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Crowning the Year will equip all who lead or assist with worship in rural contexts. It offers some essential groundwork on liturgical theology, and a theology of ministry in rural, multi-parochial contexts, providing practical ideas and direction on how to prepare for and conduct worship for the principal feasts and seasons of the Christian year.

Lucy Winkett explores the lived reality of faith through a series of around fifty reflections on scripture narratives that span the Christian year. Reflecting a 'head, heart and feet' approach to understanding scripture, this collection will delight those who preach with an abundance of wisdom, and inspire all readers to embody a living faith.

Landscape Liturgies offers outdoor worship material drawn from 2,000 years of outdoor Christian practice. It contains prayers, rituals, blessings and liturgies compiled from Anglican, Roman Catholic, Methodist and Orthodox sources, as well as early church material, the desert tradition and monastic spirituality.

Combining monastic, Celtic and desert traditions, this title offers a practical guide to finding God through the everyday circumstances of life. Seemingly small, insignificant things then become windows through which the light of Christ can shine.

The first in a new series of books explaining serious theology for a popular audience, Grace explores the free, unconditional and limitless love of God. Tackling common misunderstandings, both Protestant and Catholic, it gives an essential overview of one of the most important concepts in the Christian faith.

A resource that gives practical ideas for reflection and study based on the central Christian symbol - the cross - an endlessly rich theme against which to explore individual stories and experiences. Includes a CD-ROM with instructions for making hand held crosses and colour images of crosses worldwide.

All churches have had to learn to do things differently during closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. None has been more imaginative or inventive than London's St Martin in the Fields. Here the St Martin's team reflects theologically and share its newly found pastoral and practical wisdom in many areas, developed through its HeartEdge programme.

The Rule of St Benedict is the foundation of monasticism, one of the oldest continuing institutions in all of Western civilization. This first ever gender-neutral translation is true to the original text but provides an alternative to the masculine language of the original.

In this bold and provocative invitation, Martyn Percy imagines what the post-pandemic Church might look like and sets out what it needs to learn. It argues that the Church needs to stop obsessing about itself - its size, its strategies to shore up decline, its waning public influence - and rediscover how to live as the body of Christ.

Popular speaker, storyteller and activist Gareth Higgins exposes the root causes of fear and shows how we can overcome it through life-giving stories, simple spiritual exercises and practical steps to take as individuals and communities.

Plough Sunday, Rogation and Harvest are hugely important for churches serving rural communities. Ploughshares and First Fruits provides fresh ideas for keeping the established festivals, with ready-to-use, participative liturgies that engage all the senses, appeal to all ages and give small churches a round-the-year resource.

This collection of 500 original collect-style prayers and biddings covers the life of the Church and the world. Contemporary in focus and language, they are written in a concise style that makes them ideal for public worship but will also appeal to anyone struggling to find the words when they pray.

A volume of remarkable spiritual wisdom and insight, as fresh and relevant for today as when they were first written.

A Cross in the Heart of God focuses on the significance of the story at the very centre of Christianity: the crucifixion. Samuel Wells writes as a theologian and pastor to explore the cross in the purposes of God and how this act brings about salvation. Ideal for Lent groups and for individual reading.

Presents an introduction to the Christian faith which explores the key themes of Christian belief and the reality of living them.

This timely book gathers 800 years of accumulated wisdom and practical examples of how Franciscans have found ways to live at home and at peace with creation. It explores the life and writings of St Francis and inspiring Franciscans who followed him to challenge and enable readers to re-visit their own relationship with creation.

A corona is a crown, the pearly glow around the sun in certain astronomical conditions and a poetic form where interlinking lines connect a sequence. It is the perfect name therefore for this new collection of 150 poems by the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite, each one written in response to the Bible's 150 psalms.

A sparkling collection of stories and sermons of faith, grace, and hope by bestselling writer and renowned preacher Barbara Brown Taylor. Full of her astute observations on the Spirit and the state of the world and animated by her ready wit, this collection will be a joy for many.

Luigi Gioia is one of the most insightful commentators on monastic and priestly life today. In The Wisdom of St Benedict he shines the light of monastic spirituality on many aspects of the contemporary Church, offering a refreshing vision of a renewed spirituality for today's Church.

Beloved theologian and bishop Graham Kings has been writing poetry for thirty-five years, with many of his poems used in retreats and preaching throughout the Anglican Communion. This collection brings together Graham's poems on a range of devotional subjects.

Love Mercy is a thoughtful and realistic exploration of forgiveness and making peace from bestselling author and broadcaster Samuel Wells. The sequel to 'Walk Humbly', it is the second of three volumes by Samuel Wells that offer a basic introduction to Christian faith and life.

Love's Mysteries reflects powerfully on our fundamental limitations as creatures of flesh and bone, and what our experiences of grief, loss, and fragility tell us about God. Rachel Mann explores what happens when our bodies are under pressure, suggesting that the precariousness of life might be where we most authentically encounter God.

A second collection of Malcolm Guite's widely acclaimed columns on the back page of the Church Times

The third volume in the Biblical Explorations series from bestselling New Testament writer Paula Gooder explores a major exponent of the Gospels: the parables of Jesus. It considers why Jesus spoke in pictures and opens up the world behind the parables to reveal just how striking, memorable and challenging they were for their original hearers.

This collection of poems explores the changing place of the Church in a multi-faith and often stridently secular society where it can no longer speak with its old authority. Diana Pacitti's poetry envisages a new role of living more truly the presence of Christ.

This collection of 28 reflections on R. S. Thomas's poetry travels through the season, and follows one of the traditional patterns of themes explored in each Sunday of Advent: a Carmelite pattern of waiting, accepting, journeying and birthing.

This annual diary starts at Advent Sunday, with a page per day and a double page for Sundays. Suitable for all who use the 3-year lectionary, it gives lectionary readings from Common Worship and the Book of Common Prayer, as well as Collects for Sundays, holy days and festivals.

A leading poet and theologian reflect on the ancient story of Ruth that resonates deeply in today's world with its themes of migration, the stranger, mixed cultures and religions, law and leadership, women in public life, kindness, generosity and fear.

An Advent Book of Days tells the stories of all the characters and creatures that make up the Christmas story, with daily prayers and reflections based on their experiences. Fully illustrated in colour, this rich seasonal companion combines the bible, history, art and legend to explore the story of the incarnation.