Copyright 1902
Illustrated, pages are in great condition 
Staining on back cover as pictured 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

William Butler The Founder of Two Missions

This is the 1943 reprint, pew edition of the famous hymnal by the Church Pension Fund. It contains hymns, antiphons, and canticles with only the melodic lines present (no harmony). This hymnal’s layout is easy to read and follow. The volume is in great condition. One minor corner bend on the top right corner of the cover. Binding is crisp. Pages are clean besides an inscription and signature on the front page from the previous owners (see photo above).

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Mexico

1940

The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United Stares of America

#paperback #religion #episcopal #church #faith #mission #evangelism #christian

This slim book is in like new condition with no wear to the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, though starting to yellow faintly around the edges. Covers have a couple of light dings around the edges but otherwise in excellent shape. Printed in 2012, 142 pp.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Renewing Episcopal Identity

By exploring the Episcopal Church's mission and precepts in the context of 21st century and its challenges, this thoughtful book deepens the Church's relationship with its people and makes the faith more relevant.

Society and culture are constantly evolving so must religion and its mission to remain meaningful. The legacies of establishment, benefactor approaches to mission, and the 'national church' ideal are no longer adequate for the challenges and opportunities facing the 21st century church. But if the Episcopal Church is no longer the Church of the Establishment and the benefactor model of church is dead, what is the heart of Episcopal mission and identity?

Scholar and Episcopal priest Dwight Zscheile draws on multiple streams of Anglican thought and practice, plus contemporary experience to craft a vision for mission that addresses the church's post-establishment, post-colonial context. With stories, practices and concrete illustrations, Zscheile engages readers in re-envisioning what it means to be Anglican in America today and sends readers out to build new relationships within their local contexts.

People of the Way

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California

God's Mission in a Time of Globalization and Crisis

On September 20, 2001, the planned date of the meeting of the Community of Bishops of the Episcopal Church, was radically altered by the events of the previous week. The planned topic was "God's Mission, God's Work in a Global Communion of Difference" which was to focus on reconciliation within the Anglican Communion. World events changed that. The essays of this book are the papers delivered at that meeting which evoked a perspective at once personal and yet global in a new way.

In the chapel where the meeting was held there was a cross with Christ holding a hammer. The Presiding Bishop spoke of this cross as being about the concept described in the Hebrew phrase, tikkun-olam or "repair of the world." The ensuing bishops' pastoral letter to the church stated, "Let us therefore wage reconciliation. Let us offer our gifts for the carrying out of God's ongoing work of reconciliation, healing and making all things new. To this we pledge ourselves and call our church."

Waging Reconciliation

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Challenges for the Church in the Twenty-First Century

Shaping Our Future

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#episcopal #bookofcommonprayer #christianity #religiouseducation

Alabama

Episcopalians consider themselves to be people whose individual and corporate lives are shaped by the Book of Common Prayer, but aside from worship on Sunday morning, few know what fills its nearly 1,000 pages. John Westerhoff, Episcopal priest and Christian educator, walks readers through the ways in which the contents of the Prayer Book can (and should) shape the lives of those who call themselves Episcopalians.

An excellent resource for parish study or reading in advance of seminary training, Westerhoff explores a brief history of the Prayer Book, and the ways in which it shapes us as pilgrims and prayerful people. How Episcopalians live into their baptism, live a Eucharistic and reconciling life, as well as a life of wholeness and health, are explored in detail. All of this, as Westerhoff writes, helps us lead a holy life, and one day, to a holy death.

Living Faithfully As a Prayer Book People

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William B. Gray

Betty Gray

No stickers,  notations, underlining or highlights.  No page creases.  Minor surface  spine,  edge wear. 

Georgia

An Introduction to Its History, Worship and Mission

Episcopal Church Welcomes You

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1977 Seabury press copy of the Book of Common Prayer. Condition is excellent. Only very slight shelf wear on the cover. Binding is tight, and there are no annotations.

Book of Common Prayer (1977)

#church #cathedral #history #minnesota #minnesotahistory #architecture #episcopal 

This beautiful coffee table style book is about the history of the Episcopal Cathedral in Faribault, Minnesota. Full of photos, original material, and great stories.

An Episcopal Community for Mission

The First Cathedral

1964, 3rd printing Morehouse-Barlow. Episcopal summary of faith with scriptural referents. Includes a clear paper jacket. The jacket has some rip wear, but the volume is in great shape. Only a couple of annotations on the front cover from the previous owners.

A Summary of Faith (1964) 

North Carolina

A Memoir of Faith

"This beautiful book is rich with wit and humanness and honesty and loving detail....I cannot overstate how liberating and transforming I have found Leaving Church to be." --Frederick Buechner, author of Beyond Words



"This is an astonishing book. . . . Taylor is a better writer than LaMott and a better theologian than Norris. In a word, she is the best there is." --Living Church



Barbara Brown Taylor, once hailed as one of America's most effective and beloved preachers, eloquently tells the moving and delightful story of her search to find an authentic way of being Christian--even when it meant giving up her pulpit.



Leaving Church

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Becca Stevens

Tennessee

The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling

"In the world of snake oils, you have to see the world a little differently. Where others see poverty, you see riches; where others see weeds, you see flowers; where others see sickness, you see openness." Becca Stevens calls herself a "snake oil seller": She takes natural oils, mixes them with a good story, sells them in an open market and believes they help to heal the world. Becca is the founder of Thistle Farms, one of the most successful examples in the US of a social enterprise whose mission is the work force. She is also the founder of its residential program, Magdalene. The women of Magdalene/Thistle Farms have survived prostitution, trafficking and addiction, and the natural body care products they manufacture-balms, soaps, and lotions-aid in their own healing as well as that of the people who buy them. The book weaves together the beginnings of the enterprise with individual stories from Becca's own journey as well as 20 women in the community. In Snake Oil, Becca tells how the women she began helping fifteen years ago have been the biggest source of her own healing from sexual abuse and her father's death as a child. Wise and reflective, Snake Oil offers an empowering narrative as well as a selection of recipes for healing remedies that readers can make themselves.

Snake Oil

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Can be opened and closed without much worry as the spine and pages are intact and attached well.  

Indiana

Arranged for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Select Psalms  John Wesley (1891)

Margaret Guenther

Florida

The Art of Spiritual Direction

Guenther uses the images of the spiritual director as host, teacher, and midwife to describe the ministry of spiritual direction today. She pays particular attention to spiritual direction for women, and addresses such down-to-earth questions as setting, time, and privacy. The stories of real people bring the practice of spiritual direction alive. "In the pages that follow, I will attempt to describe the shape that spiritual direction might take for people of our time, aware that the subject is an elusive one. I am speaking to the beginner, those persons lay or ordained, with or without formal theological training, who find themselves drawn to this ministry. Perhaps they feel the stirring of their own unacknowledged gifts. Or perhaps they wonder about receiving direction, whether it is a ministry available to 'ordinary people' or reserved for the especially holy. I hope some dark corners will be illuminated and some questions answered."

Holy Listening

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1889 edition of The Hymnal. This is an antique, and thus in antique condition. Please see photos for some binding issues. Dimensions are approximately 5.5 x 3.75 x 1 inches. Please note that this is a book of verses, not music, as shown in the example photos. 

Pennsylvania

As adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892

The Hymnal Revised and enlarged

1929 small compact hymnal with Psalter compiled by the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South

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By His Daughter

William Butler The Founder of Two Missions

John H. Fitzgerald; Franklin J. Clark

The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United Stares of America

Dwight J. Zscheile

People of the Way

Ian T. Douglas (Editor)

Waging Reconciliation

J. Stephen Freeman (Editor)

Shaping Our Future

John H. Westerhoff; John H. Westerhoff

Living Faithfully As a Prayer Book People

William B. Gray; Betty Gray

Episcopal Church Welcomes You

The Church Hymnal Corporation

Book of Common Prayer (1977)

Rev. Benjamin Ives Scott and Robert Neslund

The First Cathedral

C. B. Moss

A Summary of Faith (1964)

Barbara Brown Taylor

Leaving Church

Becca Stevens

Snake Oil

John Wesley

Select Psalms John Wesley (1891)

Margaret Guenther

Holy Listening

The New York Bible and Commom Prayer Book Society

The Hymnal Revised and enlarged

Methodist Episcopal Church, South

The Methodist Hymnal

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By His Daughter

William Butler The Founder of Two Missions

John H. Fitzgerald; Franklin J. Clark

The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United Stares of America

Dwight J. Zscheile

People of the Way

Ian T. Douglas (Editor)

Waging Reconciliation

J. Stephen Freeman (Editor)

Shaping Our Future

John H. Westerhoff; John H. Westerhoff

Living Faithfully As a Prayer Book People

William B. Gray; Betty Gray

Episcopal Church Welcomes You

The Church Hymnal Corporation

Book of Common Prayer (1977)

Rev. Benjamin Ives Scott and Robert Neslund

The First Cathedral

C. B. Moss

A Summary of Faith (1964)

Barbara Brown Taylor

Leaving Church

Becca Stevens

Snake Oil

John Wesley

Select Psalms John Wesley (1891)

Margaret Guenther

Holy Listening

The New York Bible and Commom Prayer Book Society

The Hymnal Revised and enlarged

Methodist Episcopal Church, South

The Methodist Hymnal