Author Blog

The Accidental Author
GUEST BLOG: How does someone who swears he will never write a book become a published author? Graham Turner describes his experience of writing God...

Two unmissable events at Durham Book Festival 2019
Sacristy Press and Durham Cathedral are hosting two events as part of the 2019 Durham Book Festival “fringe”.
Don’t miss this opportunity to mee...

September #BookOfTheMonth: God's People and the Seduction of Empire
Our September #BookOfTheMonth is God’s People and the Seduction of Empire, “an accessible, radical and rare example of the vitality and relevance o...

Do We Need Deacons?
GUEST BLOG: Are deacons mere liturgical functionaries, on their way to the priesthood or presbyterate? Or are they social activists with only a loo...

Rosie Deedes: Writing a Book
GUEST BLOG: Ever since first starting work as a chaplain in Holloway women’s prison in 1999, Rosie Deedes has wanted to write a book. She had a str...

Stress Behaving Badly
GUEST BLOG: What really is stress, and what constitutes a Christian reaction to it? #BookOfTheMonth author Jon Grogan explores this issue.
I was...

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...