Guest blog: Hilary Robinson on helping children understand the power of prayer
Hilary Robinson, author of Paws Together For God (SPCK, illustrated by Mandy Stanley), offers advice on how to pray with children
Stephen Cottrell – Praying By Heart: The Lord’s Prayer for Everyone
Perhaps you are wondering if there is anything fresh that can be said about words that are so familiar. Well, the answer is “Yes!”
Christian Funders’ Forum shine light on 10 charities in House of Lords event
The Christian Funders’ Forum (CFF), a collective of grant-makers, giving more than £70m+ in funding each year to good causes, has announced the charities that they will be celebrating at their 2024 Showcase event, to be held on Thursday 10 October at the House of Lords, hosted by BAFTA award-winning…
Guest blog: Andy Frost on how discovering your faith sharing profile could help you bring people to Jesus
Each of us has a unique personality and temperament and God uses that as we share about Him.
Andrea G Burke – A Bit of Earth: A year in the garden with God
These gentle musings on winter, spring, summer and autumn combine a journal of the day-to-day experiences of gardening with helpful reflections on what it means to garden with God, by meditating on the spiritual lessons attached to working the soil.
Amy Orr-Ewing – Lead like the Real You: Wisdom for Women on Finding your Voice, Pursuing God’s Calling, and Leading with Courage
Amy Orr-Ewing has a high profile as a theologian, apologist and speaker. In this book she uses her experience of being a woman in these roles to send a series of letters to young Christian leader called Jo.
Rich Villodas – The Narrow Path: How the Subversive Way of Jesus Satisfies our Souls
This book is based on the Sermon on the Mount, which Rich Villodas describes as “essentially the greatest TED Talk ever given”. It is definitely the one talk in history that everybody still seems to be talking about.
“Praying and playing are both rooted in the same place within me”
As a jazz musician, composer and priest, Rev Dr Tim Boniface is frequently asked which profession ‘comes first’. His response: “I am 100% priest and 100% musician."
Elizabeth Oldfield – Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times
Hodder and Stoughton Hardback ISBN 878 1399 81076 0 Price £16.99 264 pages This book by the former director of the think tank Theos is a bracing celebration of life. The book is part spiritual biography, part an exercise in Christian apologetics and part an exploration of the Seven Deadly…
Rebecca McLaughlin – Does the Bible affirm same-sex relationships?
Questions about same-attraction and the demand for the Church to validate same-sex unions has occupied and divided believers over the past decade. It is a hot topic that is not going away.