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Celebrating Sundays provides readings from the Christian tradition that offer commentary on every Sunday Gospel reading in the three year lectionary. It creates an invaluable companion for preachers and for personal reflection on the Sunday lectionary readings.

For every major feast, saint's day and commemoration in the calendars of the Anglican churches in the UK, this liturgical resource and spiritual companion offers a feast of readings that reflects the richness, depth and variety of the Christian tradition.

Church Beyond Walls tells inspiring and informative stories of how one church took Christian spirituality outside of their building to engage a world increasingly uninterested in religion, God and faith. From imaginative and wide-ranging experiments, it draws out principles to inspire local churches to express their faith in their communities.

It has been over 60 years since the last guide to the care of church linens and textiles was published and despite being used in every parish church, popular knowledge of their proper use and care is diminishing. This new guide offers help with the care of church linen and also to the use and care of vestments, hangings and other textiles.

The Collage of God is for all who find it difficult to reconcile the realities of life with comfortable notions about faith. Following his experiences with suffering as a hospital chaplain, Mark Oakley reconstructs faith as a collage of traditions, texts, and experiences of living, imagination, silence and prayer. A contemporary spiritual classic.

This handbook will help you best use your church architecture for the celebration of the liturgy. It aims to build an understanding of the constituent features of church buildings, the role they have in worship and the spirit with which they are imbued. It includes articles that have appeared in the Parish Practice feature in 'The Tablet' magazine.

Reflections and musings from a former monastic, designed to help readers find their bearings in the life of the Spirit today. With humour and sensitivity they encourage us to stand back and let the fresh wind of the Spirit blow in our lives.