As a bisexual Christian woman, happily and faithfully married to a man, a mother of three children and with a blossoming ministry as a preacher, Jaime Sommers had always felt as if her true self did not really exist in the eyes of the Church...
read moreAmazing Love offers a calm, theologically and biblically rooted perspective on same-sex love and relationships. It illuminates without heat, and it will enrich the Church’s conversation around these matters...
read moreAnne Hope is well known as president of the ecumenical lay community, The Grail, in South Africa, as co-founder of the acclaimed Training for Transformation program for community development, and for her important work in the struggle against apartheid. Less is known about her dramatic and inspiring inner journey...
read moreIn the 1st Century and the 21st Century, the world is run by men. Lila and Mary in the 1st, and Grace and Chloe in the 21st, share the same question: 'Where are the good men?' Their fathers failed them, their husbands failed them, their leaders failed them. But they find hope in one man - one man who inspires both men and women to come into their own...
read moreIt’s five years on since Grace found out she was pregnant. Now balancing motherhood and full-time ministry her life takes a dramatic turn when she meets a young victim of sex traffickers. She is still unable to escape her own past as James Martin remains a continued presence in her life. Chloe, meanwhile, is still struggling to keep her marriage alive...
read moreSir Anthony Kenny is one of our most acclaimed living philosophers of religion...
read more‘A canticle to God, and full of psychological insights that might have been written yesterday, the Confessions are the story of a soul, and also the story of God, and how he is constantly at work seeking us...
read more‘On stage, the light reveals a chair, on which the lone figure of a middle-aged lady sits. Bathed in creamy light, she gazes heavenwards, mouth open in motionless wonder. Her body pushed forward and her head yanked back, simultaneously, separating the vertebrae, as the pathologist would later say. And her throat cut, a mess of blood...
read moreAfter a century or more of convincing ourselves that intelligent people should be ‘secular’, it is now trendy to be ‘spiritual’...
read moreThis book of daily readings offers a wonderfully fresh way of deepening the way that we talk to God. Alongside author Henry Martin, we "eavesdrop" or "listen in" on forty-nine instances of people who actually spoke to Jesus in the Bible and ask what we can learn from what they said and how he responded...
read moreA moving and tender meditation on loving, living and dying by one of the greatest Anglican spiritual writers. ‘An heroic book. Begun in health as a meditation on a lifetime’s faith and experience, it ends in mortal sickness with Michael Mayne facing death...
read more‘It is remarkable how atheism is becoming fashionable. It has become almost compulsory to say that you do not believe in God. … I believe that science itself points in a very different direction. There is a huge amount of evidence for the reality of a spiritual dimension to the world.’ There is a level of being that is deeper than the physical universe, writes Keith Ward...
read moreChristianity has often seemed impatient with the idea of doubt. Certainty, not irresolution, has been seen as the test of faith and key to unlocking participation in the supposed life to come. But when his marriage collapsed, Alex Wright knew that all his own certainties had been reduced to rubble...
read moreA five-week Lent course looking at the core Gospel theme of feast versus famine. In the way of Christ we grow together through sharing, and we are divided by hoarding.
read moreA lyrical and very personal story of remembrance, faith, family and identity shaped by the chaos and trauma of the First World War.
read moreWe live in a world full of distractions, where lack of time and the pressures of daily living contribute to our spiritual lives becoming sometimes treated with less priority, sometimes forgotten altogether. This is a book for the forgetful-hearted; those who frequently forget God in their lives, even when they desperately want to remember him...
read moreMore than twenty years after Found Wanting, her acclaimed critique of Christian approaches to women’s sexuality, Alison Webster presents a positive book of practical theology that gives voice to the experiences of marginalised women making sense of their spirituality and sexuality. She explores what has changed over two decades, and the challenges that remain...
read moreA brilliant new Lent Course for 2019, based on the hugely popular film The Greatest Showman. The 2018 Golden Globe-nominated movie starring Hugh Jackman, about the founder and stars of the Barnum & Bailey Circus is ideal for Lenten study of Christian themes of hope, redemption and new life...
read moreA seasonally-arranged collection of the very best of Jonathan Tulloch’s acclaimed ‘Glimpses of Eden’ nature column, which has run in The Tablet for more than ten years. This beautifully-produced gift hardback collection includes black and white illustrations and a short reflective prayer for each column, specially written for the book.
read more‘Have you ever been aware of, or influenced by a presence or a power, whether you call it God or not, that is different from your everyday self?’ Alister Hardy was the Head of the Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in Oxford University from 1946 to 1961 and arguably the best known marine biologist in the world. Yet he was a man who lived an extraordinary double life...
read more‘The Gospel is about God revealed in a man who healed the sick and forgave the sinner, and who brought joy to the bewildered, the damaged and the sinful … because he lived and died, loved and taught, to make clear once and for all time the certainty of God’s consoling love for every single one of his creatures...
read moreThere is an unbreakable bond between God’s mercy and his gift of new life which is at the heart of the Gospel. Through the transformation he works in us, his grace can transform the world around us...
read moreIn 2006 Hannah Oakland was a drama student living in Central London - with complimentary theatre tickets, a head full of world-conquering dreams and a kitchen that definitely didn’t meet Health and Safety standards. Ten years later, the only constant is the state of her kitchen. Today, Hannah is a wife, a mother-of-two, and reliant on anti-depressants to make it through the week...
read moreFollowing her successful Advent course To Live Again, based on It’s a Wonderful Life, Sheila Jacobs has written a brand new course to be studied by individuals or groups as a companion to the 1951 classic movie A Christmas Carol, starring Alastair Sim...
read moreInto Extra Time comprises the powerful reflections of Fr Michael Paul Gallagher SJ which he wrote during the final months of his life following a diagnosis of cancer...
read moreIn this moving and inspiring book, compiled by John Sentamu, 22 people, including Jean Vanier and Richard Taylor (the father of Damilola Taylor), explain how an experience of God’s agape love gave them hope and changed lives. These are stories which stand as inspiring demonstrations of Christian faith in action...
read moreDr J Richard Smith is one of the world’s leading gynaecological surgeons, and a specialist in cancer survivorship and fertility sparing surgery for women with cancer. He has NHS approval to perform the very first womb transplants in the UK. A few years ago a major health scare forced Richard to question his belief in his own personal invincibility and face the reality of mortality...
read moreFrom one of the UK's most widely-respected gay Christians comes a powerful faith memoir of overcoming inner conflict and taking a stand against one of the greatest institutional injustices of our time...
read moreKeeping Advent and Christmas is a day-by-day guide to keeping and understanding the Christian seasons of Advent and Christmas, from ‘Stir Up Sunday’, through the traditions of Christmas and on to the festival of Candlemas on February 2...
read moreKeeping Lent and Easter is an almost day by day guide to keeping and understanding Lent, through each of its key days, Holy Week and through to Easter, Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity Sunday...
read moreThe creator of The Happiness Course explores what it means to be happy, why being happy is so important to us, and what it may require from us to attain happiness. Andrew Parnham shows that finding happiness means searching for wholeness and fulfilment, and is a journey that may not be easy and may not be the path we expected...
read more‘My theme is the dance: the dance of life; the dance of the cosmos, of the natural world and the tiniest particles of matter; the dance of music and paint and words; the dance of those cruel times which feels like dancing in the dark; the dance of relationships, of forgiveness, friendship and love; the dance of faith; and finally, that hidden dance that some call heaven...
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