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Bread is one of life's staples. The great variety of breads on offer today - olive bread, walnut bread, Indian flat breads, ciabatta, pain rustique - have raised bread to gourmet status. You can pay £10 in Waitrose for a fancy French loaf that supposedly offers an entirely new eating experience! This simple book encourages everyone to try their hand at basic bread recipes then, Jamie Oliver style, to add different flavours to produce delicious loaves and rolls at home. Christian Aid partners from around the world offer recipes for ethnic breads; there is a section of recipes, from soups to desserts, that use bread and a final section on what to do with bread leftovers.

This handbook is for ministers and lay leaders who are faced with leading an individual or a church community through a traumatic event and its aftermath. It helps churches to respond in a healthy way to the impact of tragedies, local and global, through training in good practice, careful reflection, and personal resilience.

Darkness Yielding is an imaginative and engaging collection of ready-to-use liturgies, prayers and reflections for the richest seasons of the Christian year - Advent and Christmas, Holy Week and Easter, for all looking for fresh and striking ways of expressing what the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus mean for human life.

John-Francis Friendship spent twenty-five years as an Anglican Franciscan friar. Drawing on the whole breadth of monastic history and experience, he looks at core aspects of monastic and religious life and applies its practical wisdom for living well in today's world.

Each year, the Christmas double issue of the Church Times offers a feast of seasonal reading. News of Great Joy draws together the best Christmas writing by outstanding authors and poets over twenty years to create an ideal Christmas gift and a wealth of material for all who preach or lead worship at Christmas.

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 on that which points to God in the now.

Crowning the Year will equip all who lead or assist with worship in rural contexts. It offers some essential groundwork on liturgical theology, and a theology of ministry in rural, multi-parochial contexts, providing practical ideas and direction on how to prepare for and conduct worship for the principal feasts and seasons of the Christian year.

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 those who preach with an abundance of wisdom, and inspire all readers to embody a living faith.

Landscape Liturgies offers outdoor worship material drawn from 2,000 years of outdoor Christian practice. It contains prayers, rituals, blessings and liturgies compiled from Anglican, Roman Catholic, Methodist and Orthodox sources, as well as early church material, the desert tradition and monastic spirituality.

The first in a new series of books explaining serious theology for a popular audience, Grace explores the free, unconditional and limitless love of God. Tackling common misunderstandings, both Protestant and Catholic, it gives an essential overview of one of the most important concepts in the Christian faith.

Explores patterns of discipleship, worship and prayer that have been hallowed by centuries of use in many branches of the Christian church in the belief that they offer fresh significance in the rush and pressure of our modern lifestyles.

All churches have had to learn to do things differently during closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. None has been more imaginative or inventive than London's St Martin in the Fields. Here the St Martin's team reflects theologically and share its newly found pastoral and practical wisdom in many areas, developed through its HeartEdge programme.

In this bold and provocative invitation, Martyn Percy imagines what the post-pandemic Church might look like and sets out what it needs to learn. It argues that the Church needs to stop obsessing about itself - its size, its strategies to shore up decline, its waning public influence - and rediscover how to live as the body of Christ.

Plough Sunday, Rogation and Harvest are hugely important for churches serving rural communities. Ploughshares and First Fruits provides fresh ideas for keeping the established festivals, with ready-to-use, participative liturgies that engage all the senses, appeal to all ages and give small churches a round-the-year resource.

This collection of 500 original collect-style prayers and biddings covers the life of the Church and the world. Contemporary in focus and language, they are written in a concise style that makes them ideal for public worship but will also appeal to anyone struggling to find the words when they pray.

A Cross in the Heart of God focuses on the significance of the story at the very centre of Christianity: the crucifixion. Samuel Wells writes as a theologian and pastor to explore the cross in the purposes of God and how this act brings about salvation. Ideal for Lent groups and for individual reading.

This timely book gathers 800 years of accumulated wisdom and practical examples of how Franciscans have found ways to live at home and at peace with creation. It explores the life and writings of St Francis and inspiring Franciscans who followed him to challenge and enable readers to re-visit their own relationship with creation.

A corona is a crown, the pearly glow around the sun in certain astronomical conditions and a poetic form where interlinking lines connect a sequence. It is the perfect name therefore for this new collection of 150 poems by the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite, each one written in response to the Bible's 150 psalms.

Two leading practitioners of new monasticism open up the movement's spiritual landscape and its distinctive calling and gifts within today's church. Practical experience and story is set alongside reflection and liturgies as a creative resource for all who are already involved in, or are exploring intentional living in community.

Ronald Blythe asks people from all walks of life to reflect in their own words on what it is like to be old. The result is a fascinating and moving series of confidences which we are privileged to share.

Beloved theologian and bishop Graham Kings has been writing poetry for thirty-five years, with many of his poems used in retreats and preaching throughout the Anglican Communion. This collection brings together Graham's poems on a range of devotional subjects.

Love Mercy is a thoughtful and realistic exploration of forgiveness and making peace from bestselling author and broadcaster Samuel Wells. The sequel to 'Walk Humbly', it is the second of three volumes by Samuel Wells that offer a basic introduction to Christian faith and life.

Love's Mysteries reflects powerfully on our fundamental limitations as creatures of flesh and bone, and what our experiences of grief, loss, and fragility tell us about God. Rachel Mann explores what happens when our bodies are under pressure, suggesting that the precariousness of life might be where we most authentically encounter God.

The third volume in the Biblical Explorations series from bestselling New Testament writer Paula Gooder explores a major exponent of the Gospels: the parables of Jesus. It considers why Jesus spoke in pictures and opens up the world behind the parables to reveal just how striking, memorable and challenging they were for their original hearers.

This collection of poems explores the changing place of the Church in a multi-faith and often stridently secular society where it can no longer speak with its old authority. Diana Pacitti's poetry envisages a new role of living more truly the presence of Christ.

This collection of 28 reflections on R. S. Thomas's poetry travels through the season, and follows one of the traditional patterns of themes explored in each Sunday of Advent: a Carmelite pattern of waiting, accepting, journeying and birthing.

A leading poet and theologian reflect on the ancient story of Ruth that resonates deeply in today's world with its themes of migration, the stranger, mixed cultures and religions, law and leadership, women in public life, kindness, generosity and fear.

An Advent Book of Days tells the stories of all the characters and creatures that make up the Christmas story, with daily prayers and reflections based on their experiences. Fully illustrated in colour, this rich seasonal companion combines the bible, history, art and legend to explore the story of the incarnation.

'Inclusive' is a term that is most closely associated with questions of human sexuality, but in relation to theology and to local church life it has many more dimensions. This book explores key questions for every local church: embracing the evangelical, orthodox and liberal and seeing beyond labels, and treating everyone as equal before God.

We are used to making Lent a special time for renewal, but much less has been written on the other seasons of the year. This resource explores the traditions that have shaped each season, the lectionary readings, and the liturgies observed across the ecumenical spectrum.