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BOOK LAUNCH: Made in the Image of God
Transgenderism, artificial intelligence (AI), our relationship to animals and the natural world...
Join seven distinguished theologians for the ...
Taking Back Control?
GUEST BLOG: #BookOfTheMonth author David Newman takes stock of what we have learned from a year of pandemic, and explores aspects of life in lockdo...
Busking the Gospel in Secular Employment
GUEST BLOG: Self-supporting ministry is not a new phenomenon, but it has experienced renewed interest of late. Is this the model for twenty-first-c...
April #BookOfTheMonth: Growing Up into the Children of God
What does it mean for Christians to grow to be mature members of the body of Christ? Find out in our April #BookOfTheMonth, Growing Up into the Chi...
Meghan’s Lament
GUEST BLOG: What does the book of Lamentations have to do with the recent much-publicised TV interview with Meghan Markle? John Holdsworth wonders ...
Happy Birthday to Us! 🎉
Sacristy Press is a Durham-based publishing company that has just reached a significant milestone. It was founded on 16 March 2011 and is today cel...
A Year Like No Other
GUEST BLOG: We have come full circle, almost a year since the first lockdown commenced in the U.K. on 23 March 2020. We have nearly made it through...
Hanging Pictures on the Wall
GUEST BLOG: A good poem is like a picture on a wall, says Richard Briggs.
Now I love art galleries. But I have never been good at hanging pictur...
March #BookOfTheMonth: The Geese Flew Over My Heart
Poems for prayer and reflection: our March #BookOfTheMonth is Lyn McCrave’s deeply personal and at times haunting collection, The Geese Flew Over M...
Book Launch: Christian and Sikh
The Sikh Christian Forum invites you to the (virtual) book launch for Christian and Sikh: A Practical Theology of Multiple Religious Participation ...
A Prayer for Ash Wednesday
A prayer by #BookOfTheMonth author Graham Turner for Ash Wednesday.
We are marred by the madness of contemporary living
and brought low by...
Top Picks for Lent 2021
Nearly a year into the pandemic, many readers are searching for resources to help them to reflect prayerfully on the current moment and to better e...
A Different Look at the 40 Days of Lent
GUEST BLOG: With 40 Bible phrases for 40 days, The Writing on the Wall: Everyday Phrases from the King James Bible offers a fascinating alternative...
A Prayer for the Sunday next before Lent
A prayer by #BookOfTheMonth author Graham Turner for the Sunday next before Lent.
It is good and frightening for us to be with you, Lord.
You b...
A Fresh Approach to Praying the Lectionary
WATCH: Praying can be an ongoing struggle, but this inventive collection could reinvigorate your prayer life.
For over thirty years, Graha...
Prayer, Covid, Presidents and Loss of Control
GUEST BLOG: It is easy to adopt the collective delusion that we are generally in control. #BookOfTheMonth author Graham Turner shows that letting g...
February #BookOfTheMonth: Alternative Collects
“Collects that follow in the wake of Cranmer”: discover our February #BookOfTheMonth.
Alternative Collects: Prayers to a Disruptive & Compas...
The Dig and The Song of Hild: Who was buried at Sutton Hoo?
GUEST BLOG: A film about the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo will be aired on Netflix from 29 January. The Dig stars Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes...
The Call to Multiple Religious Participation
GUEST BLOG: Why would a Christian priest choose to take part in a second religion’s worship? Is it right? In this blog, John Barnett details his pa...
God, Incarnation and Limitation
GUEST BLOG: #BookOfTheMonth author Mark Philps explores the topic of incarnation and finds hope in the parallels with our currently limited lives.
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