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Book Recommendations


 

Recommendations from the Bishop

Margaret J. Marcuson (click here for her leadership website)

(from the book jacket:  Church leadership does not have to be a recipe for burnout.  This book invites you to a better way, one that is practical,effective, and sustainable)

    

Peter Block (click here for his website)

(from the book jacket:  Most of our communities are fragmented and at odds within themselves.  What Peter Block provides in this inspiriting book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation.  How is community built?  How does the transformation occur?  What fundamental shifts are involved?  What can individuals and leaders do to create a place they want to inhabit?)

   

  

Theodore Roosevelt Malloch

   

Kenneth Haugk

   

Parker J. Palmer

    

Alfred Lubrano

   

Robert I. Sutton

    

Sister Joan Chittister OSB

    

Robin R. Meyers

  

   


Education

   

   

   

   

   


Families & at Home

   

For Young People
    
     
For Families with Young People

  

  • The Anglican Family Prayerbook  

by Anne Kitch

link to episcopalbookstore.org

  


Personal Spirituality

   

Books of daily readings  

The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages (by Joan Chittister, O.S.B)

    

   

Spiritual Gifts & Discernment

  

Let Your Life Speak:  Listening for the Voice of Vocation- a book by Parker Palmer

Parker Palmer's website

find the book on Amazon's website

Listening Hearts Ministries; programs, publications and services that teach the practice of spiritual discernment through prayerful listening in supportive communities

Listening Heart's website

find the books, Listening Hearts and Grounded in God

 

General Spirituality

Vestry & Parish Leadership

   


Worship

   

Children & Worship
Prayers and service additions

   

   

   

Music

   


Youth Ministry

    

   

Books for the Youth Minister

   

   

Actvities with youth groups & youth ministries

   

    

  • QuickSilver:  Adventure Games, Initiative Problems, Trust Activities and a Guide to Effective Leadership:  by Karl Rohnke & Steve Butler  

  • Learning Leadership:  by Michael Brandwein

  • Building Community in Youth Groups:  by Wayne Rice & Mike Yaconelli

   

   

Worship with Youth Ministry

   

   


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