Product Description: You are not alone. A dazzling cloud of witnesses hovers nearby to encourage and remind us that God uses real people - ancestors of the spirit or ""saints"" - to achieve the divine purpose in surprising ways every day. This is a ""saints book"" like no other...read more

Product Description: Understanding Research: Becoming A Compotent and Critical Consumer, first edition, teaches students how to read research articles and can be used as a core text in an introduction to educational research course or any course that focuses on teaching students how to read research articles...read more

Product Description: In this timely and highly readable book, W. Paul Jones mines his deep knowledge of scripture, history, and tradition, as well as his experience as a husband and father, a Methodist pastor, and now a hermit in the Roman Catholic church to give us a practic

Doing Better is intended to help therapists and counselors to explore more fully and systematically the processes of self-improvement in their work and lives.

Product Description: "We all need companions and guides on our spiritual journey. W. Paul Jones believes that spiritual direction is essential for every Christian. "Along each person s pilgrimage are those who can make one s journey accountable and whose hospitality makes it possible," Jones says...read more

The author shares his unique spiritual journey, which led him from a successful teaching career at Princeton and Yale to a reclusive life in a Trappist monastery in the Ozark Hills. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In his previous book, A Season in the Desert, W. Paul Jones developed a richly imaginative approach to "Making Time Holy." In his companion volume, A Table in the Desert, he applies the same creative Christian approach to "Making Space Holy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the womb, surrounded by the beating of our mother's heart marking time, we begin to sense that we are "someone" as we stretch tiny arms and legs to the beat of swimming-like rhythms. But at birth, we are exiled--destined to a lifelong sojourn through time and space...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Worlds Within a Congregation, W. Paul Jones follows up on his previous work Theological Worlds in a most practical way. He argues that many church communities consist of sub-congregations, which have come about not as the result of divisive intentions, but as congregants naturally group themselves according to preferred styles of worship, interaction, stewardship, and so forth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The goal of this book is to facilitate better communication between school counsellors and other mental-health professionals by enchancing counsellors' understanding of diagnostic codes and their use. W Paul Jones presents an overview of the basic ideas and terminology used in diagnosis, and examines specific conditions that school counsellors are likely to encounter...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this very personal book, Jones sees the diverse experiences of individuals as the backbone of spirituality, and claims that the Trinity affirms a rich diversity within God and within God's way of relating to the world.

Product Description: By exploring five common Christian perspectives ("theological worlds"), this volume helps readers understand the basis of their own Christian attitudes, identify the sources of their confusions about life and the church, and come to a deeper appreciation of the assumptions and motivations of others...read more