Cowley Publications

This illustrated dictionary for the Episcopal Church is an essential reference to its terminology, worship, structure, and polity.Author: John N. WallPublisher: Cowley PublicationsPublication Date:...

A complete reference for anyone using the New Church's Teaching Series, this guide provides a brief overview of each book and contains suggestions for additional activities.Author: Linda...

Entering Lent can be imagined as entering the silence of a vast and empty desert that leads to an experience of alleluia. The Lenten meditations in this book lead us to our own interior desert...

Always Open explains the essentials of the Anglican approach to authority, the Bible, social and moral questions, dialogue with people of other faiths, and more.Author: Richard GilesPublisher: Cowley...

And God Spoke offers essential guidelines for everyone who wonders about the authority of the Bible, and who wants to read it with attentiveness and understanding.Author: Christopher BryanPublisher:...

Anglican Identities draws together studies and profiles that sympathetically explore approaches to scripture, tradition, and authority that are very different-yet at the same time distinctively...

At once informal and literate, these prayers are also deeply personal...Their eloquence comes from the personal struggle they contain-a struggle to believe, to keep going, a spiritual contest that is...

Pastor of a bilingual, multicultural church for more than a decade, Gary Commins knows that "diversity" is a spiritual exercise that can be as charged with anxiety as it is laced with hope. In...

With clarity, wisdom, and wit, Brian Taylor offers a fresh look at contemplative prayer as the pathway to genuine healing and spiritual transformation.Author: Brian C. TaylorPublisher: Cowley...

Succinct summations of what Jesus taught-Forgive yourself; Love everybody; Help the poor, and so on-provide the basis for this series of reflections on the transformative wisdom that inspired those...

Moorehead uses the witness of the scriptures, her wealth of experience in long years of ministry, and the wisdom of her own life of prayer to guide us in praying the ambiguity of living faithfully...

In this memoir, Mercadante tells her quest for religious identity, a real home, good work, and a one-faith family. Born to a mixed-religion family, she tries Catholicism, a WASP sorority, atheism,...

As Barbara Brown Taylor reminds us, the Israelites received the bread of angels-- manna--as they made their way through the wilderness. So too is God made known to us in the simple things that...

In these meditations on the lesser feasts and fasts of the church calendar Sam Portaro asks the question, What do these saints and commemorations have to say to Christians today?Author: Sam...

Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening is a complete guidebook for all who wish to know the practice of Centering Prayer.Author: Cynthia BourgeaultPublisher: Cowley PublicationsPublication Date: June...

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...

Church & Stage is a guide for people in churches who want to employ theater in ministry, and for theater people who want to create opportunities to work in churches.Author: Dean J. SealPublisher:...

David Urion, a pediatric neurologist, contemplates the miraculous healings in the Gospel of Mark as subversive political acts of power that restore the wholeness of the community. The kingdom of God...

This book is a hopeful and creative reflection on the positive aspects of conflict in our relationships and institutions, as demonstrated throughout scripture in the life and ministry of Jesus, the...

In his accompanying volume to Brightest and Best: A Companion to the Lesser Feasts and Fasts, Sam Portaro offers meditations for each of the weekdays for the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany,...

The author brings the insights of Benedict's Rule to the wisdom tradition. Desiring Life is the third book in her series on Benedictine spirituality for people living in the world today.Author:...

Discovering Girard is the first book to present Rene Girard's work in an accessible format. It explains and appraises Girard's mimetic theory, shows its impact on theology and other disciplines, and...

In this volume of The New Church s Teaching Series, Stephen Holmgren introduces us to the world of Anglican ethics and moral theology. He focuses on questions all people of faith must ask: How will I...

In this unique book about the major religious traditions of the world, a practitioner from each tradition-Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam-introduces the basics of his or her...

What does a big fish story like the Book of Jonah have to tell us about our relationship with God? Surprisingly, a great deal. In the story of the reluctant prophet we are invited to explore the...

In this second book in her series on Benedictine spirituality, Norvene Vest brings the insights of Benedict's Rule to the world of work.Author: Norvene VestPublisher: Cowley PublicationsPublication...

A thoughtful and provocative collection of sermons by a group of preachers from across the international church spectrum who have been moved to theological reflection on the art and work of U2...

Getting Involved With God: Rediscovering The Old TeamentAuthor: Ellen F. DavisPublisher: Cowley PublicationsPublication Date: Jan 25, 2001Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

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.Author: Thomas W. MannPublisher:...

In his newest book, O'Driscoll helps us find the presence of Christ in those places we would rather avoid: the sorrows, the heartbreaks, and the challenges of everyday living.Author: Herbert...