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Focusing on real-life situations, including many case studies, this handbook offers guidance to: the responsibilities of a churchwarden; how to become a churchwarden; working with the minister; the duties of a churchwarden through the year; what a churchwarden should know; what a churchwarden should ask; and, what to do when problems arise.

Many teenagers long to stop and open themselves to God. But often they feel they need permission to set aside the numerous agendas, expectations and amusements in which they find themselves entangled. This title encourages a different pace within youth ministry, churches and families.

Sets out the essentials of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Model, and presents profiles of the sixteen personality types to enable us to discover our own. This book explains how the elements of our individual personalities interact, and helps us identify our own potential blind spots, imbalances and areas for growth.

Here is a wise and practical guide for local churches learning to navigate their way forward. It is about priests and people, differently but together, transforming the church and its locality through engaging deeply and realistically with God and with life in the world. Nearly fifteen years after his classic Transforming Priesthood, Robin Greenwood has added this fine companion volume, enriched by further research and wide experience of the Church in diverse situations.' David F. Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge.

Mentoring Matters explains a reproducible model for maximizing the potential of leaders and helping them go the distance. It gets behind the issues of leadership skills to address the leader as a person - their spirituality, emotional health, key relationships, vulnerabilities and rhythms of life. This approach to mentoring is highly flexible so that it can be tailor-made for each mentoring partnership, not relying on a strict format or curriculum. The mentor functions as a doctor of the soul, pulling us back to our most noble intentions and perceptive insights. The approach is formal and organised - and highly effective.

A collection of stories, meditations, poems and prayers that evokes the authentic spirit of Celtic Christianity. Capturing the atmosphere of parables passed down through generations, it shows the human warmth, respect for the natural world and robust, down-to-earth qualities for which Celtic spirituality is so greatly valued.

Using the best of biblical and historical scholarship, this title presents a fresh understanding of early Christianity.

This study proceeds historically, from the origins of the Eucharist up to our own day. Making the book especially teacher- and student-friendly are the summary points at the end of each chapter. Each chapter also contains an abundance of liturgical texts for ease of reference.

Primary school children are required to learn about Christianity and local churches are often keen to help, but don't know where to start. This book provides a four-year cycle of resources that churches can offer to children at Key Stage Two (years 3 to 6, ages 7 to 11).

In this authoritative volume, 31 of the world's leading Anglican scholars present a thorough account of the history and ethos of the Churches of the Anglican Communion from the Anglican reform of the 16th century to its global witness today.

Bible stories can seem so familiar that we fail to connect with the lives and characters they reveal. Reflecting on the frailties, uncertainties and mysteries of the human experience, this title presents story meditations which offer real insight into the nature of salvation. Each is followed by suggestions.

A paradigm-shifting history that reveals how the early Christian churches in the East helped to shape the Asia and the Christianity we know today

A collection of intercessions to accompany the Church of England Common Worship Lectionary, years A, B and C.

Over 300 new ice-breakers ranging from the silly to the serious.

A Lent lectionary resource using Tom Wright's For Everyone Bible translation, this is the second in a three-volume series to cover the three years of the Revised Common Lectionary. For each day of Lent, there is a reading chosen from the Gospel designated for the year, plus a reflection by Tom Wright.

All societies are organized around, and sustained by, a set of dominant myths - public, large-scale narratives that engage our imaginations and shape the way we experience the world. This book covers myths that energize and mobilize a great deal of public funding as well as academic production.

Looks at the various religious orders and traditions, including Franciscan spirituality, Jesuit spirituality, Taize spirituality, and shows how they can help people in normal life to find new ways to pray.

Soren Kierkegaard is internationally accepted as one of the world's greatest thinkers and is often considered the father of existentialism. This book makes Kierkegaard's often complex and difficult thinking accessible to a wide audience. It sketches a few of the central themes of Kierkegaard's thought.

Considers the practicalities of celebrating the liturgical year from the point of view of the liturgical president and other liturgical ministers (eg the deacon at the Easter Vigil), and with particular reference to "Common Worship Times and Seasons" material. This book also considers material from the wider Western tradition where appropriate.

The Holy Land is home to three faiths. This title tells of peacemakers from Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities and of those who are not necessarily religious. It looks at why fundamentalists claim the Holy Land and suggests that there might be another way forward.

Introduces readers to the different methods used when interpreting the New Testament. This book gives practical textual examples of how a text might be interpreted using a broad range of interpretational methods. It also explores techniques such as textual criticism and post-colonial criticism.

Explores the nature of the Christmas stories and the nature and use of Old Testament prophecy. Beginning with John's account, this book includes Luke and Matthew, the apocryphal gospels, and the traditions of the Coptic Church, to throw light upon wise men and their gifts, the character of Herod, and Matthew's use of prophecy.

According to the philosopher Danah Zohar (who coined the idea of spiritual intelligence), we live in a 'spiritually dumb' culture, alienated from each other, too busy to take time to reflect, and trying desperately to juggle the myriad pulls and pushes of life without cracking up. How can we find meaning from meaninglessness, hope from despair, reconciliation from alienation and wholeness from fragmentation? In this book, Brian Draper asks how ordinary people, whether religious or not, can nudge themselves (or be gently nudged) to live on a daily basis with increasing integrity, wholeness and well-being - to become more spiritually intelligent. The book is split into 4 main sections: 'awakening', 'seeing your world afresh', 'living the change' and 'passing it on'. The narrative style is contemplative, reflective and engaging.

Short, question-based study guides based on the New Testament For Everyone series. Intended to encourage church (and other) groups to study the Bible using the For Everyone model. Experienced Bible study writers select excerpts and write questions that guide users through Tom Wright's thought on each passage. Reviewed and approved by Tom Wright.

Short, question-based study guides based on the New Testament For Everyone series. Intended to encourage church (and other) groups to study the Bible using the For Everyone model. Experienced Bible study writers select excerpts and write questions that guide users through Tom Wright's thought on each passage. Reviewed and approved by Tom Wright.

Two spiritual directors involved in counselling work explore matters such as stages of spiritual growth and finding a faith community. They then offer the stories of a number of people who have found helpful ways of praying in particular circumstances.

A collection of stories that helps readers encounter the infant Christ, both vulnerable and divine; the laughing, loving Christ, who delights in them and cares for them; the sorrowful Christ, who suffers on their behalf and draws comfort from their love.

Takes us deeper into the prayer experience through a series of meditations leading into practical exercises in affirming the Presence of God. This book features meditations that are based on the eternal certainties of the Christian faith.

Instead of the seven words that Jesus spoke from the cross, this book invites readers to consider seven words that people spoke to the cross - people like Mary and the Roman centurion, who witnessed the crucifixion, and Pontius Pilate, who helped to instigate it.

Includes charges to ordination candidates, with an emphasis on the intellectual and devotional life of the minister in a self-sufficient world. This book contains chapters that reflect on the ministry of the laity, the theology of priesthood and the roles of bishop and presbyter in the context of the practical meaning of divine vocation.