Connect with God, memories, and your deepest self through the simple stuff of life. In this indelible work of spiritual formation, Episcopal priest and author Laurie M. Brock invites readers to contemplate ordinary things. How might the sacred astonish us by showing up in everyday items? Rocks. Cast iron skillets. Portraits. Calendars. Shoes. ......
Weber demonstrates conclusively that despite historical critiques of quietism, European Lutherans developed a social ethics in the centuries following the Reformation that brought about fundamental systemic and structural changes in social services, law, education, health care, the formation of states and nations, and public morality. Those ......
From the Pauline Mission to the End of the Fifth Century
In A History of Christian Psalmody, Charles H. Cosgrove traces the history of Christian psalm-singing during the church's first five centuries. It describes the nature and development of psalmody in a wide range of settings, including personal and domestic devotion, daily cathedral rituals, annual feasts such as Christmas and Easter, the ascetic ......
From the author and illustrator of The Memory Box, the best-selling children's book about grief, comes a new picture book to help and comfort families celebrating their first holiday season after the loss of a loved one. Grief is challenging for children and families any time of year, but during Christmas or other family-focused holidays, the ......
In this book, Randazzo develops new language to "translate" Quaker theological concepts which are rooted in the foundation of the tradition. Quaker theology has, since its beginnings, relied heavily on metaphors of Divine/human interdependence, and particularly creation metaphors related to the foundational concept of all Quaker theology: "that of ......
The so-called "rural-urban divide" in the United States has, by many accounts, become increasingly wide and deep. Most attempts, however sincere, to find ways to heal, bridge, or otherwise help rural and urban Americans understand their interdependence fail to account for the deep--and disparate--symbolic layers that suffuse these landscapes. ......
How to Feel Less Frantic and More Festive During the Holidays
Stop forcing holiday cheer and start embracing the season in a way that truly resonates with you. Discover simple, daily strategies for cultivating peace, balance, and genuine joy as you navigate the holidays with grace. Merry and bright? Yeah, right. During the holidays, many of us are anything but cheerful. Thanksgiving, Diwali, Christmas, ......
Addressing climate change in ways that build capacity, equity, and compassion among people may be the great moral-spiritual challenge of our time in history. This slim volume is an invitation to face that challenge with hope and in companionship with people worldwide. In this latest addition to the Building a Moral Economy series, Reverends Malcom ......
In a world obsessed with efficiency and results, where even spiritual practices are often treated as skills to be mastered, Wesley Ellis invites readers into a transformative reimagining of prayer. Abiding in Amen challenges the prevailing assumption that prayer is something to be achieved, offering instead a vision of prayer as a gift to be ......
