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Learning While Leading 4 reviews
Anita Farber-Robertson
The Alban Institute, 2000
The Minister's Mindreader
There's a great guy on my church board that flips out whenever anyone uses the phrase "paradigm shift," so in his honor I will say instead that what Dr. Farber-Robertson has done here with the conventions of ministerial leadship is a kind of aikido - you don't know quite how she can read your mind or how she could have been present at your last committee meeting, but her understanding of ...
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Creating Congregations of Generous People (Money, Faith, and Lifestyle) (Money, Faith, and Lifestyle Series) ...11 reviews
Michael Durall
Alban Institute, 1999
ITS THE PEOPLE AS MUCH AS THE MONEY
Mike Durall's slim but succulent guide to increasing and stimulating congregational giving is a welcome tonic when fundraising bibles seem to focus more on technique and need than motivation and virtue. Durall encourages us to aim to create congregations of generous people not as a ruse to open wallets but because - as he illustrates and explains well - only generous people in spirit and ethos ...
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Becoming Barnabas: The Ministry of Encouragement3 reviews
Paul Moots
Alban Institute, 2004
Never is heard a discouraging word...
While the clergy person is the primary audience for this text, Robert Reber says in his foreword that this is a book that will benefit all people who live together in community as a congregation, for all are called to share in the work of ministry. I agree; many will find a refreshing spirit in Paul Moots' idea of the ministry of encouragement, the ministry of affirming gifts of each other, and ...
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40 Days and 40 Bytes: Making Computers Work for Your Congregation4 reviews
Aaron Spiegel, Nancy Armstrong, ...
Alban Institute, 2004
An easy to read overview and review for everyone
Upon first receiving this book, I was skeptical that it would be another over the top book written about networks, servers, and hardware that did not make a connection to the intended audience. BOY WAS I WRONG! Aaron and team have done a tremendous job of breaking a difficult language down to simplicity! I work with thousands of churches in my ministry and I highly recommend this book to each of ...
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Mother's Nature: Timeless Wisdom for the Journey into Motherhood5 reviews
Andrea Alban Gosline, Lisa Burnett Bossi, ...
Conari Press, 1999
Excellent book
This book is a rare gem. It compiles many famous writers' comments concerning pregnancy and birth. It portrays pregnancy and birth as beautiful and spiritual. It also includes different spiritual perscpectives on the different phases of pregnancy and birth. It incudes Native American, Celtic, Polynesian,...poems that describe pregancy and birth. I used this book to find a poem for my sons ...
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Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times: Being Calm and Courageous No Matter What7 reviews
The Alban Institute, 2006
Courageous Wisdom
As a veteran pastor I know few books like this one which help a man think through his positions and work through the emotional processes of leading a group. This work aims beyond structural programming at the invisible emotional-spiritual dimensions of leading like Joshua, "Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." I find this book ...
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How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems11 reviews
Peter L. Steinke
The Alban Institute, 2006
Helpful for understanding congregational dynamics
Peter Steinke is a Lutheran pastor and director of the Interfaith Pastoral Counseling Center in suburban Chicago. His career has been one of studying and advising the dynamics of disfunctional churches and counseling pastors who have been hurt by said churches. "How Your Church Family Works" is an introduction to systems theory as it relates to interpersonal dynamics within a church and has ...
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The Handbook of Large Group Methods: Creating Systemic Change in Organizations and Communities (Jossey-Bass ...8 reviews
Jossey-Bass, 2006
Something May Be Missing, But World-Class Original Merits Appreciation
I agree with the reviewer who notes that something may be missing (other slices of large group imagination and so on) but what I see in this book is a 5 star original updating the first original work. I am also impressed by the manner in which the author-editors have engaged a total of 49 collaborators.
Despite its size this is an easy to read and appreciate book, and in my own limited ...
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Celebrating Motherhood: A Comforting Companion for Every Expecting Mother4 reviews
Conari Press, 2002
Lovely gift for a mom-to-be
This book would make a lovely gift for a mom-to-be, a book to be savored during the nine months of pregnancy and beyond. It's kind of like a crash course in motherhood for new moms, overflowing with thought-provoking readings on what it means to be a mother, but putting it that way makes it sound boring, which it is not at all. It's an amazingly poetic and beautifully designed book.
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January's Child: A Birthday Month Book4 reviews
Andrea Alban Gosline
Scholastic Press, 2007
Lovely book
This book is not only beautiful to look at but also to read and listen to. The words are inspiring and has something to make each child feel special. The illustrations are so vibrant and colorful, but uncomplicated so that it is easy for a child to appreciate and enjoy. This book is perfect for a birthday or shower gift. I have a few teacher friends and I will be recommending this to them for ...
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Ministry Greenhouse: Cultivating Environments for Practical Learning3 reviews
George M. Hillman Jr.
The Alban Institute, 2008
Planning and participating in ministry internships
"Ministry Greenhouse offers a very accessible way for ministry students to think through the basics of planning and participating in their internships. This is a resource that every seminary student needs to consider reading when clarifying the call to ministry or thinking about his or her own internship."
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Winged Life3 reviews
Hannah Hurnard
Olive P, St. Albans, 1958
WINGED LIFE
THIS BOOK IS A "MUST" READ BOOK. IT'S VERY INSPIRATIONAL. TRUELY GOD WANTS HIS CHILDREN TO HAVE "WINGED LIFE" AND SOAR ABOVE OUR EARTHLY TRIALS. I MUST SAY IT'S BY FAR THE BEST DEVOTIONAL BOOK I HAVE EVER READ. MS. HURNARD IS AMAZING AND GOD IS GLORIFIED THROUGH HER BOOK!
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Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link2 reviews
Theodor W. Adorno
Cambridge University Press, 1991
not entirely vintage Adorno,yet lightyears beyond academia
Adorno first met Alban Berg in Frankfurt during a festival of new music in June 1924. Excerpts from Berg's opera "Wozzeck" was being performed. Adorno ultimately studied composition with Berg but did not pursue a career as a composer rather Adornor became a brilliant philosopher of negative dialiectics with a profound work on aesthetics,his last major statement. In these short essays on Berg ...
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Running Through the Thistles: Terminating a Ministerial Relationship With a Parish3 reviews
Roy M. Oswald
Alban Institute, 1998
Running Throught the Thistles: Terminating a Ministerial Relationship with a Parish
Don't overlook this marvelous resource just because it is thirty years old! Roy Oswald's
long essay has brought together two core issues for life and ministry: 1. the fact that each of us must say good-bye many times during our lives including the final leave-taking at our death; and 2.the particular application to the leave-taking between a minister and a congregation when a minister leaves. ...
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The Alban Guide to Managing the Pastoral Search Process2 reviews
John Vonhof
Alban Institute, Inc., 1999
Pastoral Search - The Alban Guide... by John Vonhof
Our church was looking for a good pastor after our pastor for 20 years retired and we had gone through several interim and unsuccessful matches. Of course, many different members of our congregation had many different ideas of what `sort' of pastor our church needed in order to be successful. Pastoral Search by John Vonhof was a very valuable tool in our successfully finding the pastor that was ...
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From I-ville to You-ville: The Timeless Wisdom of Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain for Children and Adults3 reviews
Mersine Vigopoulou
Uncut Mountain Press, 2007
Delightful!
Truly great children's literature isn't just for children. How many of us relish Tolkien's The Hobbit or Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia? Well, now there's a new, fresh children's story out there for us, and I can sum it up in one word: "delightful." An allegory in the tradition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Mersine Vigopoulou's From I-ville to You-ville enchants as much as it edifies.
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New beginnings: A pastorate start up workbook (An Alban Institute publication)2 reviews
Roy M Oswald
Alban Institute, 1989
Don't Hit the Ground Running!
This is an excellent guide for pastors beginning a new ministry! Oswald combines Alban's research through the years with lots of practical advice on creating smooth transitions into your new setting, caring for your self and your family, and finding time and space to nurture your spiritual life. His systems approach is helpful, especially for pastors just starting out in their careers. If ...
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Holy Conversations: Strategic Planning as a Spiritual Practice for Congregations3 reviews
Gil Rendle, Alice Mann
Alban Institute, 2003
Excellent Resource for Congregations
This is a great resource and guide for congregations going through the planning process. As a lay member helping our Pastor, it helped me frame questions, lead discussions and develop a spirtual based planning process for our church.
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The Hidden Lives of Congregations: Discerning Church Dynamics3 reviews
Israel Galindo
Alban Institute, 2004
Hidden Lives No Longer?
Israel Galindo's "Hidden Lives of Congregations" affords an excellent overview of the Christian church and its followers, diagnosing the cause and effect of the life, growth and attrition of churches in America. Its in-depth analysis of the mindsets of the average churchgoer, the clergy and the infrastructure of the church provides us with an essential profile of the movers and shakers that make ...
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The science of the sacraments,3 reviews
C. W Leadbeater
The St. Alban press, 1920
Ancient Wisdom Revealed in Christian / Catholic Ritual
Science of the Sacraments is not a book that should be read from cover to cover. Rather, it is a marvelous reference book for understanding the traditional Seven Sacraments of the Catholic church. Rt. Rev. Leadbeater elaborately unveils how the Sacraments were originally intended to provide stately ritual, deep mysticism, and spiritual outpouring for any sincere participants, whether members ...
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