Key Books and Resources
View our selection of books and resources below for newly ordained priests in their first year of ministry.
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Sounding the Seasons
Poetry for the Christian Year
Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is increasingly used in worship, in pastoral services and guided meditation. Here, Cambridge poet, priest and singer-songwriter Malcolm Guite transforms 70 lectionary readings...
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£10.99
£9.89
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£9.99
Common Worship: Pastoral Ministry Companion
An essential and easy to use collection of prayers bound in a durable and portable format for the most frequently encountered pastoral occasions. It includes liturgies, prayers and readings for the sick and their families, the dying and at the time...
Leather / fine binding
£22.50
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£22.50
Church Beyond Walls
Christian Spirituality at Large
Church Beyond Walls tells inspiring, informative and occasionally funny stories of how a group of people took Christian spirituality outside of church buildings to engage a world increasingly uninterested in religion, God and faith. From imaginative...
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£16.99
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The Precarious Church
Redeeming the Body of Christ
In this bold and hopeful book, Martyn Percy argues that a being a broken church is in fact good news, as it is only through the cracks that the overwhelming abundance of God can shine through. This collection of essays and reflections considers what...
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£19.99
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Creative Repair
Pastoral Care and Creativity
The recent pandemic has highlighted an increasing need for support for those experiencing mental health challenges and those caring for them. There is an urgent need for clergy and others involved in pastoral care both to attend to their own...
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£25.00
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£25.00
The Vowed Life
The promise and demand of baptism
Leading Anglican theologians and practitioners explore the renewal of vowed religious life in its traditional and emerging forms. The Vowed Life asks why such a movement is taking place now and considers its prophetic dimensions and the gifts it...
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£19.99
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The Difficult Words of Jesus
As well as telling parables, Jesus also spoke words and flung insults that followers then and now have found difficult. Amy-Jill Levine sheds vital light on understanding these difficult words by exploring how they sounded to those who first heard...
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£14.99
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God Who Walks Slowly
Reflections on mission with Kosuke Koyama
We live in a world in which the church inhabits a deep existential anxiety about its future, feels pushed to the edges of society and doesn’t deal well with its marginalisation. Kosuke Koyama’s writing most notably in his famous Three mile an...
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£22.99
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The Craft of Church Planting
Exploring the Lost Wisdom of Apprenticeship
Drawing on insights from the training practices of the English medieval craft guilds, a global survey of 500 church planters, interviews with artists and church planting trainers and the authors’ 30 years of ministry experience, The...
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£19.99
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Priesthood for all Believers
Clericalism and How to Avoid It
Clericalism is everywhere in the Christian life and perhaps not where you might expect. It elevates certain models, vocations, or ways of being Church in such a way as to diminish others. In Priesthood for all Believers, Fr Simon Cuff...
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£19.99
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What Were You Arguing About Along The Way?
Gospel Reflections for Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter
The Spirituality of Conflict website is one of the most exciting and vibrant online lectionary resources. This volume of collected material focuses on the beginning and the end of Jesus' human life and covers the gospels for Advent, Christmas. Lent,...
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£18.99
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£16.99
Humbler Faith, Bigger God
Finding a Story to Live By
Samuel Wells explores the key tenets of Christian belief by engaging with the most widely used arguments against religious faith, seeking to understand how and why they have taken hold, what part the church has had in making people so resistant to...
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£14.99
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Reading the Bible with your Feet
Lucy Winkett explores the lived reality of faith through a series of around fifty reflections on scripture narratives that span the Christian year. Reflecting a 'head, heart and feet' approach to understanding scripture, this collection will delight...
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£14.99
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The Present Preacher
Good preaching depends on being attentive - to God, to the Bible, to the congregation, to the context, to what influences and shapes the preacher. This practical, confidence-building guide is for all who want to develop their preaching by homing in...
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£17.99
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A Future That's Bigger Than The Past
Towards the renewal of the Church
Samuel Wells shares his vision for the Church as imagined by HeartEdge, the growing network of churches established by St Martin-in-the-Fields, with its fourfold focus for renewing the mission activity of the church: commerce, culture, congregation...
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£14.99
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Preaching Women
Gender, Power and the Pulpit
"Preaching Women" considers reasons why women preachers should preach from their experiences as women, what women bring to preaching that is missing without us, and how women preachers can go about the task of biblical preaching.
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£16.99
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By Way of the Heart
The Seasons of Faith
Mark Oakley is one of the church's most outstanding communicators. In this series of forty beautifully crafted reflections, with characteristic wit, he traverses the landscape of the Christian year. His writing is shaped by a sense that language is...
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£14.99
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Love in Action
Catholic Social Teaching for Every Church
Resolutely aimed at those who come from traditions beyond the movement's traditional catholic heartlands but who seek to view their ministry through the lens of generous orthodoxy, "Love in Action" offers a deeply scriptural but accessible...
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£15.99
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