Morehouse Publishing imprint: 392 books
Voicing the Vision
Imagination and Prophetic Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
For more than a decade popular homiletics professor Linda Clader has been helping her students become attentive to how the Holy Spirit is speaking to them, and eventually through them to the congregation. In Voicing the Vision she shares her ideas about what preachers can do to be open and receptive...
Keeping the Feast
Metaphors for the Meal
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
“This is a book about what nourishes us: food, faith, family, and friends, and how all of those elements are essential ingredients of Communion—in fact how every meal of our lives holds an invitation to the Sacred Meal. “As I say in the opening chapter, ‘What the Gospel writers don’t seem...
Becoming Who I Am
Reflections on Wholeness and Embracing Our Divine Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The age 40 is pivotal for many women, when we become reflective about our lives thus far and begin to experience physical challenges in growing older- from difficulties in losing weight, to wearing bifocals. However, the number from a biblical perspective provides an alternative view of turning 40....
Grace's Window
Entering the Seasons of Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
In this popular book first published in 1996, Suzanne Guthrie teaches us about the seasons of prayer by letting us enter her own in these forty meditations that stretch from Advent through Pentecost. “Pray as you are drawn to pray,” she tells us, not as someone has told you how to pray.” Against...
Sewing Church Linens, Revised Edition
Convent Hemming and Simple Embroidery
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
This classic book on sewing linens for the church explains the materials and equipment needed, a variety of hemming options, special instructions on the small linens such as purificators and palls, working with fair linens, white work embroidery, and caring for church linens. New to this edition are...
A Gracious Rain
A Devotional Commentary on the Prayers of the Church Year
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Beginning with the First Sunday of Advent, Schmidt takes the reader on a journey through the church year as he reflects on the mystery and challenge of our human pilgrimage.
Lifting Women's Voices
Prayers to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
This stunning collection of prayers from women throughout the Anglican Communion is organized according to themes of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. The prayers make direct connections between women’s lives and global concerns of women everywhere, showing the interrelatedness, for example,...
Unearthing My Religion
Real Talk about Real Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
• A brief, engaging read with ample spiritual applications • Each chapter includes a parable, real-life stories, and suggested life practice • Perfect for newcomers or for leaders engaging non-Christian communities • Study questions included Religious talk quickly degenerates into insider...
by Kevin A. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Although the Ten Commandments have been the center of much recent controversy in American politics, scripture contains many laws about which Christians are perplexed. If the Bible contains laws, shouldn't those laws be followed? What does the law that prohibits reaping a harvest to the very edges...
Staying One, Remaining Open
Educating Leaders for a 21st Century Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
To honor the deanship of his predecessor, Martha J. Horne, Ian S. Markham, dean of Virginia Theological Seminary, challenged his faculty colleagues to reflect on living with a divided mind, where learning and living go hand in hand with diversity, division, protracted discussions, and lasting disagreements....
God Gave the Growth
Church Planting in the Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
• Practical and theoretical instruction for mainline church planting • Written specifically for the Episcopal Church, but with mainline applications, by a well-known, widely respected author The Episcopal Church has recognized that planting new churches is a high priority through the Mission Enterprise...
by Linda McFadden
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
This book focuses on problems in parishes—from stewardship to worship to strategic planning—and then examines new ideas and solutions. The approach is positive and practical; the tone is conversational and engaging.
A Church Beyond Belief
The Search for Belonging and the Religious Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As we move beyond the “emergent” or “missional” church paradigm, pastors and other church leaders are discovering a new reality: people (especially younger generations) are coming to church not as believers, but to find a place to belong—with or without faith. This book describes the dilemma...
My Church Is Not Dying
Episcopalian in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
• Evangelism for a world that hates evangelism, but needs the church • The unfolding vision of a church stepping into the future, instead of dwelling in the past The old way of “being church”—measured by political influence, money, and congregants in the pews—may indeed be vanishing, but...