Conversion has been an important issue for most of the universal religions - those usually associated with a founder, such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism - which have a mission to spread their message.
Guidance, advice, and ready-to-use sermons and services for the busy pastorWeddings and funerals are some of the most meaningful events in people's lives, and also some of the most challenging for the pastor to perform.
At a time when secularism is put forward as the answer to religious fundamentalism and violence, Secularisms offers a powerful, multivoiced critique of the narrative equating secularism with modernity, reason, freedom, peace, and progress.
All Our Children aims to create a moral imperative for congregations, faith leaders, and faith-based social justice groups to make advocating for quality public education for all an explicit part of their mission through partnerships with under-resourced public schools.
Bivocational: Returning to the Roots of Ministry offers one answer to the pressing question of the future of congregational life in the mainline Protestant Church.
Addresses "e;belonging before believing"e; and other new patterns for remaking congregationsAs we move beyond the "e;emergent"e; or "e;missional"e; church paradigm, pastors and other church leaders are discovering a new reality: people (especially younger generations) are coming to church not as believers, but to find a place to belong-with or without faith.
Put faith into action with this mission guide bookBuilding on the success of Call on Me: A Prayer Book for Young People, this book focuses on the themes and core values of youth ministries in the Episcopal Church.
Written from a post-Christendom/emergent worldview, this books was born of a singular question asked in hundreds of ways: "e;What do we do to be faithful in this changed and changing reality?
Almost everywhere throughout the greater church are unsustainable trends-endowments are being depleted, building maintenance deferred, congregations are aging and dwindling, and budgets are too far out-of-whack.
In this latest addition to the Spiritual Directors International Series, professional spiritual directors and those in formation programs learn to extend traditional forms of hospitality by living out its deeper meaning as they explore ways in which the spirit of hospitality enriches the spiritual direction experience.
Finding God in the diversity of races, cultures, and creeds that make up our neighborhoods and cities, our country and our world, is one of the most important tasks for people of faith today.
With the increased interest in the practice of spiritual direction, both from people feeling called to be spiritual directors, and from those seeking direction, this books addresses the need to train the supervisors of spiritual directors.
Popular homiletics professor Linda Clader has been helping her students become attentive to how the Holy Spirit is speaking to them, and eventually through them to the congregation.
A look at the ways that meals of various sorts can be more effectively integrated into parish activities, promoting theemergence of new gifts for ministry as well as increasing ourgratitude for Gods abundance and the works of justice andmercy that follow from our expressions of thanksgiving.
