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Latest & Forthcoming Releases
Theology & Religion
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Pre-order now! Leading a Church to Maturity in Love: A Theological and Practical Guide to Church Leadership
Paperback £12.99 Special pre-order price!
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-023-4Church leaders frequently encounter tensions and conflict, especially when facing change. Building on extensive experience of leading churches at times of change, David Robert Tomlinson shows how through critical theological reflection and modelling good practice church leaders can facilitate church life that is grounded and transformed by the love of God.
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Kingdom Come: Essential theology for the twenty-first century
Paperback £9.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-003-6Kingdom Come makes essential theological topics relevant and readable without diluting the Gospel message. Essential reading for anyone in church leadership.
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With God we live without God: Reflections and prayers inspired by the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Paperback £7.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-910519-93-630 reflections and prayers that draw inspiration from the theological challenges, thought-provoking statements, and new intellectual constructs that defined Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s own reflections.
History
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Suffering and Glory: The Church from the Apostles to Constantine
Paperback/Hardback
£19.99£14.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-910519-89-9The story of the growth of the early Christian community. A rapid, detailed and accurate narrative, full of picturesque scenes drawn directly from contemporary witnesses to the rise of Christianity in the Roman world.
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The Old Rectory: The Story of the English Parsonage
Hardback
£34.99£29.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-910519-51-6A “humdinging page-turner of a book” (The Spectator) that will “give great pleasure” (Country Life). The Old Rectory examines the history of the English parsonage through the centuries, and their many and varied styles of architecture. Explore the lives of famous inhabitants and discover the scandals of neglect.
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A Brief History of End Time: Prophecy and Apocalypse, then and now
Paperback £12.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-910519-37-0Why has the end of time exercised such strong fascination over the human imagination? In this entertaining and thorough exploration of end-time ideas and beliefs, Dr Paula Clifford reaches some thoughtful and surprising conclusions about the apocalypse and the end of the world.
Fiction & Poetry
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Pre-order now! Cuthbert of Farne: A novel of Northumbria’s warrior saint
Paperback £9.99 Special pre-order price!
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-009-8The first historical novel about Cuthbert, much-loved saint of the North, a one-time warrior whose destiny it was to reconcile the warring parties in the early English Church.
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Love in Thin Places: Confessions of a Cathedral Chaplain
Paperback £7.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-014-2A beautiful collection of poems inspired by Durham Cathedral and its saints, visitors and pilgrims.
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The Geese Flew Over My Heart: Poems for Prayer and Reflection
Paperback £8.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-017-3A collection of profoundly moving prayers that invite to a deeper relationship with God.
Living with a Volcano
GUEST BLOG: #BookOfTheMonth author Paula Clifford has been thinking and writing about the nature of apocalypse for quite a few years now – first as a medievalist and then as a theologian. But she never expected that there would be a potential warning of the end of the world right outside her…
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Writing Poetry: An Author's Inspiration
GUEST BLOG: Poet Lyn McCrave describes some of the situations that have inspired her to write poetry, and how the initial spark becomes a finished item on the page. How do I write a poem? For me, writing a poem is deep listening in the presence of the sacred. It is an awaiting and als…
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February #BookOfTheMonth: A Brief History of End Time
February’s #BookOfTheMonth is Paula Clifford's A Brief History of End Time, a thoroughly entertaining exploration of end-time ideas and beliefs. Blake, Nostradamus, Christian fundamentalists, and latter-day prophets are just some of the many individuals and groups—both relig…
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