Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
The next generation of the classic Episcopal teaching series.
Accessible and engaging enough for newcomers and adult learners, but full of content for church leaders and seminarians.
Filled with interactive study questions and accompanied by online materials.
The new Church's Teachings series has been one of the most recognizable and useful sets of books in the Episcopal Church. With the launch of the Church's Teachings for a Changing World series,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Becca Stevens, best-selling author, high-profile social activist and one of the premiere preachers in the U.S., extolls the power of love in this new collection of essays intended for everyone from church leaders to seekers.
"Love is my grounding," says Becca Stevens. "It provides the axioms that inform and govern what I do. First is that love is the most powerful source for social change in the world. Second is that love heals. I'm not called to...
Author
Language
English
Description
• Of particular interest to scholars and practitioners across the Anglican Communion with contributions from a wide breadth of scholars
Liturgical Spirituality is a collection of Anglican reflections on the spirituality of the liturgy, inviting readers into the Church's patterns of prayer, seasons of the year, and sacramental action. With contributions from all over the world, from the North Atlantic to Australia, the collection helps develop a...
Author
Language
English
Description
Parents (or any adult seeker) who are not active or do not have any knowledge of the Episcopal Church often return to a church to have their child baptized. Many adults who never had a relationship with a faith community often seek baptism when they join a congregation for the first time. As our society becomes more secular, those who enter our churches are neophytes in more ways than in previous generations.
This is an accessible resource that...
Author
Language
English
Description
• 2nd installment in the "Celebrating" series: an overview of liturgical theology and praxis
• Written by a well-known liturgical scholar
• Includes history, theology, and practical information
Celebrating Liturgical Time continues the standard of scholarship set by Patrick Malloy's Celebrating the Eucharist. It is ideal for students, clergy, and church members who seek to strengthen their knowledge-and parochial practice-of liturgical timekeeping...
Author
Language
English
Description
The dinner table may be the only time that today's busy families sit down together - and pray together. This book meets families where they are, offering prayers of thanks for macaroni and cheese, fast-food meals, and, yes, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Includes rhyming prayers for little kids, dinner-table prayers for special family occasions, and prayers marking the movement of the church year.
Author
Language
English
Description
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 individuals and groups
Many clergy and educators would say that the rite of confirmation in the Episcopal Church today is a sacrament in search of a meaning. Some...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Episcopal Church's rituals and foibles, character and characters, beauty and liturgy - seventeen syllables at a time. Stand, sit, kneel, stand, kneel:?It's quite a good workout for a Sunday morning. Blessing animals is a joyous day at church. Who has ugly pets? - and many more! Episcopal Haiku will delight Episcopalians with its humor and universally recognizable situations.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the resources of five other volumes in the series, "Transforming Vestries" creates a single source designed specifically for this governing body. The chapters will highlight the nature - and the needs - of vestry membership: stewardship, leadership, evangelism, discipleship, and vital congregational life.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Prepared by the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music and adopted by the 73rd General Convention, this new set of materials was adapted from sources in scripture; a variety of contemporary prayer books throughout the Anglican Communion; traditional materials from Orthodox and medieval western sources; and hymnody of various American cultures. Newly written texts and some texts from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer which have been revised are also...
Author
Language
English
Description
Pilgrim is a teaching and discipleship resource that helps inquirers and new Christians explore what it means to travel through life with Christ. A Christian course for the twenty-first century, Pilgrim offers an approach of participation, not persuasion. Following the practice of the ancient disciplines of biblical reflection and prayer with quotes from the Christian tradition throughout the ages, Pilgrim assumes little or no knowledge of the Christian...
Author
Language
English
Description
• Inspiration from a respected ground-breaker
• A role model tells her story-and that of the nation and the church
Hallelujah, Anyhow! is the long-awaited memoir of the Rt. Rev. Barbara Harris, the first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion. Edited by Kelly Brown Douglas, Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Seminary and an author and noted theologian in her own right, the book offers previously untold stories and glimpses into Bishop...
Author
Language
English
Description
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. This is the first book of the three-book series (Years A, B, and C)
• Includes selections from The Hymnal 1982, Lift Every Voice and Sing, Wonder,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
These newly authorized rites are intended to be a supplement to the burial services in the Book of Common Prayer, adding a rich variety of new material from many sources, including prayers for one who has died in military service, for one of unknown faith, for an unbeliever, and for a member of an inter-faith family. All of the major pastoral issues of the Prayer Book rites are addressed from the reception of the body to the consecration of the grave...
Author
Language
English
Description
As defined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.
The African spiritual principle of Ubuntu offers believers a new and radical...
Author
Language
Español
Description
UN libro popular en su versión en inglés traducido al español para el gran número de episcopale hispanohablantes.
Ideal para nuevos miembros a la iglesia, clases de confirmación, grupos de estudio, y para episcopales de cuna.
Este libro será bien recibido por personas recién llegadas a la Iglesia así como personas episcopales de por vida quienes a lo mejor han olvidado por qué aman a su Iglesia. El Reverendísimo Andy Doyle ha estudiado...
Author
Language
English
Description
Modeled on Michael Pollan's Food Rules: An Eater's Manual, this book seeks to introduce both faith and the Episcopal Church to the seeker with a deft touch through a series of extended one-page epigrams. Taken together, the eight sections comprise a sage and accessible introduction to Christian faith, the Episcopal Church, and how to find a place where the normal experiences of life are best understood as disclosures of the divine. Faith Rules is...
Author
Language
English
Description
How can our patterns of congregational life and mission renew themselves and adjust to changing culture without selling out what Episcopalians stand for? How can local faith communities stay resilient and hopeful? What styles and practices of spirituality do most to enrich our mission?
These are some of the questions James Lemler poses in this book on mission for clergy and congregational discussion. As with evangelism, there is both good and bad...
Author
Language
English
Description
• Focuses on healing and reconciliation for congregations that have experienced physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and financial misconduct or betrayal by a leader.
• Explores the unintended consequences of "moving on" after misconduct without fully going through a process toward healing.
• Includes charts, checklists, and outlines to aid in the process of congregational healing.
In the wake of misconduct by trusted clergy and lay leaders,...
In Inter-Library Loan Service
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Pasco County Library System can be requested from other Inter-Library Loan Service libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try submitting a Purchase Suggestion. Submit Purchase Suggestion