Sacristy Press: 57 books
by Kathryn Bedford
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Eustace was a naughty monk who lived in France during the Middle Ages. Monks usually spent their time praying and reading the bible and being good, but Eustace was not like that at all! People told lots of stories about Eustace because he had such an exciting life. Can you guess which of these stories...
Liberating Belsen
Remembering the Soldiers of the Durham Light Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Nothing, no amount of training, could have prepared a small group of soldiers from the Durham Light Infantry for what they discovered on 18 April 1945, less than a month before the end of WWII in Europe.
Of the fifty-five million killed during the war, over ten per cent were murdered civilians....
Life in a Medieval Monastery
The Monks of Durham Cathedral
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A fascinating glimpse into the world of Medieval Monasticism.
Durham Cathedral is one of the most complete sets of monastic buildings in Europe, housing clues to the life of a prominent and thriving medieval Benedictine community.
Through its buildings, and the books, treasures and records...
Animating Liturgy
The Dynamics of Worship and the Human Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Liturgy forms both individuals and the community in the faith and life of the Christian gospel. Animating Liturgy invites you to consider the liturgical offering which stands at the heart of the Christian faith. It brings together essays by liturgist Stephen Platten which take us in three main directions:
the...
Three Wise Men from the East
The Cappadocian Fathers and the Struggle for Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Includes a foreword by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Cappadocian fathers of the fourth century—Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory Nazianzen—produced thoughts on the Trinity, the creation, the incarnation, the holistic reading of scripture and the discipline...
Constantinople to Chalcedon
Shaping the World to Come
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The period covered by this book (AD 381–451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political history. For some it is the period in which the church lost its innocence. Yet without the innovations of Constantine and his successors, it is hard for us to...
St Cuthbert's Corpse
A Life After Death
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The miracle of St Cuthbert's incorrupt corpse has been the subject of much fascination since his death over thirteen-hundred years ago, inspiring pilgrims, monks, and even the construction of Durham Cathedral itself. Throughout the centuries, Cuthbert's coffin has been opened on six occasions. For...
Holy Ground
Cathedrals in the twenty-first century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Cathedrals today face a paradox: on the one hand they represent one of the biggest success stories and mission opportunities of the present-day church; on the other they face seemingly insurmountable financial difficulties, and are largely left by the church and government to fend for themselves.
Many—both...
The Writing on the Wall
Everyday Phrases from the King James Bible
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The King James Bible is a treasure-trove of idioms and clichés that have entered everyone's vocabulary-and yet few are aware of the Bible as their source.
Whether your interest is purely linguistic, theological, or devotional, this book assumes no prior familiarity with the scriptures....
The Evil That Men Do
Faith, Injustice and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
At a time when barbarous acts of terrorism are being committed globally and society ponders whether the perpetrators are legitimate religious adherents, Marcus Paul makes an unflinching and counter-cultural examination of some of the worst periods in the Church's history.
Were the crusades...
From Over the Edge
A Christian's guide to surviving Breakdown & Depression
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
An intimate account of struggling with depression and breakdown as a Christian.
Many Christians who suffer from depression and mental breakdown struggle to rationalise it with their faith. In this honest and thoughtful book, Jon Grogan shares what helped him to understand and recover from...
Follow Me
Living the Sayings of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The Bible is full of instructions for how we ought to behave if we want to be a follower of Jesus, but these often seem to belong to a by-gone age, far removed from our busy twenty-first century lives. Follow Me helps us uncover how Jesus’ words are still relevant, and distils the essence of the...
Christ in a Choppie Box
Sermons from North East England
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Michael Sadgrove retires as Dean of Durham Cathedral in September 2015. Since arriving in Durham in 2003 he has preached many well-crafted sermons on a wide variety of topics, from the Iraq invasions to “digital lambs”. This volume contains an edited collection of some of his finest and most thought-provoking...
Gospel for the Outsider
The Gospel in Luke & Acts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Gospel of Luke uniquely proclaims that the message of good news was for the outsider in Jewish society, and indeed for any outsider in any society where the sleek, the successful and the slick are often preferred to the loser, the lonely and the lowly.
In this book, Patrick Whitworth explores...