Prayers and liturgical material

This is one pastor's story of the touch of death on life: how he first learned of it and what it brings upon us, how he met its coming to those he served as pastor, and how he awaits its coming to him as he ages.

Have you ever felt that the tools and techniques you mastered in preaching class are failing you?

Spirit, Symbols, and Change is more than a "e;how to"e; manual--it is a celebration of how to relate to people with a vastly different culture, language, and set of values.

Many are searching for a deeper spiritual life.

Religion in American Today describes how sacred powers and secular religions have overtaken and infiltrated Christianity.

The state of public discourse in America is dismal, reflecting an extreme us-versus-them tribalism where "e;me and my folks"e; have the full truth about the contentious issue at hand and "e;those other folks"e; are devoid of any truth and can even be demonized as evil.

A grave danger lurks behind the seemingly friendly term of social justice.

A selection of sermons or homilies preached over a fifty-year period explicitly linked to the church's liturgical year--thus, In Season.

The integration of theology and social vocation invites scholars and practitioners to reach outside their discipline and into relationship with others.

For all who know the security of home--in all its iterations--and for those who don't, finding home is complicated.

Six months into a deep personal crisis occasioned by the unexpected end of his marriage, Jamie Howison traveled halfway across the continent to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to engage in a unique and intense five-week contemplative retreat served in the context of the chapel community of the University of King's College.

In a suffering world reeling from global pandemics and health disparities, it is high time to think theologically about the devastating experience of disease, and to address our God-inspired responsibility to understand its origins and engage in its management.

Any Christian who lives in such a broken world may ask God what their role would be as the person who is reconciled with God, and about the implications of the vertical dimension of reconciliation.

No person simply desires to be a pilgrim.

Dave Andrews's latest book, To Right Every Wrong, is the last in the Dave Andrews Legacy Series.

Can the church celebrate the eucharist in "e;contagious times,"e; like the coronavirus pandemic, and if so, how?

The Prosperity movement has been rightly challenged on biblical, theological, and pastoral grounds and has been found to be lacking.

John Henry Newman's pulpit at St Mary's, Oxford, was a powerhouse of religious innovation and reinvigoration in English religion through the 1830s and 1840s.

When times of threat and uncertainty come, it can be challenging to know what to do or how to help.

This is a selection of writings on themes of trauma and transformation, hope and anguish, in a time of reckoning.

Evidence-based medicine has transformed contemporary medical practice.

This booklet has been written to foster the development of a program of mutual aid among Mennonites.

We are living in a rapidly changing culture.

Give Us This Day is a unique daily devotional commentary for the entire New Testament based on the ancient method called lectio divina.

Give Us This Day is a unique daily devotional commentary for the entire New Testament based on the ancient method called lectio divina.

Can anything good come out of suffering?

Preaching is a relational act.

When our communities are shaken by school shootings and natural disasters, ministry leaders are first on the scene to care for the people.

In the study of Christian liturgical music, the first three centuries of the Christian era are foundational.

What is it that makes discipleship authentic?

This is a book of letters, letters to Julian of Norwich concerning her Revelations of Divine Love.

"e;I am alive forevermore"e; - Rev.

Divine is not one book, but three.

The Problem with the Dot is rooted in the idea that culture is a garden to be tended (Gen 2:15) rather than a war to be won and uses the analogy of an ecosystem to expand the details of the individual components of the theatrical ecosystem to:1.

The Ever Changing Sky: Meditations on the Psalms, a book of lay meditations on the Psalms composed in fits and starts over a thirteen-year period, is for anyone struggling with the challenges of leading an authentic life in what poet John Keats termed an "e;arena of soul making.

Contemporary questions about gender challenge our views of ourselves and the proverbial other.

"e;Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy!

This collection of Ron Sider's sermons and speeches delivered in his lifetime of global ministry capture the essence of his theology, ethics, and mission.

Give Us This Day is a unique daily devotional commentary for the entire New Testament based on the ancient method called lectio divina.

Give Us This Day is a unique daily devotional commentary for the entire New Testament based on the ancient method called lectio divina.

Silence--scary, inviting, or both?

English teachers Knol and Karsten have composed these moving reflections inspired by a wide range of writers, many of whom they have brought into their classrooms.

Many of us long to see God move mightily in response to our prayers.

This is a book of prayers, with reflections on the act of praying.

Different ethical situations require different homiletical responses.

This unique volume contributes a profound-autism perspective to the ongoing discussion of belonging in the church.

The common priesthood is one of the central concepts of Protestant ecclesiology--and yet it remains a marginal phenomenon in practical theological discourses.

This book develops an understanding of prayer from a liberation-theological perspective.

The twenty mysteries of the rosary are a circular "e;gallery,"e; a matrix of theology and spirituality.