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The original guide to "practicing the presence of God" "We must not
grow weary of doing little things for the love of God, who looks
not on the great size of the work, but on the love of it." In this
classic work, which has instructed and inspired millions, a humble
17th-century monk reveals the secrets of daily, moment-by-moment
fellowship with God. "In the way of God, thoughts count very
little," writes Brother Lawrence, who spent much of his monastic
life in the kitchen. "Love does it all." Full of realistic honesty,
friendliness, and simplicity, Brother Lawrence shows that it is
possible to meet God amongst the pots and pans-in the ordinary,
daily events of life. This edition, rendered from the original
French into graceful, contemporary English, will nourish and
delight all those who seek to practice the presence of God.
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Kingdom Come (Hardcover)
Jason Byassee, Jeremy Kidwell, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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Discussion around the bestseller The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher
has led many people to want to know more about Benedictine
principles.??????? Listen, my child. I want you to put the ear of
your heart to the solid ground of the master's wisdom (what I
received, I'm passing on to you). It's advice from a spiritual
father who loves you-the sort of counsel you receive by letting it
shape your whole life. Listening is hard work, but it's the
essential work. It opens us up to the God we've rejected by only
listening to ourselves. If you're ready to give up your addiction
to yourself, this message is for you: to listen is to equip
yourself with the best resources available to serve the real
Master, Christ the Lord. So begins the famous opening paragraph of
Benedict's Rule in Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove's vital, new,
contemporary paraphrase. The entire text of the Rule is here plus a
lengthy introduction from Jonathan, and detailed explanatory notes
throughout that explain difficult passages. The result is a classic
re-introduced that will enliven any 21st century expression of
religious community.
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A Riff of Love (Hardcover)
Greg Jarrell; Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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Being Church (Hardcover)
John F 1941- Alexander; Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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When Sarah and Tom Arthur were appointed to a suburban church after
three years in an urban Christian community, they faced a unique
challenge: how to translate the practices of "radical" faith into
their new context. Together with their friends and fellow church
members Erin and Dave Wasinger, the Arthurs embarked on a yearlong
experiment to implement twelve small practices of radical
faith--not waiting until they were out of debt or the kids were out
of diapers or God sent them elsewhere, but right now. This book is
Sarah and Erin's story, told with humor, theological reflection,
and practical insight, exploring such practices as simplicity,
hospitality, accountability, sustainability, and social
justice--but, most of all, discernment. Along the way readers will
consider how God might be calling them to embark on their own year
of small but radical changes, right where God has planted them.
Each chapter includes discussion questions and suggested readings.
Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. For more information, visit
[www.YearofSmallThings.com](http://www.YearofSmallThings.com).
Fifty-two readings on living in intentional Christian community to
spark group discussion. Gold Medal Winner, 2017 Illumination Book
Awards, Christian Living Silver Medal Winner, 2017 Benjamin
Franklin Award in Religion, Independent Book Publishers Association
Why, in an age of connectivity, are our lives more isolated and
fragmented than ever? And what can be done about it? The answer
lies in the hands of God’s people. Increasingly, today’s
Christians want to be the church, to follow Christ together in
daily life. From every corner of society, they are daring to step
away from the status quo and respond to Christ’s call to share
their lives more fully with one another and with others. As they
take the plunge, they are discovering the rich, meaningful life
that Jesus has in mind for all people, and pointing the church back
to its original calling: to be a gathered, united community that
demonstrates the transforming love of God. Of course, such a life
together with others isn’t easy. The selections in this volume
are, by and large, written by practitioners—people who have
pioneered life in intentional community and have discovered in the
nitty-gritty of daily life what it takes to establish, nurture, and
sustain a Christian community over the long haul. Whether you have
just begun thinking about communal living, are already embarking on
sharing life with others, or have been part of a community for many
years, the pieces in this collection will encourage, challenge, and
strengthen you. The book’s fifty-two chapters can be read one a
week to ignite meaningful group discussion. Contributors
include:Â John F. Alexander, Eberhard Arnold, J. Heinrich
Arnold, Johann Christoph Arnold, Alden Bass, Benedict of Nursia,
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, Leonardo Boff, Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Joan Chittister, Stephen B. Clark, Andy Crouch, Dorothy Day,
Anthony de Mello, Elizabeth Dede, Catherine de Hueck Doherty,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jenny Duckworth, Friedrich Foerster, Richard J.
Foster, Jodi Garbison, Arthur G. Gish, Helmut Gollwitzer, Adele J
Gonzalez, Stanley Hauerwas, Joseph H. Hellerman, Roy Hession, David
Janzen, Rufus Jones, Emmanuel Katongole, Arthur Katz, Søren
Kierkegaard, C. Norman Kraus, C.S. Lewis, Gerhard Lohfink, Ed
Loring, Chiara Lubich, George MacDonald, Thomas Merton, Hal Miller,
José P. Miranda, Jürgen Moltmann, Charles E. Moore, Henri J. M.
Nouwen, Elizabeth O’Connor, John M. Perkins, Eugene H.Peterson,
Christine D. Pohl, Chris Rice, Basilea Schlink, Howard A. Snyder,
Mother Teresa, Thomas à Kempis, Elton Trueblood, and Jonathan
Wilson-Hartgrove.
FOR DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE THE USA. Common Prayer helps today's
diverse church pray together across traditions and denominations.
With an ear to the particulars of how various liturgical traditions
pray, and using an advisory team of liturgy experts, the authors
have created a tapestry of prayer that celebrates the best of each
tradition. The book also includes a unique songbook composed of
music and classic lyrics to over fifty songs from various
traditions, including African spirituals, traditional hymns,
Mennonite gathering songs, and Taize chants. Tools for prayer are
scattered throughout to aid those who are unfamiliar with liturgy
and to deepen the prayer life of those who are familiar with
liturgical prayer. Ultimately, Common Prayer makes liturgy dance,
taking the best of the old and bringing new life to it with a fresh
fingerprint for the contemporary renewal of the church. Churches
and individuals who desire a deeper prayer life and those familiar
with Shane Claiborne and New Monasticism will enjoy the tools
offered in this book as a fresh take on liturgy.
We learn who we are as we walk together in the way of Jesus. So I
want to invite you on a pilgrimage. Rwanda is often held up as a
model of evangelization in Africa. Yet in 1994, beginning on the
Thursday of Easter week, Christians killed other Christians, often
in the same churches where they had worshiped together. The most
Christianized country in Africa became the site of its worst
genocide. With a mother who was a Hutu and a father who was a
Tutsi, author Emmanuel Katongole is uniquely qualified to point out
that the tragedy in Rwanda is also a mirror reflecting the deep
brokenness of the church in the West. Rwanda brings us to a cry of
lament on our knees where together we learn that we must interrupt
these patterns of brokenness But Rwanda also brings us to a place
of hope. Indeed, the only hope for our world after Rwanda s
genocide is a new kind of Christian identity for the global body of
Christ---a people on pilgrimage together, a mixed group, bearing
witness to a new identity made possible by the Gospel."
Common Prayer Pocket Edition helps individuals and today s diverse
church pray together across traditions and denominations. With an
ear to the particulars of various liturgical prayer traditions, and
using an advisory team of liturgy experts, the authors have created
a tapestry of prayer that celebrates the best of each tradition.
This convenient and portable book also includes tools for prayer
scattered throughout to aid those unfamiliar with liturgy and
deepen the prayer life of those already familiar with liturgical
prayer. Common Prayer Pocket Edition adds new prayers for compline
(late evening) and for individual use, such as prayers for travel,
protection, and various blessings. It includes a table of days and
readings for the morning prayers as well as an annotated list of
saints and days to remember. Churches and individuals who desire a
deeper prayer life and those familiar with Shane Claiborne and New
Monasticism will enjoy the tools offered in this book as a fresh
take on liturgy."
A pastor's frank advice for Christians who want to bring the gospel
to their neighbors. Gold Medal Winner, 2016 Illumination Book Award
in ministry/mission, Independent Publishers How can Christians
represent the love of Christ to their neighbors (let alone people
in foreign countries) in an age when Christianity has earned a bad
name from centuries of intolerance and cultural imperialism? Is it
enough to love and serve them? Can you win their trust without
becoming one of them? Can you be a missional Christian without a
church? This provocative book, based on a recently uncovered
collection of 100-year-old letters from a famous pastor to his
nephew, a missionary in China, will upend pretty much everyone's
assumptions about what it means to give witness to Christ.
Blumhardt challenges us to find something of God in every person,
to befriend people and lead them to faith without expecting them to
become like us, and to discover where Christ is already at work in
the world. This is truly good news: No one on the planet is outside
the love of God. At a time when Christian mission has too often
been reduced to social work or proselytism, this book invites us to
reclaim the heart of Jesus' great commission, quietly but
confidently incarnating the love of Christ and trusting him to do
the rest.
Experience a deeper prayer life through this fresh take on ancient
liturgy for believers today. Designed to help individuals,
families, and congregations pray together across denominations,
this book of common prayer will help you and your community join
together each day with the same songs, scriptures, and prayers.
Composed under an advisory team of liturgy experts, these three
influential and inspiring authors have created Common Prayer--a
tapestry of prayer that will help the church be one as God is one.
This universal prayer book allows readers to greet each day
together, remembering significant dates and Christian heroes in
church history, as well as important historic dates in the struggle
for freedom and justice. There are morning prayers for each day of
the year, evening prayers for each of the seven days of the week, a
midday prayer to be repeated throughout the year, and prayers for
special occasions. In addition, there are morning prayers for Holy
Week. Common Prayer also includes a unique songbook composed of
music and classic lyrics to more than fifty songs from various
traditions, including African spirituals, traditional hymns,
Mennonite gathering songs, and Taize chants. Tools for prayer are
scattered throughout to aid those who are unfamiliar with liturgy
and to deepen the prayer life of those who are familiar with
liturgical prayer. Ultimately, Common Prayer makes liturgy dance,
taking the best of the old and bringing new life to it with a fresh
fingerprint for the contemporary renewal of the church.
The diverse contributors to this issue of Plough Quarterly focus on
what it means to be a peacemaker. Peacemaking, they show, is a
riskier and more ambitious undertaking than we may have imagined.
Today we must wage peace where thousands of children are being
murdered by militias or forced to fight as soldiers. We need
peacemakers in divided cities from Paris to Baltimore, peacemakers
in a culture with little tolerance for Christian witness, and
peacemakers in churches riven by ideological fights and petty
grudges, not to mention making peace with our spouses, and with
ourselves. Hear from active peacemakers on the frontlines of these
battles and explore insights on peacemaking from Thomas Merton,
Dorothy Day, Badshah Khan, Jeannette Rankin, Charles Spurgeon,
André Trocmé, Peace Pilgrim, Albert Schweitzer, Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, and Eberhard Arnold. And as always, Plough Quarterly
includes world-class art by the likes of Marc Chagall, Egon
Schiele, Lisa Toth, Carl Larsson, Ben Shahn, Mikalojus Konstantinas
ÄŒiurlionis, Paul Klee, Antonello da Messina, and others. Plough
Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to
put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth
articles, interviews, fiction, poetry, book reviews, and art to
help you put Jesus’ message into practice and find common cause
with others.
2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award - Political and Social
Sciences The religious Right taught America to misread the Bible.
Christians have misused Scripture to consolidate power, stoke
fears, and defend against enemies. But people who have been hurt by
the attacks of Christian nationalism can help us rediscover God's
vision for faith in public life. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove explores
how religious culture wars have misrepresented Christianity at the
expense of the poor, and how listening to marginalized communities
can help us hear God's call to love and justice in the world. He
highlights people on the frontlines of issues ranging from
immigration policy and voting rights to women's rights and
environmental stewardship. Through these narratives, we encounter a
recovery of values that upholds the dignity of all people.
Rediscover hope for faithful public witness that serves the common
good. Join the revolution.
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Kingdom Come (Paperback)
Jason Byassee, Jeremy Kidwell, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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A Riff of Love (Paperback)
Greg Jarrell; Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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There is a new trend afoot, one that goes against the prevailing
Western model, influenced by the values and principles of
international commerce. Presented here are five "signs of life,"
showcased by this network of movements best referred to as "new
friars." God's kingdom in the hands of the people of God, the
contributors to this book show us, is first and foremost
incarnational, which leads necessarily to gospel witness that is
devotional, communal, missional and marginal. With a survey of the
history of new friar movements and commentary by forerunner, this
seminal book, edited by Scott A. Bessenecker, paints a picture of
mission that is new only because it has been neglected for so long,
a mission that is truly good news to the people in its path. With
contributions from Viv Grigg, Craig and Nayhouy Greenfield, Derek
Engdahl, Jean-Luc Krieg, Chris Heuertz, Darren Prince, Jose Penate
Aceves, John Hayes and Ash Barker, this book brings together a
chorus of voices at the front lines of what God is doing through
the new friar community.
Description: Delving into the widespread, contemporary longing for
a more serious and communal experience of Christianity, this book
provides important theoretical underpinnings and casts a vision for
a new monasticism within the Wesleyan tradition. Elaine Heath and
Scott Kisker call for the planting of neo-monastic churches which
embody the Wesleyan vision of holiness in postmodern contexts. This
book also points toward some vital shifts that are necessary in
theological education in order to equip pastors to lead such
communities. Longing for Spring helps Wesleyans of all stripes
understand the theory and praxis necessary for planting
neo-monastic communities as a new model of the church that is
particularly important in the postmodern context. The authors write
in an engaging, conversational style that is conversant with
postmodern culture, yet thoroughly informed by critical research.
Heath and Kisker boldly challenge the imagination of the church,
both within and beyond Wesleyan traditions, to consider the
possibility of revitalizing the church through the new monasticism.
Endorsements: ""Welcome to the world of New Methodism, exciting
evidence of the work of the Holy Spirit in the church today. New
Methodism comes to us with contributions from the New Monasticism,
John Wesley, Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove, and an emerging generation
who are leading us to a fresh appreciation of what God intends the
church to be. This is a wonderful book that quickly gives the
theological rationale for a reformed church and then gives
practical advice on how to grow to be a new church. This is
exciting "" --Will Willimon Bishop, The North Alabama Conference of
the United Methodist Church ""Longing for Spring connects United
Methodism with a historical and theological approach that is very
accessible, not to mention inspirational. I read it on an airplane
and people around me wondered what I was reading because the
authors' writing is so delightful at times that I was laughing out
loud I can't wait to make my first appointment of a clergy to a
monastic community."" --Sally Dyck Resident Bishop of Minnesota,
The United Methodist Church ""Elaine and Scott are the best of
guides for hungry Methodists. Their description of Wesleyan renewal
is inviting. Their prescription for transformation is possible. I
will be using this book in my class, our neighborhood and our
congregation. What a blessing "" --Amy Laura Hall Duke University
About the Contributor(s): Elaine A. Heath is the McCreless
Assistant Professor of Evangelism at Perkins School of Theology,
Southern Methodist University. She is the author of Out of the
Night (2008). Scott Kisker is the James Cecil Logan Associate
Professor of Evangelism and Wesley Studies at Wesley Theological
Seminary, and is the author of Foundation for Revival (2007).
Description: If the church is more than just a building, what could
it mean to live in it--to inhabit it as a way of life? From their
location in new monastic communities, Otto, Stock, and
Wilson-Hartgrove ask what the church can learn from St. Benedict's
vows of conversion, obedience, and stability about how to live as
the people of God in the world. In storytelling and serious
engagement with Scripture, old wisdom breathes life into a new
monasticism. But, like all monastic wisdom, these reflections are
not just for monks. They speak directly to the challenge of being
the church in America today and the good news Christ offers for the
whole world. Endorsements: Conversations between contemporary
Christian communities and Benedictine monasticism are among the
most surprising and promising in the church today. Given that the
roots of monasticism and of contemporary Protestantism lie in
different parts of the Christian tradition, mutual engagement
between contemporary Christians and monastics has been rare.
Recently, however, the scene has shifted, and Inhabiting the Church
represents the new eagerness to learn the art of living together
faithfully from experienced and ancient practitioners. --Christine
D. Pohl from the foreword ""Protestants looking for a richer,
thicker, more robust and enchanted way of living into the Christian
story should not ignore this invitation into the rhythms and
cadences of Benedictine spirituality. Indeed, only one kind of
person should avoid this book: the reader who does not wish to be
changed."" --Lauren F. Winner author of Girl Meets God and Real Sex
""This book is a timely intersection of the new and ancient,
breathing fresh life into an aging body. An older generation will
nd this book a long-awaited reassurance that the Spirit is still
stirring radical nonconformity on the margins of empires. And the
contemporary renewal of new monastics and prophetic tricksters will
nd a cure for the pretension and sloppiness that can so often taint
our vision or tempt us to pretend that there is 'something new
under the sun.' With both courage and humility, we will all nd
ourselves invited to inhabit the incarnational body that makes God
visible to the world . . . May it inspire all of us to become the
church that God longs for."" --Shane Claiborne author of The
Irresistible Revolution, founding member of The Simple Way, and
recovering sinner ""These folks are bringing things both old and
new out of the great Christian storehouse The New Monasticism is
discovering what is always rediscovered--and always bears great
life for the Gospel."" --Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M. Center for Action
and Contemplation Albuquerque, New Mexico About the Contributor(s):
Jon Stock is a member of Church of the Servant King, publisher of
Wipf and Stock, and proprietor of Windows Booksellers in Eugene,
Oregon. Tim Otto serves as an Associate Pastor of the Church of the
Sojourners in San Francisco. He is also a part-time nurse at the
San Francisco county hospital, working with AIDS and cancer
patients. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a member of Rutba House in
Durham, North Carolina. He is the author of To Baghdad and Beyond.
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