Church Life

All Christian ministry is a mixture of trellis and vine. There is vine work: the prayerful preaching and teaching of the word of God to see people...

This essential handbook summarizes the safeguarding responsibilities of parishes, as outlined in the House of Bishops' Safeguarding Policies and Pr...

"New York Times "bestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really means to be part of the Church. Like millions o...

When Christine Morgan got Richard Coles, Kate Bottley and Giles Fraser together in a studio, all she had to do was plug them in and let them go. Th...

The annual celebrations of Plough Sunday, Rogation and Harvest are hugely important for churches serving rural communities and are a key way for th...

'Those who have already rejected Christianity are highly unlikely to be reached by traditional church. But the sceptical, the antagonistic, the ant...

As England's welfare state crumbled, local churches rushed into community involvement. It was there, as Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has...

All Things Anglican offers a lively and accessible introduction to Anglicanism for anyone wanting to know what makes it distinctive. Whether you ar...

Full of sensitive pastoral advice and shot through with arresting and illuminating theological insights, Rowan Williams' new book explores the mean...

Hilda was born into a pagan, Anglo-Saxon family in the province of Deira (land to the north of the Humber) in 614, and her early life was to witnes...

'But you're the pastor's wife!'Like most pastors' wives, Gloria Furman has found herself shouldering the burden of unrealistic expectations.'Who am...

Holy Habits is an initiative to nurture Christian discipleship. It explores Luke's model of church found in Acts 2:42-47, identifies ten habits and...

'47% of visitors will immediately disregard a church if the website design is poor. Money spent on a church website doesn't belong in the administr...

Spiritual abuse - the abuse of power by those in positions of trust within religious bodies - is widespread but under-recognised. It is not easy to...

The church has an image problem.It is widely viewed in the world at large as being outdated, boring, irrelevant and filled with backbiting hypocrit...

A core resource for anyone involved in spiritual mentoring, Mentoring Conversations provides a basis for spiritual conversation in a mentoring cont...

"Church is not a meeting you attend or a place you enter," write pastors Tim Chester and Steve Timmis. "It's an identity that is ours in Christ. An...

Holy Habits is an initiative to nurture Christian discipleship. It explores Luke's model of church found in Acts 2:42–47, identifies ten habits a...

Becoming a churchwarden can be a richly rewarding experience, but the role is not an easy one. This warmly written handbook will help all those con...

Spiritual direction is as old as the Christian faith. Today there is an ever growing demand for this ministry, despite the decline in membership of...

Jesus taught more often on money than He did on love or on heaven and hell combined. Why? It’s because money is one of the chief competitors for ...

One of the sad factors of church life is that many pastors are lonely. Although some pride themselves on their independence, many long for accounta...

God's plan for His Church is that every member of every congregation is vibrantly alive and fruitful, living in close relationship with Himself in ...