Morehouse Publishing imprint: 392 books
Protestant Spiritual Exercises
Theology, History and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
The term "Protestant spirituality" is sometimes considered to be an oxymoron. Spirituality has traditionally been seen as the domain of the Catholic faith, and not of the Protestant reformation and its offshoots. That perspective is in error, as Dr. Joseph Driskill demonstrates in Protestant...
Breaking the Silence
The Church Responds to Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
A handbook about domestic violence from a spiritual perspective, and the only one of its kind, Breaking the Silence contains important, action-oriented information about domestic violence and its pervasiveness in society. Sections include “myths” about domestic violence; a checklist to determine...
Marvelously Made: Gratefulness and the Body
Gratefulness and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Each chapter in Marvelously Made focuses on a vital part of the body (the heart, the lungs, the brain, the joints); relates an anecdote from the author’s experience; provides reader-friendly (i.e., not overly technical) information about the wonders of the organ or body part, and offers a prayer...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Half a century has passed since Evelyn Underhill's death, yet her devotional writings have endured as a beacon to those who seek a deeper understanding of the "interior life" in the mystical Christian tradition. The editor's personal discovery of Underhill's works when he was a young student at General...
In Defense of All God’s Children
The Life and Ministry of Bishop Christopher Senyonjo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Nothing in the background of Bishop Christopher Senyonjo would have predicted that, late in life, he would become an international spokesperson for the rights of LGBTQ people in his native Uganda and around the world. Raised traditionally, he was a failed medical student turned teacher before the...
The Agile Church
Spirit-Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
A groundbreaking and essential guide to opening up the concept of church and achieving spiritual renewal in the 21st century.
Taking one page from the Bible and another from Silicon Valley, priest and scholar Dwight J. Zscheile brings theological insights together with cutting-edge thinking...
Faith Formation 4.0
Introducing an Ecology of Faith in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Using an ecological approach to study how emerging technologies impact individual and communal formation, Faith Formation 4.0 looks at how our efforts to be story-keepers, story-sharers, and story-makers have evolved over four eras of human communication. Framed by the Great Commission imperative...
Cultivating the Missional Church
New Soil for Growing Vestries and Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
• Offers church leaders and vestries a robust and missional perspective on the church in the 21st century • Each chapter is concluded with recommendations for further study and questions for discussion. Written from a post-Christendom and missional worldview, this book was born of a singular question...
Church Administration and Finance Manual
Resources for Leading the Local Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
These 544 pages of field-tested solutions deliver proven procedures, planning models, and copier-friendly forms for all aspects of local church administration. Packed with excellent guidelines and tools for assessing and improving parish management." A wealth of information on parish administration." -- The Living Church
A Labyrinth Year
Walking the Seasons of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Perhaps nothing expresses the mystery of our search for the divine as well as the labyrinth. A circular pathway based on spirals found in nature, the labyrinth is a time-honored spiritual tool in faith traditions as varied as Native American, Jewish, and Celtic. As seekers walk to the center of the...
by John E. Booty
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2003
This unique approach to understanding the history of the Anglican and Episcopal Churches was originally part of the 1979 Church’s Teaching Series. Rather than writing a simple chronological history of the Church, John Booty, one of the premier experts in church history, explores the subject thematically....
Calling on the Spirit in Unsettling Times
Anglican Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Based upon addresses given to Anglican audiences in North America and Australia, Bill Countryman directly confronts the challenges that face Anglicans and other Western Christians at a time of internal division and increasing indifference to religion on the part of educated elites. He regards these...
True Prayer
An Invitation to Christian Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
We do not create prayer,” writes Kenneth Leech, “but merely prepare the ground and clear away obstacles. Prayer is always a gift, a grace, the flame which ignites wood; the Holy Spirit gives prayer.”
To Dream as God Dreams
Sermons of Community, Conversion, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Porter Taylor, known for his wonderful preaching, always has something unusual and thoughtful to say. "Forgive us our weeds as we forgive the weediness of others," he writes in one sermon on the parable of the wheat and the weeds. In another he reflects on why the book of Ecclesiastes shouldn't...