Books with author Barbara Maitland

A Big-Enough God continues the author's literary challenge by offering Christians a path for spiritual journey that encourages belief in a deity that is larger than our imagination. Free from the constraints of doctrine or ecclesiology, the author comes to her task, the joys of revelation, armed with a fresh feminist perspective. Writing as a Christian and a feminist, Maitland approaches the subject of a big-enough God that is beyond gender or image--but not beyond choice--to define theology as the art of telling--and listening to--stories about the divine. If God exists, it is as a being which wishes above all to reveal itself in its work and which labors constantly in its relationships with its creations.

Fun Bible study leads kids on archaeological treasure hunt from Genesis to Revelation in 28 lessons. Winsome illustrations. Variety of activity pages, journaling & sketching to reinforce lessons. AUDIO allows kids to listen to Bible teaching again & again. 2-book set includes separate Answer Guide. As facilitators, parents need no prior Bible knowledge to guide children into a sound "big picture" understanding of the Bible. Exceptional resource for the whole family! Popular curriculum for Sunday School and children's church too.

Someone stole the key to the Black Cat Bookstore! Lucky for the store's owner, Mr. Brown, his clever cat, Cobweb, is on the case. Cobweb has a plan to scare the burglar away, and the ghost who lives in the bookstore is happy to help. There's only one problem-the burglar doesn't believe in ghosts. But maybe he'll change his mind once he meets the special ghost who lives in the Black Cat Bookstore.

A little girl and her teddy bear do everything together. They sing together. They swing together. They ride together and they slide together. They nap together, and when they wake up -- watch out! Here they come, ready for fun! Barbara Maitland's simple text and Lisa Mather's boldly colored, engaging pictures bring the special relationship between a child and her favorite toy to life in a book that young children will find irresistible.

This work sets out to challenge those who want a more imaginative, "bigger" spirituality, freed from the straightjackets of much contemporary doctrine and ecclesiology. It is grounded on the conviction that current developments in science, psychology and the arts, far from undermining faith, have encourage a revived and radical orthodoxy. This is a book about creation, attacking the fundamentalism of both science and theology, and opening the way to a more risky but ultimately more profound and inclusive spirituality. Sara Maitland is a novelist and a feminist theologian.