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Spiritual Craftsmanship in the Sunshine

Beyond the tools of expression of these handcrafted buildings, the most powerful baseline continuity is the purpose of all the effort of their builders: To come closer to God.

Bringing Whole Selves to the Text

The New Testament in Color offers preachers, scholars, and students an accessible multiethnic resource for biblical research.

Our Paschal Life

Easter, as liturgical Christians understand, is not merely one day, but a full 50-day celebration; it’s even longer than the season of penitence that precedes it.

The Church’s Story in Song

Medieval historian and Lutheran pastor Paul Rorem has captured hymnody’s breadth and richness.

Why They Left

Jim Davis and Michael Graham are sensitive to issues of race and human sexuality, so Episcopal clergy can see them, if not as allies, at least as sympathetic fellow clerics.

A Complete Church

Ephrem Arcement looks at seven aspects of Christianity that he sees as necessary for a complete church, and how each aspect can help or hurt the promotion of the faith.

How Christianity Found its Footing in Sports

What Paul Putz achieves in The Spirit of the Game is narrating the history behind a prominent Christian athlete subculture.

Evangelizing Through Music

The Great Sacred Music program at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, attracts roughly 200 people each week and an average of 20,000 additional people watching online each month.

Lament and Celebration

Bishop Wright helps us live out the pattern of lament and celebration in a way that engages our hearts and minds.

A Reunion of Faith and Counseling?

The authors argue that a partnership between clinics and churches could extend the healing efforts of both communities.

A Liberal’s History of Anglican Thought

This account traces theology in England from early sources through the Reformation into a detailed account of the shaping of belief amid the rise of modernity.

A Compassionate Look at a Church’s Collapse

In a style known as immersion journalism, or long-form journalism, Griswold maps out the creation, initial energy, growth, pinnacle, downslide, erosion, and eventual demise of Circle of Hope.

Making Church Unity Tangible

Bishop Pierre Whalon correctly asserts the existence of a “wide gap between what the churches all share in common and how poorly we express that unity.”

A Story of God’s Transforming Power

“A good narrative—a Black one, at least—is not owned by any individual; it is, instead, the story of a people.”

Poetry and Prayer

Being Here Prayers for Curiosity, Justice, and Love By Pádraig Ó Tuama Eerdmans, 175 pages, $22.99 Invocation Collected Poems (1973-2021) By Travis T. DuPriest DuPriest Books, 240 pages, $27.95 Certain poems read like prayer....

Astrologers, Priests, and Kings

This book highlights features of Matthew’s, traces the development of the Magis’ story in early and medieval tales based on the biblical story, and surveys references to this great tradition.

A Place at the (S)table

Mia Anderson’s versatility as an actor was evident at the book launch of her latest work, O Is for Christmas: A Midwinter Night’s Dream, at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church in Toronto.

Discover Anew the Light and Glory of God

I found these volumes on Christmas and Epiphany to offer a depth of insight in slim volumes on seemingly well-known anchors in the calendar.

We Are a Christmas People

Andrew Gant demonstrates that solid academic scholarship can bud forth with content that is eminently — indeed, joyfully and artfully — accessible to readers.

Lord Harries on George Herbert in Advent

Lord Harries draws attention to George Herbert’s awareness of his sinfulness, and rightly points out that this is something modern people, including many modern Christians, would like to avoid thinking about.

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