by activity and busy-ness. We want to be 'in control'. We value what we 'do' more than who we are. So when we become ill, or retire from work, or suffer an enforced period of inactivity, our self-esteem is threatened. We evade, repudiate, or resent experiences of passivity, of waiting....
What Is Your Practice?
Lifelong Growth in the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The goal is to help readers to strengthen their relationship with the Holy. Sixteen chapters present a variety of foundational Christian ascetical practices, translated into contemporary idiom. Instead of relying on imperatives and fixed answers, the intent is to attract readers to experiment with...
Preferring Christ
A Devotional Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
The Rule of St. Benedict continues to attract those who seek to live a deeper life, connected to Christ. But with such an ancient text, how can we authentically engage St. Benedict’s Rule in a manner that is true to its profound insights—and to our own spiritual journey? Norvene Vest suggests...