Prayer, Spirituality & Discipleship
Devotional books to help deepen our prayer lives, engage with our spirituality, and develop our discipleship.
Whether you are new to Christianity and struggling to learn to pray, or are looking to reinvigorate your relationship with God, we hope you’ll find the ideal companion to your faith journey in one of our books.
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Praying for the Earth: Remembering the Environment in our Prayers of Intercession
Paperback £9.99
A resource for congregations and for individual Christians who believe that environmental concerns should be an integral part of the public and private prayers of all Christian people.
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Knowing Christ: Christian Discipleship and the Eucharist
Paperback £14.99
The Eucharist is the central act of worship for many Christians. This accessible introduction will deepen the understanding and enrich the experience of all who partake.
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Celtic Christianity and Climate Crisis: Twelve Keys for the Future of the Church
Paperback £14.99
Celtic Christianity is the key not only for the future of the Church but of the whole planet, argues Ray Simpson, Founding Guardian of the Community of Aidan and Hilda.
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Adventure Awaits: Harnessing Today's Potential for God's Greater Purpose
Paperback £14.99
Move beyond the conventional pattern of a twenty-first-century Christian, into a rich and fruitful faith adventure.
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Keeping Watch for Kingfishers: God Stories
Paperback £14.99
A collection of sermons that explore how we can learn to hear the voice of God in prayer, in the life of Jesus and in the human voice.
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To Call on His Name: Perspectives on the Jesus Prayer
Paperback £16.99
The first comprehensive study of the Jesus Prayer, and its origins and use, providing an overview of this ancient mystical prayer practice from the Christian East which is now also widely used in the Western Church.
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Following Jesus in the Holy Land: Pathways of Discipleship through Advent and Lent
Paperback £12.99
Reflecting on the key locations of Jesus’ life and ministry, this book invites Holy Land visitors and armchair pilgrims to reflect on Christian discipleship through Advent and Lent.
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Searching for a Silent God
Paperback £12.99
A thoughtful and engaging companion for all who experience times of spiritual crisis. Sarah Parkinson describes her experience of a time when God, on whose presence she had always relied, suddenly seemed to be absent from her life.
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Growing Up into the Children of God: Exploring the Paradoxes of Christian Maturity
Paperback £14.99
David Newman reflects on what it means for Christians to grow to be mature members of the body of Christ, with faith in a God who acts and themselves actively engaged in the church and the world.
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Love in Thin Places: Confessions of a Cathedral Chaplain
Paperback £9.99
A beautiful collection of poems inspired by Durham Cathedral and its saints, visitors and pilgrims.
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The Geese Flew Over My Heart: Poems for Prayer and Reflection
Paperback £9.99
A collection of profoundly moving prayers that invite to a deeper relationship with God.
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With God we live without God: Reflections and prayers inspired by the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Paperback £9.99
30 reflections and prayers that draw inspiration from the theological challenges, thought-provoking statements, and new intellectual constructs that defined Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s own reflections.
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Alternative Collects: Prayers to a Disruptive & Compassionate God
Paperback £12.99
These radical prayers break the mould of the “collect” prayers that are so familiar to millions of Christians worldwide. They are the result of the author’s struggle with the blandness and predictability of so many of the church’s traditional prayers. Useful for both personal and liturgical devotion, these prayers will both challenge and nourish.
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The Paradise Tree: Personal Prayer through Poetry
Paperback £12.99
A beautiful devotional companion about the experience of God and giving expression to our inner spirituality. Creatively mixing poetry, prose and scripture, this book will challenge preconceptions about the nature of God, heaven, hell, intercessory prayer, and the relevance of human existence within the vastness of an unfathomable universe.
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Cross Purposes: Reflections for Good Friday
Paperback £14.99
A collection of thought-provoking reflections inviting us to contemplate the events of Good Friday in new ways. The reflections are diverse, from Peter’s clumsy fear to the Seven Last Words.
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Living Prayer: Learning to Pray in Daily Life
Paperback £9.99
A gentle introduction to praying in our daily lives. This little companion helps anyone struggling with their prayer life to overcome what can seem like formidable challenges of praying regularly.
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Hope in Dark Places: Poems about Depression and the Christian
Paperback £9.99
Raw and deeply moving poetry about living with depression as a Christian.
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The Divine Heart of Darkness: Finding God in the Shadows
Paperback £16.99
How can we use the experience of darkness to lift our spirits, challenge our hearts and minds and draw us closer into the heart of God?
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Follow Me: Living the Sayings of Jesus
Paperback £9.99
Connecting what Jesus said and how we live today in all its messiness and complexity, "Follow Me" provides practical steps that all of us can take to live the sayings of Jesus.
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From Over the Edge: A Christian’s guide to surviving Breakdown & Depression
Paperback £12.99
An intimate account of struggling with depression and breakdown as a Christian. Jon Grogan shares what helped him to understand and recover from depressive illness.
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At the Foot of the Cross: Reflections for Good Friday
Paperback £9.99
Kevin Carey invites us to reflect on the Stations of the Cross with words that can be used for personal devotion or liturgically, and specially-commissioned images depicting each of the Stations.
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Stir Up, O Lord: A Companion to the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels in the Book of Common Prayer
Paperback £14.99
A thought provoking commentary gives the words of Cranmer and his colleagues renewed meaning in our own time by providing historical context and reflection on their broader message.
