Christian Life

Attempts to read Jesus’ teachings with an open mind can be hampered by years of being told the ‘right’ interpretation in church. Christians familia...

Brings together biblical, historical, and legal arguments for the legitimacy of Israel. The modern state of Israel has been a nation for almost 70...

Much has been said and written about trans people by theologians and Church leaders, while little has been heard from trans Christians themselves. ...

* http://dartonlongmanandtodd.blogspot.co.uk/ * In 2004 a public attitudes survey suggested that 31 per cent of British people believed that all or...

This book, the first of a major two-volume work, exposes the processes by which silence can transfigure our lives—what Maggie Ross calls ‘the work ...

* The first major authorised book by Pope Francis in the English language. * Approved by the Vatican. * Foreword by Cardinal Vincent Nichols. ~ “Th...

Doctor Who has always contained a rich current of religious themes and ideas. In its very first episode it asked how humans rationalise the seeming...

In April 2014, Pope Francis will canonise two of his most influential predecessors, John Paul II and John XXIII. It is seen as a move towards uniti...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...