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Matthew: the Gospel of Fulfilment
GUEST BLOG: Patrick Whitworth explores the distinctiveness of the Gospel of Matthew. His new book, Gospel of Fulfilment, is the second in his serie...

Breakdown and Depression: A Christian's Guide
Our August #BookOfTheMonth is From Over the Edge, an intimate account of struggling with depression and breakdown as a Christian.
Many Christian...

Eighty Years Ago: The Summer of ’39
GUEST BLOG: Eighty years ago, in the summer of 1939, Britain stood on the verge of war for the second time in a quarter of a century. The IRA was w...

Theonomics: Putting the Horse Back in Front of the Cart
GUEST BLOG: Peter Sills examines how Christianity can help us all to reconnect economics with virtue and integrity in the modern world.
Wherever...

July #BookOfTheMonth: Theonomics
Our July #BookOfTheMonth is Theonomics, offering “powerful and persuasive insights into the possibilities for our collective economic well-being.”
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Durham Cathedral at Dawn
GUEST BLOG: When poetry inspires painting – David Grieve, author of Love in Thin Places, tells us about a beautiful gesture from one of his readers...

Book Launch: Searching for a Silent God
Join Sarah Parkinson for drinks and nibbles to celebrate the launch of her new book Searching for a Silent God.
Sarah will discuss her deepl...

Historical Novels – Fact or Fiction?
GUEST BLOG: Susan Bell, author of our June #BookOfTheMonth, explains how her novel came about after many years’ searching for the truth and finding...

How I Accidentally Wrote a Book
GUEST BLOG: Sarah Parkinson’s Searching for a Silent God has just been published by Sacristy Press, but here she explains how this book came about ...

June #BookOfTheMonth: A Similar Devotion
Our June #BookOfTheMonth is Susan Bell's A Similar Devotion, a dual narrative set at the dawn of the twenty-first century and in the compelling pol...

Recent Reviews of Sacristy Press Titles
Our books have been going down a treat with reviewers recently. Not sure which of our titles to pick up next? Have a read of what the experts think...

A Christianity that Changed the World
GUEST BLOG: Michael Knowles sets out the lessons he thinks the Catholic Church must take from the Council of Jerusalem of AD 49 in order to keep Ch...

Luke: The Gospel for the Outsider
GUEST BLOG: #BookOfTheMonth author Patrick Whitworth explores what makes Luke's record of Jesus' teachings unique amongst the Gospel writers, and w...

The History of Captain Gray’s Houses
GUEST BLOG: Robert Shepherd, author of Captain Gray's Houses, explains what drove him to write about the houses on Sion Row, Twickenham, and how he...

May #BookOfTheMonth: Gospel for the Outsider
May's #BookOfTheMonth is Patrick Whitworth's “immensely helpful and refreshing” Gospel for the Outsider: The Gospel in Luke & Acts.
Gospel for...

The Joy of Preaching
GUEST BLOG: As preachers around the world give their Easter sermons, Michael Sadgrove, Dean Emeritus of Durham Cathedral and author of #BookOfTheMo...

Houses Through Time
GUEST BLOG: Enjoying A House Through Time on BBC 2? Then this might just be the book for you...
Fans of David Olusoga’s BBC2 series will know that...

A Dark and Dreadful Death
As we move through Holy Week, here is a topical sermon by Michael Sadgrove, Dean Emeritus of Durham Cathedral, taken from our April #BookOfTheMon...

Grown-up Brexit, Grown-up Faith
GUEST BLOG: David Newman, author of Growing Up into the Children of God, draws parallels between the current political crisis and the challenges fa...

April #BookOfTheMonth: Christ in a Choppie Box
April's #BookOfTheMonth is Michael Sadgrove's Christ in a Choppie Box: Sermons from North East England. As we move deeper into Lent, this collectio...