Pronounce unfamiliar names with confidence by using this valuable resource. It provides currrently preferred and permissible pronunciations for 3,000-plus names, arranged alphabetically.

A Guide to Pronouncing Biblical Names

Reference

T. S. K. Scott-Craig

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Church Publishing

"This complete 1979 Book of Common Prayer includes a full-color, contemporary soft cover, and an easy-to-read table of contents. This edition includes 38 pages of additional material designed to help the reader understand more about The Episcopal Church, its worship, and its prayer book. Supplemental essays include ""What is the Book of Common Prayer?,"" ""Reading Scripture in Worship,"" ""How to Write a Collect,"" and an overview of the church year. 5.375x8.375. "

The 1979 Book of Common Prayer with Additional Resources

Religion & Spirituality

Church Publishing Incorporated

Christian Books & Bibles

What are we as Episcopalians? This concise booklet explores five main areas of Episcopal life: identity, authority, spirituality, temperament, and polity. A great introduction to the Episcopal way of thinking in readable prose for any newcomer or seeker in the Episcopal Church who may wonder what makes Episcopalians different than Roman Catholics or other protestants.

A People Called Episcopalians: A Brief Introduction to Our Way of Life (Revised Edition)

Westerhoff III, John H.

Pearson, Sharon Ely

Many couples come to an Episcopal Church seeking a place to hold their wedding ceremony because they love the setting in our beautiful churches. Many couples seek to be married in the Episcopal Church because their parents are members and/or it was the church of their childhood, but have lapsed in attendance. While marriage is a tradition for many rooted in the religious tradition, the church continues to be an agent of the state in performing the legal components. And some couples are deeply connected to their parish family and seek a marriage grounded in the rites of the church. Intended as an accessible resource, clergy can give the book to couples and use as a preparation tool in planning """"The Celebration and Blessing of a Marriage (wedding) in the Episcopal Church. This book will satisfy the request clergy often receive from individuals (as well as newcomers, unmarried parents, same gender couples, those seeking remarriage) who desire to be married, but don't know what is involved from an Episcopal perspective. It will include essays, an outline and explanation of the marriage service, and how couples can live out the promises they make to one another.

Preparing for a Wedding in the Episcopal Church

Haller, Tobias Stanislas

The life and ministry of a priest are two aspects of the same journey, and beloved author and priest Barbara Cathorne Crafton approaches this journey in four sections, envisioned as embracing a clerical life. The first, The Dream, contains the early years of discernment, training, and youthful ministry. The second, Desert, deals with the terrible obstacles (self-created or inflicted from outside), that may end a ministry or wound it deeply. The third, The Dance, is that period of time in which you know who you are and how you serve, and the flow of life and ministry is effectively graceful. The last, The Death, deals with the priest's physical decline and death. Crafton lays out this path with all of her usual warmth and humor, offering insights and a companion in the way, not just to priests but to all of us.

Called

Crafton, Barbara Cawthorne

- Authorized text, initiated with Phyllis Tickle's active involvement - Covers the full range of her life and work By the time of her death in 2015, Phyllis Tickle was one of the most beloved and respected figures in American religious life, and her writing offers a unique combination of the down-to-earth, deep spirituality, and scholarship. In this comprehensive new volume, Jon Sweeney, official biographer of Tickle's literary estate, explores every aspect of her life, a more than 50-year legacy of poetry; plays; literary, spiritual, and historical/theological work; and advocacy. Himself an author and editor in the religion field, Sweeney examines Tickle's personal and professional roots, from her family, long marriage, and life on The Farm in Lucy, Tennessee, to early academic career and move into book publishing, where her role as founding editor of the Religion Department at Publishers Weekly influenced the growth of spiritual writing and interfaith understanding during the 1990s. Sweeney also looks at pivotal relationships with John Shelby Spong, Marcus Borg, and Brian McLaren, as well as her great influence on the increasing number who adopted fixed-hour prayer, the Episcopal Church as a whole, and the Emerging Church, for which she served as historian, forecaster, and champion. A look at her early, passionate advocacy for the LGBT community, lecture circuit controversies, and projects left unfinished completes the picture.

Phyllis Tickle: A Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Sweeney, Jon M.

Community & Culture

Designing a Vacation Bible School program, as opposed to choosing one of the many off-the-shelf packages, is a labor of love. It considers the unique perspective of children and invests accordingly. Its a home-cooked meal compared to fast food. It sends a message to parents that a church values children enough to identify and meet their specific needs in their community at a particular moment in time. Well-designed VBS programs speak to children with respect, love, and patience, offering opportunity for authentic spiritual growth, not to mention an intentional theology that is reflective of the church. Finally, custom-designed VBS programs are a way to fully include children in the mission and ministry of the church rather than confine their unique gifts. This book provides Christian educators with the tools they need to assess the needs and resources in their congregation, and to craft a creative program in response to that assessment. The Best VBS Workbook Ever offers direction and suggestions on theme, structure, logistics, program, activities, staffing and promotion.

The Best VBS Workbook Ever!

Brown, Lisa

Many congregations, schools, and organizations are reaching out into their neighborhoods to share Gods story of abundance by establishing community gardens, beehive colonies, and other agricultural initiatives. They are creatively using their land and property; providing training, inspiration, and cross-cultural experiences for all ages; while at the same time feeding the hungry and building community relationships. Too often food banks only take non-perishables loaded with preservatives and sodium. Church entities involved in agricultural ministries are able to provide healthy food from their gardens to feeding programs, food pantries, and others in need. This book tells the tale of 25 such communities in story and image. An inspiration for others to develop such projects, food and faith can go hand-in-hand as we get our hands dirty while learning more about what Genesis 2 describes as God planted a garden. Gardening can be seen on the rooftop of a church in the city, beehives in the midst of a seminary, or a local community garden alongside the churchs parking lot. Discover where this movement is alive and growing, and find ideas for starting your own food and faith initiative in your own backyard, roof, or front porch.

Harvesting Abundance: Local Initiatives of Food and Faith

Sellers-Petersen, Brian

- Background on spiritual practices for Episcopalians - Noted spiritual director shares wisdom from Anglican tradition With its great heritage from English mystics, the Episcopal Church has been "spiritual" since before it was trendy, and modern Episcopalians have been in the forefront of exploring practices beyond Anglican boundaries. Yet, perhaps only rarely do they grasp the implications of the theology embedded in these practices or in the liturgies of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, which has shaped Episcopalians in this country with its emphasis on baptismal spirituality and the centrality of the Eucharist. Julia Gatta wants to change that with her new book, Life in Christ. Applying her years of experience as pastor and spiritual director combined with her study of the spiritual wisdom of the past, she explores common Christian practices and their underlying theology through an Episcopal lens. In the tradition of Esther de Waal, Martin Smith, and Martin Thornton, with particular reference to scripture, The Book of Common Prayer, and the wisdom of the Christian spiritual tradition, she illuminates methods readers may already be practicing and provides insight and guidance to ones that may be new to them.

Life in Christ: Practicing Christian Spirituality

Gatta, Julia

What if you reframed a cancer diagnosis as an invitation to enjoy your life more intensely than ever before? What if chemotherapy were a time to broaden your mind and expand your heart, making deeper connections with family and friends and new connections with everyone else you encountered? Chemo Pilgrim recounts such a journey, as the author balances six rounds of chemotherapy with trips to different monasteries or holy sites. The reader is invited along, into the quiet zendo of a Buddhist temple, the consulting rooms of a university hospital, the deep, mysterious sensuality of an Orthodox monastery, and more. Meanwhile, the cancer takes on a life and a timeline all its own, as unpredictable as the pilgrimages. Each section of this journey builds on the ones before, but does not prepare us for what comes next. In Chemo Pilgrim, Cricket Cooper wrestles both with her own faith as an Episcopal priest and with her budding study of mindfulness, to find a way through cancer and chemotherapy that can keep her open on the journey, and alive to her own life.

Chemo Pilgrim: An 18-Week Journey of Healing and Holiness

Humor & Entertainment

Cooper, Cricket

Humor

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