Liturgy, Drama, Music & Art

Acting in Faith

A complete, step-by-step guide to starting your own church drama group, Acting in Faith covers every aspect of running a theater program, including information on producing, directing, acting, finding scripts, making and procuring props, sets and costumes, as well as charts and schedules to help make your process of creating theater as smooth as possible.

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Artworks: Angels and Holy Spirit

A collection of high-resolution original line art images.  These images were drawn by Mary Kenny, and arise out of a deep prayer life.  The images are colorful and intriguing, inviting further investigation and discussion, and can be used for personal or organizational use. Perfect for coloring (teens especially love them!) as well as special bulletins, notecards and almost anything you can imagine.

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Artworks: Re-imagine Cross

A collection of high-resolution original line art images.  These images were drawn by Mary Kenny, and arise out of a deep prayer life.  The images are colorful and intriguing, inviting further investigation and discussion, and can be used for personal or organizational use. Perfect for coloring (teens especially love them!) as well as special bulletins, notecards and almost anything you can imagine.

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ArtWorks: Revised Common Lectionary

A collection of high-resolution original line art images for every Sunday of Years A, B and C of the RCL. Also includes drawings for major Holy Days.These images were drawn by Mary Kenny, and arise out of a deep prayer life. The images are intriguing, inviting further investigation and discussion, and can be used for personal or organizational use. Perfect for bulletins, notecards and almost anything you can imagine.

 

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Artworks: Stations of the Cross

Fourteen Stations of the Cross drawings and the Jubilee Drawings by artist Mary Kenny. These drawings of the Stations are suitable for framing, conducive to meditation and useful for Lenten reflection by individuals and groups. Experience the liberating power of Christ's love through these powerful images. The Jubilee Drawings are an ecclectic collection of 21 images you can use as clip art in newsletters, bulletins or posters. 

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Artworks: Sun, Moon and Start

A collection of high-resolution original line art images.  These images were drawn by Mary Kenny, and arise out of a deep prayer life.  The images are colorful and intriguing, inviting further investigation and discussion, and can be used for personal or organizational use. Perfect for coloring (teens especially love them!) as well as special bulletins, notecards and almost anything you can imagine.

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Baptism: The Event and the Adventure

This collection of resources for baptism and baptismal living includes education programs for parents/godparents, youth and adult baptismal candidates, retreat formats, sermons, liturgies, bulletin inserts, catechumenal programs and a host of suggestions for supporting ministry in daily life.

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Emerging Worship e-Manual

Exploring Worship in the Ancient-Future Church

by The Revs. Linda L. Grenz and Laura Rose

What is emerging worship? How can our congregation explore what it means for us. This resource focuses on mainline churches can learn from  the Emergent Church movement in the United States and the Fresh Expressions movement in England. One of us (Linda) is a priest in the Episcopal Church and the other (Laura) is a pastor in the United Church of Christ. So we will bring those perspectives into this resource.

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Lift Up Your Hearts

EXPLORING THE EUCHARIST

Help adults develop a deeper understanding of the Eucharist. This program guides them through the Eucharistic service and involves them in the key aspects of confession, proclamation, offering and thanksgiving. It helps participants explore how they live those dimensions in daily life. Great for those new to the church and for congregations seeking to deepen their understanding of the Eucharist. Also includes liturgical notes outlining two ways to develop an instructed Eucharist for your congregation.

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Prayers & Blessings from "Feast of the Universe"

AN INTERFAITH SOURCEBOOK OF ECOLOGICAL SPIRITUALITY

Compiled and Edited by Anne Rowthorn

Invocations are provided to start the day and benedictions to end it. A series of theological prayers for all occasions along with table blessings, litanies and responsive readings are included. She also gives worship planners with a partial list of fun and fanciful, serious and solemn occasions to celebrate a creation liturgy, a community event or festival, or to plant a tree on a special day, or just to spend a few moments contemplating the majesty of God‟s creation A starter list of Biblical ecological readings and a list of environmental hymns from ten English language hymnals completes this useful resource. This compilation of prayers and blessings will be especially appreciated by clergy, church music directors, and worship leaders.

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Psalm Meditations

A great resource to enrich your worship service! This resource provides a meditation on each Psalm appointed for the church year and reflection questions for personal meditation or group discussion. Use as a bulletin insert that invites worshippers to meditate on the Psalms before the service or take home and reflect on during the week.

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Song of the Universe

EARTH POEMS AND PROSE FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Compiled and Edited by Anne Rowthorn

Anne Rowthorn believes that poets, prose writers, and philosophers offer us a multitude of ways to see the earth. They open earth's door and invite us to step into the garden of the universe. Language can move us to action; and her agenda in editing this stimulating collection of writings about nature from around the world is to challenge us to protect the natural world from ourselves.

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Water, Bread and Wine

Should we offer communion to people
before they are baptized?

Just a few years ago, almost every Episcopal Church used the same invitation to the eucharist: “All baptized Christians are welcome to receive the eucharist.” Then something changed. And it changed quickly. Today you can hear a wide range of invitations offered by the priest or printed in the bulletin. Some of them will still mention “baptized Christians.” But you also will hear many different versions of an “open” invitation.

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