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Feeling blue? It’s not just you...
BOOK LAUNCH: Approximately 300 million people worldwide suffer with depression (WHO, 2017). For those who suffer from this invisible disease, it’s ...
VIDEO: The Divine Heart of Darkness - a book launch for all the senses
There was music. There was art. There was even Divine dark chocolate. This was a book launch for all the senses. We streamed it live on Facebook, a...
Finding God in the Shadows
Darkness is not just night. It is twilight and dawn. It is shape and shadow. It is beyond and beneath. It is shelter and shade. It is It is power a...
Did Luther actually nail his 95 Theses to a church door?
On this day five hundred years ago Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg.
Or did he?
GUEST BLOG by Barbara Greig
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A book launch for the dark nights...
As the nights get darker, join us at Church House Bookshop to launch The Divine Heart of Darkness: Finding God in the Shadows by Catherine Bird.
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Follow Me: Living the Sayings of Jesus
GUEST BLOG: How can we live out the sayings of Jesus in our busy, cluttered lives? Ian Black, canon of Peterborough Cathedral, explains how his new...
Spy Stories and the Relevance of Cathedrals: Durham Book Festival Fringe events at Durham Cathedral
PRESS RELEASE: In association with Sacristy Press, Durham Cathedral will host two events as part of the Durham Book Festival Fringe. On 10 October ...
Be part of a triple book launch...
Bishop Stephen Platten has been a busy man. He has written three crucial new books – two for Sacristy Press and one for SCM Press – and there are f...
Two events you can’t afford to miss at the Durham Book Festival
Sacristy Press and Durham Cathedral are hosting two events as part of the 2017 Durham Book Festival “fringe”.
Don’t miss this opportunity to mee...
Danish best-selling book to be translated into English
PRESS RELEASE: Sacristy Press, based in Durham City, will be publishing an English version of a Danish best-selling and critically-acclaimed book a...
A Summer of Books!
Heading off on holiday this summer? Don't forget to pack our new releases and some of our old favourites! (There's also a teaser of some new books ...
Revealed: the centuries-old secret hidden in Open Treasure?
This weekend the stunning Treasures of St Cuthbert go back on display at Durham Cathedral. But was Cuthbert’s famous pectoral cross – a symbol of D...
Opening Cuthbert’s Tomb
Here’s what happened when David Willem live tweeted the opening of St Cuthbert’s tomb in Durham Cathedral, 190 years to the day since it occurred.
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10 Deadly Sins of Preaching
Preaching is an art form that can take years to master. In this extract from his book, Michael Sadgrove shares his experiences of what makes a bad ...
Shaping the World to Come
Why were the fourth and fifth centuries such a crucial yet turbulent time for the universal Church?
Patrick Whitworth outlines why these were such...
LIVE TWEETING: The opening of St Cuthbert's grave, 190 years on
UPCOMING EVENT: David Willem will be live tweeting the opening of St Cuthbert’s tomb in Durham Cathedral, 190 years to the day since it occurred.
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A letter from Charles Darwin
GUEST BLOG: The discovery of a previously unknown letter from Charles Darwin to the ornithologist and priest Henry Baker Tristram casts new light o...
The last egg of the Great Auk
GUEST BLOG: The Victorian ornithologist, explorer, and priest Henry Baker Tristram was a remarkable man. Author W. G. Hale tells us the story of th...
AUTHOR TALK: “The shape of the Bible and its impact on language and culture”
Don’t miss Richard Noble’s illustrated talk about the linguistic impact of the King James Bible – Sunday 7th May in Cambridge.
Few people realis...
An Easter Message
A very happy Easter to all our readers and authors from everyone from Sacristy Press!
As our Easter gift to you, here’s an extract from a poignant...