CANTERBURY PRESS

A wise, timely and practical handbook that meets the urgent need for resources for ministry among the elderly. Written out of the author's own experience as a chaplain to a residential care community, it is suitable for ministers who visit the elderly, chaplains, pastoral visitors, caregivers, and all who help train others in elderly pastoral care.

This vital resource draws on the vast experience of the L'Arche community to offer practical guidance and ideas for imaginative worship that engages people with learning and other disabilities.

Drawing on the riches of Persian culture and her own dramatic experience of loss of a homeland, Guli Francis-Dehqani offers memorable and perceptive reflections on Jesus' seven final sayings from the cross, opening up for Western readers fresh and arresting insights from a Middle Eastern perspective.

Crowning the Year will equip all who lead or assist with worship in rural contexts. It offers some essential groundwork on liturgical theology, and a theology of ministry in rural, multi-parochial contexts, providing practical ideas and direction on how to prepare for and conduct worship for the principal feasts and seasons of the Christian year.

From cover to cover, this book is full of imaginative, read-to-use liturgies, prayers and service outlines for the Christian year, including Pentecost, Trinity, Ordinary Time, Harvest, All Saints and All Souls.

Following the success of her first book on R. S. Thomas, Carys Walsh invites readers to experience Lent through the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins-one of English literature's most celebrated religious poets.

A corona is a crown, the pearly glow around the sun in certain astronomical conditions and a poetic form where interlinking lines connect a sequence. It is the perfect name therefore for this new collection of 150 poems by the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite, each one written in response to the Bible's 150 psalms.