Christian Living Books

A wonderful introduction to a collection of Michael Mayne’s previously unpublished pieces, sermons and addresses. With insight and wry humour Micha...

In Faith Maps a theologian of great flair and originality ‘translates’ the voices of several leading thinkers into a series of reflections on faith...

This new book from James Alison has all the brilliance, wit and panache that have made him one of the most influential contemporary Catholic writer...

A short but intense and beautifully written study of the ‘Hail Mary’ by the Irish theologian, poet and Dominican priest, Paul Murray. For almost an...

‘The one thing that is necessary, in life as in art,’ Tolstoy once said,’ is to tell the truth.’ The Gospel in Brief is one of the most challenging...

The Black Church in the 21st Century provides an exciting and fresh look at the key issues facing the Black Church Movement in Britain today, repre...

In this series of reflections that takes us through the liturgical year, Michael Northcott explores themes of ecology, ethics and economics. He spe...

We all need to make a retreat. To find a few moments in our busy lives to try to stop worrying and fretting about so many different things, and to ...

By declaring Jeanne Jugan, the foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor, to be a saint, the Church is proclaiming her holiness. The Little Siste...

International bestselling author Scott Hahn guides readers through the Catholic Church’s rites, customs and traditional prayers. The book is divide...

One of the greatest Catholic minds of the twentieth century was a journalist, a playwright, a novelist, a literary critic, a poet, a cartoonist, an...

What is the theology that underlies the thinking of the former Pope? Covenant and Communion reveals the hidden key that unlocks the mind of Benedic...

Prior to writing his great classic, The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen suffered an enormous personal loss and breakdown that took him awa...

What is the secret of John Henry Newman’s enduring appeal? It perhaps lies in the freshness and persuasiveness and brilliance of his descriptions o...

What turns an ordinary boy growing up in a loving family into a man of violence, and then what helps him turn his back on bloodshed? Give a Boy a G...

Angels with Trumpets argues that Christians must find and use their prophetic voice, and face up to the reality of climate change. By worrying abou...

This beautifully illustrated, moving and revelatory book will inspire readers to see that it is often that which gives us the deepest sorrow in lif...

Discover why … … Plato was not a world-hating totalitarian … Aquinas’s Five Ways are not so bad after all … Kicking stones cannot refute Bishop Ber...

In these reflections on the common lectionary readings for each day of Lent, some of our finest spiritual writers reveal for us the transfiguring p...

Ant hasn’t been going out with Lou for weeks. He’s just been too busy to see it yet. Liam is playing Fightzone with Ant. And seeing Lou later. Lou ...

I Loved Jesus in the Night is one priest’s compelling memories of the icon of compassion. Sharing anecdote and firsthand experiences, Fr. Paul Murr...

As Ronald Blythe writes in his Foreword, ‘This keenly argued book confronts today’s fashionable cynicism and despair, and thus has a message for th...

By any measure, Jean Vanier has led an astonishing life. He is the founder of the international movement of L’Arche communities as well as Faith an...

This beautifully written memoir tells the story of one man’s search for his religious calling—a search that led him to the Dominican Republic and C...

‘Our challenge today is to find a point from which we can look upon the world as a whole and grasp its true meaning. For the Christian this means a...

Many in church leadership roles know the truth of Bonhoeffer’s words, but there seem to be obstacles and barriers that get in the way of that sort ...

Nicholas Lash’s new collection of essays exposes the crisis in our thinking about God which is at the root of our misunderstandings and mistakes ab...

A Fallible Church is a welcome reminder that moments of great crisis are often the most creative, however difficult they might be to live through. ...

‘If you know what it’s like to be unable to stop drinking, taking drugs, eating, working, shopping or obsessing over a relationship, the idea of ad...

Pope Benedict XVI is soon to beatify John Henry Newman, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement in the Anglican church who was received into the ...

In this collection of talks and interviews, previously unpublished in book form, Metropolitan Anthony discusses the nature of ‘Church’ and what we ...

There are times in our lives when the spiritual journey seems clear and openings and insights light the way. More usually the path to God can feel ...

Bestselling author Scott Hahn explains the 'how and why' of the Catholic faith, drawing from Scripture, his own struggles and those of other conver...

'Morning glory, starlit sky, soaring music, scholar's truth, Flight of swallows, autumn leaves, memory's treasure, grace of youth. Open are the gif...

For Christians there is nothing more important than understanding the significance of the life and teaching of Jesus. It is when people gain an ins...

In The Selfless Way of Christ, Henri Nouwen explores selflessness, vocation, and how downward mobility is a key to the spiritual path. Downward mob...

The extraordinary vision and panache of Scott Hahn’s books have made Catholic theology thrilling and accessible for millions of readers inside and ...

Celebrating Community traces the history of Lee Abbey, a community founded in Devon in 1946. Now a nationwide movement, the community’s mission and...

Alternative religions, spiritualities and therapies have flooded the market place. In a multi-cultural, tolerant and permissive environment, it is ...

Frances Young explores the ways in which the earliest theologians and preachers read the Bible, and seeks to recover a sense of the importance of t...

This book offers suggestions for real things that we can do to help bring the vision of a world without poverty a step closer. Imagine living on th...

A new rendering of classic Christian beliefs for the 21st Century. John Drane’s acclaimed The McDonaldization of the Church identified the catastro...

This new edition of Wounded Prophet, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the death of Henri J M Nouwen, remains essential reading for all those ...

‘What inspires this reflection is a sense of bafflement. Why has the age-old teaching of the Catholic Church that serious sinners who die unrepenta...

The preaching of the cross of Jesus stands at the very heart of Christian practice: a Christianity without Christ and the cross makes no historical...

In this lyrical and revelatory book, Wendy Wright shows how we are each profoundly formed (in the religious sense of the word) in the rough and tum...

There is a growing interest in the gnostic and other non-canonical Christian writings from the first centuries of the Church, and increased curiosi...

Few areas of life remain unaffected by the death of a partner. While we can share some aspects of our pain with others, and thus receive the help a...