Conversations with Scripture * Specific ideas for companioning

* Specific ideas for companioning youth in a variety of settings

This timeless and still timely book examines the spiritual base that allows ordained clergy to be interpreters of God's message and symbol-bearers of God's presence in their congregations

in the previously mystical and romanticized backdrop of Celtic Christianity

What are its strengths and weaknesses as an aid to worship

but necessary lesson of life—letting go—as a means of healing

Conversations with Scripture * Specific ideas for companioningMost Christians are familiar with the story told in Mark's gospel, from the fishermen leaving their nets, to the miracle of the loaves and fishes, to the political rumblings and the crucifixion. But no one knows who Mark really was or why this gospel was written or why it's charged with such a sense of immediacy. For noted Jesus scholar Marcus Borg, reading Mark is like meeting Jesus again for the first time. Individual readers and parish study groups