The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year
10 best books like The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year (Kimberlee Conway Ireton): The Upanishads, The Willoughbys, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women, The Dhammapada, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith, The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming, Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy, Jayber Crow
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0140441638 |
The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma...
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0618979743 |
Abandoned by their ill-humored parents to the care of an odious nanny, Tim, the twins, Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and their sister, Jane, attempt to fulfill their roles as good oldfashioned children. Following the models set in lauded tales from A Christmas Carol to Mary Poppins, the four Willoughbys...
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0060608528 |
In Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, renowned Christian minister, professor, and author of The Cost of Discipleship recounts his unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the Nazi years in Germany. Giving practical advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families...
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
| Author | Tish Harrison Warren |
| ISBN | 0830846239 |
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present to us in surprising ways through our everyday routines. Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices and habits that form us. Each chapter looks...
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
| Author | Sarah Bessey |
| ISBN | 1476717575 |
Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences.
A freedom song for the church.
Sarah Bessey...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0938077872 |
The Dhammapada (Pāli; Prakrit: धम्मपद Dhammapada; Sanskrit: धर्मपद Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya,...
Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
In Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell frees us to consider God beyond the picture someone else painted for us in order to find an authentic understanding of the Christian faith. God doesn't have boundaries, and faith doesn't have to be limited to what someone else has told us. God is alive. Faith is alive. Velvet Elvis...
The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming
| Author | Sally Clarkson |
| ISBN | 1496403371 |
How to make home your family's favorite place to be . . . all year long.
Does your home sometimes feel like just a place to eat, sleep, and change clothes on the way to the next activity? Do you long for "home" to mean more than a place where you stash your stuff? Wouldn't you love it to become a haven of warmth,...
Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy
| Author | Jamie C. Martin |
| ISBN | 0310354978 |
Motherhood is beautiful; motherhood is hard. All moms understand this paradoxical truth. Yet introverted mothers face unique challenges. When our quiet nature collides with our often loud role, frustration and guilt result. We wonder why motherhood feels at odds with our personality, and in our...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1582431604 |
"This is a book about Heaven," says Jayber Crow, "but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell." It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber.
Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow's acquaintance with...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 0679748318 |
"They practiced an old-fashioned independence, an old-fashioned generosity, and an old-fashioned fidelity to their word and their friends."
The above quote is one I pulled from one of the five short stories offered here by Wendell Berry, an author I can easily call a favorite after just reading...
Toddlers Are A**holes: It's Not Your Fault
Toddler a**holery is a normal part of human development—not unlike puberty, except this stage involves throwing food on the floor and taking swings at people who pay your way in life. For parents of toddlers, it's a "you better laugh so you don't cry" period.
Bunmi Laditan's hilarious, satirical...
Square Peg: Why Wesleyans Aren't Fundamentalists
| Author | Al Truesdale |
| ISBN | 0834127938 |
You've heard the old saying, 'You can't fit a square peg in a round hole.' You can try to force the peg by shaving some of the sides off. But once you do that, you change the nature of the peg.In order to help the Wesleyan Church remain true to its theology and identity, it's important to understand how our tradition...
The Christian Year: A Guide for Worship and Preaching
| Author | Robin Knowles Wallace |
| ISBN | 1426703007 |
In this concise guide, Dr. Knowles Wallace gives practical worship and preaching suggestions for each season of the Christian year as it relates to the Revised Common Lectionary. She describes the unique features and colors of each season as well as its historical overview, theological grounding,...
Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community
| Author | Andrew Marin |
| ISBN | 0830836268 |
2010 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year Award winner: culture category
2010 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner
Relevant Magazine: Top 20 Best Overall Books of 2009 winner
Englewood Review of Books: Top 20 Best Overall Books of 2009 winner
Christian Manifesto 2009...
Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence
| Author | David Livermore |
| ISBN | 0801066166 |
This book was very good in showing us some of the mistakes that short term missions groups have made in the past and how we can improve in the future. It gave four areas that we can focus on developing out cross cultural understanding and some clear steps we can take at the end of the book. One area that we can...
This is a superb exploration into the power of the Bible, it's ability to create and shape our worldview and hence our world. Written by someone who is arguably the single greatest Old Testament scholar of the last several decades, he elucidates the ways in which scripture functions in communities of...
A heartwarming ghost story told by the ghost! Perfect for all ages.
Set in South Georgia, forty years after the Civil War, "Obadiah: A Ghost’s Story" is the tale of Obadiah Sampson, a carpenter’s assistant who dies while helping to build a strange house for one of the town’s wealthiest...
