Books from Sacristy Press
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Mission From Below: Growing a Kingdom Community
By Dr. Janet HodgsonA radical and controversial challenge to the top-down leadership models that are so widespread in the church, instead making the case for a new model of people-driven servant leadership, guided by the Holy Spirit towards kingdom growth ...
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The Diaconate in Ecumenical Perspective: Ecclesiology, Liturgy and Practice
By Rosalind Brown, David Clark, Frederick C.A discussion of the historical development of the order of deacons, its theological basis in the Western and Eastern Churches, and the relevance and significance of the diaconate for the Church in the twenty-first century.
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Living Prayer: Learning to Pray in Daily Life
By John DaveyA 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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Adventure Awaits: Harnessing Today’s Potential for God’s Greater Purpose
By Jane Merson... God uses us to achieve his purposes, and we have the opportunity and privilege to be a part of something far greater than ourselves, something we could not enter into without him. When we first embark on an adventure with God, it rarely ...
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Home from the Crowds (and other Christmas poems)
By Kevin CareyThe third volume in a series of Christmas poetry anthologies, this book is a perfect stocking-filler and contains 50 poems.
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As I Walked (and other Christmas poems)
By Kevin CareyThe fourth volume in a series of Christmas poetry anthologies, this book is a perfect stocking-filler and contains over 50 poems.
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Breathers of an Ampler Day: Victorian Views of Heaven
By Ian Bradley... Death's bright angel” in “A Lost Chord”, which in Sir Arthur Sullivan's setting was renamed The Lost Chord. In this strange poem, which seems to provide a mystical experience of heaven, an organist seeks vainly to strike again the ...
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Constantinople to Chalcedon: Shaping the World to Come
By Patrick WhitworthAn exploration of the theological turmoil of the fifth-century church, and the impact it had on the future of Western Europe.
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From Cosmos to Canaan: The Bible in Verse
By Jock SteinAn exploration of the first six books of the Bible through poetry, conversation and commentary. This unusual book offers a way in to the Bible and poetry which has probably never been attempted before.
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Gospel of Fulfilment: Exploring the Gospel of Matthew
By Patrick WhitworthA short, handy guide to the Gospel of Matthew for all who want to explore the first book of the New Testament in group study or on their own.
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Gospel of the Kingdom: Exploring the Gospel of Mark
By Patrick WhitworthA short accessible guide to the Gospel of Mark for individuals and groups.
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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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Consecrated Celibacy: A Fresh Look at an Ancient Calling
By Christine Barnabas... Life (London: Fount, 1998), p. 13. [65] Brown, Daring Greatly, p. 41. [66] ... O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (New York: Cliff Street Books ... Big “O”, 1 April 2011
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From Over the Edge: A Christian's guide to surviving Breakdown & Depression
By Jon Grogan... as being a second breakdown (the first one had happened only a year or so earlier, but the recovery from it had been far from secure). I have never kept a journal before, but a kind and wise friend bought a 2 FROM OVER THE EDGE.
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Cuthbert of Farne: A novel of Northumbria’s warrior saint
By Katharine TiernanThe first historical novel about Cuthbert, much-loved saint of the North, a one-time warrior whose destiny it was to reconcile the warring parties in the early English Church.
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Seeing Light: A Critical Enquiry into the Origins of Resurrection Faith
By Peter GantBased on a close reading of a wide range of Jewish and early Christian sources, the author explores how faith in the resurrection developed in the Early Church and what believing in the resurrection might mean for twenty-first-century ...