Author: Steve Ross
Publisher: Seabury Books
Keywords: marked
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1596270020
ISBN-13: 9781596270022

A telling of the "Gospel of Mark" in graphic novel form. With imagery, creator Steve Ross brings the oldest of the Gospels into a powerful medium, demonstrating how this gospel story applies to life.

Author: Lucinda Mosher
Publisher: Seabury Books
Keywords: neighborhood, faith, belonging
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1596270101
ISBN-13: 9781596270107

Belonging explores what it means to live and worship among the many faiths unique to America’s neighborhoods such as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Baha’i, Zoroastrianism, Afro-Caribbean religions, Native-American religions, Confucianism, and Shinto. Different faiths have different ideals of community, and different kinds of rules. In Belonging Lucinda Mosher explores the vocabulary of America’s many religions, the theologies and rituals that create a sense of belonging, and how these religions handle life’s stages such as welcoming babies, rites

Author: Lucinda Mosher
Publisher: Seabury Books
Keywords: faith, neighborhood, religious, diversity, america, understanding, praying, rituals
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2005-12-15
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1596270160
ISBN-13: 9781596270169

Author: Margaret J. Marcuson
Publisher: Seabury Books
Keywords: ministry, yourself, sustaining, last, leaders
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1596270950
ISBN-13: 9781596270954

Is helping others overrated? Is ministry a recipe for burnout? How can pastors last the course? Author and pastor Margaret Marcuson introduces the notion of sustainable ministry, which trains and empowers pastors to focus on their inner resources for proactive leadership, instead of trying harder to help, fix or change others. Leaders Who Last draws upon the authors own pastoral experience and leadership, plus a significant analysis of leadership in both families and churches over generations. Interviews with current church leaders punctuate chapters on stress, spiritual practice, church trian

Authors:Edwin H. Friedman, Margaret M. Treadwell, Edward W.
Publisher: Seabury Books
Keywords: fix, quick, leadership, nerve, failure
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2007-02
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 159627042X
ISBN-13: 9781596270428

Ten years after his death, Edwin Friedman’s insights into leadership are more urgently needed than ever. He was the first to tell us that all organizations have personalities, like families, and to apply the insights of family therapy to churches and synagogues, rectors and rabbis, politicians and teachers. Failure of Nerve is essential reading for all leaders, be they parents or presidents, corporate executives or educators, religious superiors or coaches, healers or generals, managers or clergy. Friedman’s insights about our regressed, "seatbelt society," ori

Author: Fae Malania
Publisher: Seabury Books
Keywords: hazelnut, quantity
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1596270144
ISBN-13: 9781596270145

Fae Malania’s lovely book is a small offering, like a hazelnut. Like the hazelnut, this book is a reminder of God’s love. And like a hazelnut, it can unlock a world.--Lauren F. Winner, author of Girl Meets God and Mudbath Sabbath The resurrection of a good book is always cause for celebration. The Quantity of a Hazelnut is a very good book indeed, neither extremely loud nor incredibly close but quietly unforgettable.--John Wilson, Editor, Books & Culture With beautiful language and a winning confessional style, Malania offers a spiritual vision that is steeped in traditi

Authors:Michael Ramsey, Dale Coleman,
Publisher: Seabury Books
Keywords: spirit, anglican
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 1596280042
ISBN-13: 9781596280045

Archbishop Michael Ramsey was one of the church’s most remarkable twentieth-century saints--wise and humble, humorous and compassionate. These introductory lectures on Anglicanism reveal the breadth of Ramsey’s theological understanding, his ecumenism, and his vision of the church and the Christian life. Informal and conversational in style, the lectures offer an overview of Anglican theology, spirituality, and history. Ramsey begins with Anglicanism’s enduring characteristics, including its dependence on Scripture, tradition--the ancient writers of the church who guide u