American Academy of Religion

Ancient Near East

    Abzu: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East

    Maps and Atlases of the Ancient Near East online

    Holy Land Maps

Apologetics today -- The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry is an online resource which aims to provide Christians with information on doctrines, religious groups and religious subjects. The organization attributes contradictory interpretations of the Bible to our sinful nature and considers evolution to remain an open question.

Art and Architecture, Religious

Peter Mansbendel Carvings -- In the Charles Black Room, Harold H. and Patricia M. Booher Library of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. Choose Episcopal Seminary from the list of links on the right.
Art by Episcopalians - The Episcopal Church and Visual Arts, a continually renewed online gallery of fine art, offers digital images. Viewers may simply meditate on the pieces, participate in conversations by joining a listserv, e-mail the artists, or submit digital images of their own work for the next show. Take a look.
Corsair - Over 4,000 illustrations, posted online by Pierpont Morgan Library, with cooperation from Princeton University’s Index of Christian Art. Searching is based on Library of Congress subject headings. Try a search on “Annunciation”, limited to “Medieval Images Only”. Open a record and go to the “Links” field, and, within that, “Detail of miniature”. “All images provided through CORSAIR are copyrighted by The Pierpont Morgan Library. They are for personal, educational, noncommercial use only. For example, images may be printed out for study, or used for classroom presentations”
GHEN (Global Hindu Electronic Network)	Splendors of Christendom
Mosques Around the World	TempleNet
Mosaics and Other Art -- by Kathy Thaden	Miriam Stroop -- Art by the daughter of ETSS graduate Bill Stroop.
Mission Photos -- The historical images in the Internet Mission Photography Archive come from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections held at a number of centers in Britain, continental Europe, and North America.
ATLA CDRI (American Theological Library Association Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative) -- A rapidly growing online resource for images of both visual and textual materials. Resources already posted include:
Printed Images from the 16th Century Maps & Charts Documenting the Expansion of Christianity Oxyrhynchus Papyri Photographs of Protestant Mission Work in Korea	Illuminations from Armenian Gospels Biblical Iconography: French Medieval Cathedrals Slides illustrating the practice of Islam Wesley Manuscripts & Memorabilia
Vatican Museums Online - Some of the finest Christian art in the world, available for your online examination.

Bible and Lectionary resources.  See separate link on prior page: Bible and Lectionary

Biography: Includes 20,000 biographies, including some theologians

Biography, Christian Theologians -- Lists links to pages by and about Christian theologians, ancient and modern.

The Black Church in the South -- Full text of historic documents.

Book of Common Prayer -- The full text online. To search the text on a downloaded version, use these instructions.

Choose Formatted Version
Scan down a long way till you come to “All of the above files, ZIP compressed.”
Choose the MSWord format
Choose Save
A window opens which asks where to save it.
Navigate to your desktop and give the file a name (BCP would do).
Leave the file type as WinZip.
Choose Save
After the downloading, Choose Close.
Then leave the web and you will find an icon for your file on your desktop.
Double click the icon,
Choose I agree
and you should be able to open the file and search it in Word file which may be searched.
When you first open it, if the pages are too small to read,
Choose View from the menu at the top.
Then choose Normal.
Under the Edit menu at the top,
Choose Find

Catholic Encyclopedia

Chant. See below, Music, Hymns and Chant

Chaos theory -- Judy Petree's homepage contains an essay on the subject.

Christian theology -- A general list of resources on the web concerning Christian theology.

Church and Synagogue Library Association or email: csla@worldaccessnet.com

Churches --  An American Bible Society listing offering four pages of space for details about any congregation. You first have to make application to be the editor of the page for your church, then fill in the blanks. You can look up details about listed churches in your area.

Congregational Resource Guide - Jointly sponsored by the Alban Institute and the Indianapolis Center for Congregations, this page offers resources on many of the problems which congregations encounter.

Controversies - Discussion strings based on e-mail postings from the Right Rev. Jack Spong.

Dissertations, D.Min. - View full D.Min. dissertations online, provided by the Theses Canada Portal.

Distance Education Courses -- See also Education on Religion and Theology (below).

Divorce -- Services to end a relationship and ways to plan such services. These two sites might be helpful for pastoral care for those who are ending a relationship.

Healing Divorce

Divorce Magazine

Education on Religion and Theology

E-Mail Meditations -- Receive daily meditations from John Lane Denson, ETSS '54, including a meditation on the Sunday lectionary each preceding Friday.

Episcopal Church - See Religions and Churches within LUSTRE.

Ethics homepage

Ethics issues -- Capital punishment:A page of statistics about death row inmates, current and former, maintained by the Texas Department of Corrections.

Films/Videos. See below Movies

Greek-questions - email to: greek-questions-request@genesis.acu.edu and subscribe to the list with the one-word-message:

    subscribe

        Discusses Biblical texts at a fairly non-technical level most of the time.

Head coverings in Christian tradition

Homosexuals, Episcopal Church

    Integrity (organization):
    Registry of couples waiting for a liturgy

Hymnal 1982 -- The hymns are listed by first line and by topic, and allow you to listen to an organ version of each hymn.

Hymns. See below, Music, Hymns and Chant

Interchurch Center - This 19-story building in NYC houses organizations of a variety of faiths as well as ecumenical groups, including the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. Most valuable will be the finding guides, especially on ecumenism, created by Ernest Rubinstein at the Center's library (choose Resources, then Library Special Collections). 

Lectionary resources -- See separate link on prior page: Bible and Lectionary

Luther concordance -- Find any word or combination of words in some of Luther’s most important works, nine works in March, 2000, and more being added. From this site return to the home page  and find concordances to some 500 other books, including some other religious works.

Lutheran Hymns Online - Links to many online sources.

Lutheran Hymnal (hymn out-of-copyright)

Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest -- or email: lspsaustin.parti@ecunet.org

Martin Luther Index -- Indexes German words in Luther’s German works from 1516 to 1525.

Missiology
Dissertions on Mission after 1900 - Searchable by keyward, this database identifies much of the scholarship concerning missions. This is a project of the Yale Divinity School Library in collaboration with the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.	Mission Photos -- The historical images in the Internet Mission Photography Archive come from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections held at a number of centers in Britain, continental Europe, and North America.

Movies

Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ

Movies, Religious

Music, Hymns and Chant

Christian music (popular recordings) -- Weekly listing of the top 50 Christian music songs	Music Hymns and Psalmody  -- Thousands of hymns with lyrics and scores. With speakers and a sound card you can hear a simple organ rendition of them. Downloading scores may require special software.
Lutheran Hymns Online - Links to many pages.
Oremus Hymnal -- An online hymnal which contains texts and MIDI files of tunes used in much of the English-speaking world, with particular emphasis on the Anglican tradition. Currently, seventeen Anglican hymnals have been indexed. All texts are from the public domain, (in 2001, this means they were written before 1923).	Sacred Harp Singing -- Look at this site to find the schedule for singing in Austin. Also called shaped-note singing and several other names, this unique deep south hymn style expresses itself in regional and national singing conventions and helps participants learn to read music for singing. In Austin, singings are held regularly and visitors are welcome.

Mysticism -- See Spirituality

News about Religion

Religion in the News - A publication of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut.	Religion Newswriters Foundation - Information for journalists reporting about religion.
The Revealer - A daily review of religion and the press. Provides links to published articles available online: “not so much nonpartisan as polypartisan -- interested in all sides, disdainful of dualistic arguments, and enamored of free speech as a first principle. We publish and link to work by people of all persuasions, religious, political, sexual, and critical.”
Wabash Center - Choose “Newspapers” to find many sources, including news services for particular denominations.	Zondervan Media Room - Contains many links to developing religious news. Also see their separate News and Religion News page.

Philosophy, Online Encyclopedia -- Three main sections: A timeline for western philosophy with hotkeys for most names; a collection of philosophical full texts, also with hotlinks to philosophers; and a list of keywords hotlinked to articles about them.

Prayers

Prayer Book Society	Prayer, Centering -- The web site for materials from and about Father Thomas Keating and his prayer counseling.	Prayers, Spanish language, Book of Common Prayer -- Provided online by the Mission of St. Clare in Santa Clara, California. Spanish language texts for morning and evening prayers, each day of the year, from the Book of Common Prayer.
Prayer, Daily -- Texts for morning and evening prayers, each day of the year, from the Book of Common Prayer.	Prayer, Daily -- Daily prayers from oremus.org, along with links to other prayer resources on the net.	Prayer, Daily. Another site, this one prepared by Irish Jesuits. Powerfully tasteful, this one offers an extraordinary range of ways to pray each day using always-refreshed online ideas.
See also Links under Retreat Centers and under Spirituality below.

Progressive Christianity - The Center for Progressive Christianity publishes books and curricula for Christians who are faithful to Jesus but have doubts about the church or some of its doctrines.

Project Wittenburg -- Finished, polished Lutheran texts.

Public Life and Religion -- The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life. Housed by Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, the Greenberg Center provides at this website an online free periodical with full-text articles: Religion in the News.

Public Opinion on Religion -- Barna Religious Research. Continually polls the public on questions of religious significance, and reports the results online. "Born-again" language and point-of-view does not prevent these polls from being interesting and useful. 

Re: Jesus - a presentation, in video/audio format and interactive discussions of ideas about Jesus.

Recursos teológicos en la red (Theological Resources in the Net) - The College of St. Benedict (for women) and St. John's University (for men) in Minnesota have posted an outstanding collection of web links to Spanish language resources on theological subjects.

Retreat Centers

Lebh Shomea is a Christian contemplative eremitical House of Prayer in a South Texas desert setting open to all seekers. In the past seminarians have sometimes done retreats here, and at least one has done an independent study, journaling her contemplative experience.

Boerne Benedictines -- A retreat center of the Congregation of Benedictine Sisters in Boerne, Texas, west of San Marcos.

The Crossings -- A workshop and retreat center just outside Austin. Owned by a former computer sales person from Dell, this center largely serves businesses and is on the high end of the cost scale, but spiritual retreats and workshops are sometimes offered.

Sacred Sites -- Martin Gray, an anthropologist and photographer, has posted to this site pictures and descriptions of sacred sites he has visited all over the world.

Sermons for the Lectionary -- From the Episcopal Church Worship-that-Works service, these sermons keyed to the church year appear online well in advance of the scheduled reading.

Sexuality and Religion

The Center for Sexuality and Religion - The primary goal of CSR is to establish the positive relationship between human sexuality, spiritual health and justice by providing clergy and laity with information, education, training, techniques and skills that foster and advocate the attitudes and values for sexual and spiritual heath and justice.

Society of Biblical Literature   

Spirituality

Mysticism in World Religions. Presents the mystical traditions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism. Includes quotations from leading writers of each tradition.	Spiritual Formation -- The Division of Spirtual Formation, a partnership of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas and the TX/LA Gulf Coast Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Spiritual Resources -- Personal web page of an ETSS adjunct faculty member, the Rev. Mary C. Earle. The page includes descriptions of books, CDs, workshops and retreats she offers.
Spirituality and Health -- Seton Cove -- 3708 Crawford St., Austin, TX (512) 451-0272. The Seton Cove is an interfaith center for spiritual formation and renewal, with a focus on spirituality in the workplace. Inspired by the life and teachings of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, this center provides a welcoming place of solace and hospitality where people of any faith may nourish and foster their spiritual growth and discover a new relationship with themselves, community, God and all creation. The Seton Cove programs are designed to act as an extension of activities provided by individual churches throughout Austin. Through a variety of programs, the Cove seeks to reach out to the people of Central Texas and offer a renewed sense of spirit and healing. Programs include: Luncheon reflections Individual and group spiritual direction Seminars and workshops Meditation groups Day retreats
Spirituality and Health: Spiritual Practices – Offers a variety of spiritual practices. You can explore individual spiritual practices, listen to audio workshops, and read reviews of current movies and books.		See also links under Prayers and under Retreat Centers.

Statistics on religions and churches - As always with information from the internet or the web, be sure you know the source of the information before you use it. This site contains a great deal of good information about an enormous number of religious groups, but it necessarily relies on reports from many different sources.

Summa Theologica of Aquinas -- Provides online the Benziger 1947 text, organized for easy access to subjects.

Teaching Theology and Religion  -- See Education on Religion and Theology.

Tertullian -- Roger Pearse collects here texts and other information about this particular father of the Latin church. The site grows continually. 

Theologians, Christian -- A list of links to pages by and about Christian theologians.

Theological Idealism

Non-duality -- A page created and maintained by Dr. Gregory Goode.

Berkeley page -- Contains links to many free online texts by the Right Rev. George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne.

Worship That Works: Selected Sermons -- Sermons arranged by the church year.

YOUTH MINISTRY

Group Publishing -- Events, workshops, materials.	Faith Weaver -- a subdivision of Group Publishing.	Leader Resources --  Youth program materials for sale.
Youth Ministry Evangelical/Gospel -- At the home page, choose Youth/Youth Ministries for this fundamentalist source.	Youth Specialties -- Trains and equips youth ministers.	Youthworker -- An online journal with excellent articles for help in youth work.