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EFM ALL YEARS PLUS WIDE ANGLE: COMMUNITY GATHERING REQUIRED TEXT: God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved

EFM ALL YEARS PLUS WIDE ANGLE: COMMUNITY GATHERING REQUIRED TEXT: God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved

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EFM ALL YEARS PLUS WID ANGLE: COMMUNITY GATHERING REQUIRED TEXT, 2025-2026 E-BOOK VERSION AVAILABLE ON OUR BOOKSHOP SITE. God's Joyful Surprise a book by Sue Monk Kidd - Bookshop.org US...
EFM CLASSIC YEAR 1 CORE TEXT #2: Bible Women: All the Words and Why They Matter: Expanded Second Edition

EFM CLASSIC YEAR 1 CORE TEXT #2: Bible Women: All the Words and Why They Matter: Expanded Second Edition

$25.00
EFM CLASSIC YEAR 1, CORE TEXT #2 for 2025-2026 Women of the Bible have been trapped in dry and dusty literary caskets for centuries--but no more. In a groundbreaking book,...
Mapping the Gospels

Mapping the Gospels

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The complete set of four Gospels: Mapping Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Each 'map' takes you on a reflective journey through a key episode of the Gospel with the help...
EFM CLASSIC YEAR 1 CORE TEXT #1: Introducing the Old Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey: OUT OF STOCK UNTIL LATE DECEMBER 2025

EFM CLASSIC YEAR 1 CORE TEXT #1: Introducing the Old Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey: OUT OF STOCK UNTIL LATE DECEMBER 2025

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EFM CLASSIC YEAR 1, CORE TEXT #1 FOR 2025-2026 "Packed with useful information. It deserves a place on every undergraduate religion major's shelf."--Christian CenturyThis lively, engaging introduction to the Old...
Jesus and the Disinherited

Jesus and the Disinherited

$16.00
Please note: This title is a reading text for the Sacred Ground program and is a 2024-2025 Education for Ministry (EfM) interlude reading text. First published in 1949, "Jesus and...
Mapping the Trinity

Mapping the Trinity

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Mapping the Trinity is a new set of ‘maps’ – written by Susanna Gunner and produced by the Diocese – which explore the Trinity through reflection, art, poetry and music. They...
EFM: WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #4: The Monastic Heart: 50 Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling Life

EFM: WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #4: The Monastic Heart: 50 Simple Practices for a Contemplative and Fulfilling Life

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 EFM: WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #4, 2025-2026 AN E-BOOK VERSION IS AVAILABLE HERE. The Monastic Heart a book by Joan Chittister - Bookshop.org US The activist, nun, and esteemed spiritual...
EFM: WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #3: Being Disciples: The Essential of the Christian Life

EFM: WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #3: Being Disciples: The Essential of the Christian Life

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EfM: WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #3, 2025-2026 ALSO FALL SELECTION FOR ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, TALLAHASSEE Basic instruction in Christian discipleship from one of the world's greatest living theologians "Discipleship,"...
EFM:WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #1: Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

EFM:WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #1: Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

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EFM: WIDE ANGLE, CORE TEXT #1, 2025-2026 If the Bible isn't a science book or an instruction manual, what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible...
EFM CLASSIC YEAR 2 CORE TEXT #2: Mind the Gap: How the Jewish Writings Between the Old and New Testament Help Us Understand Jesus

EFM CLASSIC YEAR 2 CORE TEXT #2: Mind the Gap: How the Jewish Writings Between the Old and New Testament Help Us Understand Jesus

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EFM CLASSIC YEAR 2, CORE TEXT #2 FOR 2025-2026, ON ORDER Do you want to understand Jesus of Nazareth, his apostles, and the rise of early Christianity? Reading the Old...
Mapping Advent

Mapping Advent

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Explore Advent’s rich themes through Biblical reflection, art, poetry and music. In this pack there are four maps each dealing with one of Advent’s many rich themes: Watching and waiting...
EFM: WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #2: Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder's Meditations on Hope and Courage

EFM: WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #2: Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder's Meditations on Hope and Courage

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EFM:WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #2 Darkness will not last forever. Together we can climb toward the light. They were as troubled as we, our ancestors, those who came before us,...
EFM: WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #5: Church Meets World: Church's Teachings for a Changing World;

EFM: WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #5: Church Meets World: Church's Teachings for a Changing World;

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EFM: WIDE ANGLE CORE TEXT #5 FOR 2025-2026; AN E-BOOK VERSION IS AVAILABLE HERE. Church Meets World a book by Winnie Varghese - Bookshop.org US In the Church's Teachings for...
EFM CLASSIC YEAR 4 CORE TEXT #1: A Primer in Christian Ethics: Christ and the Struggle to Live Well, EfM Classic Year 4:

EFM CLASSIC YEAR 4 CORE TEXT #1: A Primer in Christian Ethics: Christ and the Struggle to Live Well, EfM Classic Year 4:

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EFM CLASSIC YEAR 4, CORE TEXT #1, 2025-2026,   How does Christian belief and practice relate to living well amid the difficulties of everyday life and the catastrophes and injustices that...
Mapping Remembrance

Mapping Remembrance

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A series of six 'maps' focusing on All Saints, All Souls and Remembrance Sunday. Drawing on the arts and topical issues to enrich textual study and theological reflection. The ‘maps’ in...
Beyond a Binary God: A Theology for Trans*Allies

Beyond a Binary God: A Theology for Trans*Allies

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PAST INTERLUDE READING TEXT FOR EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY (EfM) All are made in the image and likeness of God. If this is what we believe, then trans people, like all...
EFM CLASSIC YEAR 4 CORE TEXT #2: The Spiritual Way: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Practice

EFM CLASSIC YEAR 4 CORE TEXT #2: The Spiritual Way: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Practice

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EFM CLASSIC YEAR 4, CORE TEXT #2, 2025-2026 AN E-BOOK VERSION IS AVAILABLE HERE. The Spiritual Way a book by Philip Sheldrake - Bookshop.org US In The Spiritual Way: Classic...
EFM CLASSIC YEAR 3 CORE TEXT #2: The Episcopal Story: Birth and Rebirth

EFM CLASSIC YEAR 3 CORE TEXT #2: The Episcopal Story: Birth and Rebirth

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EFM CLASSIC YEAR 3, CORE TEXT #2, 2025-2026 AN E-BOOK VERSION OF THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE HERE. The Episcopal Story a book by Thomas Ferguson - Bookshop.org US In the Church's...
EFM CLASSIC YEAR 3 CORE TEXT #1: A Short World History of Christianity, Revised Edition;

EFM CLASSIC YEAR 3 CORE TEXT #1: A Short World History of Christianity, Revised Edition;

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EFM CLASSIC YEAR 3, CORE TEXT #1, 2025-2026,  AN E-BOOK VERSION OF THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE HERE. A Short World History of Christianity, Revised Edition a book by Robert Bruce Mullin...
The Cross and the Lynching Tree

The Cross and the Lynching Tree

$27.00
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian James H. Cone...
A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Third Edition

A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Third Edition

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YEAR 1 EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY READING TEXT John J. Collins's A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by...
Parables: Stories for Life in God's World

Parables: Stories for Life in God's World

$26.00
Study timeless stories that speak to our faith and influence the decisions we make while discovering what makes a parable unique. Appreciate how Jesus used these short and seemingly simple...
Conversations with Scripture: The Parables

Conversations with Scripture: The Parables

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Jesus loved to tell them. The parables are vivid, rich, arresting stories that make us think and teach us lessons about our relationship with God and others. From talents to...
OPTIONAL EFM READING: The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, EfM referenced book celebrating 50th Anniversary

OPTIONAL EFM READING: The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, EfM referenced book celebrating 50th Anniversary

$29.00
Thirty years ago, Kathryn Tanner put forward a daring proposal. Traditional Christian theologies, she insisted, can be a source of political transformation rather than a sponsor of the status quo....
The Misunderstood Jew, the Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus

The Misunderstood Jew, the Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus

$16.99
NEW Year Two Reading Text for Education for Ministry (EfM  In the The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the "Jewishness" of Jesus so that their...
The Four Vision Quests of Jesus

The Four Vision Quests of Jesus

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VOLUME D 2024/2025 INTERLUDE TITLE EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY (EfM) A unique look at Christian biblical interpretation and theology from the perspective of Native American tradition.This book focuses on four specific...
My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation

My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation

$27.00
YEAR 4 EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY READING TEXT 2024-2025 Leading writers from many religious traditions describe moments of transformation and growth through their interreligious encounters. This groundbreaking volume gathers an array...
The Christian Moral Life: Practices of Piety

The Christian Moral Life: Practices of Piety

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YEAR 4 READING TEXT EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY (EfM) 2024-2025 "A book to enjoy and savour. . . . As a gentle and reverent depiction of whole practice of Anglican moral...
Theology: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition

Theology: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition

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YEAR 4 EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY (EfM) 2024-2025 This Very Short Introduction provides both the believer and non-believer with a balanced survey of the central questions of theology. David Ford's approach draws...
Conversations with Scripture: The Gospel of Mark

Conversations with Scripture: The Gospel of Mark

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Most Christians are familiar with the story told in Mark's gospel, from the fishermen leaving their nets, to the miracle of the loaves and fishes, to the political rumblings and...
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus

$30.00
From a renowned National Book Award–winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that...
The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives

The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives

$22.00
YEAR 1 EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY (EfM) READING TEXT 2024-2025 This volume provides an introduction and essays on the four key sections of the Hebrew Scriptures from the perspective of top...
Mysteries of Faith

Mysteries of Faith

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YEAR 4 READING TEXT EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY (EfM) 2024-2025 In this volume of the New Church's Teaching Series, Mark McIntosh introduces the great mysteries of the Christian faith.
Signs and Wonders: A Beginner's Guide to the Miracles of Jesus (Signs and Wonders)

Signs and Wonders: A Beginner's Guide to the Miracles of Jesus (Signs and Wonders)

$16.99
Winter Book Study, 2024, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Jacksonville, FL Explore the miracles of Jesus in Signs and Wonders with Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Testament studies and Bible study...
Proclaiming the Parables: Preaching and Teaching the Kingdom of God

Proclaiming the Parables: Preaching and Teaching the Kingdom of God

$50.00
In Proclaiming the Parables, noted preacher and scholar Thomas G. Long moves away from past treatment of the parables primarily as literary devices and moves toward an emphasis on their theological...
St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate

St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate

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St. Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St. Paul: The...
ESV Scripture Journal®, Spiral-Bound Edition: Ruth, Paperback

ESV Scripture Journal®, Spiral-Bound Edition: Ruth, Paperback

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A Journaling Edition of the Book of Ruth, Spiral-Bound for Comfortable Study and Note Taking The ESV Scripture Journal, Spiral-Bound Edition: Ruth was created from the ground up to facilitate in-depth note taking....
ESV Scripture Journal®, Spiral-Bound Edition: Esther, Paperback

ESV Scripture Journal®, Spiral-Bound Edition: Esther, Paperback

$8.99
A Journaling Edition of the Book of Esther, Spiral-Bound for Comfortable Study and Note Taking The ESV Scripture Journal, Spiral-Bound Edition: Esther was created from the ground up to facilitate in-depth note taking....
Ruth and Esther: A 12-Week Study (Knowing the Bible Series)

Ruth and Esther: A 12-Week Study (Knowing the Bible Series)

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The books of Ruth and Esther recount two of the most moving stories in all of Scripture: Ruth, a displaced widow in search of a new home and loving husband,...
James in the Suburbs: A Disorderly Parable of the Epistle of James

James in the Suburbs: A Disorderly Parable of the Epistle of James

$29.00
Do you consume God's blessings, or do you share them? Most Christians are consumers. We are obsessed with knowing the right theology and following the right set of rules in...