Church Publishing: 819 books
Child by Child
Supporting Children with Learning Differences and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Integrating children and teens with learning differences into church programs is a growing priority for nearly all congregations, large and small, yet many feel ill-equipped to “manage” those with special needs in their classrooms, programs and worship. This new guidebook for churches is designed...
Faithful Celebrations
Making Time for God in Autumn
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
• Experiential activities for celebrating secular and sacred seasons of the year • Activities can be used in any setting: church, home, school Many of our experiences in life happen when several generations are together—at church, at home, in our communities. Holidays and family events are times...
by Carl P. Daw, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A planning guide for church musicians and clergy for selecting hymns, songs, and anthems, for the three-year liturgical cycle following the Revised Common Lectionary. • Hymns and songs keyed to the appropriate liturgical occasion for Sundays in the Revised Common Lectionary for the three-year cycle....
by Leonel L. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1991
This guide for clergy, parish musicians, lay readers, and congregational representatives covers all the stages of organizing worship services for the entire year. Using The Book of Common Prayer and Hymnal 1982 as primary resources, it explores the rich variety of options—both time-honored traditions...
Praying Shapes Believing
A Theological Commentary on The Book of Common Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1991
Praying Shapes Believing is both a contribution to ongoing scholarly dialogue about how to do liturgical theology and an exposition of the liturgical theology of the Episcopal Church, the church which more than any other church seeds its own identity in terms of its liturgy. This in-depth look at The...
Yearning
Authentic Transformation, Young Adults, and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Young adults (18-30) are searching for a Church that demands their best. Whether it is in mission, worship, theology or daily life, they want a Church that is relevant to them because it offers them a vision of the Holy and its transforming power. Examining trends in the larger church and society...
Ambassadors for God
Envisioning Reconciliation Rites for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In 2006, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church called upon the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to develop and revise Reconciliation Rites for the new century. Before the task of drafting liturgical materials for new rites begins, the Commission felt it would be helpful to gather...
Speaking to the Soul
Daily Readings for the Christian Year
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The flourishing website known as the Episcopal Café (www.episcopalcafe.org) produced by the Diocese of Washington attracts several thousand visitors a day. Its popular column “Speaking to the Soul,” which contains a concise, well-developed spiritual reflection for every day of the year, draws...
Backpacking Through the Anglican Communion
A Search for Unity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
• A fresh first-hand take on the Anglican Communion • Of special interest to younger Episcopalians/Anglicans Travel with Jesse Zink as he literally walks us through many of church’s most representative provinces—Nigeria, front line of opposition to the American church; South Sudan, leading...
by The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, Office of the General Convention of The Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Fresh new material for a daily prayer discipline Authorized for use by the General Convention of the Episcopal Church Available in English and Spanish (separate volumes) People in all kinds of religious traditions, including Judaism and Christianity, have been marking time with prayer for almost as...
Longing for Home
Daily Reflections for Lent
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This Lent, join the many biblical characters who wrestle with a longing for home. These devotions—one for each of the 40 days in Lent, plus Sundays—include a Bible verse, a reflection, a prayer, questions to ponder, and suggested hymns, all exploring aspects of the theme of displacement; a study guide follows.
Community Rules
An Episcopal Manual
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
• Practical guide to church community life Taking the approach of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules, Community Rules seeks to distill the basics of “good church” into a set of memorable rules. Working with three sections, the authors draw on their years of combined experience in academic and church...
Cohabiting Couples and Cold Feet
A Practical Marriage-Preparation Guide for Clergy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Clergy today are faced with a profound shift in American attitudes about marriage that affects the role they play with each couple. Our society at large today has strikingly different attitudes from those of just fifty years ago. Couples today are more likely to have cohabited before marriage, more likely...
What We Shall Become
The Future and Structure of the Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
• Edited by a well-known Episcopal leader • Designed to facilitate the church’s dialogue on structure • Presents viewpoints representative of the diversity of the church Structure—throughout the denomination and within local parishes—is the hot-topic conversation of the day. How do we...