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Saints, Signs, and Symbols: The Symbolic Language of Christian Art מאת Hilarie Cornwell 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 resour...

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An American Prayer Book מאת Christopher L Webber

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Good Influence: Teaching the Wisdom of Adulthood מאת Daniel R. Heischman Young people desperately seek to develop an inner core that will not only rescue them in times of distress, but also help them to define and shape moral convictions, passions, and interests in building a better world. To find this inner coherence, they turn to their parents and teachers -- the adu...

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Conversations With Scripture: The Gospel of Luke (Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars) מאת Frederick W. Schmidt 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. Spe...

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Together and Apart: A Memoir of the Religious Life מאת O.S.H. Ellen Stephen In an easy, conversational style, the author, a nun for over forty years, gives readers the facts and fictions of the monastic life: how the choice is made; what lies behind the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience; the nuts and bolts of monastic calling; what monks and nuns do all day; how they...

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Grace on the Go: Powerful Prayers to Ease Money Worries (Grace on the Go Series) מאת Barbara Bartocci 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...

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St. Benedict's Toolbox: The Nuts And Bolts Of Everyday Benedictine Living מאת Jane Tomaine 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 of...

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Connected: You and God in the Psalms מאת Peter Wallace Sometimes it s hard for people to reconcile their lives in this chaotic, energized, nonsensical world with their faith in God. They want to know what s really true, what they can count on, what they can build their futures on. They want their lives to matter. And yet to them the Bible often seems me...

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Days of Grace: Meditation and Practices for Living With Illness מאת Mary C. Earle 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 livin...

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Light to the Darkness: Lessons and Carols, Public and Private מאת Katerina Katsarka Whitley Light to the Darkness is a fresh interpretation of the well-loved Advent tradition of Lessons and Carols. Replacing the usual scriptural readings from the Old and New Testaments are first-person dramatic monologues based on these and other passages of scripture. Special emphasis is given to the r...

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What Size Are God's Shoes: Kids, Chaos, and the Spiritual Life מאת Tim Schenck "It's hard to have a God complex when your kids expect you to play garbage truck every night. This is the game where I lie on the floor as the boys stuff trucks, action figures, and plastic dinosaurs into my shirt. When the garbage truck is full to the point of overflowing, I go to the town dump by ...

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Windows into the Light: A Lenten Journey of Stories and Art מאת Michael Sullivan Building on the interest generated by Sullivan s previous art and spirituality title, Windows into the Soul, this book focuses on the journey from darkness to light inherent in Lent. By using an easily accessible liturgical format, the book provides a pathway for those who walk from Ash Wednesday to...

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Songs in Waiting: Spiritual Reflections on Christ's Birth מאת Paul-Gordon Chandler There remains a constant need for new perspectives on the liturgical church seasons in order to keep them spiritually fresh and to bring them to life in new ways. This book will enable Christian readers to experience a new depth in their faith journey as they celebrate the season of Advent. This ...

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The Holy Island of Lindisfarne מאת David Adam David Adam has been captivated by the beauty, wonder and holiness of Lindisfarne since first glimpsing its fairytale castle from the train as a young boy. In this absorbing volume, he shows the island's human face, revealing how Lindisfarne and its people have responded to trial, tribulation and tri...

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A Wing and a Prayer: A Message of Faith and Hope מאת Katharine Jefferts Schori Katharine Jefferts Schori is a bishop on the move--she pilots her plane to remote parishes around the sprawling diocese of Nevada and shares her passionate message of reconciliation and peace. As the first female primate in the 500-year history of Anglicanism, she'll have the opportunity to ...

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From Holidays to Holy Days: A Benedictine Walk Through Advent מאת O.S.B. Albert Holtz

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Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement מאת Rowan Williams In his remarks upon being named Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams spoke of "the Christian creed and Christian vision (that) have in them a life and a richness that can embrace and transfigure all the complexities of human life." Confidence in that creed, he said, "saves us from being led by f...

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God With Skin On: Finding God's Love in Human Relationships מאת Anne Robertson Jesus responds to the question about the greatest commandment with two Old Testament commandments.The first, known to Jews as the Shema, says that we should love God with all our heart, all our soul, and all our strength. The second, to love our neighbor as ourselves. They are parallel commands and,...

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Hound of Heaven מאת Francis Thompson Hound of Heaven....

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Across the Threshold, into the Questions: Discovering Jesus, Finding Self מאת Ted Voorhees This resource offers new encounters with Jesus and his parables and teachings from the Gospel stories in Mark, Matthew, and Luke. This volume will continue to build the strong foundation needed for another volume that uses Goldman and Dols method to explore the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas....

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The Word Made Fresh: Communicating Church and Faith Today מאת Meredith Gould 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 t...

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The First to Follow: The Apostles of Jesus מאת John R. Claypool One of the first things that Jesus did in his ministry was to reach out to twelve individuals and draw them into a circle of close companionship with him. This series is about those twelve apostles, their relationships with Jesus and with each other, and what the dynamics of that community can teach...

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Bead One, Pray Too: A Guide to Making and Using Prayer Beads מאת Kimberly Winston In stories and pictures, this book shows how people of all faith traditions use prayer beads as a spiritual tool and a means of expressing their creativity. Every major world religion has a tradition of praying with beads and all are explored here, including the history and use of beads and specific...

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A Gracious Rain: A Devotional Commentary on the Prayers of the Church Year מאת Richard H Schmidt Using the collects (opening prayers) for each Sunday and major feast day of the church year (including Christmas, Epiphany, and the days of Holy Week and Easter Week), the author offers a brief anecdotal meditation on the relationship of the prayer s and season s theme to the realities of life. ...

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Fabric of Faith: A Guide to the Prayer Quilt Ministry מאת Kimberly Winston For countless generations, patchwork quilts have been a visible act of love. Pieced together from bits and pieces of material, they represent the handiwork and devotion of the quilter – and a deep and comforting connection with the person they’re presented to. In the Prayers and Squares Mi...

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Living in Two Kingdoms מאת David Adam As a youngster,"" writes David Adam, ""I always wanted to know more. I liked to climb the next hill and look around the next corner. My mother said I wanted to see the 'back of beyond'. I was never quite sure what she meant but I was often aware of an otherness in the midst of what was plainly in vi...

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Grace's Window: Entering the Seasons of Prayer מאת Suzanne E. Guthrie In this popular book first published in 1996, Suzanne Guthrie teaches us about the seasons of prayer by letting us enter her own in these forty meditations that stretch from Advent through Pentecost. Pray as you are drawn to pray, she tells us, not as someone has told you how to pray. Against the la...

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My Faith, My Life: A Teen's Guide to the Episcopal Church מאת Jenifer Gamber If you listen closely enough to teenagers, you’ll hear their deep yearning to connect with God, and a powerful instinct to belong. And you’ll find out right away the one thing they really hate—being preached to. Here in My Faith, My Life, teenagers learn all about the Christian ...

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Introducing the Lessons of the Church Year מאת Frederick Borsch Many of us have difficulty hearing the Bible as it is read to us in church Sunday after Sunday through the year. Even with the best intentions we come to the Word of God "cold" because we have not been given the skills and the preparation to hear and understand the content of Scripture. These b...

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Prayer and Personal Religion מאת John B. Coburn The purpose of this volumme says John Coburn is to help you pray and grow in your personal religious life. It is a book about your inner life and your relationship with God. Although this relationship is unique for each person, there is a general way in which God deals with us and through which we r...

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Praying Our Days: A Guide and Companion מאת Frank T. Griswold This book is the first new devotional resource of its kind for Episcopalians in more than two generations. It includes devotions to mark the rhythm of the day (brief prayers at fixed hours); the mystery of time and the rhythm of the week, the months, and the Christian year; self-examination and prep...

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A Brush With God: An Icon Workbook מאת Peter Pearson For more than a thousand years, Eastern Christians have used their hands and hearts to create icons, proclaiming God's reality in a visible-and breathtakingly beautiful-way. This ancient art is enjoying a renewed interest in the West, as people of faith create icons and use them to meditate on myst...

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Beauty Awakening Belief: How the Medieval Worldview Inspires Faith Today מאת Jon M. Sweeney In the spring of 2008, Jon Sweeney set out to discover firsthand two of the finest examples of medieval faith, the Abbey of Mont St. Michel, on the Normandy coast, and the soaring Chartres Cathedral, in the fields of the Loire Valley one hour south of Paris. Stepping beyond the purely intellectual, ...

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Your Faith, Your Life: An Invitation to the Episcopal Church מאת Jenifer Gamber An everything-you-need-to-know guide for newcomers to engage deeply in the Christian life in the tradition of the Episcopal Church, written in an accessible, conversational style. This book will carefully present the Episcopal Church's language of worship theology church structure and sacraments...

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Another Brush With God: Further Conversations About Icons מאת Peter Pearson This is the sequel to the author's previous work, A Brush with God, for advanced beginners, intermediate, and advanced iconographers. It presents greater detail and instructions for creating entirely new icons. One major feature of the new book is the full-page sketches that artists can photo...

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Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living מאת John McQuiston II The Rule has the power to shape lives in quiet ways when the reader--with the help of St. Bene-dict's timeless wisdom--incorporates time for work, friendship, growth of the mind and nurturing of the spirit through meditation and prayerfulness....

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Mailbox Ministry: Greeting Cards That Share the Faith מאת Sue Banker Mailbox Ministry provides all the tools for religious card-making: projects, patterns, step-by-step instructions, and inspirational messages (including biblical verses, poems, and inspirational phrases) for all occasions and audiences, adults as well as children. It includes stories and tips for sta...

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All Desires Known מאת Janet Morley A classic and indispensable resource for public worship and private devotion that speaks to people across a range of traditions—both within and beyond the church. This new edition introduces a fresh selection of material on themes of global justice, as well as a contemporary Eucharist and pr...

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The Book of Mary מאת Nicola Slee

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Gospel in the Global Village: Seeking God's Dream of Shalom מאת Katharine Jefferts Schori In the new book, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church explores the issues and challenges of faith in the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion, the wider Body of Christ, and the world at large. Arranged thematically with particular emphasis on the United Nations Millennium Development Goal...