Church Times Festival of Faith and Literature 2020
The mission of the Church Times Festival of Faith and Literature is to encourage a love of literature as it relates to faith, and to create a thoughtful and relaxing space in which to consider works of literature and their religious and moral themes. It's for anyone who is interested in the big questions of life.
This year's theme was The Power of Love, and a brilliant list of speakers discussed all that love may mean; its passion and its excitement - and more prosaically its kindness and comfort - but also often its pain and sorrow.
Below is the USB of recorded talks, as well as a list of books featured at the festival, in which the power of love is explored through faith, fiction, history and more.
For further information, visit: https://bloxhamfaithandliterature.hymnsam.co.uk/
After Prayer
New sonnets and other poems
This major new poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features more than seventy new and previously unpublished works. It includes a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert's exquisite sonnet...
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£10.99
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£7.14
Sacramental Sea
A Spiritual Voyage through Christian History
Why do so many people feel a spiritual connection with the sea? Why does so much of our art, poetry and expressions of religious experience draw so heavily on imagery of its power, its wideness and its depth? These are questions at the heart of The...
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£14.99
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£10.79
The Heart Of It All
The Bible's Big Picture
As a collection of 66 books spanning thousands of years, the Bible can be daunting in size and scope. In The Heart of It All, the Canterbury Press Lent book for 2020, Samuel Wells simplifies the Bible's complexity and presents the entire sweep of...
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£9.99
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£6.49
One for Sorrow
A Memoir of Death and Life
One for Sorrow relates the story of the loss of 21-year-old Tom from cancer, and how his family struggled to live through the aftermath. When Alan started to write the book, he thought it was about his son's illness and death. He soon realised,...
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£9.99
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Lights For The Path
A Guide Through Grief, Pain and Loss
Madeleine was nine when she first realised that people could die; she was reading a book where the character lost a parent. Little did she know then, that her own mother would die just three years later, changing her world forever.
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£6.66
Forgiveness
A practical and pastoral companion
Every day we hear stories of people caught up in conflict, violence, trauma and abuse. Each of us needs to offer forgiveness as well as receive it, but how? Designed to accompany everyone on a personal or communal journey of forgiveness, this...
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£16.99
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£11.04
In the Bleak Midwinter
Advent and Christmas with Christina Rossetti
Framed by her most famous poems 'In the Bleak Midwinter' and 'Love Came Down at Christmas', this daily devotional explores Advent and Christmas through the poetry of Christina Rossetti. For each day there is a poem with a reflection that draws on...
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£12.99
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£8.39
Found Out
Transgressive faith and sexuality
More than twenty years after Found Wanting, her acclaimed critique of the Church and women's sexuality, Alison Webster presents a positive book of practical theology that gives voice to the experiences of marginalised women.
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£12.99
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£9.35
I Thirst
The Cross - The Great Triumph of Love
New updated edition of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent book for 2004
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£9.99
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£9.98
Future Shapes of Anglicanism
Currents, contours, charts
To many people, the Church of England and worldwide Anglican Communion has the aura of an institution that is dislocated and adrift. Buffeted by tempestuous and stormy debates on sexuality, gender, authority and power - to say nothing of priorities...
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£32.99
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£32.99
Five Events That Made Christianity
Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost
Jesus was a pest to the Romans and a threat to the religious leadership, so they hung him out like so much refuse. Little did they realize that it was like trying to put out a fire with petrol. The whole world exploded.
With characteristic style,...
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Godbothering
Why bother with God? More to the point, why is God bothering with us? For the past two decades, award-winning novelist and screen writer, Rhidian Brook, has pondered those questions on Radio 4's Thought for the Day. Over 100 of his Thoughts are now...
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