An indispensable guide to the spiritual and the practical aspects of devoting one’s time and energies to the service of others. Deliberate Acts of Kindness is for people who are ready to supplement"random acts of kindness" with intentional acts of generosity, decency, and integrity. More than simply a handbook for volunteers, it explores the significance of service as an expression of spirituality and the commitment to something greater than oneself. Meredith Gould guides readers through their journeys, from recognizing when they are ready to answer the call to service to finding the right place to donate their time and talents. She offers invaluable advice on discovering the types of work that best suit their personalities and the areas in which they can make the greatest contributions. There is helpful information on how to get involved, as well as sensible suggestions about what to do when things go wrong in a service situation. An easy-to-read mix of tips, quotations, reflections, and short narrative passages, Deliberate Acts of Kindness presents a comprehensive, honest look at what service is like on a day-to-day basis. Its insights will help new volunteers and veterans alike negotiate the practical difficulties that sometimes arise and achieve the spiritual maturity that comes from answering the call to service.

Deliberate Acts of Kindness: Service as a Spiritual Practice

Gould, Meredith

Religion & Spirituality

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A practical, inspiring guide to Catholic observances and celebrations for the home. For centuries, the Catholic Church has offered an abundance of splendid traditions that extend religious and spiritual practice into daily life. Now, Meredith Gould reintroduces these customs and rituals to modern Roman Catholics. Using the liturgical calendar, The Catholic Home provides familiar and new ways to celebrate each season and its special days. Gould reviews major holy days, select saints’ days, familiar prayers, and suggests meaningful ways to prepare as a family for such sacraments as Baptism, Confirmation, First Eucharist, and Matrimony. This book includes a concise history of each ritual and clarifies the meaning behind it by highlighting celebrations of Catholic holidays from different parts of the globe. Your family will learn to make Advent wreaths, Jesse trees, St. Lucy’s crowns, King’s cakes, All Souls altars, traditional foods, and participate in family devotions. Throughout The Catholic Home, Gould’s down-to-earth practicality and sense of humor give the activities she describes modern relevance no matter how ancient their origins. Excerpts from the official Catechism of the Catholic Church are included to illuminate Church doctrine on matters of faith and ritual. This indispensable guide will appeal to Catholics young and old and inspire beloved family traditions to be handed down from one generation to the next.

The Catholic Home: Celebrations and Traditions for Holidays, Feast Days, and Every Day

Christian Books & Bibles

DOUBLEDAY

For centuries, the Catholic Church has offered an abundance of splendid traditions that extend religious and spiritual practice into daily life. Now, Meredith Gould reintroduces these customs and rituals to modern Roman Catholics. Using the liturgical calendar, The Catholic Home provides familiar and new ways to celebrate each season and its special days. Gould reviews major holy days, select saints’ days, familiar prayers, and suggests meaningful ways to prepare as a family for such sacraments as Baptism, Confirmation, First Eucharist, and Matrimony. This book includes a concise history of each ritual and clarifies the meaning behind it by highlighting celebrations of Catholic holidays from different parts of the globe. Your family will learn to make Advent wreaths, Jesse trees, St. Lucy’s crowns, King’s cakes, All Souls altars, traditional foods, and participate in family devotions. Throughout The Catholic Home, Gould’s down-to-earth practicality and sense of humor give the activities she describes modern relevance no matter how ancient their origins. Excerpts from the official Catechism of the Catholic Church are included to illuminate Church doctrine on matters of faith and ritual. This indispensable guide will appeal to Catholics young and old and inspire beloved family traditions to be handed down from one generation to the next.

Deliberate Acts of Kindness: Service As a Spiritual Practice

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Thorndike Pr

Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, and a growing number of other social media tools can help you build church, deepen faith, and extend your reach in previously unimaginable ways. In this easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide to digital ministry, church communications professional Meredith Gould goes beyond “how to” and explains “why to” engage your parish in the world of social media.Social media tools make it possible to share conversations and content with the long-time faithful, disaffected millennials, the homebound, and spiritual seekers within and beyond church-the-building.Inspired by the Gospel and centered on Christ, The Social Media Gospel gently guides you and your church leaders and volunteers through the rapidly changing world of social media, helping you preach the Good News in new ways.

The Social Media Gospel: Sharing the Good News in New Ways

Liturgical Press

Transcending Generations is a guide for church leaders seeking to communicate and collaborate with adults of all ages—beyond generations. In this new guide to being and doing church, sociologist and culture critic Meredith Gould focuses on issues shared by people of faith, regardless of chronological age, psychosocial development, or generational cohort.
In short, easy-to-read chapters and with her characteristic wit, Gould challenges readers to think in more nuanced ways about age to remove false barriers. Readers are guided through practical ways to move forward together while honoring authentic differences. Includes questions for individual inquiry and group discussion.

Transcending Generations: A Field Guide to Collaboration in Parishes

If you are responsible for managing digital communications in your parish, staying current with trends in the rapidly changing world of social media can seem like an overwhelming task. Which social medium platforms make sense for your church community? How can you make them an effective tool for ministry? As a veteran social media expert, author, and sociologist, Meredith Gould has helped answer these questions and more in her best-selling book The Social Media Gospel. In this second edition, Gould provides an easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide to digital ministry for those wishing to embrace new technologies to build community and deepen faith. In this expanded edition, Gould delivers new content with humor, helpful tips, and counsel anchored in practical experience. She focuses on key topics for effective church communication, including: • Building and ministering to online communities • Privacy and self-disclosure in the digital age • Integrating communications across digital platforms • Managing and monitoring social media • Faith storytelling with visual social media • Hashtag development and live-tweeting

The Social Media Gospel: Sharing the Good News in New Ways, Second Edition

In Desperately Seeking Spirituality, sacred spelunker and sociologist Meredith Gould, combines practical wisdom with lived experience to explain why and when traditional practices don’t work for today’s seeker and then how to choose ones that will. In short, easy-to-read chapters and with characteristic wit, Gould provides counsel for reframing perception to discover the sacred in everyday life. This guide is for self-identified seekers who have tried some, many, or even all the classic spiritual practices and then, given up on them when they stop working. In Desperately Seeking Spirituality, Gould invites readers to embrace a broader definition of practice that shifts focus from doing to being.

Desperately Seeking Spirituality: A Field Guide to Practice

COME TO THE TABLE: A PASSOVER SEDER FOR PARISH USE invites faithful, curious Christians to appreciate the Last Supper as a Last Seder for Jesus and his disciples. Since 2005, COME TO THE TABLE has been used successfully by parishes throughout the United States. Now, in response to enthusiastic requests, it has been revised to help any congregation called to celebrate the Lord's Supper in his tradition. Includes: * Historical and Biblical details about Passover with citations to scripture. * The meaning of Passover symbols and their significance relative to Eucharist/Holy Communion. * A traditional seder liturgy adapted for Christian use. * Hebrew prayers in English. * Easy-to-follow instructions for preparing the Passover meal and conducting a seder for small and large groups.

Come to the Table: A Passover Seder for Parish Use

Plowshares Publishing

Written for the marketer in the field using everyday language, examples, and case studies that will help all members of a hospital marketing department do their jobs better while spending marketing dollars wisely. The Thought Leaders Project: Hospital Marketing, is co-written by a team of marketing thought leaders in the healthcare industry. The book is a compilation of healthcare marketing insights, tips, and best practices written by leading healthcare marketers. The book itself covers a variety of topics such as the application of digital marketing strategies to patient acquisition, patient experience, patient retention, and service line marketing. With articles from the likes of Lee Aase, Chris Boyer, Dan Dunlop we are empowered with the tools and inspired to take action to impact the very lives of the patients we serve.

The Thought Leaders Project : Hospital Marketing

Bierbaum, Brian James

Aase, Lee

Armstrong, Kathryn

Boyer, Chris

Bunker, Randy

Dunlop, Dan

DeTora, Gabrielle

Haney, Tyler

Gothard, Ann Marie

Marketing & Sales

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Deliberate Acts of Kindness: Service as a Spiritual Practice

The Catholic Home: Celebrations and Traditions for Holidays, Feast Days, and Every Day

The Catholic Home: Celebrations and Traditions for Holidays, Feast Days, and Every Day

Deliberate Acts of Kindness: Service As a Spiritual Practice

The Social Media Gospel: Sharing the Good News in New Ways

Transcending Generations: A Field Guide to Collaboration in Parishes

The Social Media Gospel: Sharing the Good News in New Ways, Second Edition

Desperately Seeking Spirituality: A Field Guide to Practice

Come to the Table: A Passover Seder for Parish Use

The Thought Leaders Project : Hospital Marketing