Episcopal Church Resources

Confirmation is a significant rite of passage in many a person's religious life, the sacrament in which the young Christian makes a public confession and affirmation of faith in the...

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?

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...

Description "Remarkable . . . a vision for the future that is decidedly not the way we've always done it but instead shaped by the way of Jesus and his...

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...

An empowering antidote to one of the leading challenges facing clergy and lay ministers today: burnout. Clergy and lay ministry professionals are exhausted. The past few years of collegial loneliness,...

Is the priesthood a power to be exercised, or a call to share in the broken Christ? Ross sets modern questions about ordained ministry in the Church within a much...

The author overviews the theological and spiritual background of the sacrament of reconciliation and offers practical suggestions for the practice of hearing and making a confession.

A leading expert shares important benchmarks for leading liturgy.Grounded in Christian liturgical theology and how ritual forms the people who practice it, this book offers the principles at work in...

Did you know that the Holy Spirit is a significant figure in the The Book of Common Prayer? The Holy Spirit in The Book of Common Prayer explains every occurrence...

2024/2025 Bishop's Institute Licensed Lay Preacher Course, Diocese of Florida, textbook (one of two) In her bestselling preaching autobiography, Barbara Brown Taylor writes of how she came to be a...

The Episcopal Church is known as the "thinking person's religion" to those of us that love her. It is a Church solidly grounded in scripture, tradition, and reason. In this...

Religious talk quickly degenerates into insider talk, but what if we turned it back out?  Episcopal Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves takes six words related to Christian faith and translates them, so...

A practical, uplifting guide designed to help congregational leadership navigate current issues and inspire deeper thought and contemplation. In this powerful collection of reflections, the Rev. Dr. Marc Smith offers...

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...

2024 CONFIRMAND BOOK STUDY, ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, JACKSONVILLE, FL Winner of a 2019 Illumination Book Award for Theology Take a journey through The Book of Common Prayer, the Christian life, and...

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...

The Eucharist, writes Timothy Radcliffe, is a three-part drama, forming us in faith, hope and love. In this book he examines what it means to celebrate the Eucharist. Other people experience it...