List 21 of books from editorial Church Publishing

Transforming Preaching

by Ruthanna B. Hooke
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

Preaching is one of the more “transformable” aspects of the church’s life. Performance teacher Ruthanna Hooke, writing for both clergy and lay leaders, delivers the good and bad news about Episcopalians and preaching. She explains why preaching is more difficult than ever today, and provides...

Sense and Sensibility

A Lenten Exploration

by Sam Portaro
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018

• Daily Lenten reflections with a novel approach • Color images enhance message of text Lent is often a season given to denial of physical pleasure and sensation, but we're already denied these by a cultural atmosphere saturated with visual images, noise and air pollution, violence, and processed...

Radical Sending

Go to Love and Serve

by Demi Prentiss, J. Fletcher Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

When a congregation is seen as a base camp, a launching pad, a watering hole for its members- a place to regroup for their life beyond the doors of the building- then the Dismissal becomes the most important part of the liturgy next to being fed for the journey with the bread of life and the cup of...

Soul Banquets

How Meals Become Mission in the Local Congregation

by John Koenig
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

A look at the way meals of various sorts can be more effectively integrated into parish activities, promoting the emergence of new gifts for ministry as well as increasing our gratitude for God’s abundance and the works of justice and mercy that follow from our expressions of thanksgiving.

Letters from Samaria

The Prose and Poetry of Louie Clay, 1974-2014

by Louie Crew Clay
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

"Letters from Samaria" gathers together much of Louie Crew’s best and most influential prose and poetry, written from 1974 until the present day, including an essay that will be composed especially for the volume. Much of the material has not appeared since its original publication in...

The Prayer-Given Life

by Edward S. Gleason
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007

Not just for church and other public occasions, the Book of Common Prayer is an incredible resource for private and intimate conversations with God. It gives us rich words and phrases with which to pray, words that can slowly change our hearts and minds. Throughout his life as a priest,parent, teacher,...

That They May Be One?

The Episocopal United Methodist Dialogue

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

• First book to directly explore this evolving relationship, its potential and its challenges • Well-respected volume editors are bishops in their respective denominations • Of interest to a wide range of ecumenical scholars The Episcopal Church and United Methodist Church are developing an...

Speaking Our Faith

Equipping the Next Generations to Tell the Old, Old Story

by Kit Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018

• Ways to help Episcopalians articulate and feel comfortable about speaking of their faith with others • Builds upon the Jesus Movement and evangelism initiatives in the Episcopal Church Today, in a rapidly changing religious landscape, the structures of Christendom—which once almost automatically...

All My Words Have Holes in Them

Simple Daily Meditations

by Ginny Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

• Powerful, image-filled reflections on listening to and responding to the Holy within and around us • Personal devotional reading: words for the wordless Have you ever worked up the courage to pray and opened your mouth to discover you didn't know what to say? Perhaps you were worried you might...

Arms Out, Palms Open

Conflict, Reconciliation, and Gay Inclusion

by Daphne Estwick
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

In this adaptation of her dissertation, Estwick focuses generally on aspects of contemporary American religion and more particularly on the resolution of conflicts surrounding gay inclusion. Discussions of clerical experiences reconciling social conflicts with personal faith serve to guide individuals...

Liturgy on the Edge

Pastoral and Attractional Worship

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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019

• Inspiration and resources for urban parishes from the staff and laypeople of London's celebrat-ed St. Martin-in-the-Fields • Includes practical how-tos • Covers outreach, liturgy, inclusivity, liturgy, and more Using the unique circumstances and opportunities available to historic St. Martin-in-the-Fields...

These Are Our Bodies

Talking Faith & Sexuality at Church & Home (High School Participant Book)

by Samantha Haycock, Caren Miles
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017

This book is the high school participant’s guide to use during each session of the These Are Our Bodies program. It is filled with prayers, scripture, and reflection questions designed to help the participant see the connection between their sexuality and their faith. With lots of space for journaling,...

In Conversation

Michael Curry and Barbara Harris

by The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Barbara Harris
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

• Inaugural volume in the new In Conversations series • Get to know two trailblazing Episcopalians as they talk informally about things that matter to them As a teenager, Michael Curry served as a part of the “Youth Presence” at General Convention 1979. While there, he met Barbara Harris,...