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Healing What's Within: Coming Home to Yourself--And to God--When You're Wounded, Weary, and Wandering

Healing What's Within: Coming Home to Yourself--And to God--When You're Wounded, Weary, and Wandering

$18.99
We can't always control what happens to us. But we can discover how to heal the hidden hurt it leaves behind.If you're like many of us, you carry a weight...
Done and Left Undone: Grace in the Meantime of Ministry

Done and Left Undone: Grace in the Meantime of Ministry

$22.95
Written by Assisting Bishop, Diocese of Florida, The Rt. Rev. Scott Benhase In a post-Christian culture, parish clergy can find themselves at a loss, ill-equipped to deal with a reality...
Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help

Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help

$16.99
OCTOBER 2024 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it....
One-Minute Stewardship: Creative Ways to Talk about Money in Church

One-Minute Stewardship: Creative Ways to Talk about Money in Church

$20.95
A collection of meditations on the importance of stewardship.   Much has changed in the 21st-century world of stewardship. Now a person may use electronic funds transfer or use a...
When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community from Emotional and Spiritual Abuse

When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community from Emotional and Spiritual Abuse

$24.99
Outreach Resource of the Year Why Does Narcissism Seem to Thrive in Our Churches? We've seen the news stories. Maybe we ourselves have been hurt by a narcissistic church leader....
Vestry Handbook Fourth Revised Edition

Vestry Handbook Fourth Revised Edition

$18.95
An indespensable resource that supports vestry members and clergy in their ministry. Trusted by tens of thousands of vestry members, wardens, and rectors, The Vestry Handbook is the indispensable guide to the...
Vestry Resource Guide

Vestry Resource Guide

$15.00
Whether you're a new vestry member or a seasoned veteran, the newly revised Vestry Resource Guide is essential reading. With a deliberate focus on the importance of lay and clergy...
Toughest People to Love: How to Understand, Lead, and Love the Difficult People in Your Life -- Including Yourself

Toughest People to Love: How to Understand, Lead, and Love the Difficult People in Your Life -- Including Yourself

$15.99
People -- frustrating, confusing, disappointing, complicated -- are the most difficult part of leadership, and they challenge leaders everywhere, from leaders of many to managers of a few. In this...
The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships 2022 LAY MINISTER COURSE BOOK

The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships 2022 LAY MINISTER COURSE BOOK

$17.95
"That isn't what I meant!" Truly listening and being heard is far from simple, even between people who care about each other. This perennial bestseller--now revised and updated for the digital age--analyzes...
When Church Stops Working: A Future for Your Congregation beyond More Money, Programs, and Innovation

When Church Stops Working: A Future for Your Congregation beyond More Money, Programs, and Innovation

$21.99
What if the solution for the decline of today's church isn't more money, people, programs, innovation, or busyness?What if the answer is to stop and wait on God?In When Church Stops...
Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community (30th Anniversary Edition)

Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community (30th Anniversary Edition)

$23.95
This 30th anniversary edition presents the unique approach of Listening Hearts to the spiritual practice of discernment for a new generation. Written to make the often elusive and usually clergy-centered spiritual practice...
This Band of Sisterhood: Black Women Bishops on Race, Faith, and the Church

This Band of Sisterhood: Black Women Bishops on Race, Faith, and the Church

$14.95
Get to know the first five Black women to be elected diocesan bishops within the Episcopal Church. During this moment, with the #metoo movement, Black Lives Matter, and the increased...
Meditations for Vestry Members

Meditations for Vestry Members

$12.95
Explores the joys and challenges of vestry service. Created to meet the needs of pastors and church staff seeking gifts of appreciation for church members such as LEMs, lay members,...
A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix (10th Anniversary, Revised Edition)

A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix (10th Anniversary, Revised Edition)

$34.95
An invitation and guide for leaders “to cast a courageous and imaginative vision, to lead resiliently, and to be present and steady in times of deep anxiety.” Ed Friedman’s genius...
Vital Christian Community: 12 Characteristics of Healthy Congregations

Vital Christian Community: 12 Characteristics of Healthy Congregations

$28.95
Twelve characteristics of healthy Christian communities and the congregational and personal practices that develop them. Congregations have been the bedrock of mainline Christian life and practice for centuries but in...
Why Gather? The Hope and Promise of the Church

Why Gather? The Hope and Promise of the Church

$24.95
As the COVID pandemic began to shut down the world, even within the church we found our busy hamster-wheel lives grind to a halt. In the midst of a global...
How to Run a Committee or Organization: A Manual for Church Leaders

How to Run a Committee or Organization: A Manual for Church Leaders

$10.00
George is a member of his church men's group. He misses one meeting and gets elected -- unanimously -- as the group's president. He is a good sport and accepts....
Effective Church Committees: A Member's Handbook

Effective Church Committees: A Member's Handbook

$7.95
Church committees run more smoothly when members balance assertiveness with courtesy. This entertaining booklet offers tips and techniques that help any committee member, newcomer or veteran, become a more dynamic...
Paradoxy: Creating Christian Community Beyond Us and Them

Paradoxy: Creating Christian Community Beyond Us and Them

$16.99
A Christian of Jewish origins and the founding pastor of a thriving new church that intentionally resurrected itself from the wounded remnants of a previous congregation that tore itself apart...
Building Dialogue: Stories, Scripture, and Liturgy in International Peacebuilding

Building Dialogue: Stories, Scripture, and Liturgy in International Peacebuilding

$39.95
A resource for working through conflict with dialogue toward the goal of peace. Building Dialogue is intended as an aide to inter-contextual analysis of conflict and practices of peace. This book...
Episcopate: The Role of Bishops in A Shared Future

Episcopate: The Role of Bishops in A Shared Future

$29.95
Top voices highlight important changes in the role of bishop. Compelling essays, written by bishops, other clergy, and academics from across the Episcopal Church, reflect the breadth of thinking on...