2023

During lockdown, an online course about Wisdom struck a chord with many. Course leader, therapist and author Helen Warwick reflects on learning how to connect with Wisdom within us and around us. …

Barbara Glasson, President of the Methodist Peace Fellowship and author of Peace is a Doing Word, encourages us to reconsider the rhetoric of war and engage in the ongoing, often challenging work of…

Preparing a book for publication can be an interesting and rewarding journey. Here Sacristy Press authors Janet Wootton and Gillian Warson write about their experience. The journey to First …

David Clark, author of Meeting the Global Crisis, sadly died shortly after completing his manuscript. Here is a tribute to David from his colleague Maurice Staton. It is a privilege t…

Northumberland is a stunning county of great contrasts. Stephen Platten gives us a whistle-stop tour as a foretaste of his stunning hardback guide to England’s most magical county. Making o…

Adrian Snell is a well-known Christian singer-songwriter whose concerts and albums attract audiences across Europe. He is now a music therapist for children with special needs. Here he shares…

GUEST BLOG: Biblical scholar Clare Amos asks why Christian thinking about ecology and the environment draws heavily on the Old Testament, but not so much on the New Testament. I am writing this b…

GUEST BLOG: Deism is the belief in God based on rational thought rather than revelation or religious teaching. David O. Brown, author of All Things Come into Being Through Him, explores the interpla…

Novelist Katharine Tiernan gives us an exclusive insight into the her latest work, Star of the Sea. Sacristy Press: What made you decide to write about your family? Katharine Tiernan:&nbs…

GUEST BLOG: Taking to heart the petition in the Lord’s Prayer that God’s Kingdom shall come on earth as it is in heaven Peter Sills asks: What does it mean for human society, and for us …

GUEST BLOG: Katharine Tiernan explores the origins of her family and their exploits in the Age of Sail. Here is the captivating talk Katharine gave at the book launch in Northumberland. I&…

GUEST BLOG: Neil Richardson introduces us to his new book Love Answering Love. Books about the Bible and prayer are often simplistic, or else too detailed and academic. Some don’t seem to e…

GUEST BLOG: Bill Topping, a Methodist lay worker, reviews Like There’s No Tomorrow by Frances Ward. Readers of Like There’s No Tomorrow are invited on an intimate and profound journey…

GUEST BLOG: David R. Tomlinson, author of Living for Love, shares his thoughts on the Gary Lineker row and the government’s new refugee policy. The furore surrounding Gary Lineker’s n…

GUEST BLOG: As part of our #ThemeOfTheMonth focus on the after effects of lockdown Neil Richardson, author of Waking Up to God, challenges us to rethink what it means to be a Christian and asks &lsq…

GUEST BLOG: As part of our #ThemeOfTheMonth focus on the after effects of lockdown John Marsh, author of Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land, challenges us to bravely embrace change in t…

Back at the height of the Covid-19 Pandemic we were all asking the same questions. When would things return to normal? Would things return to normal? Should things return to normal? The Church in…

GUEST BLOG: David Tomlinson introduces us to his new book Living for Love. Part theological treatise, part manifesto, Living for Love is a book for our times and an urgent read f…

The riddle of the ambushed mind, one day secure in health, shielded within well-being, nourished in a green pasture, refreshed by still waters and soul restored, yet the very next yet again…