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I Am Mary

Advent Devotional

By: Carol Howard Merritt

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I Am Mary

Advent Devotional

By: Carol Howard Merritt

Open yourself to the divine chaos and wonder that Advent brings. Join young Mary as she experiences the surprise, confusion, fear, anticipation, and blessing that follows her brave response to God's call: "Here am I, Lord." Listen carefully, and you may hear that call in your own life. Best-selling author and minister Carol Howard Merritt leads us on a remarkable Advent journey with the blessed ordinary girl who becomes the holy and revered Mother of God. From the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Day, each daily devotion includes a scripture verse, a reflection, and a prayer. I Am Mary also features an Advent candlelighting service--a great liturgy for that special moment as you light the candles of Hope, Love, Joy and Peace, and the Christ candle at the center of the Advent wreath and our lives.

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Chalice Press

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0827231571

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9780827231573

Wounded Pastors

Navigating Burnout, Finding Healing, and Discerning the Future of Your Ministry

By: Carol Howard Merritt,James Fenimore

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Wounded Pastors

Navigating Burnout, Finding Healing, and Discerning the Future of Your Ministry

By: Carol Howard Merritt,James Fenimore

You’re not alone in your ministry. And you don’t have to suffer in silence. Ministry is a stressful vocation, with unspoken expectations, projected anxieties, and conflicting demands. After the pandemic caused a sudden shift to online worship and factions fighting over when and how to return to in-person worship, pastors have been leaving congregational ministry at even higher rates than usual. The emotional fallout of burnout and abuse at the hands of parishioners is something pastors carry for years, whether they stay or leave the congregation. Seasoned pastor Carol Howard Merritt and psychotherapist and former pastor James Fenimore join their expertise to offer validation, support, and guidance for pastors who have been hurt by the church. With wisdom that can come only from experience, they describe and define aspects of struggle and pain readers may have difficulty articulating or claiming for themselves, and they offer compassionate, informed guidance on how to find healing. A systems approach to conflict sheds light on the dynamics of church conflict and how clergy can tend their own well-being amid leadership challenges. The final chapter helps readers consider their overall vocational path based on what they’ve experienced and decide whether they can remain in congregational ministry or need to pursue a different line of work.

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Presbyterian Publishing Corp

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1646983734

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9781646983735

Healing Spiritual Wounds

Reconnecting with a Loving God After Experiencing a Hurtful Church

By: Carol Howard Merritt

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Healing Spiritual Wounds

Reconnecting with a Loving God After Experiencing a Hurtful Church

By: Carol Howard Merritt

An effective plan to help those suffering from wounds inflicted by the church find spiritual healing and a renewed sense of faith. Raised as a conservative Christian, minister and author Carol Howard Merritt discovered that the traditional institutions she grew up in inflicted great pain and suffering on others. Though she loved the spirituality the church provided, she knew that, because of sexism, homophobia, and manipulative religious politics, established religious institutions weren’t always holy or safe. Instead of offering refuge, these institutions have betrayed people’s hearts and souls. “People have suffered religious abuse,” she writes, “which can be different from physical injury or psychological trauma.” Though participation and affiliation in traditional religious institutions is waning, many people still believe in God. Merritt contends that many leave the church because they have lost trust in the institution, not in God. Healing Spiritual Wounds addresses the church’s dichotomous image—as a safe space and as a dangerous place—and provides a way to restore personal faith and connection to God for those who have been hurt or betrayed by established institutions of faith. Merritt lays out a multistage plan for moving from pain to spiritual rebirth, from recovering theological and emotional shards to recovering communal wholeness. Merritt does not sugarcoat the wrongs institutions long seen as trustworthy have inflicted on many innocent victims. Sympathetic, understanding, and deeply positive, she offers hope and a way to help them heal and reclaim the spiritual joy that can make them whole again.

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129

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HarperCollins

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006239228X

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9780062392282

30-Day Journey with Julian of Norwich

By: Carol Howard Merritt

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30-Day Journey with Julian of Norwich

By: Carol Howard Merritt

Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers. Through brief daily readings and reflections, the 30-Day Journey series invites readers to be inspired and transformed. By devoting a moment to meaningful reflection and spiritual growth, readers will find deeper understanding of themselves and the world, one day at a time. Valued since the fourteenth century for her spiritual insight, Julian of Norwich's powerful revelations remind us again and again of the power of divine love and that, with that love, all will be well. Whether you have long sought peace in her compelling words or are discovering her vision for the first time, this journey provides the perfect way to engage the thought of this beloved and wise mystic.

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Broadleaf Books

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1506464432

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9781506464435

Reframing Hope

Vital Ministry in a New Generation

By: Carol Howard Merritt

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Reframing Hope

Vital Ministry in a New Generation

By: Carol Howard Merritt

Much has been written about the changing landscape the church finds itself in, and even more about the church's waning influence in our culture. From her vantage point as an under-40 pastor, Carol Howard Merritt, author of Tribal Church, moves away from the handwringing toward a discovery of what ministry in, with, and by a new generation might look like. What does the substance of hope look like right now? What does hope look like when it is framed in a new generation? Motivated by these questions, Merritt writes Reframing Hope with the understanding that we are not creating from nothing the vital ministry of the next generation. Instead, we are working through what we have, sorting out the best parts, acknowledging and healing from the worst, and reframing it all.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1566996198

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9781566996198

Wounded Pastors

Navigating Burnout, Finding Healing, and Discerning the Future of Your Ministry

By: Carol Howard Merritt,James Fenimore

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Navigating Burnout, Finding Healing, and Discerning the Future of Your Ministry

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Tribal Church

Ministering to the Missing Generation

By: Carol Howard Merritt

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Tribal Church

Ministering to the Missing Generation

By: Carol Howard Merritt

Carol Howard Merritt, a pastor in her mid-thirties, suggests a different way for churches to be able to approach young adults on their own terms. Outlining the financial, social, and familial situations that affect many young adults today, she describes how churches can provide a safe, supportive place for young adults to nurture relationships and foster spiritual growth. There are few places left in society that allow for real intergenerational connections to be made, yet these connections are vital for any church that seeks to reflect the fullness of the body of Christ. Carol Howard Merritt, a pastor in her mid-thirties, suggests a different way for churches to be able to approach young adults on their own terms. Outlining the financial, social, and familial situations that affect many young adults today, she describes how churches can provide a safe, supportive place for young adults to nurture relationships and foster spiritual growth. There are few places left in society that allow for real intergenerational connections to be made, yet these connections are vital for any church that seeks to reflect the fullness of the body of Christ. Using the metaphor of a tribe to describe the close bonds that form when people of all ages decide to walk together on their spiritual journeys, Merritt casts a vision of the church that embraces the gifts of all members while reaching out to those who might otherwise feel unwelcome or unneeded. Mainline churches have much to offer young adults, as well as much to learn from them. By breaking down artificial age barriers and building up intentional relationships, congregations can provide a space for all people to connect with God, each other, and the world.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1566996856

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9781566996853

Fighting for Peace (Frames Series)

Your Role in a Culture Too Comfortable with Violence

By: Barna Group,,Carol Howard Merritt

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Fighting for Peace (Frames Series)

Your Role in a Culture Too Comfortable with Violence

By: Barna Group,,Carol Howard Merritt

There are lots of questions we must ask ourselves when we talk about violence, and our role in perpetuating it or in creating peace. Why are we, as Christians, more comfortable with violence in our movies than sex? What does it mean that Jesus called us to love our enemies? How can we, in our churches, cultivate a peace that might reshape society? Do we create it by constantly protesting violence? By preaching? By rethinking our foreign policy? By somehow making peace cool? Join Tyler Wigg-Stevenson and Carol Howard Merritt as they tackle these tough questions and others in this Barna Frame. Violence is a tough, timely topic, and one that we, as the Church, have the chance to transform.

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Zondervan

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0310433460

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30 Day Journey with Julian of Norwich

By: MERRITT

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30 Day Journey with Julian of Norwich

By: MERRITT

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1506464424

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I Am Mary

Advent Devotional

By: Carol Howard Merritt

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I Am Mary

Advent Devotional

By: Carol Howard Merritt

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Chalice Press

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Healing Spiritual Wounds

Reconnecting with a Loving God After Experiencing a Hurtful Church

By: Carol Howard Merritt

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Reconnecting with a Loving God After Experiencing a Hurtful Church

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HarperCollins

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006239228X

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The 100 Best Jobs for the 1990s and Beyond

By: Carol Kleiman

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The 100 Best Jobs for the 1990s and Beyond

By: Carol Kleiman

This national bestseller is essential for anyone building a career in today's fastest-growing fields. Chicago Tribune business columnist Kleiman draws on years of research to create a one-of-a-kind job directory, offering specific information and salary projections in ten fields ranging from health care to sales.

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Berkley

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0425141497

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9780425141496

Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

By: Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember,Robert D. Hoppa

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Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

By: Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember,Robert D. Hoppa

This comprehensive and scientific introduction to physical& anthropology& and archaeology is the only book to give& balanced treatment to both biological and cultural evolution and the interaction between them to help students understand what & humans are and were like and why they got to be that way.

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0130414662

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Book's by Carol Howard Merritt

I Am Mary

I Am Mary

Wounded Pastors

Wounded Pastors

Healing Spiritual Wounds

Healing Spiritual Wounds

30-Day Journey with Julian of Norwich

30-Day Journey with Julian of Norwich

Reframing Hope

Reframing Hope

Wounded Pastors

Wounded Pastors

Tribal Church

Tribal Church

Fighting for Peace (Frames Series)

Fighting for Peace (Frames Series)

30 Day Journey with Julian of Norwich

30 Day Journey with Julian of Norwich

I Am Mary

I Am Mary

Healing Spiritual Wounds

Healing Spiritual Wounds

The 100 Best Jobs for the 1990s and Beyond

The 100 Best Jobs for the 1990s and Beyond

Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

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