Melissa Musick Nussbaum's Books

Our known world, the world of twenty-first century Americans, is shaped and defined by consumer choice. The premise of consumer choice is that somewhere the perfect fit between product and purchaser exists. In the books on changing traditions the consumerist tone prevails--fundamentalists looking for an even more literal interpretation of Scripture, Protestants going home to Rome, feminists heading to the womyncentric sacred grove, conservatives fleeing inclusive rites, Catholics embracing the independent seeker church. But the consumerist impulse masks the kind of prayer and discernment necessary for living in Christian community and for following God. Twenty-first century Christians do make choices, but the hope is that they do so because they follow God. How then is one to answer the question of whether to stay or leave? Through meditating on the fruits of the Spirit that Paul addressed to the church at Galatia, a community that had several of its members wondering whether to stay or leave, Bennett and Nussbaum offer sage reflections about what it means to be led into and out of Christian communions.

A delightful little book full of anecdotes, prayers and reflections about morning prayer, supported by sound theology and gutsy, earthy spirituality.

A mother and master storyteller shares reflections on her family's bedtime rituals and prayers.

Rahner's liturgy of the world, baptizing infants but delaying first communion, and design of worship spaces.

My First Holy Communion invites children to learn and to love the words we hear, pray, and sing at Mass each week. From the Introductory Rites to the Concluding Rites, this book helps children to understand why we gather as a community on Sundays to celebrate the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

A collection of forty Bible stories for children, which could be used as an accompaniment to the forty days of Lent.

My First Holy Communion is a rich, colorful invitation to learn and to love what we sing, say and do at Sunday Mass. It is an invitation to receive holy communion--the first and every time--as the sacred banquet of those who have listened to God's word, prayed together and given God thanks over the gifts of bread and wine. This delightful book is ideal for holiday gift giving and is the unique and wonderful first communion gift you have always wanted to give to the special children in your life.

Rahner's liturgy of the world, baptizing infants but delaying first communion, and design of worship spaces.

A mother and master storyteller shares reflections on her family's bedtime rituals and prayers.

A delightful little book full of anecdotes, prayers and reflections about morning prayer, supported by sound theology and gutsy, earthy spirituality.

Book's by Melissa Musick Nussbaum

Free to Leave, Free to Stay

Free to Leave, Free to Stay

I Will Arise This Day

I Will Arise This Day

I Will Lie Down This Night

I Will Lie Down This Night

Incongruities

Incongruities

My First Holy Communion

My First Holy Communion

Bible Stories for the Forty Days

Bible Stories for the Forty Days

Free to Leave, Free to Stay

Free to Leave, Free to Stay

My First Holy Communion

My First Holy Communion

Incongruities

Incongruities

I Will Lie Down This Night

I Will Lie Down This Night

I Will Arise This Day

I Will Arise This Day

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