Desert Island Books

Step-by-step, at the reader's own pace, Michael Campbell-Johnston introduces one of the great traditions of spiritual growth. It is practical and down to earth, and assumes no previous experience of retreats, or even of church-going. Time to Change...

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,...

At the age of 30, Julian of Norwich had a series of intense visions of Jesus which she recorded in what became the first book written in English by a woman. Her message remains relevant today and is strikingly apparent in this fresh and contemporary...

C. S. Lewis here offers wisdom and lessons that illuminate our private dialogue with God-prayer-in this collection drawn from the breadth of his writings. The revered teacher and bestselling author of such classic Christian works as Mere...

A moving and tender meditation on loving, living and dying by one of the greatest Anglican spiritual writers.

The world constantly throws up new challenges about what it means to be Christian and to live a distinctively Christian lifestyle. The priest, broadcaster, writer and ethicist, Sam Wells considers some of the biggest contemporary political, social...

It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. Drawing on this Irish saying, poet, storyteller and theologian Padraig O Tuama relates ideas of shelter and welcome to journeys of life, using poetry, story, biblical refelction and prose...

Enfolded in Christ helps priests develop a healthy spiritual life to sustain them through the demands of their work. The author draws on extensive experience in pastoral supervision to help priests nurture awareness of Christ, sustain holy living...

With Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Theology of Beauty, George H. Tavard presents the first thorough investigation of the theology of the greatest Latin American poet before our own time. HIs program is all the more important because she was...