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Book Recommendations

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Recommendations from the Bishop

• Leaders Who Last:  Sustaining Yourself and Your Ministry

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)

    

• Community:  The Structure of Belonging

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?)

   

• The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

  Richard Rohr

  

• Being Generous

Theodore Roosevelt Malloch

   

• Antagonists in the Church

Kenneth Haugk

   

• A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

Parker J. Palmer

    

• Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams

Alfred Lubrano

   

• The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't

Robert I. Sutton

    

• The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages (Crossroad Spiritual Legacy Series)

Sister Joan Chittister OSB

    

• Saving Jesus from the Church

Robin R. Meyers

  

   

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Education

• Looking at the Episcopal Church:  by William Sydnor

• My Faith, My Life:  by Jennifer Gamber.  This is a book to help primarily teenagers explore their faith in the Episcopal Church.  This is a link to the website  *   This is a link to the facebook page for "my faith, my life"

   

• A People Called Episcopalians:  A Brief Introduction to Our Peculiar Way of Life:  by John Westerhoff

   

• Welcome to Sunday:  An Introduction to Worship in the Episcopal Church:  by Christopher L. Webber

   

• What Makes Us Episcopalians?:  by John E. Booty

   

• Your Faith, Your Life:  by Jennifer Gamber & Bill Lewellis.  This is a link to the website  *   This is a link to the facebook page for "your faith, your life"

   

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Families & at Home

   

For Young People

• Praying - A book for Children

  by Nancy Roth (link to Nancy Roth)

  link to churchpublishing.org  

    

• Tween Prayer - Friendship with God

  by Nancy Roth

link to churchpublishing.org

   

• My Life, My Faith by Jenifer Gambler

  link to mylifemyfaith.org

     

• How does God Listens  

  by Kay Lindahl

  link to episcopalbookstore.org

For Families with Young People

  

• The Anglican Family Prayerbook  

by Anne Kitch

link to episcopalbookstore.org

  

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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

• Aelred of Rievaulx:  Spiritual Friendship (Translated by M. Eugenia Laker SSND)

• Bernard of Clairvaux:  Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season (Translated by Irene Edmonds, Wendy Beckett, and Conrad Greenia; Edited by E. Rozanne Elder)

• Rooted in Detachment:  Living the Transfiguration (by Kenneth Stevenson)

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Vestry & Parish Leadership

• Behold I Do a New Thing: Transforming Communities of Faith (by Kirk Hadaway)

• Beyond Business As Usual: Vestry Leadership Development (by Neal Michell)

• Color Your World with Natural Church Development:  Experiencing all that God has designed you to be (by Christian A Schwarts)

• Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times: Being Calm and Courageous No Matter What (by Peter L. Steinke)

• Cracking Your Congregation's Code: Mapping Your Spiritual DNA to Create Your Future (by Robert Norton, Richard Southern)

• The Great Emergence:  How Christianity is Changing and Why (by Phyllis Tickle)

• Failure of Nerve:  Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix (by Edwin H. Friedman)

• Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes (by William Bridges)

• The Vestry Resource Guide (published by Forward Movement)

   

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Worship

   

Children & Worship

• Children at Worship; Congregations in Bloom (by Caroline Fairless)

  Each congregation in our Diocese received a copy of this on DVD rom.

• Offering the Gospel to Children (by Gretchen Wolff Pritchard)

• The Child Friendly Church (by Boyce A Bowdon)

Prayers and service additions

   

• Changes:  Prayers and Services Honoring Rites of Passage (by the Church Pension Fund)

   

• The Uncommon Book of Prayer (by Steven L. Case)

   

Music

   

• Various Episcopal Hymnals (from Church Publishing)

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Youth Ministry

    

   

Books for the Youth Minister

• The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending for Youth Minstry:  by Kenda Creasy Dean & Ron Foster

• Hungry Souls, Holy Companions, Mentoring a New Generation of Christians:  by Patricia Hendricks

   

   

Actvities with youth groups & youth ministries

• Peer Ministry Training Manuel:  by the Youth and Family Institute

   

• Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim:  A personal manual for prayer and ritual:   Illustrator : Edward Hays; Author : Edward Hays

    

• 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

   

• My Life, My Faith: by Jenifer Gambler

   

Worship with Youth Ministry

   

• Changes:  Prayers and Services Honoring Rites of Passage (by the Church Pension Fund)

   

• The Uncommon Book of Prayer (by Steven L. Case)

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Where do you find a book?

  

• Church Publishing (Episcopalian) 

    

• Cowley Publications (Episcopal) 

    

• Baker Books (non-denomination)

  

• Eerdman's Publishing (non-denominational)

  

•  Lifeway (non-denominational)

   

• Zondervan Church Source (non-denominational)

  

• St. Mary’s Press (Catholic)

  

• Augsburg Fortress (ELCA)

    

• Vibrant Faith Ministries (ELCA)