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Physical, spiritual and poetic survival by Emma Rose Barber
MY OLD copy of Chesterton’s The Defendant comes from The Wayfarer’s Library, issued by Dent to “embrace all that is healthy, clean and good in the lighter field of modern literature”, and designed to slip easily into the…
Reflections on loss and love by Samuel Wells, Ann Feloy, and David Mosse
THIS book bears witness to the tsunami of grief which sweeps those bereaved by suicide off their feet, tossing them into unfathomably deep water, where the struggle for understanding is often experienced as a battle between…
Churches of Essex by John E. Vigar
An angel shows a man the way to heaven in this example of the 17th-century Continental glass for which St Mary and All Saints, Lambourne is noted. From John E. Vigar’s Churches of Essex, which 100 colour photos and…
A king’s obsession by Steven Veerapen
WHEN the humorist Nicolas Bentley, crawling in the footsteps of Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, wittily explained plots for the age of Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, he selected and illustrated 15 plays. The…
Reflections on the poetry of David Scott by John Mann
DAVID SCOTT was clearly an influence for good in the lives of those who met and knew him. Be Still, Be Silent introduces a new audience to his writing. It reminds us of how well and naturally poetry can sit alongside ministry…
Logos idealism, imperial whiteness, commonweal ecumenism by Gary Dorrien
GARY DORRIEN is an Anglican social ethicist, now in his early seventies, in the United States. He has had a phenomenal career: born into deep poverty, he became the author of more than 25 books, and held a series of…
A history of slavery and the slave trade in the Islamic world by Justin Marozzi
IT IS estimated that the Arab slave trade, international in its scope, enslaved 17 million people between 650 and 1905, far more than the Atlantic slave trade established from the 15th century to the 19th by Europeans. Some…
A Scandal in Königsberg, 1835-1842 by Christopher Clark
WHAT comes to mind when you think about Königsberg, now the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, but once an outpost in East Prussia, far from Berlin, but by no means provincial or without aspirations? The Königsberg Bridge Puzzle…
An always hopeful guide to healing from domestic abuse as a Christian by Sally Hope
IT OUGHT not be a shock to learn that domestic abuse takes place among Christians, too. The author, Sally Hope, a Christian survivor of domestic abuse, offers a workbook, guide, and encouragement for other survivors to begin…
Book 1, The Core Course — Exploring life and faith together and Book 2, Courses for Living — Exploring life and faith together by Samuel Wells
BEING WITH is an impressive catechetical project launched at St Martin-in-the-Fields by Samuel Wells and Sally Hitchener in 2020, promoted by them in a Leaders’ Guide and Participants’ Companion two years later (Books, 20…
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