Books published by SPCK Publishing

Presents a daily pattern of prayer, providing material for those who want to revitalise their prayer life. With general prayers and for morning and evening, this work also includes additional prayers for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany at the end of Safer than a Known Way.

Where as other Lectionary Commentaries tend to take small numbers of readings and assign them to a large number of people, this commentary assigns each Gospel to one commentator. Each commentator will therefore be able to concentrate on the overall progression of each Gospel.

A look at how to be holy and pleasing to God amid all the pressures of present day.

John Polkinghorne's scientific and theological backgrounds make for a unique perspective on the themes of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. This book explores themes such as the end of the world, individual destiny, unseen realities, Heaven, Hell and suffering

This text re-examines the great variety of liturgical practices in the first four centuries in the light of modern Jewish and Christian scholarship.

The focus of this volume is on giving the most up-to-date scholarship in the form of a commentary of about one page on each reading. This is designed to give students and preachers a secure understanding of the Biblical background.

In the Local Ministry movement every Christian person has a gift to offer and everyone should be free to use these gifts. This vision gives the opportunity to explore the connections between faith and life and should be a force for renewal in the Church.

Offers a diverse collection of liturgies for the 'high days' of the church year. This work focuses on specific themes within the central message of each festival.

Explores the lives and stories of Aidan, Bede and Cuthbert. After an introduction which tells appropriately of David Adam's ordination in Durham Cathedral, this work contains four chapters on each of them.

Provides resources for simple services for weekdays throughout the year. Each service includes a short reading taken from the Gospels or "Epistles" and a comment. This book is useful for services with a range of people, including young mothers, the elderly and carers.

Looks at how ministers are trained to work collaboratively, how congregations learn this new attitude, how it relates to a mission-shaped church and the leadership and new patterns of community which go with it.

This work provides about one page of commentary per reading. It is designed to give students and preachers a deeper understanding of the Biblical background, rather than giving preaching tips.

A collection of personal prayers, here republished for a new generation, with a specially written introduction by Joyce Huggett and a preface about the author's life. The book includes prayers for different times of the day and the Christian year.

Imaginative and passionate, these prayers bring the full range of women's experience before God. Blessings, laments, celebrations and creeds, they use a variety of forms and can be used by individuals and in a liturgical setting.

The Bishop of Oxford listens to and answers questions about God and Christianity. He deals with such issues as: religion keeps people immature; Christianity is anti-life; religion is divisive and stuck in the past; and why is there suffering?

Inspired by Old and New Testament passages, this beautifully written volume of verse and prose aims to open our eyes to God's great simplicity. For this infinitely loving deity, who has always known our goodness, what we might be and the good we might become, can only by nature tread softly in our lives, longing to embrace us and awaken us to beauty beyond our dreaming.

NRSV Anglicized trade paperback edition.

Popular Catholic edition - with all Apocryphal books fully integrated.

This work explores what it means to be a saint, to always be walking on the edges - geographically, physically and spiritually. The author calls on us to take the path of a saint, painful as it may be, since it is the only way open to the Christian serious about growing in faith.