Religious institutions and organizations

This handbook is for leaders who are faced with leading an individual or a church community through a traumatic event and its aftermath.

A longstanding annual favourite has a new editor and a new, refreshed look.

John-Francis Friendship spent twenty-five years as an Anglican Franciscan friar.

In this bold and provocative invitation, Martyn Percy imagines what the post-pandemic Church might look like and sets out what it needs to learn.

Luigi Gioia is one of the most insightful commentators on monastic and priestly life today.

This timely book brings together the stories of St Francis - his preaching to birds, rejection of wealth, caring for lepers, befriending animals and living simply, his poetry and hymnody in praise of creation that is still sung today - and the influential writings and examples of inspiring Franciscans who have followed him such as Clare, Bonaventure, Duns Scotus and Angela of Foligno, and draws them into conversation with contemporary concerns for our planet.

The annual celebrations of Plough Sunday, Rogation and Harvest are hugely important for churches serving rural communities and are a key way for those churches to engage in mission, usually seeing congregations swell at such times.

Ann Loades is one of the most significant figures in contemporary theology, becoming the first female President of the Society for the Study of Theology and one of only two people ever to be awarded a CBE for services to theology.

Faith, Hope and Mischief tells funny, prophetic and powerful stories of tiny acts of rebellion Andrew has carried out, with arresting reflections on what it means to live in faith and hope.

A leading poet and a theologian reflect on the Old Testament story of Ruth, a tale that resonates deeply in today's world with its themes of migration, the stranger, mixed cultures and religions, law and leadership, women in public life, kindness, generosity and fear.

Love Mercy is a thoughtful and realistic exploration of forgiveness and making peace from bestselling author and broadcaster Samuel Wells.

In 12 Rules for Christian Activists, Ellen Louden and a host of contributors present 12 accessible and practical principles to encourage a new generation to create a movement for positive social change.

God's Church in the World: The Gift of Catholic Mission presents a confident and joyful assertion of the Catholic character of Christian mission and its sacramental nature, exploring the transforming role the Catholic tradition can play in evangelism.

At the age of 45, unfit and overweight, Clark Berge, a professed Franciscan friar, took up running.

The pressure of expectations often means that priests fail to care for themselves and neglect their own spiritual life.

Seeing a need for monastic values in busy London life, Richard Carter founded the Nazareth Community.

A definitive history of one of the most significant religious orders to emerge in the Anglican church, the Cowley Fathers - the first men's religious order to be founded in the Church of England since the Reformation.

Recent styles of political debate in western democracies have highlighted questions about how we exercise personal freedom and who is responsible for how we live.

Samuel Wells shares his vision for the Church as imagined by HeartEdge, the growing network of churches established by St Martin-in-the-Fields, with its fourfold focus for renewing the mission activity of the church: commerce, culture, congregation and compassion.

The all-age talk is a task guaranteed to give preachers sleepless nights!

Beginning in New Testament times, there is a time-honoured tradition of forming new Christians in the essentials of faith: catechesis.

This timely collection from the influential Littlemore Group of theologians explores the role of preaching in today's Church.

This guide explores spiritual direction from biblical and theological perspectives and aims both to inform teaching and equip practitioners with greater reflective skills.

There is a prevailing culture of 'niceness' within churches which can lead to conflict avoidance, suppression and denial.

Every day we hear stories of people caught up in conflict, violence, trauma and abuse, which can affect anyone in any walk of life.

Priests and pastoral caregivers often accompany people who are struggling to negotiate experiences of sickness, bereavement or anxiety.

In The Mindful Leader, Peter Shaw unpacks the Christian concepts underpinning good leadership and management - such as wisdom, hope and truth - offering a toolkit for leaders who are aspiring to be more authentic.

The first collection of Malcolm Guite's widely acclaimed columns on the back page of the Church Times.

Corrymeela - a Christian community committed to reconciliation, is bounded by bells.

This resource for spiritual directors offers exercises and prayer tools on the theme of spiritual growth.

In the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, the local parish church became a focal point of the relief effort, and a gathering place for a traumatised community.

Enfolded in Christ is a book about priesthood with a difference.

In this follow-up to Incarnational Ministry: Being with the Church, Samuel Wells explores what it means for Christians and churches to engage with the world.

It is often claimed that local churches provide a significant proportion of social care today.

This is an inspiring story of what one church can achieve.

Grasping the Heel of Heaven honours the immense legacy to the church of Michael Perham.

Outcome Oriented Chaplaincy (OOC) is a method of chaplaincy care that emphasizes achieving, describing, measuring, and improving the outcomes that result from a chaplain's work, alongside the parallel framework of evidence-based healthcare.

Religious faith is a powerful source of comfort and support for individuals and families facing dementia.

Contemplative practices are increasingly used with children across nurseries and schools and are recognised as ways of improving wellbeing.

Many spiritual caregivers, including chaplains, spiritual directors and clergy, are unaware of how they can support people with chronic health conditions.

Showing how spiritual care is practiced in a variety of different contexts such as healthcare, detention and higher education, as well as settings that may not have formal chaplaincy arrangements, this book offers an original and unique resource for Hindu chaplains to understand and practice spiritual care in a way that is authentic to their own tradition and that meets the needs of Hindus.

Is radical criticism of the Church by its ministers the enemy within or its salvation?

What is authority, and is it in crisis?

This enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities - and vice versa - through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of 'ministry' and artistic response.

Through a rich variety of case studies, this book provides insight into the patient's needs and the chaplain's perspective, as well as discussions of spiritual assessments and spiritual care interventions.

Research shows that non-responsive patients benefit significantly from spiritual and pastoral care.

Conventional coping strategies can be pushed to their limits when people find themselves in situations of suffering, illness, and dying.

Making the case for the relevance of pastoral care today, this book explores the role of pastoral care through the prism of music.