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Warbling sopranos, robes that have long since seen better days, wheezing organs, tyrannical organists, new vicars who want to get rid of the choir altogether and battles in the chancel-such is the stuff of Reg Frary's stories about local church choirs.

A resource for college chaplains and parish-based ministry among students. Almost 50 per cent of all 18-30 year olds are in higher education, forming a vast post-modern society that poses distinctive challenges for the Church. This title offers a practical theological framework and down-to-earth pastoral guidance.

Youth culture shows up spiritual values in the most unlikely of places. A great resource for youth ministry and essential reading for young Christians.

A practical guide to cultivating an ancient style of praying found in the Old Testament - desert spirituality and Orthodox teaching. It offers a mix of teaching and practical prayer exercises.

This anthology comprises approximately 1000 extracts, 800 of which are prose from the writings of John Donne. An extended introduction considers the complex and contradictory character of John Donne, the wellspring of his literary genius.

This work asks important questions about contemporary church music: what kind of music is needed?; what will speak deeply to people?; and what will embody the Christian good news and attract people to church?

A collection of wit, satire and humourous quotations about the Church, its clergy and the people who put up with them. Spanning the centuries from Chaucer to modern times, it is a send up of the human foibles that so often get in the way when the Church tries to live up to its calling.

Mountains in the Bible are places of dramatic and life-changing encounter with God, and they are a perfect metaphor for the challenges of spiritual life. Here is a 'climbing tour' of the mountain ranges of the soul via ten biblical mountains.

This revised third edition handbook is designed to be of interest to clergy, organists and all those concerned with Anglican Church music.

A publication with guidance that can be adapted to any individual circumstances and a centuries old, proven guide on how to live in community with others. Here is Benedictine spirituality in essence: the timeless wisdom of the Rule and a basic orientation and includes Patrick Barry's translation of the "Rule of St Benedict".

An essential handbook for preachers and a lively, informed devotional companion for those who prepare for worship by reading the Scriptures, this commentary on the Principal Service readings for Year C will help you engage more deeply with the Scripture readings of the day.

Many people have wondered where Mother Teresa found the motivation and the strength to give herself so totally to loving the poorest of the poor. This little book provides us with an answer. Collected here are Mother Teresa's favourite prayers; many written by herself, others which she and the Sisters of Charity used on a daily basis. Together they provide an intimate and rare portrait of a modern day saint for whom work and prayer were inseparable. Her days began and ended with prayer, and every activity was rooted in attentive listening to God. Mother Terra.' Prayer Book is therefore the ideal daily spiritual companion for all who are seeking to know and do God's will.

Daily readings from Scripture and prayes.

Intended for all involved in church leadership at the local or structural level. This book draws on leadership theory and practice from a range of disciplines to offer some techniques and solutions. It provides techniques and solutions in relation to: developing lay leadership; building team ministry; leading a group of congregations; and more.

Addresses the questions that every Christian ought to be asking: how did the Bible come together? Why do we believe it to be true? What is faith? How do we know God? What does it mean to belong to the Church? and more. Drawing on 2000 years of theological writing and insight, this is a guide to Christian faith.

A study of the history and of the publications of the Alcuin Club during the first 90 years of its existence.

Many people today are looking to the ancient discipline of following a rule of life to strengthen their sense of living in Christ. In 49 short chapters this wise and gentle rule from the Society of St John the Evangelist provides practical guidance.

What rare learning John Breay has... the whole mood and air of the Victorian Church of the north-west can be breathed. What fun the man Brunskill is, with little insights into famous men like Sharp, Villiers and Harvey Goodwin... wonderful to meet a clergyman whose expertise is the shoeing of horses... The self-educated man who left school at fifteen and is interested in Wordsworth and Ruskin... can hold down the job of a headmaster and can write English prose in letters to the Press!' --The Revd Professor Owen Chadwick