Christmas and Advent Books

With the season of Advent, the coming of Christ is imminent, and following the contours of the season leads through a rich time of preparation for ...

Christmas often becomes the busiest time of the year, yet in the Christian calendar it contains some of the richest imagery and themes for shaping ...

Covers the season of Christmastide, including Christmas Eve, Holy Innocents' Day, Winter and New Year, Epiphany, Homelessness Sunday, and Candlemas...

Mary, Did You Know? the classic song continues to be a seasonal favourite on airplay.Author and music artist Mark Lowry offers an expanded view of ...

In Light of the World: A Beginner’s Guide to Advent, author, professor, and biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine explores the biblical texts surroundin...

This advent devotional allows hassled Christians to daily redeem the busiest month of the year using seasonal reflections by the "Prince of Preache...

Advent - a time for giving, for getting, forgiving and forgetting. A neat play on words and a wonderful reminder of four key truths at the heart of...

One of the Desert Fathers once said 'Joy is the echo of God's life in us.' This six-week course aims to celebrate the joy of knowing that everythin...

One theme dominates Advent - waiting. Just as God's people of old waited for the Messiah, so we wait for the return of Christ in fulfilment of God'...

In Isaiah 9:6, a divine utterance is given to us using four royal titles--Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace....

'Jesus was a pest to the Romans and a threat to the religious leadership, so they threw him on to the rubbish dump. Little did they realize that it...

Celebrate a Season of Wonder and WaitingThough the holidays are often jam-packed with busyness, the weeks leading up to Yuletide are still a time t...

Nowadays, some high streets start to celebrate Christmas months in advance. Journeying Towards Jesus is an insightful and inspiring book, with trul...

Advent tells the story of those who dream, those who live in hope, the people at the bottom of the pile who have nothing to lose because they have ...

Sing But Keep On Walking moves between the islands of Mull and Iona and the hills of the West Bank and Jerusalem: places 'on the edge'. And, like i...

Doing December Differently explores how people of faith and goodwill might mark the midwinter season and the Christmas festival with integrity and ...

This is a collection of 25 meditations for use in public worship. Covering a range of personal, pastoral and biblical themes, these meditations can...

The Christmas season is one of the busiest times of the year. But it is also a season of reflection and preparation for that special day when we ma...

Advent is a time when the excitement of Christmas begins to build. The shops are stocked, the TV advertisements are in overdrive and the windows of...

We know the familiar stories like Noah and the Ark; we know the famous people, like Mary and David ? but what about those people who might only be ...

In this Advent book with a difference, striking reflections and images combine to teach us to discover light in dark times, open ourselves to the p...

At its heart, the Oscar and BAFTA-nominated film The Two Popes is not about Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI. It is about two men, who happen to ...

Inspired by Father Alfred Delp, who wrote a meditation titled The Shaking Reality of Advent while imprisoned by the Nazis during WWII, Bishop Peter...