Seabury Books imprint: 92 books
Talking with the Bible
Scripture as Conversation Partner
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The Bible is full of sound and fury—just like the world that looks to it for answers. It is also a powerful resource for understanding and moving beyond conflict. Talking with the Bible helps readers understand how and why we have conversations with the Bible in our communities of faith. There is...
Keep Your Courage
A Radical Christian Feminist Speaks
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Carter Heyward is one of the most influential and controversial theologians of our time. Under headings “Speaking Truth to Power,” Remembering Who We Are,” and “Celebrating Our Friends,” she reflects on how movements for gender and sexual justice reverberate globally. In this volume of occasional...
War in the Garden of Eden
A Military Chaplain's Memoir from Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
A behind-the-scenes look at life in Baghdad, Iraq, during the months following the invasion in 2003. Wismer, a recently retired Army colonel and chaplain, has spent many years in the Middle East, beginning with Operation Desert Storm. His memoir not only reveals the daily drama of war, it also raises...
Who or What is God?
And Other Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
In Who or What is God? John Hick reflects on questions of the nature and the accessibility of God in the context of Christianity and other faith traditions. The essays in this book cover a wide range of issues centered on the search for truth, justice, and peace. This search concerns the ultimate...
The Hip Hop Prayer Book
The Remix
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
A powerful evangelism tool developed at Trinity Church of Morrisania in the South Bronx, the birthplace of hip hop. The Hip Hop Prayer Book offers a means of worship that draws in the young and speaks to those not generally spoken to by the church. Contains Bible stories, psalms, daily prayers, a...
Rubble Nation
Haiti's Pain, Haiti's Promise
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
As in their previous book, Where Mercy Fails: Darfur’s Struggle to Survive, Chris Herlinger and Paul Jeffrey fuse narrative and photographs to put a human face on the massive suffering that Haiti has experienced and continues to experience since the earthquake in January 2010. A subject of special...
Do Nothing to Change Your Life
Discovering What Happens When You Stop
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
“In returning and rest you shall be saved.” — Isaiah 30:15 When was the last time you had a real day off? Ditched the ‘to do’ lists? Switched off the phone? Unplugged the alarm clock? Sat in the bath until the water went cold? Most of us live at breakneck speed. Busy lives – work, family,...
From Sin to Amazing Grace
Discovering the Queer Christ
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A theologian discusses bridging the gap between the LGBTQ community and the fundamental oppression of traditional Christian doctrines.
Throughout the history of Christianity, the LGBTQ community has been condemned as unrepentant sinners who are in dire need of God’s saving grace. As a result...
Starting from Zero with $0
Building Mission-Shaped Ministries on a Shoestring
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Churches everywhere are suffering from draconian funding cuts, so how do leaders with a heart for alternative ministries fund their passion and build communities that will last? Journalist and commentator Becky Garrison looks deep into the experience of nearly a dozen ministries in the United States...
Rising From the Ashes
Rethinking Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The alternative worship/emergent church movement has been underway in various incarnations throughout the UK for over twenty years, and has impacted the U.S. evangelical community since the 1990s. However, these influences are just now beginning to emerge within the mainline liturgical churches. What...
A Failure of Nerve
Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Ten years after his death, Edwin Friedman's insights into leadership are more urgently needed than ever. He was the first to tell us that all organizations have personalities, like families, and to apply the insights of family therapy to churches and synagogues, rectors and rabbis, politicians and...
The Week That Changed the World
The Complete Easter Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Beginning with Palm Sunday, the gospels record every day of Jesus’ life up to the time of his death and resurrection. These eight days are unparalleled in the canon of Scripture for their narrative power, their detail, and their focus. A unique synthesis of the four gospel accounts of the passion...
by Mary McDermott Shideler
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
"Mary Shideler's call to see ourselves as living under the aspect of the eternal, to awaken that Spirit within, is itself sounded from a deep commitment and practice. Applicable to beginners of many different traditions and backgrounds, she is also clear that at some time the novitiate must end and that...
Mission-shaped Questions
Defining Issues for Today’s Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Mission-Shaped Church launched a movement. Mission-Shaped Questions addresses the big theological and practical queries that movement unleashed, including: What exactly is church? Can we develop churches that can transform culture? Can we be missionshaped and kingdom-focused, too?