Books from Sacristy Press
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The Paradise Tree: Personal Prayer through Poetry
By John DaveyCreatively 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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Like There's No Tomorrow: Climate Crisis, Eco-Anxiety and God
By Frances WardChristians often don't know how to respond to the climate crisis and messages of possible destruction caused by human activity. Frances Ward shows how Christians can live and act with hope and faith in God in the face of eco-anxiety.
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Creating Space: Story, Reflection and Practice in Healthcare Chaplaincy
By Sacha Pearce, Jan CollisCreating Space models the way in which practice development emerges from reflecting on the human story and reveals to healthcare, the Church and the community, the unique role of the chaplain’s experiences as a resource to others.
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Made in the Image of God: Being Human in the Christian Tradition
By Michael Fuller, David Jasperthe concept itself.6 However we describe it, if we are all made in the divine image, then there is an equality, ... Douglas John Hall, for example, has argued that imaging God requires a multidimensional set of relationships with God, ...
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Growing Up into the Children of God: Exploring the Paradoxes of Christian Maturity
By David NewmanDavid 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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Stir Up, O Lord: A Companion to the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels in the Book of Common Prayer
By Kevin CareyOn the other hand, we could argue that because of their status, angels are simply glamorous servants who do as they are told, and that, in spite of the literary pyrotechnics, there is no way in which they could be defeated by evil ...
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A Sign of the Times: Unlocking Scripture with Familiar Phrases
By Lynn MachinWhen the Bible speaks about the signs of the times it is usually referring to events that will take place in the future. As Christians, it is important that we read and consider what the Bible has to say about events that will happen ...
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A Very Byzantine Journey: Discovering the New Testament Story through Icons and Pilgrimage
By J. Richard Smitha However, we had a beautiful walk up through the cedars and at the top found a church, the Church of the Transfiguration. This trip was transfiguring in many ways and taught me that through the disaster of my divorce I could survive, ...
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The Evil That Men Do: Faith, Injustice and the Church
By Marcus PaulThis book considers the Church's past failings and fills a gap in our understanding of what it means to be a Christian in the twenty-first century.
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The Writing on the Wall: Everyday Phrases from the King James Bible
By Richard NobleThis book is an essential guidebook to the King James Bible and explores the idioms within it that have entered modern-day usage.
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Keeping Watch for Kingfishers: God Stories
By Jenny WilsonChapter 5: Grace through Goodness—Middlemarch Preached on Lent 1 2014. ... Chapter 11: Cleansing our Planet 2 Kings 5:1–14; Mark 1:40–5 Preached on 11 February 2018. Chapter 12: Tell it Slant Matthew 18:1–14 Preached on ...
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Leading a Church to Maturity in Love: A Theological and Practical Guide to Church Leadership
By David R. TomlinsonBuilding on extensive experience of leading churches at times of change, Tomlinson shows how through critical theological reflection and modelling good practice church leaders can facilitate church life that is grounded and transformed by ...
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Wicked Weather for Walking: A Passiontide Progress
By Stephen PlattenA short guide through Holy Week, linking the story of Jesus' way to the cross with themes of pilgrimage and Christian discipleship in the twenty-first century.
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Holy Ground: Cathedrals in the twenty-first century
By Stephen PlattenHoly Ground digs deep into the life of England’s cathedrals, and discusses such diverse topics as finance, growth, heritage, liturgy, development, music and art.
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Northumberland: A guide
By Stephen PlattenA fully illustrated guidebook to Northumberland, including a gazetteer, maps and more than 240 photographs
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Parish Nativity Play
By Kevin CareyThe play is written in traditional blank verse because, in my experience, and perhaps counter-intuitively, ... If we are simply to make do with Nativity plays for children with their tea-towel head-dresses and tinsel angel wings, ...
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Living Culture, Living Christ: On Becoming Fully Human
By Alan M. SuggateAlan M. Suggate offers a diagnosis of the root failings of our culture and commends a humanism centred on persons and grounded in an integralist approach to the Christian faith.
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Captain Gray's Houses: A History of Sion Row, Twickenham
By Robert Shepherd... 564 565 566 567 568 Essex Standard 26 July 1844. N. A. M. Roger, The Command of the Ocean, p. 553. Master's Logbook of HMS Spy TNA ADM 51/3740. See Sian Rees, Sweet Water and Bitter (Vintage, 2010) for the history of the squadron.
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The Divine Heart of Darkness: Finding God in the Shadows
By Catherine BirdHow 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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A Similar Devotion
By Susan Bell... scattered all over the records in many different parts of the county.” “But you couldn't find a Dorothy Forster under burials in Bamburgh?” “No.” “Or Blanchland?” “No, nor anywhere else I've looked.” “So, 288 A Similar Devotion.