Product Description: Whatever else one might say about Emergence Christianity, says Phyllis Tickle, one must agree it is shifting and re-configuring itself in such a prodigious way as to defy any final assessments or absolute pronouncements. Yet the insightful and well-read Tickle offers us a dispatch from the field to keep us informed of where Emergence Christianity now stands, where it may be going, and how it is aligning itself with other parts of God's church...read more

Product Description: Every five hundred years, the church cleans out its attic and has a giant rummage sale. Well, not exactly. But according to Phyllis Tickle, this is an accurate summary of the church's massive transitions over time. According to the pattern, we are living in such a time of change right now...read more

Product Description: The author surveys 2000 years of Western history, identifying the great upheavals that occur in Western culture and Christianity every 500 years. The last was the Great Reformation of the 1500's; the next is happening now. What are the implications of this "Great Emergence," both culturally and spiritually? What are the key questions and issues that need to be addressed? Where might we be headed next? And, perhaps most importantly, where are you, at this moment? Might you be an emergence Christian? There are six sessions on the DVD...read more

Product Description: The sacred meal that is part of our faith does more than connect us to the holy.  It connects us to each other. "I think Jesus wanted his disciples and everyone who came after him to remember what they had together. What they made together...read more

Product Description: A journey of the soul through the map of Christian time.The liturgical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and carrying through the following November is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ...read more

Product Description: Stories of people who live a generous and happy life (and why you'll want to live that way too). Journalist Douglas LeBlanc travels the nation to talk with believers whose lives have been enriched by the ancient spiritual discipline of tithing...read more

Product Description: What does it mean to pray without ceasing? Is it really that important to pray as the early Church did?In this installment of The Ancient Practices series, Robert Benson presents a structure for our lives where we can live in continued awareness of God's presence and reality...read more

Product Description: Have Christians rejected pilgrimage? The Israelites knew it. David knew it. The writer of Hebrews knew it. John Bunyan knew it. "Blessed are those whose strength is in You. They have set their hearts on pilgrimage." (Psalm 84:5) We are strangers and pilgrims here...read more

Product Description: To rest does not mean to cease all activity. Bestselling author Dan Allender presents an insightful and fascinating look at the origins and purpose of Sabbath. Serving as volume three in The Ancient Practices series, Sabbath examines the key issues of this oft-misunderstood day of the week...read more

Product Description: Have Christians rejected pilgrimage? The Israelites knew it. David knew it. The writer of Hebrews knew it. John Bunyan knew it. "Blessed are those whose strength is in You. They have set their hearts on pilgrimage" (Psalm 84:5). We are strangers and pilgrims here...read more

Product Description: "As it is written, 'Our God is a consuming fire' (Heb. 12:29); so we also must kindle the divine fire in ourselves through tears and hard work." Amma Syncletica, fourth century.What could be more natural and timely than ...Spiritual wisdom drawn from a woman's world; word paintings expressed in the poetry of mother-daughter dialogue?Home and hearth lessons in eternal truth, firmly grounded in day-to-day experience?Small scenarios of inquiry and response, deep questioning and fledgling faith, that reverberate with quiet insight?Dialogues that reflect modern levels of questioning; knots of paradox that require a woman's patient attention and inner care to tease out true, gentle wisdom?A poetic exploration of the large and the small issues of women's life-nested, braided, interwoven, never fully unraveled-in precise language that retains the mystery but awakens the soul?Enter into the world of Becoming Flame: Uncommon Mother-Daughter Wisdom Dialogues with questions at the end for individual and group study...read more

Product Description: Deepen your conversation with God—in the nuances of the most complex Psalm.    Throughout the centuries, writers have retranslated the Psalms, trying to keep alive the beauty of its images and the depth of its message, for each generation...read more

Product Description: Using the metaphor of pilgrimage, this book invites readers to reflect on living with illness. The heart of the book is a collection of thirty meditations, followed by a reflection, a short prayer, and a suggested spiritual practice...read more

Product Description: What if you could encounter the words of Jesus on their own, lifted up from the surrounding narratives and presented in their full power and mystery? That’s the question Phyllis Tickle—one of America’s most beloved writers on Christian spirituality—asked when she set out to write what she calls a “Sayings gospel...read more

Product Description: Building a body and mind that hungers for God. Is the practice of faith centered solely on the spirit? Is the body an enemy, or can it actually play a role in our pursuit of God? In this installation of the Ancient Practices Series, Dr...read more

Product Description: The beauty and richness of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are highlighted in this exciting new series of spiritual classics. Here is the life and teachings of Jesus, as found in the four Gospels in the New Testament--now available in an affordable, important new collection...read more

An authority on Christian spirituality and author of Rediscovering the Sacred sheds new light on the words of Jesus as recorded in the four gospels of the New Testament, accompanied by thoughtful reflections on Christ's teachings and their meaning in terms of own spiritual and faith journey.

Product Description: In the 1930s, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer anticipated the restoration of the Church after the coming Second World War through a new kind of monasticism, a way of life of uncompromising adherence to the Sermon on the Mount in imitation of Christ...read more

Perfect for children of any faith, this illustrated book of psalm-based prayers for every day of the week combines simple and sweet language with comforting art.

Presents a compact compilation of daily devotions, prayers, psalms, meditations, and readings drawn from the Book of Common Prayer, the writings of Church Fathers, the New Jerusalem Bible, and devotional and meditative poetry .

Product Description: With elegant simplicity, Rev. Dr. Joanna Seibert presents glimpses of life at the intersection of medicine and religion. In a collection of true stories, she describes events we all recognize-the death of a child or the anguish of losing one's mental or motor facilities-and truthfully presents the doubts and difficulties of both herself as a physician/deacon and those she visits and treats...read more

Product Description: Phyllis Tickle's inspirational trilogy The Divine HoursTM was the first major literary and liturgical reworking of the sixth-century Benedictine Rule of fixed-hour prayer--an age-old discipline of

Product Description: In this second volume of The Synoptic Gospels: A Journey Into the Kingdom, Ed Bleynat continues as able guide through the stories of Jesus told in the synoptic Gospels the words of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. From the Desert to the Mount leads readers from the testing of Jesus in the desert through Matthew s Sermon on the Mount...read more