Church Publishing: 819 books
Where Two or Three Are Gathered
Spiritual Direction for Small Groups
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Much has been written about the practice of one-to-one spiritual direction, but much less about small group communities that offer in-depth mutual spiritual support and guidance to its members. But small groups are most likely the more usual setting for spiritual companionships and have a strong biblical,...
St. Benedict's Toolbox
The Nuts and Bolts of Everyday Benedictine Living
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
When St. Benedict formed his first small community of monks at Monte Cassino on the hilltop, Italy--and much of Europe--was ravaged by war. The Roman Empire was breaking apart, and politics, cultural life, and even the Church, were all in disarray. In the midst of these tumultuous times, Benedict offered...
Call on Me
A Prayer Book for Young People
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This prayer book designed for teens draws on the Book of Common Prayer, the Bible and events that occur in their daily lives. This creative compilation of over 100 original prayers offers simple and insightful instruction about prayer. It offers a wealth of diverse prayers on all manner of topics...
Come and See
The Transformation of Personal Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Centering prayer, both a meditative technique and the experience of God’s presence in every waking moment, continues to gain a faithful following among Episcopalians and Roman Catholics at conferences and in parish and small-group settings. David Keller, close colleague of Thomas Keating and director...
Fighting with the Bible
Why Scripture Divides Us and How It Can Bring Us Together
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In times of conflict, the Bible is often used as a club to beat those whose opinions differ from one’s own. We recoil from such usage, yet the Bible actually represents many diverse and conflicting points of view. It is like a library, full of books that speak to all sides of every question. Like...
What Do We Mean by 'God'?
A Little Book of Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language about God is something like the language of poetry—intended not to increase our information about the world—we know facts about the world already—but to evoke in us a certain attitude or way of looking at things or feeling about things. What sort of view of the world, then, is language...
by James W. Farwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This completely new work replaces the best-selling but woefully outdated Morehouse classic by the same name. This fresh work explains the liturgy in all its aspects for the uninitiated and is written by a respected liturgics scholar in the Episcopal Church.
To Love and To Cherish Until Death Do Us Part
Preparing for the Celebration and Blessing of a Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
An informative guidebook for couples preparing to receive the sacrament of marriage in the Episcopal Church. Includes a helpful, step-by-step walk through the marriage rite. An excellent resource for engaged couples and for clergy who counsel them.
What Does It Mean to Be Holy Whole?
A Little Book of Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
We think of holy people as spiritual seekers, but holiness is more than being in touch with the holy. What is holiness all about? What is wholeness of life? What are practices of love? What is spirituality all about? What is worship all about? Life, according to Timothy Sedgwick, is not a series of...
by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The life and ministry of a priest are two aspects of the same journey, and beloved author and priest Barbara Cawthorne Crafton approaches this journey in four sections, envisioned as embracing a clerical life. The first, “The Dream,” contains the early years of discernment, training, and youthful...
Crossing Myself
A Story of Spiritual Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
• Revised, edgy, and engaging spiritual autobiography • An intimate first-person journey through pain and depression to hope • Prolific, popular author of more than 20 books, including My Church Is Not Dying: Episcopalians in the 21st Century Originally published by NavPress in 2006, this book...
Just Wondering, Jesus
100 Questions People Want to Ask
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
What are the questions that are really on the minds of Christians as they try to live out their faith? Author Tom Ehrich challenged readers of his weekly newspaper column and his daily e-mail meditations to pose the questions that they would like to ask Jesus “from the roadside,” as blind Bartimaeus...
by Mark Bozzuti-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
This talented and imaginative writer offers a unique perspective on the season of Advent. Along with Scripture readings and prayers, he offers four weeks of meditations that focus on the growth of Jesus in the womb of Mary as he approaches the day of his birth, learns his mother's voice, responds...
Becoming Like a Child
The Curiosity of Maturity beyond the Norm
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Berryman invites the reader into a creative process that explores what it means to be spiritually mature, starting with Jesus’ injunction to “become like a child.” What does this mean at the literal level? the figurative level? the mystical level? the ethical level? The structure of the process...