Black Friday

What does it mean to be a healer in the modern world? In this hope-filled and profoundly simple book, Henri Nouwen offers a radically fresh interpr...

‘We are, whether we like it or not, religious animals, who started to worship gods early in our existence and who were creating religions as we pai...

The Road to Daybreak is Henri Nouwen's intimate diary recording his most poignant year at l'Arche, which began in the summer of 1985, a precious ti...

‘If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential. It’s so easy to spend your whol...

‘Most people keep two Christmases. One is blazing with greens, reds and gold, a public-spirited, family affair, an undignified, unholy row – it is ...

‘Although seven clowns started the evening alive, only six still breathed by the evening’s end. And while everyone saw the murderer and knew the mu...

This unique book is distilled from the Westminster Faith Debates on Religion in Public Life, and presents the positions of leading thinkers and pol...

Abbot Peter has recently swapped his failing leadership of a remote monastery in the Sinai desert for retirement in the bleak and stormy English se...

A LONG WAY FROM SUNDAY will be Brown's most introspective work as he explores through songs and concept music video presentations, the daily strugg...

The world is full of well-meaning people experiencing disappointment, discontentment and despair. We can put a man on the moon and grow an ear on t...

Recent social media 'pray4' campaigns, such as that for footballer Fabrice Muamba,have seen millions of people from vastly different spiritual back...

'Touch, scent, taste. Three of the five senses that cannot be transmitted through technology. Three-fifths of reality, sixty percent. This book is ...

‘I am writing this because I believe we have an absolute duty in the Church to offer homosexual couples not only practical support, but the same th...

Times have changed since John Bunyan wrote his classic Pilgrim’s Progress, telling of Pilgrim’s journey up Hill Difficult and through the Slough of...

James Mackay served as Lord Advocate of Scotland and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. He is, in the words of a past President of the Law Society o...

In the eighteenth century, an intellectual movement emphasising reason and rationalism came to dominate Europe. The Enlightenment has since been ca...

Over six hundred years ago a woman known as Julian of Norwich wrote what is now regarded as one of the greatest works of literature in English. But...

The modern world is totally dependent on a continuing supply of energy from oil and other fossil fuels. However, recent natural disasters, global p...

Ecumenism is perhaps a somewhat sidelined aspect of contemporary church life, and yet Christians continue to devote prayers and work on the theme o...

These amazing little books are potential life-savers. Using simple text and bold design, each book meets the reader at a point of low mood or unhel...

The development of Christianity during the Byzantine period changed the religious map of Europe in a way that still resonates today. This brief int...

These amazing little books are potential life-savers. Using simple text and bold design, each book meets the reader at a point of low mood or unhel...

These amazing little books are potential life-savers. Using simple text and bold design, each book meets the reader at a point of low mood or unhel...

These amazing little books are potential life-savers. Using simple text and bold design, each book meets the reader at a point of low mood or unhel...

While recuperating from an operation on his spine in a hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, Thomas Merton befriended a female nurse charged with his c...

These amazing little books are potential life-savers. Using simple text and bold design, each book meets the reader at a point of low mood or unhel...

These amazing little books are potential life-savers. Using simple text and bold design, each book meets the reader at a point of low mood or unhel...

These amazing little books are potential life-savers. Using simple text and bold design, each book meets the reader at a point of low mood or unhel...

The story of exhibitionism goes back as far as the human race has had a culture of modesty, for some, as long ago as Adam and Eve chose to cover up...

Depression is pandemic today; as the demands of modern life prove too much for many adults, it has also clawed its way into the minds and souls of ...

Ayrton Senna is arguably the most famous racing driver there has ever been. All over the world, he is revered as a saint and as the greatest driver...

The world will end in December 2012 – if the proponents of the Mayan Calendar theory are correct. There is nothing new about End-time alarms: the a...

These amazing little books are potential life-savers. Using simple text and bold design, each book meets the reader at a point of low mood or unhel...

These amazing little books are potential life-savers. Using simple text and bold design, each book meets the reader at a point of low mood or unhel...

These amazing little books are potential life-savers. Using simple text and bold design, each book meets the reader at a point of low mood or unhel...

These amazing little books are potential life-savers. Using simple text and bold design, each book meets the reader at a point of low mood or unhel...

In this, Christina Rees’s second collection of writings and recipes following the Christian festivals, she explores the wonderful season of Advent ...

Includes new material by Keith Ward written specifically for this collection. Philosopher and theologian Keith Ward is one of the most prolific sch...

‘If I die,’ Egan Welch wrote in a note to his father, ‘it is not alcohol that killed me. It’s something else.’ Kicking the Black Mamba is an unforg...

Paul is the most important figure in the history of Christianity. His understanding of the teachings of Jesus is more studied and analysed – and ar...

We all want to be happy. But what does ‘happiness’ mean? And what must we do if we wish to achieve it? Never before in history has so much been wri...

'If you had breath for no more than 99 words, what would they be?' Liz Gray put this question to 99 people whose voices she loved and admired. Thos...

Twelve years ago, not long widowed, with children at university, Margaret Hebblethwaite, an English writer and journalist, astonished her friends a...

Good day or bad, the end of the day is a time for taking stock of the day’s events: celebrating the best, trying to learn from the worst, surrender...

Thomas Merton wrote to people of all faiths and none; he wrote to people who were searching, and those who were firmly established in religious ord...

Down’s Syndrome: The Biography presents an accessible and entirely necessary back history of Down’s Syndrome: the genetic condition diagnosed by Jo...

A lot of us can feel at different times as though we are sleepwalking through life, perhaps opting for a safe narrow path which neither challenges ...