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Re-discovering Creation Friendly Traditions Within Celtic Christianity
GUEST BLOG: As part of our August #ThemeOfTheMonth author Ray Simpson argues that the modern Church has repeatedly failed to respond adequately to ...
August #ThemeOfTheMonth: Climate & Environment
How should Christians treat Creation and respond to climate crisis? Find out what three of our authors have to say about this during the course of ...
Englishness and the Church
The history of England cannot be understood without first understanding the history of the Church, argues Partrick Whitworth, author of a major new...
A Good Death
GUEST BLOG: What does it look like to die well? To grieve well? The COVID-19 pandemic has stolen the opportunity from many to die or grieve as they...
Peace. Be Still, Scientist!
GUEST BLOG: Against the backdrop of the Covid 19 pandemic, Daniel Ruy Pereira reflects on the interplay between science and faith and where we can ...
July #BookOfTheMonth: Leading a Church to Maturity in Love
Is it a white candlestick or the outline of two black faces opposite each other? Or is it both? This picture is designed to make you wonder. Wh...
Vintage hymns: past their sell-by date?
BOOK LAUNCH: Have the hymns we grew up with passed their sell-by date?
Join musician and author Gillian Warson for the launch of her new book Us...
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...