Church Publishing: 819 books
Steps Along the Way
A Spiritual Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
In his latest book, Diogenes Allen recounts his search for the Providence of God. His journey includes reflections on the evolving role of faith in the world; an exploration of the anguished and eloquent poetry of George Herbert; a reading of the messages of love, duty, and forgiveness in the sotries...
Archbishop Justin Welby
The Road to Canterbury
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This biography of the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury traces the story of Welby's life and ministry from his earliest years to the eve of his enthronement in March 2013. It examines his conversation to Christianity as a student at Cambridge University, his career as a treasurer in the oil industry...
Urban Iona
Celtic Hospitality in the City
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Urban Iona is a modern Celtic tale of healing and vision during and after the author’s pilgrimage to Iona and Ireland and Scotland. Upon his return, a dream takes flesh for his church as an urban Celtic monastery, a gathering of pilgrims open to the world and serving those most in need. This is...
by Frederick W. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The best of therapy and spiritual direction begins with telling stories that describe where we have been and where we are going. Luke is neither a psychologist nor a spiritual director, but intuitively he understands the importance of storytelling as the key to human growth, change, and healing. Speaking...
by C. K. Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
As Luke’s “sequel,” the Acts of the Apostles serves as an ideal bridge between the four Gospels and the Epistles, revealing a crucial part of the Christian story. Here we follow the story of Jesus’ earliest followers from their call to be his witnesses “to the ends of the earth,” through...
What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?
Unpublished Writings and Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Whether he is interviewing God (“I must be the first since Moses to be allowed into your presence”), preaching on “marriage as music,” or reflecting on a visit to his parents’ grave, Friedman always has the power to surprise us and invite us to change. This new collection of Edwin Friedman’s...
Breaking the Silence
The Church Responds to Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
A handbook about domestic violence from a spiritual perspective, and the only one of its kind, Breaking the Silence contains important, action-oriented information about domestic violence and its pervasiveness in society. Sections include “myths” about domestic violence; a checklist to determine...
Remember the Future
Financial Leadership and Asset Management for Congregations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Remember the Future is a result of years of hands-on consulting work with struggling congregations by Jerry Keucher, who served on the staff of the Diocese of New York for 13 years. Keucher notes that many, if not most, congregations in mainline churches have declined in the past forty years and that...
Faith Formation 4.0
Introducing an Ecology of Faith in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Using an ecological approach to study how emerging technologies impact individual and communal formation, Faith Formation 4.0 looks at how our efforts to be story-keepers, story-sharers, and story-makers have evolved over four eras of human communication. Framed by the Great Commission imperative...
A Labyrinth Year
Walking the Seasons of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Perhaps nothing expresses the mystery of our search for the divine as well as the labyrinth. A circular pathway based on spirals found in nature, the labyrinth is a time-honored spiritual tool in faith traditions as varied as Native American, Jewish, and Celtic. As seekers walk to the center of the...
Calling on the Spirit in Unsettling Times
Anglican Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Based upon addresses given to Anglican audiences in North America and Australia, Bill Countryman directly confronts the challenges that face Anglicans and other Western Christians at a time of internal division and increasing indifference to religion on the part of educated elites. He regards these...
Difficult Gospel
The Theology of Rowan Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Rowan Williams is widely recognized as a creative and powerful theologian, but his theological writings are frequently complex and difficult. This book provides a clear and simple guide to all the main themes of his theology, and shows how they are related to his reading of the Bible, his careful...
Saints, Signs, and Symbols
The Symbolic Language of Christian Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
This thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition enhances the well-loved and often-used earlier work as a guide to symbolism in Christian liturgical art, architecture, manuscripts, stained glass, and more. The new book is more heavily pictorial in an effort to provide an even stronger resource...
The Challenge of Change
The Anglican Communion in the Post-Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Author Mark Harris, an Episcopal priest, says that Anglicans mostly define themselves by reflecting on their experience rather than by defining distinct theology or doctrine. Anglicans feel that their reason for being is bound up not with being Anglicans