Seabury Books imprint: 92 books
Choosing a Bible
For Worship, Teaching, Study, Preaching, and Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
How do we choose among all the different Bible translations available today? How do we know which is the right one to use for specific situations? And how do we understand what factors lie behind these translations? Oxford Bible editor Donald Kraus surveys 25 different Bible translations, and discusses...
Food Fight
Struggling for Justice in a Hungry World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
• Third book in a humanitarian trilogy that includes Where Mercy Fails: Darfur’s Struggle to Survive and Rubble Nation: Haiti’s Pain, Haiti’s Promise • Combines dramatic photojournalism and compelling narrative to give a voice and a face to the global issue of hunger • Includes authors’...
At Home in the World
A Rule of Life for the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Out of her long experience as a spiritual director, mentor, and teacher, Margaret Guenther offers a warm and sensible guide for "the rest of us" -- singles, couples, parents, extended families, members of churches -- to create a helpful and balanced rule
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
We hear about heaven and the supernatural on late-night TV far more often than in church, and many Christians never hear it mentioned seriously from the pulpit. Everyone has something to say about their hopes and fears for the afterlife, but the topic of eternity is usually left to the talk shows....
Why is There a Menorah on the Altar?
Jewish Roots of Christian Worship
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A desire and demand to know more about the Jewish legacy of Christian identity is growing among laity. A similar desire to foster interfaith understanding and dialogue is growing among leaders of local churches. Why Is There a Menorah on the Altar? seeks to meet these demands by providing information...
The Myth of the Shiksa
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
A renowned family therapist tackles tricky relationship issues in this heartwarming collection from the author of A Failure of Nerve.
Generational conflict, faith crises, difficult friendships—Edwin Friedman saw every side of the human condition in his years as a rabbi and counselor, for...
Brand Jesus
Christianity in a Consumerist Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In this provocative book, the author argues that American Christianity, especially evangelicalism, has been corrupted by the dominance of consumerism in modern life. The church's mostly uncritical adoption of this secular condition has resulted in an idolatrous morphing of the message of Christ into...
The Eastern Path to Heaven
A Guide to Happiness from the Teachings of Jesus in Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Geshe Michael Roach and Christie McNally have, for the last ten years, explored together the ancient cities, rare manuscripts, and oral traditions of India and Tibet which bear witness to teachings of Thomas - the disciple that Jesus sent to the east. The Eastern Path to Heaven presents the great...
Quenching Hell
The Mystical Theology of William Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book has a simple purpose: to show what a conversation with William Law - "England's greatest prose mystic" - can do for contemporary faith. Law composed one of the most startling and vigorous wake-up calls in the Christian tradition. Under the influence of his beloved Jacob Boehme,...
What Does a Progressive Christian Believe?
A Guide for the Searching, the Open, and the Curious
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
This book came into being about two o'clock in the morning on the day after the 2004 presidential election. It arose out of the stunned realization that the historic tradition of progressive Christian thought and action had virtually disappeared from our public discourse. Progressive Christianity,...
Transformed Lives
Making Sense of Atonement Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Even theologians have had different ideas about the theology of atonement; how are the rest of supposed to understand it? This book is a good place to start. Crysdale, whose background in both psychology and theology gives her a unique perspective, presents an overview of the history of the theology...
Radical Love
An Introduction to Queer Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
An exploration of the teachings of Jesus in relation to the LGBTQ community that “helps readers welcome a theology that leaves no one behind” (Chris Glaser, author of Coming Out as Sacrament).
A common claim, on both on the political right and left, is that Christianity is incompatible...
The Forgotten Touch
More Stories of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The author's unusual spiritual journey transformed him from a Royal Marine Commando, trained to kill or be killed, to the director of the healing ministries of Christ the King Spiritual Life Center, where he now teaches people to heal and be healed. This long-awaited sequel to Hand to Hand: From Combat...
Keepers of the Story
Oral Traditions in Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
More wonderful tales and how to tell them from master storyteller Megan McKenna. A coyote, a woodcutter, a Buddist Zen master, a boy named Samuel, a Sufi mystic, two men walking to Emmaus all are central characters in stories told by Megan McKenna. As we listen to "Once upon a time," their...