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Intended for all involved in church leadership at the local or structural level. This book draws on leadership theory and practice from a range of disciplines to offer some techniques and solutions. It provides techniques and solutions in relation to: developing lay leadership; building team ministry; leading a group of congregations; and more.
Addresses the questions that every Christian ought to be asking: how did the Bible come together? Why do we believe it to be true? What is faith? How do we know God? What does it mean to belong to the Church? and more. Drawing on 2000 years of theological writing and insight, this is a guide to Christian faith.
A study of the history and of the publications of the Alcuin Club during the first 90 years of its existence.
A biography of Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961 and supporter of the ecumenical movement. Dr Carpenter has also written "Cantaur" - a study of all Archbishops of Canterbury from the first in 597.
Many people today are looking to the ancient discipline of following a rule of life to strengthen their sense of living in Christ. In 49 short chapters this wise and gentle rule from the Society of St John the Evangelist provides practical guidance.
What rare learning John Breay has... the whole mood and air of the Victorian Church of the north-west can be breathed. What fun the man Brunskill is, with little insights into famous men like Sharp, Villiers and Harvey Goodwin... wonderful to meet a clergyman whose expertise is the shoeing of horses... The self-educated man who left school at fifteen and is interested in Wordsworth and Ruskin... can hold down the job of a headmaster and can write English prose in letters to the Press!' --The Revd Professor Owen Chadwick
Bernard Palmer presents a series of mini-biographies of four outstanding Anglicans who achieved fame as exemplars of the Franciscan ideal in action in the first half of the twentieth century. All four men founded, or helped to found, religious communities or organisations and were the guiding lights of those communities in their formative years.
The Society of the Sacred Mission, founded in 1893, soon turned to training priests, offering an inexpensive, thoroughly professional road to ordination. Their best known member, Fr Gabriel Hebert, made the Bible live for twentieth-century Christians.
The purpose of this book is to enable readers to hear a voice from their own past - learning that the process of remembering, of ongoing corporate recollections, is an element essential to understanding.
We tend to associate darkness with the absence of God, yet the season of Advent is all about the unseen workings of God in preparation for new life and hope. This book explores the gifts of God that can be found not only during Advent, but at those times in life when we feel engulfed in darkness.
Ronald Blythe asks people from all walks of life to reflect in their own words on what it is like to be old. The result is a fascinating and moving series of confidences which we are privileged to share.
Using Coverdale's translation of the Psalms from the Book of Common Prayer, the very best of Anglican chant is married to texts that have been used to sing the transcendent glory of God for three thousand years.
Like her 14th century predecessor Julian of Norwich, Sr Elizabeth lives as a solitary attached to a religious community. Here, she uses the symbols of the three windows of Julian's cell to explore the themes of self-awareness, compassion for others and longing for God.
1,600 years after his death, Martin of Tours continues to exert a profound influence on our contemporary experience of the Christian faith as we increasingly embrace the Celtic spirituality which he inspired. Christopher Donaldson's vivid and compelling portrait re-establishes Martin as a spiritual leader with a message for our own day.
Increasingly people like to customise the ceremonies and rituals that mark their rites of passage. This first of three anthologies offers a selection of 100 readings suitable for weddings and anniversaries, drawn from scripture and a wide range of poetry and prose.
This is an authorized biography of an accomplished and greatly-loved man - a figure who left his mark on the Church, in the academic world, in scientific institutions, and in the lives of countless people who enjoyed his friendship.
This is a broad-ranging resource for worship, prayer groups and school assemblies. It focuses on the reality of "peace", from inner peace to peace between individuals and between countries. The writers span centuries and are from many cultures.
Encourages openness of heart & hand based on Jesus' teachings about wealth and attitude to money. Offers many creative ideas for teaching & preaching on this theme & provides imaginative worship resources that can be reproduced freely in service sheets
As suspicious as one often is of the other, literature and spirituality enjoy a rich and deep relationship. They have been inextricably linked since narrative and symbol first met in the earliest biblical writings. Story, poetry and drama have always been used to express the human search for religious meaning and to modulate the divine voice. Equally, 'Take Christianity out of English literature, ' asks Ronald Blythe in this book, 'and what is left?' In this fascinating and spirited collection of essays the novelist Penelope Lively explores fiction writing as an act of creation with its clear spiritual resonances. A. N. Wilson inveighs against the modern church for its desecration of the language which shaped and nurtured it. The poet David Scott looks at the lonely, subversive calling of the priest-poet from Caedmon to R. S. Thomas, and Richard Marsh considers David Jones's writings in the First World War where, for many, religion turned to mud and the only way across that vast no man's land was by the same ancient way of myth and symbol, the way that literature and spirituality have travelled together since the beginning
Night time signifies many things. Apart from the rest and refreshment that sleep brings, the night is a time for gazing at the stars, dreaming and loving. For some it means keeping vigil as they tend the very young, or the sick. For others, it means working so that others may rest peacefully. For most people, there are occasions when the night brings no relief: when we are worried or afraid, trouble never looms larger than in the early sleepless hours. Yet such times can lead to a richer experience of intercession, meditation and contemplation. These experiences of the night are universal and have inspired poetry, prayers, lullabies, songs and stories down the ages. This wide-ranging collection is the perfect bedside companion and will help soothe us to sleep, dispel night time fears and attune us to the gifts and opportunities that each new day brings.
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