Church Publishing: 819 books
Welcome to Sunday
An Introduction to Worship in the Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2003
The perfect book for newcomers who are often confused by the worship service, Welcome to Sunday is also an excellent book for those who have been sitting in the pews without fully understanding what happens on Sunday morning. Episcopal priest Christopher Webber takes the reader from the sidewalk outside...
Your Faith, Your Life
An Invitation to the Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
This “everything-you-need-to-know” guide for newcomers to the Episcopal Church is written and designed to provide accessible and user-friendly reading, with an easy-going look and style that’s packed full of substance. The book carefully unpacks the Episcopal Church’s language of worship,...
She Flies On
A White Southern Christian Debutante Wakes Up
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In Carter's words: I’m persuaded by decades of teaching in seminary and work as a priest in the church that countless women, and many men as well, are faithful “Jesus people” and yet alienated to various degrees from organized religion. Jack Spong and Barbara Brown Taylor are two of the better...
by Church Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
The first edition of Lesser Feasts and Fasts was authorized more than 40 years ago to meet a liturgical and pastoral need for the commemoration of various saints and occasions not included as major Holy Days on the calendar of the Book of Common Prayer. Subsequent editions have been updated regularly...
All Our Children
The Church's Call to Address Education Inequity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The church understands community as unity in diversity: Paul’s vision of the Body of Christ as a physical body, with all parts welcomed and honored as parts of the whole, is an image of community as revolutionary in our day as it was in first century Rome. And the church’s call to act in the world,...
by Christopher White
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Amid the rapid changes shaking North American society, how can church leaders respond? Is this a time of crisis, or of opportunity and renewal? What skills will be required to lead effectively in the 21st century? Seismic Shifts offers an invitation to journey toward an authentic leadership for our...
Cultivating the Missional Church
New Soil for Growing Vestries and Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
• Offers church leaders and vestries a robust and missional perspective on the church in the 21st century • Each chapter is concluded with recommendations for further study and questions for discussion. Written from a post-Christendom and missional worldview, this book was born of a singular question...
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Theologies of Confirmation for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
• An all-in-one volume sharing the history, practice, and viewpoints of Confirmation in the Episcopal Church and the first book on the subject for at least 15 years • Resolutions regarding Confirmation are coming to the 2015 General Convention • Includes questions for reflection and study by...
Bullseye
Aiming to Follow Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Once you decide to follow Jesus, what does it look like? Many people who come to church aren’t really sure. Bullseye maps out six markers that are signs of a Christian life. In practical, inviting, and clear ways, Bullseye examines • Using Spiritual Practices • Worshipping Together Weekly •...
Off to a Good Start
Openers & Prayers for Church Meetings
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
“Will you give the devotion at the beginning of the meeting?” With Off to a Good Start, you can confidently answer, “Yes!” Inside are 24 openers with a scripture, prayer, reflection, questions, and a simple activity. There are openers for specific small groups, as well as for Advent, Easter,...
Unexpected Consequences
The Diaconate Renewed
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
• First book in years to look critically at the diaconate in the Episcopal Church Times change, and the Order of Deacons in the Episcopal Church has not remained static. While the book seeks to update contemporary knowledge about deacons, it also shows how the diaconate may be well positioned to...
A Church for the Future
South Africa as the Crucible for Anglicanism in a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Examines current issues facing the Anglican Communion through the prism of the history of the Southern African church and people. Through this combined narrative of the global and local church, the author offers a remarkable story combining history, race, class and culture in Africa. He traces the...
The Word Made Fresh
Communicating Church and Faith Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
More than a how-to guide, this book helps readers appreciate the significance, value, and role of church communications as a ministry, inviting communicators to understand the role they play in transmitting the Gospel. The author explains how the history of church communications, starting with the...
Ten Dumb Things Churches Do
And How to Avoid Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Ten Dumb Things Churches Do is about making the system we call the local church into one that truly reflects what we believe the body of Christ is supposed to be--a community that exemplifies the gospel through its life together and its presence in the world. Knowing when we’ve done that, however,...