Matters of Life and Deaths

Hatfield, Bob & Hatfield, Bruce

Reference

Woodlake

James Taylor lost his son Stephen after a long-term illness. In an attempt to work through his grief, James wrote letters to Stephen. Many of these touchingly human letters are reproduced in Letters to Stephen, interspersed with questions and thought-provoking discussions about different aspects of grief such as denial, dreams, and letting go.

Letters to Stephen: A Father's Journey of Grief and Recovery

Taylor, James

Self-Help

Well-known storyteller Ralph Milton is at it again: biblical characters come to life in his book, Is This Your Idea of A Good Time, God? This retelling of 23 biblical stories will move you to laughter and tears, and bring new insights into characters like Eve and Adam, Hagar, Jacob, Naaman, Peter, Pontius Pilate, and Mary of Magdala. Each story is prefaced with biblical and historical background. Use these stories as preaching materials, private meditations, or with Bible study groups. A guide is included at the back of the book for leading Bible studies for adults.

Is This Your Idea of a Good Time, God?: Discovering Yourself in Biblical Stories

Children's Books

MILTON,RALPH

Religions

A companion to the bestselling book by Marcus J. Borg, this 12-session experiential program will enable you to engage with the issues that lie at the heart of Christianity today. Delving into such topics as the Bible; God; Jesus; sin; and how to live in a multi-faith, pluralistic society, Experiencing the Heart of Christianity will guide you through these complicated issues, leaving you thought-full and inspired.The book includes a DVD with video clips of Marcus Borg and Tim Scorer, and beautiful fine art images of Jesus.

Experiencing the Heart of Christianity: A 12-Session Program for Groups

Religion & Spirituality

Scorer, Tim

Christian Books & Bibles

Knowing how to nurture faith in young people is a challenge, particularly when we want to encourage a faith that is generous, innovative, and contextual. Faith Forward gathers 21 presentations from the 2012 "Children, Youth, and a New Kind of Christianity" conference held in Washington, D.C., and makes them available for those in ministry with children and youth, pastors, parents, professors - anyone called to help young people on their journey of faith. Authors and attendees alike came from several countries and many denominational inflections. Likewise, the chapters express various contemporary takes on Christian faith and discipleship. This book is a gold mine of information and inspiration for those seeking to engage children and youth in respectful conversation, exploration, and learning in today's complex world. If you are seeking grassroots, forward-thinking, ecumenical, innovative, and collaborative ways to do children and youth ministry, then this book provides the material to move you in that direction.

Faith Forward: A Dialogue on Children, Youth, and A New Kind of Christianity

In Lenten Lent: A Way to Refresh & Renew Your Spirit, Donna Schaper, author of more than 30 books, engages the sometimes gritty, often chaotic and challenging realities of our lives. With great honesty and humanity, openness and hope, she offers readers a way through Lent inspired by the ecological metaphors of renewable and sustainable energy - a truly healing "ecology" for the spirit. Each of the 41 daily devotions - including one for Easter - feature a scripture reference, meditation, prayer, and action step. Lenten Lent also includes guidelines for study groups, making this a perfect resource for both individual and group use.

Lenten Lent: A Way to Refresh & Renew Your Spirit

Schaper, Donna

Preaching, at its best, emerges from the life of the community and its members. It is when we put our stories into conversation with the Biblical story that something new is created. Without that connection, preaching, no matter how well crafted, loses its relevance. ReImagine:Preaching in the Present Tense, explores the connection between life and preaching using actual examples of homilies that owe their very existence to the events and questions that swirl through the church community in the days before Sunday.

ReImagine: Preaching in the Present Tense

Whittall, Mark

Poetry is the stuff of a life well lived. Passion & Peace is a thoughtful collection of inspiring verse suitable, not only for personal reading, but also appropriate for private and public occasions, including family and social gatherings, public events, and special occasions such as weddings, births and baptisms, funerals, vigils, parties, and celebrations of all sorts. Includes 120 of the best poems ever written along with photos and biographies of the authors and brief overviews. Also includes a comprehensive index of occasions with suggested poems, and a directory of books for further reading and enjoyment. A welcome addition to any library and the perfect gift for any occasion.

Passion & Peace: The Poetry of Uplift for All Occasions

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

“The fact that you are not dead is not sufficient proof that you are alive!” So begins Tom Stella’s latest exploration into the life, death, and rebirth of the soul. In CPR for the Soul: Reviving a Sense of the Sacred, Stella shares the deep, eternal wisdom that knows the lines separating the sacred and the secular, time and eternity, humanity and divinity, are false. Or, at the very least, blurred. God, by whatever name, is found in the midst of everyday life, work, and relationships. All people, all creation, and all of life is holy ground. Divided into 12 sections, this collection of over 100 short reflections speaks to the countless people – young and old, male and female, churchgoers and church avoiders – for whom life’s demands and stress have caused them to lose touch with their soul, the “still point,” to use the words of Dag Hammarskjold, “surrounded by silence.” This book offers a revival for the soul, a reminder that “we are one with something vast” – a “something” that “is not a thing or a person, but a spiritual source and force at the heart of life.”

CPR for the Soul: Reviving a Sense of the Sacred in Everyday Life

"Between fish, my father and I, two men who are as comfortable with each other's voice as we are with each other's silences, talk about the purpose of things, and how everything fits into the overall design." This book is like no memoir you've ever read. Paul Rath writes with the soul of a poet, his prose alive with vibrant images and metaphors that capture the raw beauty and challenges of fishing for white fish in the frigid November air â "when the wind takes us into her cold mouth, and crunches us between her teeth. Her cold makes our eyes freeze â until they feel like stones, frozen in their sockets of mud ..." Yet this no mere fish story. As much as this book is about fishing, it is even more about relationships. Fishing with My Fathers explores the deep bonds that form between men of the earth, between men and the land and the water and the creatures that feed their spirits. Rath, the eldest son of a Lutheran pastor, pays homage to his father and tribute to the men who shaped and challenged him, even as he claimed his own space and place in their lineage. With wonderful humour and genuine sensitivity, he regales the reader with tales of his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, as well as of his mentors â of the men who taught him how to grow up, how to control his emotions, how to work, how to grow his spirit, how to love, as well as how to fish.

Fishing with My Fathers

Biographies & Memoirs

Rath, Paul D.

Memoirs

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