Embrace God’s joy and restore a focus on Christian practices and the virtues they instill. Published in cooperation with Yale University and taking cues from theologians such as Miroslav Volf and recent reflections on joy as the crown of the good life, this ecumenical group...

Supervision can be a gift of grace. This book explores pastoral supervision in the context of leadership development and equips readers with practical tools with which to create and implement policies that will help ministers become better, more effective grace-filled leaders. The book is informed...

Shows the clear connection between justice and religious education in the Black experience. The resource sets forth the cultural imperatives of ministry and the contextual nature of a public theology of religious education that connects faith formation and action in addressing profoundly difficult, unjust, and...

A step-by-step guide for hearing and claiming God’s calling for your life. For students, youth and young adult pastors, counselors, chaplains, and campus ministers. The purpose of Find Your Place in God’s Mission is to help students find clarity about how God has uniquely gifted...

Transforming the Church so all are equal. Women have been the church, women are the church, and women will be the church. In 2020, the U.S. will commemorate the 100th anniversary of women’s voting rights. The United Methodist Church celebrated the 60th anniversary of full...

This book focuses on the Msisio Dei and the promise of the kingdom of God as the center of the message of all scripture. The book is divided into ten chapters that fall into three parts: the evangelization and mission of God in the Old...

Prayerful living results in a grace-filled life. Prayer is a way we communicate with God and grow into a deeper relationship with God. In prayer, at our “listening post,” God speaks with us. In our Methodist tradition, we believe, as did the Wesleys, that prayer...

A down-to-earth, practical introduction to the ins and outs of preaching. This book is for those who are newly arrived in the pulpit: lay preachers, bivocational and local pastors, as well as recent seminary graduates. Preaching is a fundamental task of pastors. and some say...

Mission: Conversation, Credibility, Connection Mission is often dismissed as an extraneous add-on or treated as simply another program among many. This book advocates for a new understanding of mission, one that connects it to the heart of what it means to live the Christian faith...

Drawing on Wesleyan themes of grace and responsibility, Watching Over One Another in Love provides step-by-step guidance for creating a covenant-based ministry assessment process that holds persons accountable for fruit-bearing faith. At the same time, it enables the experience of ministry assessment to be edifying...