Springboards might best be described as launching pads — words or sayings that challenge us to look further, to leave behind the shallow and superficial in our lives and go deeper. A thoughtful collection of scripture, prayers and reflections for students, parents, teachers and individuals seeking a more reflective and balanced life.
How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy
An ethical and practical guide inspired by Catholic social thought for readers of all faiths and backgrounds seeking to create a world economy that is more prosperous, inclusive, and sustainable for all.
For twenty years now the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) has been doing its work among us. . . . It has had to win its way simply by its own excellence and by the appeal of the idea of reading the scriptures on Sundays and feast days in concert with other Christians in churches across the world as a sign of our unity in Jesus Christ." from the ......
Designed as a general introduction to Christian liturgy, this book explores the meaning, history, and practice of worship in Eastern and Western, Catholic and Protestant traditions. Its chapters cover the theology of worship, the historical development of Eucharist and the Prayer Offices, the lectionary and customs of the church year, other ......
For Christians, memories of God given in the Christian Bible are juxtaposed, echoed, and expanded within and outside Christian communities of faith. In Saving Memory and the Body of Christ, Sedgwick argues, Christians are attuned to the polyphony that is the voice of God calling those who have ears to hear into the love and grace of God in life ......
Celebrating the Half Millennium of Lutheran Hymnals 1524-2024
We tend to remember hymns one at a time. They color our lives, transmit our theology, and form our faith. We forget that the reason we can do so is because they have been made available throughout the centuries in hymnals. This edited collection explores the 500-year tradition of Lutheran hymnal production, illustrating how these books have ......
Sacramental Presence develops a theology of preaching grounded in the embodied event of preaching. Comparing the steps involved in voice production with the fourfold shape of the Eucharist, the author argues that preaching is an event of communion with God, and as such is personal, communal, and political.
A Eucharist-shaped Church: Prayer, Theology, Mission places a range of Anglican and Episcopal eucharistic theologies in their historical contexts, paying attention to the interplay between worship, theology and mission. It then applies these considerations to possible liturgical revisions.