2015

Michael Sadgrove, in this guest blog, reflects on the annual pre-Christmas sport that is Black Friday Image: Eric Pouhier (CC BY-SA) In America it is Thanksgiving Day. It was …

The former Dean of Durham, Michael Sadgrove, who recently released an edited collection of sermons from his time at Durham Cathedral (with a foreword by Archbishop Justin Welby), says that Bl…

Don’t make Christmas Bear sad – order quickly for guaranteed Christmas delivery! UPDATE 14th December 2015: The following delivery cut-offs now apply for guaranteed Chr…

Author of The Writing on the Wall Richard Noble discusses well-known phrases from the King James Bible with Phoenix FM. Listen to Friday Night Extra with Patrick Sherring. You'll hear Richard at 1h…

Ahead of his retirement as Dean of Durham and the launch of his new book, we asked Michael Sadgrove about his time at Durham Cathedral, the role preaching has played in his ministry, and retirement.…

PRESS RELEASE: Durham-based publisher Sacristy Press will publish a book featuring sermons delivered by the retiring Anglican Dean of Durham during his time at Durham Cathedral. Christ in a …

Sacristy Press and Durham Cathedral are hosting two “fringe” events as part of the 2015 Durham Book Festival. Come and quiz our authors and listen to them speak about their writing at t…

Today it was announced that Sam Smith’s song for the new James Bond film, SPECTRE, will be called “Writing’s On The Wall”. But did you know that the title of the song …

Michael Sadgrove, Dean of Durham, invites you to join him for the launch of his latest book, Christ in a Choppie Box, at Durham Cathedral. Tuesday 22 September at 6.30pm – Durham …

To mark Michael Sadgrove’s retirement as Dean of Durham later this year, Sacristy Press is publishing an edited collection of his sermons from his time in Durham. Entitled Christ in a Choppie …

The next edition of Preach magazine (Autumn 2015) gives Patrick Whitworth’s Gospel for the Outsider a top mark of five stars, calling it “an asset to any Bible…

In true British fashion, the summer has turned against us and the heavens opened. But don't let your spirits be dampened - we have cut the price of all our historical fiction to jus…

Andrew Lightbown, editor of Theonomics: Reconnecting Economics with Virtue and Economics, spoke to Trans World Radio about the evolving economic crisis in Greece and the Eurozone. An MP3 of the int…

Today the Queen is visiting the only concentration camp to be liberated by the British, as part of a three-day state visit to Germany. A new book commemorating the liberation of the Belsen C…

Pupils from St Bede's Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School in Sacriston are commemorating the festival of the Venerable Bede in an unusual way this year, by building a LEGO replica of the s…

A fascinating talk was given to a packed church by author Patrick Whitworth at the launch of his latest book, Three Wise Men from the East: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Search for Orthodoxy, on 2…

Sacristy Press is delighted to announce that it has signed Durham artist Stuart Fisher to produce a hardback volume of his stunning watercolours and pen-and-wash drawings of Durham and beyond. Stua…

GUEST BLOG: Andrew Lightbown, editor of Theonomics and a curate in the Church of England, who formerly worked in the world of investment management, gives a Christian perspective on the forth…

PRESS RELEASE: Durham-based Sacristy Press is publishing a book to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp by members of the Durham Light Infantry …

How can hope be found in the midst of such suffering and affliction? Professor Rosemary Radford Ruether delves into Mary C. Grey’s latest book for some answers. The Spirit of Peace: P…

Pupils from St Cuthbert’s Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided Primary School in Chester-le-Street have been selected to build St Cuthbert’s Shrine on the LEGO replica of Durham Cathedral. {I…

Come and meet the Sacristy Press team at the London Book Fair, 14–16 April 2015 at Olympia, London. You can find us on stand 6E10, which we share with the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) a…

PRESS RELEASE: Durham-based Sacristy Press has published a challenging book looking at the turbulent situation in the Middle East. The Spirit of Peace: Pentecost and Affliction in the Middle East, w…

PRESS RELEASE: Book explains Bible’s impact on everyday language. Everyone knows that pride comes before a fall, and that you’ll be at your wits’ end if you see that there is no r…

PRESS RELEASE: A historic North East hotel will host an author’s talk with a difference on Thursday February 26 - because it was an inscription on its wall that inspired the writer…

To help us give up busyness this Lent and regain control of our schedules and lives, anthropologist Alan Macfarlane has written ten easy tips to avoid work stress and be efficient. Set a…

We have two wonderful authors talking about their books in the coming weeks, one at Sarum College Bookshop in Salisbury, and the other at a Sunday Times award-winning pub in County Durham (which hap…

“Immensely helpful and refreshing” is what ReSource magazine says about Patrick Whitworth’s latest book, Gospel for the Outsider. Here is the book review in ful…