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In this personal healing retreat from Heather Khym, cohost of the popular Abiding Together podcast, you are invited to break through the barriers that prevent you from trusting and experiencing the deep love of Jesus and be transformed by the freedom that comes when we vulnerably bring our entire selves to the foot of the Cross.

Winner of a third-place award in the memoir category from the Catholic Media Association.

How could a girl born with a genetic defect - who later suffered brain damage leaving her blind, epileptic and physically handicapped, and who lived only eight years - change the world?

In Simple Ways to Pray, Emilie Griffin offers her readers an intimate and accessible introduction to the history and practice of prayer in the Catholic tradition.

Many Faces, One Church: Cultural Diversity and the American Catholic Experience both captures and facilitates a seismic shift in the who, what, where, when, why, and how of Catholic theology today.

Although Mary is a preeminent figure in Christianity and one of the most celebrated women in history, to many Christians she seems distant and unapproachable, a porcelain perfection of abstract motherhood that is irrelevant to their everyday existence.

This volume is a unique interpretation of what Martin Luther contributes to renewed appreciation of Biblical diversity.

This historical dictionary covers the major trends in the 20th century ecumenical movement until today.

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At times, a congregational transition looms so large in a sermon that it becomes the lens through which scripture is interpreted, the congregation is addressed, the preacher is heard, and God is experienced.

Describes the NET Groups program (an acronym for Nurturing Experience Theologically), which begins with experiences and leads people into biblical and theological reflection.

In this engaging study, the author compares Mary Oliver's poetry and traditional religious language and provides a fresh perspective from which to enjoy her work.

Margaret Bullitt-Jonas not only takes us to the foot of the cross of Jesus, she invites us to consider the breadth of Christ's healing, saving love for us, for those we love, and for the whole creation.

Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-Making Heresy seeks both to demonstrate the salience of "e;heresy"e; as a tool for analyzing instances of religious conflict far beyond the borders of traditional historical theology and to illuminate the apparent affinity for deification exhibited by some persecuted religious movements.

The third in Cowley's Cloister Book series, Sabbath Keeping is a collection of ten meditations, each exploring a different aspect of keeping the sabbath and ending with a prayer.

This singular reference explores religion and spirituality as a vital, though often misconstrued, lens for building better understanding of and empathy with clients.

Communication, Media, and Identity: A Christian Theory of Communication is the first comprehensive theoretical look at the nature of communication from a biblical Christian perspective.

Humans were created to bless one another, those they love and those they do not.

Winner of two 2025 CMA Book Awards from the Catholic Media Association: The Future of the Church (First Place), and Pastoral Ministry Catechetical (Third Place).

Called by Name is a 365-day devotional from WINE: Women In the New Evangelization designed to empower and equip you to draw near to Jesus and use your God-given gifts for the Church.

Christians of all denominations are looking today to the ancient discipline of a rule of life to strengthen their sense of living in Christ and participating in a wider community.

"e;The concept of jubilee has its roots,"e; notes Nancy Roth in her foreword, "e;in the idea of sabbath-a time of 're-creation, reordering, and release.

The Encyclopaedia of World Religions and Interfaith Dialogues is an initiative to deal with the subject of religion and interfaith dialogue in its totality.

After congregations have considered their history, added up all the statistics, and tried to be honest about their core values, the question still remains: "e;Who are we, really?

Every church is driven by its faith in God, and seeks to grow that faith by guiding its members toward fruitful ministry.

Bread of Angels contains twenty-nine sermons about God's providential care, as symbolized by the manna given to the Israelites as they made their way through the wilderness.

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It is difficult to find a surgeon like Enzo Piccinini.

Huge mountain ranges and vast uninhabited areas characterize the Mountain West.

Organizing his book according to the monastic hours of prayer, Chet Raymo examines the strength of scientific language to encounter the divine in the natural world.

In Speaking of Sin, Barbara Brown Taylor brings her fresh perspective to a cluster of words that often cause us discomfort: sin, damnation, repentance, penance, and salvation.

The late Pope John Paul II frequently invoked Dignitatis Humanae as one of the foundational documents of contemporary Church social teaching.

Though Walker Percy is best known as a novelist, he was first and foremost a philosopher.

This book provides a condensed but comprehensive up-to-date overview of spirituality and its application to health care.

This is an introductory guide to the ways Jesus is depicted in the New Testament.

This volume is a collection of essays by former students of Judith Berling based on her revolutionary interreligious pedagogy.

Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel argues that the Creedal doctrines of "e;the communion of saints"e; and the "e;holy Catholic Church"e; provided Victorian novelists-both Roman Catholic and Protestant-with a means of exploring religious forms of cosmopolitanism.

This book builds upon research on the role of Catholicism in creating and strengthening a global Irish identity, complementing existing scholarship by adding a 'Roman perspective'.

This book proposes another unique basis for the origins of religion from disturbances in brain function.

Traditionally, university students have gained access to world religions by reading primary texts.

This book analyses the most sung contemporary congregational songs (CCS) as a global music genre.

This book explores the Chinese Catholic Church as a whole as well as focusing on particular aspects of its activities, including diplomacy, politics, leadership, pilgrimage, youths, and non-Chinese Catholics in China.

 This volume presents an interdisciplinary and systematic review of Catholic Education Studies across Ireland and Britain.

This volume explores how Catholicism began and continues to open its doors to the wider world and to other confessions in embracing ecumenism, thanks to the vision and legacy of the Second Vatican Council.

This book discusses inner peace from an Islamic theological and spiritual perspective, the writings of Said Nursi, a twentieth century Muslim scholar.

Church historians have long known and appreciated Christianity's global history.

This practical manual is a step-by-step guide for pulpit nominating committees in the Presbyterian Church (U.

Published during the tenth anniversary of the Book of Common Worship (1993), The Companion to the Book of Common Worship is a practical guide, answering questions such as how do I use the Book of Common Worship to its fullest advantage?