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|  | Meditations for New Moms by Sandra Drescher-Lehman
How does a new mom face the wonder and the wear that a baby brings? Sandra Drescher-Lehman gives language to the long hours of being with babies, the private fears, and the sudden gratitude for one`s own mother. With these brief meditations, she brings comfort and lends identification to this most basic, yet most personal experience. AUTHOR: Sandra Drescher-Lehman
PUBLISHER: Good Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality 
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 | Introduction to the Episcopal Church by Joseph B. Bernardin
This classic resource offers an enlightening overview of the Episcopal Church's fascinating history and lore, including the Church year, buildings, symbolism, its vestments, and customs. AUTHOR: Joseph B. Bernardin
PUBLISHER: Morehouse Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | High-Expectations by Thom Rainer
For over a quarter of a century the problem of losing church members has progressively increased. Today the situation is so bad that less than one-third of the members in some churches attend worship services. Church leaders are crying for help. In an effort to help church leaders, the Billy Graham School of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary conducted a massive research project involving nearly 287 churches. The most revealing aspect of the study was that the higher expectations placed on members, the greater the likelihood that the members would stay and be involved with the church. Using the data gathered from this project, Thom Rainer presents the first-ever comprehensive study about closing the back door. Rainer looks at why people are leaving the church and how church leaders can keep the members. AUTHOR: Thom Rainer
PUBLISHER: Broadman & Holman Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Trinity & Community by Miroslav Volf
This inaugural volume in the Sacra Doctrina series explores the relationship between persons and community in Christian theology. The focus is the community of grace, the Christian church. The point of departure is the thought of the first Baptist, John Smyth, and the notion of church as gathered community that he shared with Radical Reformers. Miroslav Volf seeks to counter the tendencies toward individualism in Protestant ecclesiology and to suggest a viable understanding of the church in which both person and community are given their proper due. In the process, Volf engages in a sustained and critical ecumenical dialogue with the Catholic and Orthodox ecclesiologies of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and the metropolitan John Zizioulas. The result is a brilliant ecumenical study that spells out a vision of the church as an image of the triune God. AUTHOR: Miroslav Volf
PUBLISHER: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Gnostic Scriptures by Bentley Layton
A segment of Christianity that sought enlightenment through personal revelation, the Gnostics who composed this literature were rejected by the early church and eventually sank into oblivion, and have only recently been reexplored. AUTHOR: Bentley Layton
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Leading the Team-Based Church by George Cladis
Church staffs are free from the tension, rivalry, backbiting, and dramatically high turnover rates that bedevil the rest of the working world, right? Wrong. Pastors and staff members are often deeply troubled by how un-Christian their congregations can be. Now George Cladis, pastor of a fast-growing mainline congregation, fills this important gap with advice for ministry teams on how to work together in ways that both embody the Christian message and call forth the full creativity and love of the entire team. Today's cultural environment calls upon church leaders to invent new ways of working together that enable teamwork among individuals with diverse ideas. In Leading the Team-Based Church, Cladis answers the call with a fresh model of church leadership that is based in theology and borrows from cutting-edge business strategies. Full of down-to-earth stories from his own experiences and those of clergy in both mainline and evangelical churches, this book enables pastors and church staffs to build trusting, collaborative ministry teams. AUTHOR: George Cladis
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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