With the aid of case histories and checklists, this guide addresses the responsibilities and potential problems that face the churchwardens of the twenty-first century. The content of this guide is designed to relate closely to real life situations.

Churchwardens: A Survival Guide : The Office and Role of Chruchwardens for the 21st Century

Religion & Spirituality

Dudley, Martin

Worship & Devotion

Society for Promoting Christian

A series of meditations for Lent, Holy Week and Easter which draws on the liturgy and biblical material of the season. The book begins with the reception of ashes on Ash Wednesday and the recognition that we are dust returning to dust. This is overlaid by the theme of becoming a new creation in Christ, and participating in his resurrection and in the glory to come. We are led to explore our humanity, both sinful and redeemed, and our progress in discipleship, as well as the main facets of the passion.

Ashes to Glory

SPCK Publishing

Although not normally considered to be a liturgical season, autumn does have a degree of unity in religious and secular terms. These reflections for use from September to November explore, among other things, the idea of times and seasons, angels, All Saint's Day and the different kinds of saints, the glorious company of the Apostles, the Christian commemoration of the war dead, and the kingship of Christ over all things.

Crowning the Year - Autumn in Christian liturgy and devotion

Christian Books & Bibles

This book is about parish ministry and how to survive it. 'Survival' means to make it through the storm and outlast ones opponents! This is a practical handbook based on the premise that with preparation and careful foundation work, the problems facing the life of the ordinary clergy can be prevented. Looking at themes of crisis management, models of leadership, resource-management and then at the risks taken in carrying out the God-given calling and providing concrete examples of difficult situations, Dudley and Rounding also give wise and heartening advice on limiting the damage if things do slip out of control.

The Parish Survival Guide

Reference

Rounding, Virginia

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Society for promoting Christian knowledge

Becoming a churchwarden can be a richly rewarding experience, but the role is not an easy one. This warmly written handbook will help all those considering, or already in, office to understand what is involved. Focusing throughout on real-life situations, including many case studies, it is a guide to: The responsibilities of a churchwarden; How to become a churchwarden; Working with the minister; The duties of a churchwarden through the year; What a churchwarden should know; What a churchwarden should ask; New tasks appropriate for the 21st century; What to do when problems arise Appendices containing relevant legal documents and other useful resources complete the book, making it a comprehensive aid to negotiating this important office.

Churchwardens: A Survival Guide (Revised Edition)

"Martin's book is the delighted exclamation of someone who has learnt – is learning – to swim in the ocean that is Orthodoxy: "Come on in; it is lovely here!"--Andrew Louth Until now, there has been little in the way of an accessible guide for those who seek to become or live as Orthodox Christians. A new convert himself, Martin Dudley is familiar with the questions, feelings and challenges that arise. He explains that, to grasp Orthodoxy, we must think and act as the Orthodox do. This involves suspending the Western analytical tendency and allowing free rein to the synthetic tendency, which enables us to detect a unity and perceive, however dimly, the interaction between the parts and the whole in relation to God and the Church. The author draws on a wealth of material, from the Church Fathers to straight-talking Mother Thekla, to explore the essentials of belief. He provides guidance on participating in the Liturgy, the requirements for fasting, confession and the essentials of Orthodox prayer. In celebrating the culture of Orthodoxy – shaped by many different ethnicities and languages, gloriously expressed in art, music and literature – this volume fully conveys the rigor and joy of becoming and being Orthodox.

Being Orthodox: Faith and Practice in Eastern Orthodoxy

The idea that ordinary objects can be vessels of divine grace even as we ourselves can is in many senses a foundational theological issue. God's promise of salvation guarantees that we are capable of receiving grace. How God confers that grace—through words or deeds or through material things—bread and wine, oil and water—is the issue on which the Churches debate. What is the proper balance between the doctrines of salvation and of creation? This work concentrates on anointing in the sacraments and the use of oils for anointing. It looks to the history of the practice and its present form in the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Protestant Churches. The contributors are Roger Greenacre, Brian Horne, Stephanie Dalley, Angus Bowie, Roy Porter, Jeffrey John, John Halliburton, Sebastian Brock, Christine Hall, Martin Dudley, Geoffrey Rowell, Norman Autton, Maureen Palmer, Rebecca Abrams, Hugo Slim, and W. Jardine Grisbrooke.

The Oil of Gladness: Anointing in the Christian Tradition

Liturgical Pr

Donald Gray, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons Rector of St Margaret's, Westminster, Canon of Westminster, and Chairman of the Alcuin Club, has given distinguished service to liturgical renewal. This volume, celebrating his 65th birthday, brings together essays on aspects of the Word of God by a distinguished international group of scholars. The contributors are Horace Allen, Paul Bradshaw, Anne Dawtry, R. William Franklin, Sehon Goodridge, Anthony Harvey, Ruth A. Meyers, Michael Perham, Bryan Spinks, Kenneth W. Stevenson and Gordon Wakefield.

Like a Two-Edged Sword: The Word of God in Liturgy and History

Canterbury Press Norwich

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