Books published by SPCK Publishing

Looks at the various religious orders and traditions, including Franciscan spirituality, Jesuit spirituality, Taize spirituality, and shows how they can help people in normal life to find new ways to pray.

Soren Kierkegaard is internationally accepted as one of the world's greatest thinkers and is often considered the father of existentialism. This book makes Kierkegaard's often complex and difficult thinking accessible to a wide audience. It sketches a few of the central themes of Kierkegaard's thought.

Considers the practicalities of celebrating the liturgical year from the point of view of the liturgical president and other liturgical ministers (eg the deacon at the Easter Vigil), and with particular reference to "Common Worship Times and Seasons" material. This book also considers material from the wider Western tradition where appropriate.

The Holy Land is home to three faiths. This title tells of peacemakers from Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities and of those who are not necessarily religious. It looks at why fundamentalists claim the Holy Land and suggests that there might be another way forward.

Introduces readers to the different methods used when interpreting the New Testament. This book gives practical textual examples of how a text might be interpreted using a broad range of interpretational methods. It also explores techniques such as textual criticism and post-colonial criticism.

Explores the nature of the Christmas stories and the nature and use of Old Testament prophecy. Beginning with John's account, this book includes Luke and Matthew, the apocryphal gospels, and the traditions of the Coptic Church, to throw light upon wise men and their gifts, the character of Herod, and Matthew's use of prophecy.

According to the philosopher Danah Zohar (who coined the idea of spiritual intelligence), we live in a 'spiritually dumb' culture, alienated from each other, too busy to take time to reflect, and trying desperately to juggle the myriad pulls and pushes of life without cracking up. How can we find meaning from meaninglessness, hope from despair, reconciliation from alienation and wholeness from fragmentation? In this book, Brian Draper asks how ordinary people, whether religious or not, can nudge themselves (or be gently nudged) to live on a daily basis with increasing integrity, wholeness and well-being - to become more spiritually intelligent. The book is split into 4 main sections: 'awakening', 'seeing your world afresh', 'living the change' and 'passing it on'. The narrative style is contemplative, reflective and engaging.

Short, question-based study guides based on the New Testament For Everyone series. Intended to encourage church (and other) groups to study the Bible using the For Everyone model. Experienced Bible study writers select excerpts and write questions that guide users through Tom Wright's thought on each passage. Reviewed and approved by Tom Wright.

Two spiritual directors involved in counselling work explore matters such as stages of spiritual growth and finding a faith community. They then offer the stories of a number of people who have found helpful ways of praying in particular circumstances.

A collection of stories that helps readers encounter the infant Christ, both vulnerable and divine; the laughing, loving Christ, who delights in them and cares for them; the sorrowful Christ, who suffers on their behalf and draws comfort from their love.

Instead of the seven words that Jesus spoke from the cross, this book invites readers to consider seven words that people spoke to the cross - people like Mary and the Roman centurion, who witnessed the crucifixion, and Pontius Pilate, who helped to instigate it.

Shows how God brings glory out of imperfection in both human lives and in the community of faith. This book draws on the poetry of W H Auden, T S Eliot, Henry Vaughan and others to encourage readers to follow Christ on this crooked journey to fulfillment.

A companion to the "Evening Cycle of Psalms" (as set out in the Church of England's "Book of Common Prayer"). It reminds us that the "Psalms" have been central to public worship and personal prayer for the entire history of the church. It is suitable for those who wish to engage more deeply with their riches.

Reveals how Lindisfarne and its people have responded to trial, tribulation and triumph in the course of a long and vibrant history.

A new, updated edition of John Lennox's successful book, including a foreword by Francis Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project

It is nine hundred years since the death at Canterbury of the great mediaeval Archbishop and thinker Anselm. This title combines accounts from Anselm's friends and enemies, his own letters, prayers and meditations.

Considers the evidence for Jesus' miracles and then shows how they might most plausibly be understood in the light of this evidence. This title examines the various kinds of evidence for the miracles - historical, cultural, literary, and social-scientific - to ask, what is the truth behind the gospel accounts?

Offers a magisterial response to the spate of criticism directed at the author for his theology of justification.

Assemblies provide an important element in the busy school day, a chance to be together, to celebrate achievement, and time for ethical and spiritual reflection on big issues and personal responsibility. This book provides a variety of assembly material exploring and explaining global development issues for primary school children.

Shows how history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. This book explores the beginning of the life of Christ, peeling away the sentimentalism that has build up over two thousand years around this most well known of all stories to reveal the truth of what the Gospels actually say.

Prayer is simply about getting naked before God: no frills, no pretence, just honest confessions to the one who made us and loves us unconditionally

Despite its declining popularity among Christians, the belief that we are all innately sinful retains a firm grip on Western consciousness and culture - even in the writings of avowed atheists such as Marx, Freud and Richard Dawkins.

The new atheists are putting out new books and articles, bus adverts and TV programmes like there's no tomorrow. They've gained a large amount of public attention and media exposure - but do their arguments really hold water? Using the analogy put forward by the esteemed philosopher Anthony Flew, Michael Poole examines the new atheists' use of the 'ten leaky buckets' tactic of argumentation - presenting readers with a sum of arguments that are each individually defective, as though the cumulative effect should be persuasive. This closer look at the facts reveals that the buckets are, indeed, leaky.

Growing Souls presents the work of the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project (YMSP), and gives voice to the scholars, youth workers, pastors, and youth who shared in its work.