Church Publishing: 819 books
These Are Our Bodies
Talking Faith & Sexuality at Church & Home - Middle School Leader Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
• Easily accessible, theologically progressive, mainline Christian Education resource on human sexuality • Comprehensive guide for an adult to implement and lead the human sexuality These Are Our Bodies program with Middle School age participants • Middle School module component for the These...
Beyond Accessibility
Toward Full Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Faith Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Excellent resource for taking practical and spiritual “next steps” after compliance with the American Disabilities Act.
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Burial Rites for Adults, together with a Rite for the Burial of a Child
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
These newly authorized rites are intended to be a supplement to the burial services in the Book of Common Prayer, adding a rich variety of new material from many sources, including prayers for one who has died in military service, for one of unknown faith, for an unbeliever, and for a member of an...
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 Sewing Room
Uncommon Reflections on Life, Love and Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
In these insightful essays, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton reflects on a broad range of experiences ministering among merchant seafarers, the homeless, the bereaved, AIDS patients, and others in need of personal and spiritual help. She shares honestly her own emotions as she grapples with the harsh realities...
Poems of Grace
Texts of The Hymnal 1982
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Reading hymns as poetry for meditation and understanding has long been an Anglican practice. Some hymnals in England print one stanza with music and the rest as poetry. Americans have preferred that texts be interlined with music for ease and instruction in singing. This text-only edition of The Hymnal...
Ancient-Future Disciples
Meeting Jesus in Mission-shaped Ministries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Fresh expressions of church may offer a fresh take on ancient Anglican tradition and worship. But what difference are they making for the people who call them their church home? Journalist and religion commentator Becky Garrison spent a year visiting US based mission-shaped ministries. Where most...
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...
The Hymnal 1982
Basic Singers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1985
The normative edition for all who sing — choir and congregation alike — containing all hymns and service music.
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Morning and Evening Prayer, The Great Litany, and The Holy Eucharist
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
This is the new edition of Supplemental Liturgical Materials. New materials include seventeen additional canticles taken from the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, the New Testament, Anselm of Canterbury, and Julian of Norwich. There are also additions and changes to the previously published supplemental materials including a third Eucharistic Prayer.
by Kenneth Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
As the Church continues to try to clarify the meaning of baptism, well-known liturgical scholar Kenneth Stevenson provides important insights into the historical issues with which we still wrestle. Is baptism a private or a public act? Is the symbolism of the rite still appropriate? Does the language...
Love Human and Divine
Reflections on Love, Sexuality, and Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Questions around sexuality have been major ones for the Episcopal and other mainline churches in recent years. Those questions have heated up substantially in the last couple years in most mainline denominations, particularly in the Episcopal Church. In this short book, based on lectures that Bill...
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Liturgies and Prayers Related to Childbearing, Childbirth, and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This unique new service book includes liturgies for blessing and healing as related to childbearing and childbirth. It includes prayers, Scripture readings and hymn suggestions organized around the blessing of a pregnant woman; loss of a pregnancy; repentance and reconciliation for an abortion; difficult...
The Way of Love: Worship
A Little Book of Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Following Presiding Bishop Michael Curry's call to follow "The Way of Love: Practices for a Jesus-Filled Life" each of these seven little books will provide an entry point to the novice who wishes to learn more about how to begin a practice of turning to Christ, learning about the faith,...