Church Publishing: 819 books
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?
The Hospitality of God
Emerging Worship for a Missional Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
What happens when two bishops known for their liturgical sensibilities travel to study alternative Christian communities on two continents? Bishops Mary Gray-Reeves and Michael Perham traveled throughout the U.S. and U.K. to study fresh expressions of church and identify the principles that link these...
by Evelyn Underhill
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1985
Originally part of a series of broadcasts made by the author prior to World War II, this small book was meant "to present some of the great truths concerning man’s spiritual life in simple language.” As one critic has noted, “Underhill has admirably and eloquently achieved her objective.”...
by Vicki K. Black
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Part of the well-established “Welcome to…” series from Morehouse Publishing, this book addresses church history from the grassroots perspective of how Anglicans have prayed, thought about, and lived out their faith through the centuries.
Let Us Bless the Lord, Year One: Advent through Holy Week
Meditations for the Daily Office
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Popular author, retreat leader, and priest Barbara Crafton rises early each morning, lights a candle, opens her Book of Common Prayer, and reads the morning office—the ancient Christian service that praises God at the beginning of a new day. When she is done, Crafton usually sits down at her computer...
by Christopher L. Webber
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
Become a full partner in the worship of God using these guides, which illuminate the theology, history, and practical concerns of each part of the liturgy. These two new guides are designed to help newcomers, confirmation classes, and lay members understand and appreciate the Episcopal liturgy. They...
Walking the Way of Sorrows
Stations of the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Each year on Good Friday and throughout Lent, Christian congregations all over the world walk the Stations of the Cross, a commemoration of Jesus' walk to Calvary. In Walking the Way of Sorrows, artist Noyes Capehart and writer/journalist Katerina Whitley provide a fresh resource for congregations...
Salvation on the Small Screen?
24 Hours of Christian Television
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
From a seminarian and stand-up comic—an “enlightening and entertaining” look at celebrity televangelists, cash, and couch-potato redemption (AJ Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically).
On an average day, the largest religious broadcast channel is a “divine” presence in more...
Mission-shaped Parish
Traditional Church in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This is a practical how-to guide introducing new, mission-shaped practices in a traditional parish setting. This book looks at the church’s bread-and-butter activities — worship, pastoral contacts, civic and public responsibilities, faith formation, administration and leadership — and creatively points out how to reframe them with a focus on God’s mission.
Embracing Spiritual Awakening
Diana Butler Bass on the Dynamics of Experiential Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Embracing Spiritual Awakening is a five-session small group church study for adults and young adults incorporating a Participant Workbook and a DVD. This eBook is of the Participant Workbook with the corresponding Small Group DVD available separately. The Participant Workbook is available in this...
Embracing Emergence Christianity
Phyllis Tickle on the Church's Next Rummage Sale
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Embracing Emergence Christianity is a six-session small group church study for adults and young adults incorporating a Participant Workbook and a DVD. This eBook is of the Participant Workbook with the corresponding Small Group DVD available separately. The Participant Workbook is available in this...
Clergy Moms
A Survival Guide to Balancing Family and Congregation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Walking the tightrope of home and parish life for clergy parents is notoriously difficult in all the mainline Protestant denominations, but most books on ordination and vocation ignore the question of family life. The ordination of women, the prevalence of two-career marriages, the increasing need to...
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...
Where Mercy Fails
Darfur's Struggle to Survive
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This new work provides a graphic and literal context for understanding the current tragedy in Darfur and describes a framework for how people of faith are responding to the crisis. Jeffrey’s photos depict daily life in the camps, showing both the challenges faced by the displaced, as well as their...