Christian Life

Sheila Cassidy’s honest and wise books on suffering and healing have made her one of the UK’s best-loved and most popular writers on pastoral care ...

An intensely gripping and moving sequence of meditations and prayers that reaches out to everyone who is heartbroken and in need of tenderness and ...

As Lent approaches you may be wondering how best to mark it. Lent is traditionally a period of abstinence, so should you deny yourself little luxur...

Seeking to awaken Christians to the place and plight of animals in the 21st century, The Friends We Keep gently but astutely introduces the situati...

‘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?’ A...

In a world that is always online and in touch, relationships seem to be breaking down all around us. We need real connection to each other more tha...

Hans Urs von Balthasar is widely recognized as perhaps the greatest Catholic theologian of the twentieth century. No writer has better revealed the...

A magnificent study, scholarly yet beautifully written, of one of the most intriguing and charismatic women of medieval Europe. Like Francis of Ass...

This visionary book from one of the most intriguing and unsettling new voices to have emerged from the churches in recent years finds life and grow...

‘If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with one mosquito.’ So goes the African proverb quoted by one o...

Many people are almost confined to their homes by their fear of panic attacks in public spaces. When Grace Sheppard, the high profile wife of David...

Freedom and Responsibility: A Search for Harmony is a remarkable personal vision of a ‘multi-polar’ future for the world by the leader of the Russi...

In Many Are Called, Scott Hahn shows that God’s call to serve him as a priest can be a challenge but, at the same time, a wonderful blessing. He ex...

All of us can be suddenly confronted with a decisive moment of difficulty or change. But fear prevents many of us from seizing the day. This is a b...

Stuart Wood has one of Christianity’s more unusual jobs – in addition to being the minister of a small Baptist church to the North of the city, he ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

'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...

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...

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...

‘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...

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

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

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

‘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...

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

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...

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...

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

‘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...

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

‘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...

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...

‘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...