Spiritual Growth

Morehouse Publishing 9781640655591 $18.95 paper | 5.5 x 8.5 | 208 Pages July 19, 2022

Shaky Ground

What to Do after the Bottom Drops Out Traci Rhoades New ways to heal the spirit during the most challenging times. Traci Rhoades, author of award-winning Not All Who Wander (Spiritually) Are Lost, continues to find profound beauty and endless insights in her spiritual wanderings among church traditions. In this new book, Rhoades encourages readers to explore practices—some ancient and others unconventional—that offer solace for those times when “the bottom drops out.” Sharing what she’s learned about God, Rhoades shakes off the limits of denominational boundaries, making this book particularly valuable for younger Christians or those who are longing to take a deeper dive into their faith. “Traci Rhodes’ Shaky Ground acknowledges the uncomfortable place we Christians find ourselves in the modern world and how the timeless love of God applies today more than ever. Traci weaves hope in her words and vision of a future for the church as it’s always existed: in the uncomfortable places where people seek meaning, understanding, and purpose, even in the middle of the most uncomfortable places of life.” —Anna Fitch Courie, author of the Christ Walk series TRACI RHOADES is a writer and Bible teacher. She is the author of Not All Who Wander (Spiritually) Are Lost. Connect with her online at tracesoffaith.com or @tracesoffaith on twitter. She lives near Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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“Christians looking for community will relish this memoir of embracing differences.” —Publishers Weekly 9781640652798 | $16.95 | paper

Building Resilience When There’s No Going Back to the Way Things Were Alice Updike Scannell Foreword by Stephanie Spellers “In a time of chaos and uncertainty on so many levels, this book is exactly what we need. Building Resilience gives insightful and practical steps to grow in the midst of challenge. It is an integrated approach for the journey and discovers joy and hope along the way.” —Sr. Simone Campbell, SSS, leader of NETWORK Lobby and Nuns on the Bus, author of Hunger for Hope 9781640653764 | $17.95 | paper

Church Publishing 9781640653535 $18.95 paper | 6 x 9 | 208 Pages March 22, 2022

Morehouse Publishing 9781640653634 $19.95 paper | 5.5 x 8.5 | 208 Pages March 22, 2022

Flow

Growing a Spiritual Yoga Practice in Church Susan W. Springer with Sirena Dudgeon A guide that shows that yoga and Christian faith can be harmonious. As church membership nationwide continues to decline, the number of yoga practitioners continues to steadily increase. What’s at the nexus point where the trajectories cross? What can the church learn from the popular success of yoga, and is it problematic to offer yoga in the church? How can churches offer yoga in a way that observes, appreciates, and builds upon the commonalities but which does not conflate the two traditions, each of which has its own integrity? Making the decision to offer yoga in the church requires humility: a confession that Episcopalians—and even Christians—do not hold the exclusive pathway to communion with the divine. “Here is a way for us to find, again and again, the center stillness with which we have always been endowed but often forget we have.” —Barbara C. Crafton, author of The Also Life SUSAN W. SPRINGER is an Episcopal priest and rector of St. John’s in Boulder, Colorado. She is the author of four children’s books and an adult non-fiction. She served on the board of the Episcopal Preaching Foundation and lectures in various clergy formation programs. She lives in Longmont, Colorado. SIRENA DUDGEON is a long-time student of asana and meditation practice with Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Trainings as an E-RYT 200, RYT 500, and YACEP Trainer. She teaches and offers monthly workshops; her classes and workshops emphasize a spiritual connection with the body, mind, and spirit. She lives in Longmont, Colorado.

The Gospel According to Improv

A Radical Way of Creative and Spontaneous Living Les Carpenter A guide to living a more courageous, adventurous, and faithful life with the principles of improv. This book will teach strategies to escape the oppressive voice of self-doubt, foster compassionate creativity, transform Christian faith into a meaningful life practice, and organize communities of faith based on the the principles of improvisational theater. Each chapter will focus on a skill or practice of improv, made relevant through autobiographical stories of and grounded in the Christian tradition. The end of each chapter will include brain exercises the average reader can do to strengthen the creative neural pathways required to master the improv skill for living. “This book will help everyone who longs to find the mystery of God’s presence in everyday experience—both church insiders and those who care about the life of the Spirit set loose in the world.” —The Rev. Paul Fromberg, rector of St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, San Francisco, and author of The Art of Disruption: Improvisation and the Book of Common Prayer LES CARPENTER is a long-time parish priest who is also an improviser. He is a noted speaker on the connection between ministry, leadership, and pastoral care and how those intersect with the practice of improv. Les is the rector of St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church in a northwest suburb of Houston. He lives in Houston, Texas.