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Climb every mountain...
Find out how a fun-loving young girl was, motivated to turn early life tragedy and challenges into a life of freedom and 'mountain top' experience. Discover how a strong faith, courage and tenacity were, required to reverse her destiny and find her true-identity.
This memoir is of one of Western Australia's first female Anglican deacons and priest to be, given a Parish within the North Eastern Goldfields incorporating Leinster,...
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The 3The 365 Days volumes are a series of twelve books intended to teach, edify, and inspire you in your walk with God. Interspersed with poetry and the creative word, the 365 Days volumes elicit your written responses too. These books become an asset for spiritual growth, encouraging you to ponder questions, compose your thoughts, and create your own poetry alongside of IvyRose.
Written for daily reading, each book immerses you into one topic and...
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What is Anglicanism?
There are many associations that come to mind. Whether it is the buildings, the unique history, the prayers, or church government, often we emphasize one aspect against others. Is the Anglican church a Protestant church with distinctive characteristics, or a Catholic Church no longer in communion with Rome?
In Anglicanism: A Reformed Catholic Tradition, Gerald Bray argues that some theological trajectories are more faithful...
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Are the world's great religions ultimately all the same?
Christianity and Pluralism is a collection of concise yet thoughtful essays by J. I. Packer and Ron Dart, interacting with and responding to the four traditional models used to answer the existence of multiple faiths (exclusive, inclusive, pluralist, and syncretist), but focusing particularly that form of syncretism which claims that all faiths find commonality through their mystical traditions....
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Relates one of the most remarkable lives in the tumultuous English Reformation
Thomas Cranmer (1489—1556) was the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the author of the Book of Common Prayer, and a central figure in the English Protestant Reformation. Few theologians have led such an eventful life: Cranmer helped Henry VIII break with the pope, pressed his vision of the Reformation through the reign of Edward VI, was forced to recant under...
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COULD YOU USE SOME HOPE RIGHT NOW?
Come encounter A LIVING HOPE that will never fail...
Peter's first letter is full of hard-earned wisdom, offering:
• Hope for those who long.
• Hope for those who struggle.
• Hope for those undergoing trials.
• Hope for those who feel lost or unseen.
• Hope for those who have failed, miserably.
• Hope for those who wonder if God is there or if he is good.
• Hope for us.
Join Peter's first audience,...
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Evangelical Christianity is one of the most formative and least acknowledged movements in Australian history. This book accords evangelicals their rightful place in the development of Australian identity and values. Evangelicalism focuses on the gospel, the God-given means not only of the salvation of individuals, but also of the renovation of society and culture. In this original and stimulating study, Stuart Piggin argues that evangelicalism is...
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To the astonishment and dismay of Anglican leadership in the Global North, Nigeria's Archbishop Peter Akinola led the Global South's revolt against the campaign to normalize homosexuality within the global Anglican communion. For this, he was twice recognized by Time magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People" on earth. As shepherd of an immense Nigerian flock, he joined arms with like-minded archbishops in Africa, Asia, and South America...
109) Stormin' Norman
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For forty-three years, Norman Stockwell preached the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as an Episcopal priest. He left behind a treasure trove of sermons and other papers that his son, Peter Stockwell, inherited. In 2015, Peter began a blog using his dad's sermons as the basis for the material. Along with his commentaries about each sermon, the number of presentations grew into a small group of related sermon, that became the Stormin' Norman series....
110) Religion and Health
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James Joseph Walsh, M.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D. (1865-1942) was an American physician and author, born in New York City. He graduated from Fordham College in 1884 and from the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.) in 1895. After postgraduate work in Paris, Vienna and Berlin he settled in New York.
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Philip Turner's contributions as a leader and thinker in Christian missions and social ethics are here engaged by an array of friends and colleagues. Turner's scholarly and clerical career spans a key era of transition in American and world Christianity, and his thinking and teaching about the intersection between ecclesial and civil life have encouraged several generations of Christian theologians and ministers. The essays in this collection touch...
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This long-awaited companion volume to Howard E. Galley's classic The Ceremonies of the Eucharist provides clergy, liturgical assistants, and altar guild members with clear, step-by-step guidance for the liturgies of Lent and Easter. In addition to background material for the traditions and theology of each season, Mitchell includes specific preparations and instructions for each liturgy of the paschal cycle-Ash Wednesday through Pentecost-as well...
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Making the Word of God Fully Known is a collection of essays on church, culture, and mission relevant for the Australian church in honor of the sixty-fifth birthday of Archbishop Philip Freier, archbishop of Melbourne. The essays cover aspects of mission strategy, ministry of women, ministry to Australian indigenous people, responding to past history of child sexual abuse, and issues of liturgy and ecclesiology. The target is Australian ministers...
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How did a thirteenth-century Italian friar become one of the best-loved saints in America? Around the nation today, St. Francis of Assisi is embraced as the patron saint of animals, beneficently presiding over hundreds of Blessing of the Animals services on October 4, St. Francis's Catholic feast day. Not only Catholics, however, but Protestants and other Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and nonreligious Americans commonly name him as one of their...
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Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, is, credited with a pivotal role in the English Reformation. As well as, playing a leading part, together with Henry's Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell, in securing the separation of the Church in England from the authority of the Roman Church and the Pope, enabling Henry both to marry his mistress, Anne Boleyn, and to become Supreme Head of the Church of England, he also began, prior to Henry's death...
116) Spiritual Mindset
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This book takes a different approach to the subject of faith. Faith is, presented as a mindset. Consequently, thinking is the mental faculty that makes faith possible. The emphasis is on how important thinking is to our spiritual well-being. This means spiritual terms typically defined one way must be, seen in a different light. For example, to believe is a mental act that can bring about a spiritual benefit. Believing is simply thinking God's word...
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This uniquely Canadian volume tells stories of Ellie Johnson, missiologist and director of Partnerships at the Anglican Church of Canada from 1994 to 2008. More than that, this book tells of God's mission, and how the Anglican Church of Canada participated in that mission with our ecumenical partners.
Since the Anglican Congress of 1963, through the years of the ecumenical justice coalitions of the 1970s and 1980s, through the drastic organizational...
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In the past century the ecumenical movement has made extraordinary efforts in healing the wounds of division in the body of Christ-the church. However, in their formal preparation for ministry, many clergy learn little or nothing about the achievements, methods, or implications of ecumenism. This failure to adequately educate and inspire successive generations of Christian leaders about the quest for the church's visible unity risks not only an irretrievable...
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The journey to loving people more than theological concepts requires faith and hope. The connections between these virtues are not immediately obvious, but to those on the journey these virtues are the rubber that meets the road to life. They help us grow in emotional stability and peace and help keep us teachable so that we continue to learn how to love the people in our lives through caring as they change. If you want inspiration to overcome procrastination,...
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Moving reflections from an influential Anglican pastor, theologian, and teacher
In this compelling memoir, Anthony Harvey traces the three ways he has felt drawn throughout his life- to a ministry in the Anglican priesthood, to a profession in theological scholarship, and to his marriage and family.
Harvey recounts his training of clergy in Canterbury, his time as canon of Westminster Abbey, his teaching and research at the University of Oxford,...
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