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  • Fragile Mystics

    Reclaiming a Prayerful Life

    Fragile Mystics reworks traditional concepts of prayer and gives them a contemporary 'spin'. Like Steel Angels, it draws on the author's own experience as a Christian priest and offers illustrations from the world of visual arts, film and contemporary culture. It includes some biblical examples, and connects present day yearnings and wrestling's as a 'person who wants to pray better' with those of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Reverence

    A priest's life of holiness and humanity

    Part memoir, part reflection on vocation, Reverence charts the past and present life of an Anglican and female priest, one of the first women to be ordained in the Church of England in the 1990s. Magdalen Smith grew up in a clergy family, married a cleric, then became one herself. Working in many different contexts, cathedral, outer estate, city and countryside, she draws from a depth of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Steel Angels

    The personal qualities of a priest

    The nine criteria the Church of England uses to discern potential vocations to the priesthood are explored, and linked with personal qualities that are necessary for new, but also existing, leaders in a church and culture which has changed much over the last 50 years.The nine criteria are:VocationMinistry in the Church of EnglandFaithPersonalitySpiritualityRelationshipsMission and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Grace-filled Wilderness

    A Journey Through Lent

    The Grace-filled Wilderness connects contemporary encounters of wilderness with the traditional themes of Lent and Jesus' journey to the cross.Magdalen Smith invites us to consider a series of subjects that are double - edged - they can bring us life or, if we handle them in the wrong way, drain life from us.Our appetites, our identity, our work, our sense of freedom and our struggles with anxiety ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Unearthly Beauty

    Through Advent With The Saints

    ‘Saints are people of unearthly beauty who show us a deep understanding of the fluid nature of divine grace.’This warm-hearted book is for those of us who enter Advent longing for spiritual sustenance to balance the worldly charms of the Christmas season. Jesus’ arrival in poverty and vulnerability provoked feelings of unease as well as expectation and hope . . . How will we keep the faith as ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Struggling To Be Holy

    by Judy Hirst ...
    A new edition of this much-loved book which now includes discussion questions to aid deeper reflection on its themes. Struggling to be Holy takes an honest look at the challenge of living out the Christian faith day-by-day. In a series of short reflections on themes such as 'desire', 'success and failure' and friendship' Judy Hirst uncovers the threads of a holiness which is rooted in our everyday ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Simple Faith: Faith

    by Margaret Silf ...
    Simple faith is simply to journey in trust, like a baby, but with the wounds and scars of an adult, like a man who died on a cross, and invites us to 'become like little children', and when we follow him we discover that his footsteps lead right back, full circle, to a whole new beginning.A simple but profound exposition of the nature of faith in our contemporary world. In fifteen concise chapters ... Read more

    $3.85 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Candles in the Dark

    Faith, Hope and Love in a Time of Pandemic

    ‘As we contemplate the coming months, not knowing when we can breathe again, it’s worth thinking about how already the foundations have been laid for whatever new opportunities God has for us on the far side of this crisis.’Rowan Williams offers these words of wisdom and many more in Candles in the Dark. This powerful and timely book brings together the 26 weekly Christian meditations originally ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Sunlit Absence

    Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation

    by Martin Laird ...
    "The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts," writes Martin Laird in A Sunlit Absence. "Not a technique but a skill, it harnesses the winds of grace that lead us out into the liberating sea of silence." In this companion volume to his bestselling Into the Silent Land, Laird focuses on a quality often overlooked by books on Christian meditation: a vast and flowing spaciousness ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Where the Hell Is God?

    Combines professional insights along with the authors own experience and insights to speculate on how believers can make sense of their Christian faith when confronted with tragedy and suffering. ... Read more

    $8.80 USD

  • Abiding

    The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2013

    by Ben Quash ...
    'Abide in me as I abide in you... As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love.'Abiding is not a word we have much use for in everyday conversation. Yet Ben Quash shows that this one concept is central to the Christian life.Abiding, as Quash demonstrates, has the sense of full personal commitment, a quality of solidarity that 'waiting' just cannot convey. It speaks of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Bad Christian's Manifesto

    Reinventing God (and other modest proposals)

    Dave Tomlinson's book How to Be a Bad Christian was written for all those who want God without the guff - revealing that being a 'bad' Christian is perfectly good enough, and that it's possible to ditch religion without losing the faith.The Bad Christian's Manifesto continues the conversation, unpacking what spiritual intelligence - from an unapologetically Christian viewpoint - might look like ... Read more

    $3.99 USD