Church Publishing: 819 books
Christianity Without Superstition
Meaning, Metaphor, and Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Is belief in the Nicene and Apostles Creeds required to be a Christian? Does science support or diminish belief in the divine? How does one live Jesus’ way in the world? A careful study of Jesus shows that his intended legacy for us was not a set of propositional beliefs, but a way for being in...
by June A. English
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Easy-to-read entries help teenaged Anglicans understand 15 often-used but frequently misunderstood words.
The Final Deadline
What Death Has Taught Me about Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In contrast to religious traditions that attempt to shield us from death by promising eternal life or by denying or demeaning physical existence, Glaser looks at death directly and with appreciation for what it teaches us about life. Death is an inscrutable and even stern Zen master ready to teach...
Broken Body, Healing Spirit
Lectio Divina and Living with Illness
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
In the summer of 1995 Mary Earle returned from a vacation feeling refreshed and restored from her time away. A few days later, all that changed, when she was rushed to the emergency room with a case of acute and life-threatening pancreatitis. Being ill, she discovered, forces you to learn to live...
Days of Grace
Meditations and Practices for Living with Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Using the metaphor of pilgrimage, this book invites readers to reflect on living with illness. The heart of the book is a collection of thirty meditations, followed by a reflection, a short prayer, and a suggested spiritual practice. The meditations voice the difficulties and the challenges of living...
by Kelly Schneider Conkling
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Down through the centuries, people of faith have known that prayer has many languages, and not all of them have words. Here in Prayer of the HeArt, readers will learn to use art as a way to open up a deep conversation with God. This book is not about "art" in the sense of making pretty pictures,...
by Brendan O'Malley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
“I bless you, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Sacred Spirit, the One and the Three. May God give you to drink of his cup, the sun shine bright upon you, may the night call down peace and when you come into his household may the door be wide for you to go in to your joy.” –from A...
by Evelyn Underhill
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1989
Brief extracts from the Underhill book, Fruits of the Spirit, first published in 1942, the year after Underhill's death. Each of these brief pieces is actually a meditation on some aspect of the spiritual life, and makes excellent devotional reading. "...affords a brilliant example of Evelyn...
Grace on the Go: Powerful Prayers to Ease Money Worries
Powerful Prayers to Ease Money Worries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Barbara Bartocci returns with another practical, imaginative installment in the popular Grace on the Go series, which is designed to present simple connections and time for prayer in the ordinary moments of our busy, hectic lives. This new guide is particularly timely and addresses the challenges...
Let Every Heart Prepare
Meditations for Advent and Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1998
Advent meditations based on beloved hymns of the season. Those who have known the hymns forever as well as those who are new to these verses will find them, and Crafton’s meditations on faith, prayer, forgiveness, healing and more, an excellent companion for Advent and Christmas.
Living With Contradiction
An Introduction to Benedictine Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
These simple and inviting reflections on the Rule of St. Benedict take as their starting point our search for wholeness in a world that is fragmented and increasingly polarized. Many people today struggle to balance the demands of professional and personal lives, and find little satisfaction or peacefulness...
Blessed Is She
Living Lent with Mary
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
This book liberates Mary from her Christmas captivity and presents her as a model disciple who guides us on our Lenten journey. Includes a study for each week of Lent, along with questions to ponder.
by Steven Charleston
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A Choctaw Indian Christian bishop explores the teachings of the Bible through the lens of Native American tradition.
Steven Charleston—an Episcopal bishop and Choctaw native—takes a unique and provocative look into the “vision quests” of Jesus, and considers Christian biblical interpretation...
Protestant Spiritual Exercises
Theology, History and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
The term "Protestant spirituality" is sometimes considered to be an oxymoron. Spirituality has traditionally been seen as the domain of the Catholic faith, and not of the Protestant reformation and its offshoots. That perspective is in error, as Dr. Joseph Driskill demonstrates in Protestant...