How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems
10 best books like How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems (Peter L. Steinke): Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth, Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, Redeployment, How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective, Holy the Firm, Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory, Making Peace: A Guide to Overcoming Church Conflict
Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
| Author | Richard J. Foster |
| ISBN | 0060628391 |
Richard J. Foster’s Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth is hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality with millions of copies sold since its original publication in 1978.
In Celebration of Discipline, Foster explores the "classic Disciplines,"...
Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge
| Author | Henry Cloud |
| ISBN | 0062249797 |
The coauthor of the classic bestseller Boundaries, with over 2 million copies sold, and an expert on the psychology of business and leadership performance explains the behavioral reasons why some people get great results and others don't.
In Boundaries for Leaders, Dr. Henry Cloud gives...
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.
Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment...
| Author | Phil Klay |
| ISBN | 1594204993 |
Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these...
How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That's Great News
| Author | Peter Enns |
| ISBN | 0062686747 |
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal People, and author of The Bible Tells Me So and The Sin of Certainty explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule book but a powerful learning tool that nurtures our spiritual growth by...
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0470907754 |
A fresh way of thinking about spirituality that grows throughout life In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up." Most of us tend to think...
The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 0824519507 |
In this book Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert explain the enneagram, an ancient personality test used first by Christian ascetics and monks and later by Muslim sufis. It divides people into nine personality types which can be described by their primary need ("need to be perfect", "need to succeed", etc.),...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0060915439 |
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth...
Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory
| Author | Tod Bolsinger |
| ISBN | 0830841261 |
Explorers Lewis and Clark had to adapt. While they had prepared to find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean, instead they found themselves in the Rocky Mountains. You too may feel that you are leading in a cultural context you were not expecting. You may even feel that your training holds you back more often...
Making Peace: A Guide to Overcoming Church Conflict
| Author | Jim Van Yperen |
| ISBN | 0802431852 |
Making Peace started out a bit on the boring side and finished much better. I was not in total agreement with the author's assessment of the basic causes of church conflict - particularly "commercialism". It would have been good if he had spent more time discussing cultural differences in the church...
Uproar: Calm Leadership in Anxious Times
| Author | Peter L Steinke |
| ISBN | 1538116537 |
If "these are the times that test men's souls," never more than for the leader's ability to think clearly, to be present calmly, and to challenge effectively. It's a time when leaders cannot be as anxious as those they serve; otherwise, the system is leaderless. Anxiety flows down like water from a leaky...
Sacred Service in Civic Space: Three Hundred Years of Community Ministry in Unitarian Universalism
| Author | Kathleen R. Parker |
| ISBN | 0979558905 |
"To minister is to serve." So begins the opening chapter of 'Sacred Service in Civic Space,' an historical account of the leadership provided by Unitarian Universalists in most of the social justice movements in American history. Parker describes who, how and why Unitarian Universalists have unrelentingly...
Healthy Congregations: A Systems Approach
| Author | Peter L Steinke |
| ISBN | 1566995426 |
In this sequel to How Your Church Family Works, Peter Steinke takes readers into a deeper exploration of the congregation as an emotional system. He outlines the factors that put congregations at risk for anxiety and conflict. Learn ten principles of health, how congregations can adopt new ways of...
Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed
A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation
Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually...
Been in the Storm So Long: A Meditation Manual
| Author | Mark D. Morrison-Reed |
| ISBN | 1558962026 |
In light of 2006 General Assembly's responsive resolution on racism and classism, Been In the Storm So Long is back by popular demand. First published in 1991, this stirring volume features more than 40 selections from the spirited voices of 29 African-Americans. Contributors include David H. Eaton,...
Essex Conversations: Visions for Lifespan Religious Education
| Author | Unitarian Universalist Association |
| ISBN | 1558964142 |
The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is the central organization for the Unitarian Universalist (UU) religious movement in the United States. The UUA’s 1000+ member congregations are committed to Seven Principles that include the worth of each person, the need for justice and compassion,...
Story, Song and Spirit: Fun and Creative Worship Services for All Ages
Across the country, our congregations are filling up with a new generation of Unitarian Universalists: children. Our congregations are reaching out to families as a whole. It's not enough, in these times, to provide stimulating sermons for adults and (in some distant wing of the church) solid religious...
Scm Core Text Theology and Sexuality
| Author | Susannah Cornwall |
| ISBN | 0334045304 |
The SCM Core Text Theology and Sexuality provides a clear overview of the theological debate surrounding sexuality as broadly understood. It gives an outline of the major themes surrounding sexuality in theological perspective, focusing on key thinkers, concepts, and areas of discussion. This...
