He describes the life and work of five leaders in the Anglican Church in Canada and the Episcopal Church in the United States who came of age in the late nineteenth century and served their religious communities until the mid-twentieth century. As clergy and educators they hoped to root the faith of modern Anglicans/Episcopalians in past traditions to provide a compelling spiritual purpose and identity for the present and the future. Their attempts to articulate a historical basis for Anglican u...
Christ and Satan is the title of the last of four poems in the eleventh-century Junius XI manuscript of Anglo-Saxon poetry. This critical edition contains text, glossary, textual and explanatory notes, and an essay surveying former criticisms and setting forth the authors ideas on the poems principle of unity. Of particular value to students and scholars of Old English, Christ and Satan makes an important contribution to the understanding of this fine and interesting poem.
English Episcopal Acta (English Episcopal Acta, v. 20)
Archbishop Roger effectively led the clerical opposition to Thomas Becket of Canterbury. When Becket was martyred in 1170 Roger was naturally vilified by Becket's numerous biographers. Yet no full-scale account of the career of Roger himself has ever been written. This collection of his charters - introduced by a 'Life' - aims at least partially to fill this gap, and by showing how Roger administered his diocese, reveals another side of this enigmatic archbishop.
Gathered for God (Church's Teachings for a Changing World, #8)
by Jeffrey Lee and Dent Davidson
The new Church's Teachings series has been one of the most recognizable and useful sets of books in the Episcopal Church. With the launch of the Church's Teachings for a Changing World series, visionary Episcopal thinkers and leaders have teamed up to write a new set of books, grounded and thoughtful enough for seminarians and leaders, concise and accessible enough for newcomers, with a host of discussion resources that help readers to dig deep. What's really going on when Episcopalians gather f...
With the authorization of "I Will Bless You and You Will Be A Blessing," more Episcopal parishes will be preparing to be in conversation about same-sex blessings and issues of sexuality. This volume is designed to tell the stories of parishes and dioceses where the conversation has been held: what worked, what didn't work, how the conversation shaped and was shaped by those involved. Harris Thompsett pulls in a range of voices and resources, designed to aid those congregations now approaching th...
Listening Hearts
by Suzanne G. Farnham, Joseph P Gill, R Taylor McLean, and Susan M Ward
This 20th anniversary edition introduces the unique approach of Listening Hearts to the spiritual practice of discernment for a new generation. Written to make the often elusive and usally clergy-centered spiritual practice of discernment accessible to all people, Listening Hearts features simple reflections and exercises drawn from scripture and from Quaker and Ignatian traditions. The seminal work in the Listening Hearts Series, this book has been a beloved resource for tens of thousands of in...
Liturgical Music for the Revised Common Lectionary Year a
by Jr Carl P Daw
Torn from his parents as a small child in the 1870s, Stephen Mzamane is picked by the Anglican church to train at the Missionary College in Canterbury and then returned to southern Africa's Cape Colony to be a preacher. He is a brilliant success, but troubles stalk him: his unresolved relationship with his family and people, the condescension of church leaders towards their own native pastors, and That Woman-seen once in a photograph and never forgotten. And now he has to find his mother and tak...
When God is Silent (Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching)
by Barbara Brown Taylor
"Reading of God's silence in the Bible gives me courage to explore the practice of restraint in preaching-not as a deliberate withholding of God's word nor, I hope, as a rationale for my own reticence, but as a sober reaching for more reverence in the act of public speaking about God." In these 1997 Lyman Beecher Lectures in Preaching delivered at Yale Divinity School, Barbara Brown Taylor focuses on the task of those who preach and those who hear sermons in a world where people thirst for a wo...
First published in 1921, this handbook has sold over a million copies and has become the standard guide for churchwardens. An indispensable handbook for churchwardens, PCC members and clergy, it cuts a clear path through the complexities of modern legislation and explains the rules and extent of their responsibility as elected Church officers. This new edition has been fully updated to take into account several new developments including: * the Clergy discipline Measure 2003 * Disability discrim...
Explore how the Revised Common Lectionary enriches worshipHow does this contemporary lectionary nourish Christian faith and life? Further, why does the lectionary employ metaphor, the richest form of language, in the midst of the worshiping assembly? How do the biblical readings prepare worshippers for the church's mission? Well-known liturgist and author Gail Ramshaw opens up the logic and purpose of this widely used resource. The basics of Episcopal and Anglican worship in North America are ex...
A must have for every search Committee The Episcopal Clerical Directory is the biennial directory of all living clergy in good standing in the Episcopal Church-more than 18,000 deacons, priests, and bishops. It includes full biographical information and ministry history for each cleric.
How to Get to Heaven Without Going to Church
by Reverend William Aulenbach
Think of all the senses you use when you pick up a Bible. What do you see? What do you smell? What do you touch? Reading scripture attentively is more than a matter of sight. Most of us have been taught to think about God in visual terms, yet the very subject matter of scripture-our relationship with the fullness of God-makes irresistible demands upon all of our senses if we are to begin to understand anything about God. In these meditations on stories from the New Testament, Roger Ferlo shows...