CANTERBURY PRESS

In Soulful Nature, Brain Draper and Howard Green encourage you to get outside and make deeper connections with creation and its creator. They charts walking journeys through rural landscapes and town streets over the course of a year, showing how the natural cycle of the changing seasons can awaken us to the rhythms of our own lives.

The back page column of the Church Times, famously occupied for many years by Ronald Blythe, continues to be a breath of fresh air in the hands of poet and priest Malcolm Guite. This is his third collection of acute observations, drawing together everyday events and encounters, landscape, journeys, poetry, stories, memory and a sense of the sacred.

Cambridge poet, priest and singer-songwriter Malcolm Guite transforms 70 lectionary readings into inspiring poems. This expanded edition includes further sonnets for the Christian year written since the original edition, including a sequence of 19 sonnets on the resurrection appearances recorded in scripture.

Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is increasingly used in worship, in pastoral services and guided meditation. Here, Cambridge poet, priest and singer-songwriter Malcolm Guite transforms 70 lectionary readings into inspiring poems for use in regular worship, seasonal services, meditative reading or on retreat.

In Speaking of Sin, Barbara Brown Taylor brings her fresh perspective to words that often cause us discomfort and have widely fallen into neglect: sin, damnation, repentance, penance, and salvation. In recovering this lost language in our worship and individual lives, she shows how we can take part in the divine work of redemption.

Stour Seasons is the tenth collection of Word From Wormingford columns. Britain's greatest living rural writer observes in rich detail the gifts that each season of the year brings and in doing so, evokes a world of beauty, friendship and wonder at the simple pleasures that make everyday life the miracle that it is.

Striking Out is a spiritual diary of Stephen Cottrell's pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Comprising reflections, prayer poems and evocative images from the road, together with poetry which Stephen has written for many years, this is an intimate and honest account of the profound effect of the age-old tradition of going on pilgrimage.

Death remains a difficult topic to address openly. We leave it to the professionals in hospitals and hospices. This book aims to equip ministers and pastoral carers to enable individuals and families to say and do the important things on their minds.