December may be a time of year when moments of peace and quiet reflection are in short supply. God With Us: Your Christmas Journey is designed to help you make the most of such moments whenever you can. It offers thirteen short and simple reflections to help you explore the message of so many Christmas readings and carols - that God is with us. There is one for each day from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day, as well as one each for the four weeks of Advent. Each reflection is accompanied by a pi...
Think of all the senses you use when you pick up a Bible. What do you see? What do you smell? What do you touch? Reading scripture attentively is more than a matter of sight. Most of us have been taught to think about God in visual terms, yet the very subject matter of scripture-our relationship with the fullness of God-makes irresistible demands upon all of our senses if we are to begin to understand anything about God. In these meditations on stories from the New Testament, Roger Ferlo shows...
This book is a comparative study of two Church Communities, specifically the Anglican Communion and the Universal Catholic Church. It demonstrates what caused the Church in England to break away from the Catholic Church, and focuses on how English Law has influenced the Church of England since the sixteenth century, and how the Common Law system has molded its doctrine and ecclesiology. In its comparison, it follows the Churches' histories from their inception up until the English Reformation. I...
Since the onset of the global economic crisis, everyone has a view on how to fix capitalism -- everyone, it seems, except the Church of England. Given the widespread diagnosis of moral malaise in the marketplace, one might have expected the established religion of the UK to provide more leadership. In spite of its quietness in recent public debate, the Church in fact has a lot to say on the matter. Eve Poole examines the formal views and actions of the Church of England in the run up to the fina...
Les Poetes De La Region Du Lac De L'Anglais Du XIXe Siecle
by John Burgess
Promised Land (Hodder Christian paperbacks) (Ulverscroft Large Print)
by Michele Guinness
When Michele Guinness moved to Grimlington, a town representative of the grimy, industrial North, she an d her husband Peter, an Anglican priest, had no idea of the hidden spiritual gold that was waiting for them.
Westminster John Knox Press is pleased to present this Series of small, beautifully designed gift books comprising extracts from the great spiritual writings of the Christian tradition. Designed to introduce readers to some of the best Writing and most sublime theology the world has seen -- The Wisdom of the Ages -- each volume contains short, accessible passages arranged under thirty headings to provide daily meditations for a month. Intricately detailed, full-color illustrations complement the...