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- Church renewal - United States - Case studies
From nomads to pilgrims : stories from practicing congregations
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/catalog5096
- Publication Date
- c2006
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BV 700 F76 2006
- Place
- Herndon VA
- Publisher
- Alban Institute
- Publication Date
- c2006
- Physical_Description
- xvi, 179 p. ; 21.6 x 13.8 cm.
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Notes
- "Edited by Diana Butler Bass and Joseph Stewart-Sicking".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "This book is the second based on our research, The Project on Congregations of Intentional Practice, a Lilly Endowment-Funded study housed at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. The project studied fifty vital mainline churches to discern patterns of Christian practice in renewing local congregations. The first book. `The Practicing Congregation: Imagining a New Church', outlined the theory and theology guiding the project. After its publication, interested readers (and a few reviews too) asked us for `more stories' of the congregations. To respond to these requests, we approached some of the pastors of the participating churches and enlisted them to share some stories about how a practice transformed their congregation, `From Nomads to Pilgrims' is the result". -- Acknowledgements, p. xv.
- "For three years my fellow researcher Joseph Stewart-Sicking and I studied vital mainline congregations. We discovered that they possessed a surprising capacity -- they invited spiritual wanderers into a pilgrimage through the practice of faith. We met many people like Nora Gallagher whose lives had been transformed by joining a faith community -- not by taking a membership class or signing a pledge card -- but through participating in a congregation's story, language, actions, and rhythms. .... they became Christians by acting like Christians in community with people on a pilgrimage of practice. .... The stories that follow are stories of metanoia, of individual and congregational change, of people on pilgrimage. .... From these pastors and the people they serve, we learned that two practices are foundational to pilgrim communities: discernment and hospitality." -- Preface, pp. xii-xiii.
- Contents: Contributors -- Preface / Diana Bass Butler -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : Christian Practice in the Congregation : The Structure of Vitality / Joseph Stewart-Sicking -- (Re)Discovering Tradition : Becoming God's Church / Roy Terry -- Paying Attention to God : Divine Coincidence / N. Graham Standish -- Enlarging Hospitality : Where Are the Children ? / J. Mary Luti -- Making Space for the Sacred : Practicing the Presence of God in Worship / Gary D. Jones -- Forming Faith : The WAY / Paul Hoffman -- Practicing Worship : From Message to Incarnation / Eric Elnes -- Proclaiming God's Word : Practicing What We Preach / Timothy Shapiro -- Speaking Faith : Grace Breaking In / Lillian Daniel -- Taking Risks : Full Gospel Church / Scott A. Benhase -- Saying Yes and Saying No : The Prayer of Jabez, The Passion of Christ, and a Tale of Two Congregations / Kenneth H. Carter, Jr. -- Navigating Culture : Polycultures and Digital Culture in the Postmodern Age / Steve Jacobsen -- Engaging Creativity : Journey to the Unfamiliar / Todd M. Donatelli -- Conclusion : Pilgrimage Congregations / Diana Butler Bass -- About the Project.
- Series
- Alban Institute publication ; AL 313
- Added Entry
- Bass, Diana Butler, 1959-
- Stewart-Sicking, Joseph A. (Joseph Anthony), 1973-
- Project on Congregations of Intentional Practice
- Benhase, Scott A. (Scott Anson), 1957-
- Carter, Kenneth H.
- Daniel, Lillian
- Donatelli, Todd M. (Todd Matthew), 1956-
- Elnes, Eric
- Hoffman, Paul E., 1943-
- Jacobsen, Steve
- Jones, Gary D. (Gary Durward), 1958-
- Luti, J. Mary, 1947-
- Shapiro, Timothy
- Standish, N. Graham (Nevin Graham), 1959-
- Terry, Roy
- Subjects
- Parishes - United States
- Church renewal - United States - Case studies
- Congregational development - United States
- Spiritual formation
- Liturgical renewal - Episcopal Church
- Public worship - United Church of Christ
- Preaching - Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
- Organizational change - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Prayer of Jabez
- Passion of the Christ (Motion picture)
- Technology - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Art and religion - Episcopal Church
- Christianity and culture - United States - 21st century
- ISBN
- 1-56699-323-7
- Call Number
- BV 700 F76 2006
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
Leading churches through change
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/catalog2427
- Author
- Walrath, Douglas Alan, 1933-
- Publication Date
- 1987, c1979
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries
- Call Number
- BV 652.25 W34 1979
- Author
- Walrath, Douglas Alan, 1933-
- Place
- Nashville TN
- Publisher
- Abingdon Press
- Publication Date
- 1987, c1979
- Physical_Description
- 124 p. ; 20 x 13 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "[By] Douglas Alan Walrath".
- "Creative Leadership Series. Lyle E. Schaller, Editor."
- "This book deals with problems of change in the church. In real life, there are as many failures as there are successes. Here are six case studies of typical churches, their problems, and some solutions, along with creative suggestions that can be applied to many situations" -- back cover.
- Contents: Foreword / Lyle E. Schaller -- Preface -- A Little Church Discovers a Big Potential -- How to Succeed or Fail by Merging -- The Hazards of Ministry in a Changing Community -- The Palatine Cluster: A Surprisingly Mixed Blessing -- A New Church That Didn't Make It -- An Old Church Reaches a New Generation -- The Challenge of Leadership in a Time of Change.
- Series
- Creative leadership series
- Added Entry
- Schaller, Lyle E. (Lyle Edwin), 1923-2015
- Subjects
- Church growth - Case studies
- Pastoral theology - Case studies
- Change - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Parishes - Mergers - Case studies
- Church renewal - United States - Case studies
- ISBN
- 0-687-21270-7
- Call Number
- BV 652.25 W34 1979
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries