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congregational formation resources
[ ekklesia project and the CFI ]

Our friends at the Ekklesia Project have recently undertaken a Congregational Formation Initiative (CFI). They have described this effort on their website:

The overarching goal of the Congregational Formation Initiative (CFI) is to develop creative and effective ways of supporting congregations that are committed to making lifelong formation and genuine discipleship central to their life together. To support this goal, the CFI will foster collaboration among pastors, scholars and lay persons to develop, employ, evaluate, refine and disseminate a wide range of resources that will help initiate and sustain congregational conversations about the fundamental identity and mission of the church.

The following is a list of resources that have been compiled as part of this iniative. These resources have been organized according the three phases of this iniative: "Introductory Materials", "Going Deeper" and "Even Deeper."

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Disciple of Peace: Alexander Campbell on Pacifism, Violence and the State
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The most comprehensive study ever done on the pacifism of Alexander Campbell.

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other books:

The Politics of God and the Politics of Man.
-- Jacques Ellul.

$15

The Body of Compassion: Ethics, Medicine and the Church.
-- Joel James Shuman.

$8

Living in Christian Community.
(hardcover)
-- Art Gish.

$15
[ introductory materials ]

Title / Author Price
The Strangest Way: Walking the Chrstian Path. -- Robert Barron.
$12
Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time.
-- Dorothy Bass.
$12.50
The People Called By God.
-- Inagrace Diettrich.
$10
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Manna and Mercy: A Brief History of God’s Unfolding Promise to Mend the Entire Universe. -- Daniel Erlander .
The Truth About God: The 10 Commandments in Christian Life.
-- Hauerwas and Willimon.
$8.50
Lord Teach Us: The Lord’s Prayer and Christian Life.
-- Hauerwas and Willimon.
$8
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering who Jesus was and is. -- N.T. Wright.
$12.50
Body Politics: Five Practices of the Christian Community Before the Watching World. -- J.H. Yoder.
$12
[ going deeper ]

Title / Author Price
Life Together.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
$10
The Cost of Discipleship.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
$11
Shepherd’s Notes Study Guide for Bonhoeffer’s Cost of Discipleship.
$5
Mere Discipleship: Radical Christianity in a Rebellious World. -- Lee Camp.
$12
Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society.
-- Marva Dawn.
$15
A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian World.
--Rodney Clapp.
$12
People of the Truth: A Christian Challenge to Contemporary Culture.
--Clapp/Webber.
$16
Selected Writings of Dorothy Day.
-- Robert Ellsberg, ed.
$16
Reading in Communion: Scripture and Ethics in Christian Life. -- Fowl / Jones
Missional Church: A Vision for Sending the Church in North America.
-- Darrell Guder.
$20
Another City: An Ecclesiological Primer for a Post-Christian World.
-- Barry Harvey.
Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony. -- Hauerwas / Willimon.
$12.50
Life on the Vine: Cultivating the Fruits of the Spirit in Christian Community.
-- Philip Kenneson.
$12
Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture.
-- Lesslie Newbigin.
$11
Grace Matters: A memoir of Faith, Friendship and Hope in the Heart of the South. -- Chris Rice.
$12
He Came Preaching Peace.
-- J.H. Yoder.
[ even deeper ]

scripture
Title / Author Price
The Prophetic Imagination.
-- Walter Brueggemann.
$12.50
Engaging Scripture. -- Stephen Fowl.
The Moral Vision of the New Testament. -- Richard Hays.
$20
Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus.
-- Ched Myers.
$20
The New Testament and the People of God. -- N.T. Wright.
$26
Jesus and the Victory of God.
-- N.T. Wright.
$30


theology
Title / Author Price
Powers, Weakness and the Tabernacling of God. -- Marva Dawn.
$13.50
A Community of Character.
-- Stanley Hauerwas.
In Good Company: The Church as Polis.
-- Stanley Hauerwas.
$18
Jesus and Community: The Social Dimension of Christian Faith.
-- Gerhard Lohfink.
$16
Does God Need the Church? Toward a Theology of the People of God.
-- Gerhard Lohfink.
$30
In the Path of Virtue: The African American Moral Tradition.
-- Samuel Roberts.
$19.50
Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics. -- Samuel Wells.
$16
The Politics of Jesus.
--J.H. Yoder.
$16
The Royal Priesthood: Essays Ecclesiological and Ecumenical.
--J.H. Yoder.
$19


church and society
Title / Author Price
The (Magic) Kingdom of God: Christianity and Global Culture Industries.
--Michael Budde.
$30
The Church as Counterculture.
--Budde / Brimlow.
$22
Torture and Eucharist.
--William Cavanuagh.
$39
Selling Out the Church: The Dangers of Church Marketing.
--Kenneson / Street.
$18
God is Not...
--Brent Laytham, ed.
$8
Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World. --Jonathan Wilson
$15


the politics of worship
Title / Author Price
Theopolitical Imagination: Discovering Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism .
-- William Cavanuagh
$40
The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics --Hauerwas/Wells
Teaching that Transforms: Worship as the Heart of Christian Education.
--Debra Dean Murphy
$15
At this Time, In this Place: The Spirit Embodied in the Local Assembly
--Michael Warren


christian practices
Title / Author Price
Becoming Friends: Worship, Justice and the Practice of Christian Friendship. --Paul Wadell.
$12
Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition .
--Christine Pohl.
$14.50
The Good Life: Genuine Christianity for the Middle Class.
--David Matzko McCarthy.