Spck imprint: 330 books
The Mystery of Christ
Meditations And Prayers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
‘Keith Ward . . . makes complex matters readily accessible.’
Rowan Williams
At the heart of Christian faith lies a vision of Christ present at the beginning of creation, in the crucified and risen Jesus, and at the end of all things. This vision retains its ancient power and gains new depth...
Creating the Future of the Church
A practical guide to addressing whole-system change
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
What are the conditions that allow organizations and those within them to thrive? What happens when those conditions are applied to the Church? Deeply aware that more could be done to guarantee a successful future for the Church as an organization, Keith Elford explores the challenges it faces and...
See, Love, Be
Mindfulness and the Spiritual Life: A Practical Eight-Week Guide with Audio MP3 CD Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Many have been hugely helped by mindfulness practice. But how do we move beyond our initial goal of functioning well to live a life marked by deep awareness, genuine compassion and ease of being?
Tim Stead is an accredited mindfulness teacher who seeks to explore this very question. Offering...
Places of Enchantment
Meeting God in Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
There is a great and honourable tradition of finding God in landscapes. Many who have given up on church appreciate the spiritual benefits they gain from climbing a mountain or walking in nature. But how and why do we encounter God in land, forest, river, mountain, desert, garden, sea and sky? That...
Love Now, Pay Later?
Sex And Religion In The Fifties And Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Nigel Yates brings together the religious and social dimensions of the 1950s and 60s and examines the enormous changes in moral attitudes that took place in these two decades. Much of the popular literature on post-war Britain tends to present the 1950s as a period of continuing repression and respectability...
Resurrection of Peace, The
A Gospel journey to Easter and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Mary Grey takes the reader on a contemporary Lenten journey through a series of profound theological reflections on the search for peace and reconciliation in Israel/Palestine. Along the way she explores the core Christian concepts of redemption, atonement and resurrection from the perspective of...
by Tom Wright
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2001
Tom Wright's guide to Luke, which includes a wealth of information and background detail, provides real insights for our understanding of the story of Jesus and its implications for the reader. His clear style is accessible to new readers of the Bible, as well as to those who are further on. His exciting...
by Ian Scott Massie
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Places of Pilgrimage is a record of the travels of artist Ian Scott Massie, as he seeks out the spirit of place of over seventy locations around Britain. In words and paintings, he explores the personality of these sites explaining, for example, what he feels on the spot where Saint Cuthbert's coffin...
Midwife of Borneo
The True Story of a Geordie Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
‘Call the Midwife compellingly transposed from
the East End of London to the Borneo rainforest’
Lynne Tembey, Worldwide President of the Mothers’ Union1959. Newcastle nurse Wendy Grey leaves her comfortable life and answers a call from people in Borneo to run a clinic in a place so remote, many...
by Matthew Caminer
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
It is common knowledge that many curacies run into difficulties and that this is something people often feel constrained from discussing openly. Curacies and How to Survive Them offers readers the opportunity to listen in on a series of fast-flowing conversations between a psychologist, a theologian...
by Katharine Welby-Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
EVER THOUGHT LIFE ISN’T TURNING OUT QUITE AS YOU EXPECTED?
Growing up, Katharine Welby-Roberts imagined that being an adult was one big party. But depression, anxiety and crippling self-doubt led her to alienate herself from others. To replay events and encounters as nightmares. Occasionally,...
by The Revd David Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
What meaning does my life have? What hope is there for the Church? How can I see beyond the media hype and false images I am bombarded with every day? Where can I find God in all this noise and turmoil? Combining moving stories from the inner city with a fresh approach to the Gospel, Faith in Dark...
Clergy in a Complex Age
Responses to the Guidelines for the professional conduct of the clergy
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This highly readable book explains the scope and detail of the newly revised Guidelines for the professional conduct of the clergy, which shape and define how clergy should act and behave. The book brings together a number of experts in the field, who draw on the Ordinal (as the basis of the Guidelines),...
How to Make Great Appointments in the Church
Calling, competence and chemistry
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The book is designed to provide practical help to those involved in filling a vacancy, showing how to make it a good process and end with a good appointment. At the same time, it is useful to clergy seeking appointments, and senior clergy actually making the appointments.