Ministry / Mission

The bestselling writer and popular broadcaster Sam Wells reflects on the essence of discipleship and Christian ministry today. Believing that ministry is essentially about `being with' the other, whether that is God, the church, friends or strangers, he explores the theme of `being with' in a variety of contexts.

This book's purpose is to present the first extensive historical treatment of deacons in the Church of England, in an effort to explain why lifelong or 'distinctive' deacons have so far failed to become a major part of life in the Church of England.

Deep leadership training inspired by the Gospel of John: lessons on humility, investing your life in your team, facing betrayal, dying to self, handing on, succession, restoration. True leadership is about something beyond you: it is the joy of facilitating others in the gifting and the calling that the Lord has placed on their lives.

Co-authored by Katy Granville-Chapman and Emmie Bidston, Leader: Know, love and inspire your people will energise leaders in any setting to lead through service and empower them with the tools to help their team flourish.

Recent styles of political debate in western democracies have highlighted questions about how we exercise personal freedom and who is responsible for how we live. Peter Shaw draws on writers and thinkers from different eras in order to pose questions about what it means to act responsibly in a wide range of personal and public contexts.

A handbook for developing a healthy multicultural church community, to enable ministers to develop skills and confidence in leading their community.

For those exploring a sense of call - to ordained ministry, another vocation or to a change of direction in life, spiritual director and vocations advisor Julia Mourant offers thirty simple spiritual exercises for exploration and discernment. Each one is rooted in intuitive understanding and God-given inner wisdom.

In trying to understand the relationship of the British people to religion - specifically Christianity - we tend to say that people: believe - or do not; attend - or do not. The argument of Lost Church is that the majority of people do not really fit either of these categories.