Christian Life

Reflection and commentary on the author's work as a community theologian in London's East End between 2000 and 2004. The story of one of the UK’s m...

Presences Felt examines the realities of power and resistance in history, politics, biography and culture. Focusing particularly on revolutionary t...

This groundbreaking book exposes as a myth the assumption that the global Anglican Church is split between liberals in the ‘north’ and traditionali...

Lent is traditionally a time when Christians take on a particular discipline of reading and prayer. But those who have responsibility for leadershi...

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy has charmed children and adults alike. The trilogy has been adapted for a hugely successful National Th...

Michael Ford meets gay and lesbian Christians from the UK, US and Africa to explore the essence of being gay and spiritual in the 21st century. Acr...

This thought-provoking collection of reflections celebrates the glory of God as revealed in the natural universe, in our creative work within that ...

If society and churches are in crisis, it may be because we are losing our ability to keep our promises. Scott Hahn restores the connection between...

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh is known to thousands as one of the most exciting writers on prayer. Creative Prayer is both a penetrating analysis...

Teresa of Avila presents herself to us as a woman caught between her passion for the things of this world and an equal passion for God. After twent...

The Dart of Longing Love is a companion volume to the warmly received Enfolded in Love, and seeks to do for the fourteenth century Cloud of Unknowi...

Thérèse of Lisieux is among today’s most popular and best-loved saints. Yet she entered a Carmelite convent when she was fifteen and died when she ...

Family Fortunes acknowledges the particular challenges facing today’s families and seeks new and creative possibilities for nurturing faith in toda...

In 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer asked ‘Who is Christ for us today?’ In this theologically informed and very practical exploration of what it means to ...

Many people see the gospel story of Martha and Mary as presenting a choice between the spiritual and the material. This places an impossible burden...

Alexander Ryrie offers an exciting way of using the Psalms in our spiritual lives, rooted in both scholarship and a sympathetic feel for the litera...

The influence of evangelicalism within the Christian churches has never been stronger. This new study reveals the breadth and range of what has bee...

Celebrating Difference, Staying Faithful is the indispensable guide to living in our multi-religious society for every individual, parish or church...

Ann Lloyd’s only previous memories of religion had been of bossy nuns and boring assemblies at primary school. When she was shown a way of praying ...

Scott Hahn has brought a deep understanding of the scriptural roots of the Church’s teaching and a new verve and freshness of language to mainstrea...

Exploring God-talk maps the contours of religious language. It surveys the variety of ways in which religious believers both speak to God and speak...

Violent crime including gang warfare and the use of firearms affects many urban communities, with a growing number of alarming incidents reported i...

Jack Dominian is a distinguished psychiatrist and the author of several influential books that have helped to revolutionise the way Catholics think...

A dense haze of controversial issues lies over any honest discussion of the Catholic priesthood: the scandal of sexual abuse by priests; the sharp ...

What is the place of religious belief modern culture? Recent years have seen cataclysmic changes in society, yet, far from being banished from toda...

'The Church of England is locked in a terrible, terrible dilemma. It has depended on establishment for its unity, its coherence, its order, its ide...

Superb popular history that undermines many of our preconceptions about Patrick and reveals several surprises. The search for ‘the real Saint Patri...

This book provides insight into the growing phenomenon of religious inspired violence, and an analysis of the political world’s failure to understa...

Your life is made of time. But what does your lifetime mean? The Myths of Time is an original and stimulating examination of the theology of time a...

The first occupant of Lambeth Palace in several generations with an international reputation as a theologian, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan...

Where do we find value and purpose in a world riven by injustice and conflict? What is it that makes life meaningful and cherishable? Is there any ...

A radical theological reappraisal of the church’s position on cohabitation before marriage. Most adults in Europe and North America now believe it ...

Part personal memoir and part reflection on the challenges that face the Church in the contemporary world. A vision for the future of the Church ma...

Anabaptist spirituality has been described as ‘both Catholic and Protestant’, a sixteenth-century ascetic lay reform movement inspired both by curr...

Orthodoxy is often identified with beautiful icons, elaborate liturgy, perfection as deification, and the vision of God as light. But there is a de...

At the age of 44, after a prominent career as a Catholic activist, Carlo Carretto was summoned by a voice that said: 'Leave everything, come with m...

Suppose for a moment that it is the present way in which we are being church that is not working? If that is the case, then no amount of new thinki...

What is your personal mission in life? Many of us find it hard to answer this question, as day-to-day concerns can cause us to lose sight of the bi...

Are you suffering from a deep loss in your life? How to Love Again is a book that can offer you comfort in a time of despair. It is intended to acc...

Tells the story of the movement’s origins and describes how the distinctive Quaker practice of group worship in silence develop. The Quaker traditi...

‘The world is on a trajectory that threatens the security, freedom and human rights of all of us, not just the poor’, writes Ian Linden. ‘Yet we al...

Each of us has a 'shadow', composed of everything we have driven into our unconscious for fear of being rejected by the people we loved when we wer...

Undivided Heart is a book about what drives us – reflecting on our motivation and purpose, and need to define ourselves. It leads the reader into t...

How should the Eucharist be celebrated? What is the significance of the different parts of the liturgy, from the gathering rite, through the liturg...

Mark D. Chapman examines the life and works of Conrad Noel, one of the most eccentric, dynamic and radical parish priests of the twentieth century....

A stunningly original re-imagining of the Catholic faith by one of the most lucid and exciting theologians writing in English today. Widely acclaim...