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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
One of the New York Times' Most Memorable Literary Moments of the Last 25 Years! • New York Times Bestseller • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books...
$18.00
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
One of the New York Times' Most Memorable Literary Moments of the Last 25 Years! • New York Times Bestseller • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books...
$25.00
Back: Essays on the Soul and Spine of America
Acclaimed New Yorker contributor Lauren Michele Jackson delivers an essay collection devoted to the back—and the conflicting ideas we load upon it. Moving across literature, film, sport, visual art, and U.S. history, Jackson probes how the back carries powerful ideas about beauty,...
$27.00
Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action
Join the fight for racially marginalized people with this pocket-sized guide filled with practical insights from one of the leading voices of the movement for equality and founder of the @officialmillennialblack Instagram. As the tragic murder of George Floyd and...
$19.00
American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
$17.00
American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
A remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and expansive portrait of America itself. In this extraordinary feat of genealogical research—in the tradition of The Hemmingses of Monticello and Slaves in...
$17.00
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
A riveting narrative history of America, from the 1607 landing in Jamestown to the brink of the Civil War, Africans in America tells the shared history of Africans and Europeans as seen through the lens of slavery. It is told...
$39.00
What Makes Us Episcopalians?
A series of brief essays, ideal for study groups, that explores the history of the Episcopal Church and its four cornerstones: tradition, experience, reason, and scripture.
$13.00
What Is Anglicanism?
An accessible introduction to and basic understanding of Anglican heritage. The early chapters explore the Anglican consciousness, authority within the Church, and how Anglicans read the Bible. Other chapters cover Anglican understandings of the Incarnation, sacraments, liturgy, the Episcopacy, pastoral...
$18.00
Welcome to the Episcopal Church: An Introduction to Its History, Faith, and Worship
A comprehensive, easy-to-understand primer to the Episcopal faith for new members, inquirers, and Church members who are unfamiliar with its history, beliefs, and practices. Written in accessible language and in a conversational tone, this introduction to The Episcopal Church is...
$44.00
Welcome to the Episcopal Church: An Introduction to Its History, Faith, and Worship
A comprehensive, easy-to-understand primer to the Episcopal faith for new members, inquirers, and Church members who are unfamiliar with its history, beliefs, and practices. Written in accessible language and in a conversational tone, this introduction to The Episcopal Church is...
$22.00
Unexpected Consequences: The Diaconate Renewed
A critical look at the diaconate in the Episcopal ChurchTimes change, and the Order of Deacons in the Episcopal Church has not remained static. While the book seeks to update contemporary knowledge about deacons, it also shows how the diaconate...
$29.00
Once Upon a Time Not So Long Ago
The story of the COVID-19 pandemic and the changes it brought into our homes, schedules, and social lives, with journal pages to record your own memories. Children and adults alike will be processing the shock, loss, and disappointment of the...
$22.00
People of the Way: Renewing Episcopal Identity
By exploring the Episcopal Church’s mission and precepts in the context of 21st century and its challenges, this thoughtful book deepens the Church’s relationship with its people and makes the faith more relevant. Society and culture are constantly evolving so...
$25.00
The Spiritual Guidance of Children: Montessori, Godly Play, and the Future
This book is an important “history-of-traditions” work in which Godly Play founder Jerome Berryman re-visions religious education as spiritual guidance and traces the history of Montessori religious education through four generations. Berryman then highlights the development of the Godly Play approach to spiritual guidance...
$44.00
Soulfaring
Sister Cintra Pemberton seeks to enrich the experiences of today's pilgrims by helping them draw on the history of pilgrimage itself, as well as by suggesting particularly rich sites to visit. Part One of Soulfaring explores the history of pilgrimage, beginning in...
$33.00
Solidarity and Mercy: The Power of Christian Humanitarian Efforts in Ukraine
2025 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner, Journalism & Investigative Reporting From an international correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter's Global Sisters Report comes a powerful investigative work into the poignant acts of humanitarianism he witnessed during the Ukrainian war. In this touching, eye-opening...
$30.00
Holy Companions: Spiritual Practices from the Celtic Saints
The Celtic tradition continues to captivate readers. Centuries old, it seems to speak to the modern world with a fresh voice. In Holy Companions, readers are invited to get to know and journey with eighteen Celtic saints. The authors have provided...
$20.00
A History of the Episcopal Church - Third Revised Edition: Complete Through the 78th General Convention
"...a lively story of the Episcopal tradition"—E. Brooks Holifield A thorough, carefully researched history that sets church events against the background of social changes. Completely revised and updated, this third revised edition covers the history of the Episcopal Church up...
$122.00
A History of the Episcopal Church - Third Revised Edition: Complete Through the 78th General Convention
This thorough, carefully researched history sets church events against the background of social changes. This third revised edition will be up-to-date through the events of the 2012 General Convention of the Episcopal Church.
$49.00
A History of the Church in England: Third Edition (Revised)
A comprehensive history of the Christianity in Great Britain from the Roman Empire, through the Reformation and the 20th century. This authoritative account of the Church in England covers its history from earliest times to the late twentieth century. Includes...
$47.00
A History of Christian Spirituality: An Analytical Introduction
This modern classic explores the key concepts and people who have shaped our Christian spiritual heritage.Concise and readable Holmes begins this introduction to Christian spirituality with the Jewish antecedents, and proceeds through the New Testament period, monasticism, the Middle Ages,...
$27.00
The Fractured Kingdom: Uniting Modern Christianity Through the Historical Jesus
Bestselling biblical historian Jean-Pierre Isbouts weaves the origin stories of Christianity and the Lord's Prayer into a reinvigorating and urgent rallying cry for unity in the modern church.Modern Christianity is in the midst of a veritable schism along the fault lines of...
$29.00
Folk Like Me: The Read Aloud Book of Saints
The lives of the saints are either too grisly for little kids or too saccharine for older ones. But this collection appeals to both groups with a combination of gentle humor and frankness – battle-tested at the author’s weekly chapel...
$38.00
The First to Follow: The Apostles of Jesus
An examination of Jesus’s relationships with each of his first disciples other reveals ways to deepen our relationship with Him. One of the first things Jesus did in his ministry was to reach out to twelve individuals and draw them...
$29.00
Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church (Revised)
Why do so many evangelicals flock to liturgical traditions today? Robert Webber first explored the question in this thoughtful and engaging classic in 1989; now evangelical scholar and pastor Lester Ruth updates the conversation. Much remains of Webber s beloved...
$27.00
Downtown Monks: A Benedictine Journey in the City (Revised)
Downtown Monks tells the story of the challenges facing a community of Benedictine monks in their ministry of running a boys’ school amid the gritty realities of inner-city life in Newark, New Jersey. Father Holtz’s story remains an inspiration for readers...
$25.00
Deacons and the Church: Making Connections Between Old and New
xplores the pastoral implications of a new scholarly understanding of the role of deacons in the Early Church.In many churches today -- Catholic, Anglican, and others -- deacons have come to serve largely as servants of the poor and needy....
$44.00
The Cruelty of Heresy: An Affirmation of Christian Orthodoxy
A scholarly review of early Christian history and its policies against heresy and lessons for today’s church leaders and reformers Ancient heresies have modern expressions that influence our churches and culture, creating cruel dilemmas for today’s Christian in the form...
$25.00
Calling on the Spirit in Unsettling Times: Anglican Present and Future
Based upon addresses given to Anglican audiences in North America and Australia, Bill Countryman directly confronts the challenges that face Anglicans and other Western Christians at a time of internal division and increasing indifference to religion on the part of...
$44.00
A Brush with God: An Icon Workbook
Step-by-step instructions for painting icons, from original drawings through finished product. For more than a thousand years, Eastern Christians have used their hands and hearts to create icons, proclaiming God’s reality in a visible–and breathtakingly beautiful–way. This ancient art is...
$33.00