The SCM Reader in Christian Spirituality not only offers a collection of readings from the classic texts of Christian spirituality but also gives the reader a way into these texts that enables them to be received as living and relevant for both personal spirituality and ministry. An introductory section guides the student through the process and offers techniques for approaching these often ancient texts.

Get Messy! Volume 2 contains twelve session outlines for Messy Churches. This volume takes you through the basic themes of Christianity including: Who is God? Who is Jesus? Who is the Holy Spirit? (Pentecost). Other key Christian festivals include: Christmas - God entering the world as Jesus - and Easter - exploring Jesus' last supper before his death and resurrection and why Christians celebrate communion.

Canon Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover takes respite at the monastery where he was a novice. But the monastery doesn't allow the break he needs, for tensions are building there too. There is a death at the monastery, and Daniel thinks it might be murder. Meanwhile back at Champton, Daniel is the subject of village gossip, his mother Audrey is up to something again, there's trouble at the dress shop, trouble up at the big house, and the puppies are running riot.

The contemporary Church has much to learn from monastic communities—things it has lost and needs to rediscover, including community, mutual submission, the benefits to be gained from a repertoire of physical and other practices, the fundamental importance of a sense of the Church and the living Christian tradition, and of the Eucharist and daily prayer.

Written in contemporary, jargon-free language, So, What Next? will help any young person who wants to explore faith more deeply and understand more about what it means to be a Christian. At just 32 pages long, and sold in packs of 10, it offers young people 15 Bible-based explorations on who God is, who they are and who they are becoming in following Jesus. So, What Next? can be used by Christians of any denomination who are helping young people with or without church connections

This booklet offers a strong case for the importance of moral courage in the lives of those who would be faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. Instead of quietly colluding with greed, injustice or societal failure of nerve, Christians can and should develop the conviction and strength to do the good and right thing, even when the potential cost is great.

The Reformed tradition of doing theology can sometimes be depicted as dry and static, appealing to the head more than the heart. In fact, it involves engaging in the dynamic interaction between Scripture as a founding authority, tradition as a teaching authority, and the contemporary world as our context.This helpful study explores this dynamic, exploring the issues in each of these three areas, and commending the Reformed tradition as doing theology which, in the end, leads us to worship.

Joy is a fundamental characteristic of the Christian message and life and something sorely needed today. This booklet draws on the inspiration of C S Lewis’ wide corpus of writings to evoke and explore the nature of joy and how lives today can be transformed by it as we learn to open ourselves to discover the roots of joy in our faith and the sources of joy all around us.

Why and how should Christians be involved in community action alongside explicitly non-religious people? This helpful booklet explores the biblical justification, theology and practice of working together with non-religious people and organizations in social action and social justice to benefit others.

How does the ‘law,’ Torah, shape Christian thinking about ethics? For a start, it is not ‘law’ in the sense we usually think about it; much is about principle rather than practice; and the gift of the Spirit enables us to fulfil, rather than abolish, it.This classic study from a leading scholar offers a fresh perspective on what we find in Exodus, Deuteronomy, and Leviticus. Read in context, these texts ask challenging questions of our contemporary thinking about ethics.

The Quiet Path explores how to discover the spiritual realities of goodness and love in ordinary daily experience and everyday practices. Through a series of ‘quiet walks’, sometimes physical, but mostly through the landscape of the heart, it cultivates contemplative practices that will lead to deeper awareness of the presence of God in all things. An ideal read for fans of Mary Oliver and Padráig Ó Tuama.

George Herbert is widely regarded as the greatest devotional poet the world has known. Here Richard Harries introduces the poet and reflects on 24 of his greatest poems, six for each of the four weeks of Advent. Each week focuses on a different theme. Week 1: Winning the Heart Week 2: Held by Christ Week 3: Welcome Week 4: All Praise

Ed Olsworth-Peter explores what an integrated mixed ecology of Church looks like in a post pandemic world. As society begins to come to terms with the cultural and financial impacts of the last couple of years, the way we meet as church and how we reach out to those within our communities needs to be reconsidered. The Church of England's new vision and strategy includes three priorities one of which is that 'mixed ecology is the norm'.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is compelling because it puts everything into perspective. In the middle of desperation, there is hope. After tragedy, there can be redemption. Even in the face of death, there is a promise of new life. In Life After Life, Mark Meynell begins by unpacking how Jesus' resurrection from the dead fulfilled God's plan of salvation. It then explores the ways in which the eternal life won by Christ is available to us, even now, through the Holy Spirit.