A step-by-step guide to learning about preaching and more importantly how to craft and deliver a sermon. It offers a student-friendly, jargon-free introduction which requires no prior knowledge of the subject. Suitable for all church traditions and...

Kate Bruce argues that imagination can help to engage the hearer in a sermon which seeks to evoke rather than to inform. Imagination frames how we see the world and ourselves in it. As such it has a vital role in how preachers see the preaching task...

Beginning with an exploration of the practice of mindfulness in its Buddhist origins, Peter Tyler reflects on the practical use of mindfulness, its place within the Christian tradition of prayer, and its future within the Christian tradition.

In The Eucharistic Faith, the first of a significant new systematic theology of the Eucharist, Ralph N. McMichael weaves liturgy and theology together to understand the ways in which theology and Christian faith are, at heart, about the...

The Eucharist is the central act of Christian worship. In this book Martin Stringer brings together some of the scholarship associated with the sociological analysis of biblical texts into conversation with liturgists and historians of the first...

A resource for preachers who want to reflect in more depth about preaching and for all studying preaching in seminary and at MA level.

This text aims to be an inspirational resource for individuals and clergy. It is written in a down-to-earth way and with an enthusiasm aiming to inspire spirituality and faith among its readers.

Preaching remains a central feature of almost all Christian worship. There are thousands of men and women in the UK who preach on a regular basis. This book covers such subjects as Preaching in a Communications Culture, Preaching and the Bible,...

Presents an overview of the Church of England. Beginning with the great Victorian modernisers who stamped their taste on music as much as church buildings, this title takes us on a musical tour that takes in: the impact of the Wesleys, the...