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Your church and churchyard as assets for mission by Kenneth Padley
RIGHT at the beginning of this thoughtful and challenging book, Kenneth Padley says that a community that identifies itself as “kuriakos” (of the Lord) will “value its place of meeting . . . as an attempt to articulate the…
Restoring Notre-Dame de Paris by Patrick Zachmann
One of the many fine colour photos taken by Patrick Zachmann, of Magnum Photos, of work in progress, in his book Restoring Notre-Dame de Paris: Rebirth of the legendary Gothic cathedral (Schiffer Books, £40.99 (£36.89);…
Prophetic wisdom for an age of outrage by Richard Rohr
RICHARD ROHR is a celebrated writer on Christian spirituality — rightly so, in my view. I first came across him years ago in his writings on the Enneagram, but it was his brilliant work Falling Upwards that really captured me…
Notes from the choir by Timothy E. Popple
TO COME across a passionate advocate of a particular cause can be uplifting: a film made by an expert on the natural world, perhaps, or an astrophysicist on the wonders of the solar system. The enthusiasm bubbles over and can…
Lai Dai Han Mother and Child by Rebecca Hawkins
The Lai Dai Han Mother and Child by Rebecca Hawkins (2019), unveiled at Church House and now in St James’s Square, Westminster, reflects the plight of children fathered by South Korean soldiers on Vietnamese women in the…
The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It by Alec Ryrie
THIS book is accessible, interesting, well-priced, and puzzling. As Professor Alec Ryrie acknowledges frankly, both in the book itself and in an excellent Church Times podcast (4 July 2025), he is straying well outside his…
The life of a radical historian by Michael Braddick
GIVEN his early scholastic success, it was no surprise that Christopher Hill should proceed to an outstanding academic career. What could not have been foreseen for this son of a prosperous Yorkshire family, devout…
William Blake and the power of the imagination by Mark Vernon
THIS is a compelling and timely book. It is compelling, because the reader shares Mark Vernon’s sense of excitement as he delves deeper and deeper into William Blake’s imaginative world and the way in which Blake’s visionary…
The untold history of Europe’s last pagan peoples by Francis Young
IN 1589, the German traveller Johann David Wunderer visited Samogitia, in the west of modern-day Lithuania. What he found there disturbed him greatly: the local people, he claimed, “live like wild animals, without faith or…
A survey of notable Christian women in Asia Minor and Anatolia from 33CE to 2021 by Rosamund Wilkinson
CLEARLY a labour of love and born of a passion for recording and celebrating women who have lived the Christian life in Asia Minor and what is now Turkey over two millennia, Rosamund Wilkinson’s information-crammed book is…
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