CANTERBURY PRESS

Sam Wells reflects on the challenges to our understanding of Christ's crucifixion that arise today. Exploring contemporary ideas in history, biblical studies and philosophy, he reflects on six biblical stories and discovers that in the face of these challenges, the cross has an enduring power to shape how we live.

The heart as an image of love is found everywhere in popular culture, yet devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is often dismissed as excessive piety. This rich and deep tradition, that is rooted in scripture and reaches back to the earliest Christian centuries, springs from an understanding of the name and nature of God as love.

A second collection of Malcolm Guite's widely acclaimed columns on the back page of the Church Times

The Bible is a book of stories par excellence and is completely realistic about human nature. Hero, Lover, Daughter, Queen retells ten timeless biblical stories of archetypal figures, enabling readers to see themselves and help them make sense of their lives.

Dave Walker, cartoonist and former youth worker has become the UK'S leading cartoon commentator on the state of the Church. This fifth collection of cartoons offers advice on everything from saving chairs in church to avoiding deanery synod. Anyone who finds themselves in church each week will find Dave's original and observant humour spot-on.

What if the problem with desire is not that we want what we can't have, but that we don't want it enough? What if desire itself - the gap between wanting and having - is the key to living well? Holiness and Desire explores these questions, considering what a distinctive holiness might look like in our highly sexualized modern culture.

This timely collection from the influential Littlemore Group of theologians explores the role of preaching in today's Church. Experienced contributors from a wide range of backgrounds - catholic, evangelical and liberal - weave together theology, anecdote and reflection on practice as they share their passion for preaching.

The renowned Christian preacher and New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching world religions to undergraduates in Baptist-saturated rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations.