Anglican Spirituality

Framed around the nighttime prayer of Compline, Tish Harrison Warren, author of Liturgy of the Ordinary, explores themes of human vulnerability, suffering, and God's seeming absence. Where do we find comfort when we lie awake worrying or weeping in the night? This book offers a prayerful and frank approach to the difficulties in our ordinary lives at work, at home, and in a world filled with uncertainty. 

Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history argues that 16th-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of "reform" in various competing guises. This engaging history reveals what was really at stake in the overthrow of Catholic culture and the reshaping of the English Church. 

Historical Theology: An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought traces the development of Christian theology from its earliest days to the present. This authoritative, accessible textbook introduces the major theological movements, key ideas, and individual theologians of the Patristic Period, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Reformation and Post-Reformation, and the Modern Era up to the present day. Now in its third edition, Historical Theology includes substantial new sections on theodicy, modern African Christologies, and postcolonial theology.

In the overlooked moments and routines of our day, we can become aware of God's presence in surprising ways. How do we embrace the sacred in the ordinary and the ordinary in the sacred? Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices, and habits that form us. Each chapter looks at something - making the bed, brushing her teeth, losing her keys - that the author does every day. Come and discover the holiness of your every day.

In this second volume of the series, we explore 33 powerful names of Jesus Christ through daily prayers and devotions—each one offering a fresh glimpse of His love, His divinity, and His presence in our lives. As we pray and reflect on Holy Scripture, ancient hymns, and timeless words of faith, we begin to see more clearly the beautiful mystery of the Son of God—fully divine, yet fully human.

Compiled with the intent to improve the preaching standards in churches at the time and to increase pastoral understanding of Christianity, Homilies is a comprehensive overview of Christian theology, the history and impact of the Reformation, and daily applications of faith and doctrine. The sermons included here dive into the issues and questions of salvation, Christian living, justification by faith, the weight of sin, and many more impactful themes and ideals.

John Charles Ryle’s best known works have been reissued and widely read over many years. The fine qualities of his writings have ensured that his books are still popular and useful. This volume has become a classic work and is known and loved by many throughout the world. In days when evangelical preachers are accused of being either superficial or dull, we have here a great example of one who was neither of these things. As Bishop Ryle applies his texts, the listener will find his soul examined.

The names of God reveal who He is and how He works in our lives today. The thirty-three names in this book invite us to get to know God the Father and spend intimate time with Him. The devotions for each name provide the context in which the name is found, a deeper understanding of what the name means, and how it applies to our lives today. The accompanying Rosaries lead us directly into meaningful connection to God through Scripture verses, collects, hymns, and ancient prayers.

A confession and manifesto from a senior leader in the emerging church movement. A Generous Orthodoxy calls for a radical, Christ-centered orthodoxy of faith and practice in a missional, generous spirit. Brian McLaren argues for a post-liberal, post-conservative, post-protestant convergence...

Relates one of the most remarkable lives in the tumultuous English Reformation. Thomas Cranmer was the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the author of the Book of Common Prayer, and a central figure in the English Protestant Reformation. Few theologians have led such an eventful life: Cranmer helped Henry VIII break with the pope, pressed his vision of the Reformation through the reign of Edward VI, was forced to recant under Queen Mary, and then dramatically withdrew his recantations before being burned alive.

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 141 Anyone who has been in the habit of attending monastic Offices, or their equivalents, will be aware of the central place of the psalter in Christian worship. Sister Benedicta sheds a revealing light on the scholarship and piety of the Venerable Bede, showing how with the Abbreviated Psalter (which is included in her text) he made his own innovative contribution to the devotional use of the psalms. Bede knew the psalms as a religious, bound to the daily, weekly and seasonal observance of the liturgical year; as a scholar and historian of European renown; and as a ...

‘Captivating’ Telegraph ‘Fascinating’ Sunday Times ‘Spellbinding’ Katy Hessel ‘A book for our moment’ Irish Times Lamorna Ash (‘a new star of non-fiction’ William Dalrymple) explores why young people today are turning to faith in an age of uncertainty. When several of her...

The series of three books I have written; analyzing and expanding the communications from various groups of spirits to the Rev. G. Vale Owen, are for the express purpose of explaining the reality - the organization, the process, the environment, the progression of spirits, the work, the daily life - of Heaven and the realms below to provide for those interested an understanding of why we are on earth, in our present physical form, and what is waiting for us when our dense shell is cast off and we return to the real world...the spirit world.

The series of three books I have written; analyzing and expanding the communications from various groups of spirits to the Rev. G. Vale Owen, are for the express purpose of explaining the reality - the organization, the process, the environment, the progression of spirits, the work, the daily life - of Heaven and the realms below to provide for those interested an understanding of why we are on earth, in our present physical form, and what is waiting for us when our dense shell is cast off and we return to the real world...the spirit world.

Sister Pauline Margaret provides wise guidance in the practice of the Jesus Prayer, or the invocation of the name of Jesus in prayer. She draws on the tradition of the gospels and on her own experience of using this prayer and of sharing her insights in retreats, prayer workshops and quiet days. Noting that the primary meaning of ‘amateur’ is ‘lover’, she points out that when it comes to prayer, everyone is an amateur, a person who practises prayer for love.

The series of three books I have written; analyzing and expanding the communications from various groups of spirits to the Rev. G. Vale Owen, are for the express purpose of explaining the reality - the organization, the process, the environment, the progression of spirits, the work, the daily life - of Heaven and the realms below to provide for those interested an understanding of why we are on earth, in our present physical form, and what is waiting for us when our dense shell is cast off and we return to the real world … the spirit world.

Crafted in the early days of the pandemic of 2020, the words of the poet-King David speak directly to the anxiety, fears, and troubles of our own day. And as the psalm leads to green pastures, still waters, and pathways ahead, the listener will find their confidence and faith in God renewed and refreshed. When the Lord is My Shepherd makes the ancient psalm sing a new song in our own day.

The Church is very good at saying all the right things about racial equality. But the reality is that the institution has utterly failed to back up these good intentions with demonstrable efforts to reform. It is a long way from being a place of Black flourishing.

Matt Woodcock's frank, funny real-life diaries reveal what it was like for him to train as a vicar while struggling against all odds to become a father. In them he lays bare his joys and struggles as he attempts to reconcile his calling as a vicar with his life as a party-loving journalist, footie-freak, and incorrigible extrovert.

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 080 How is the monastic life to bear witness in the climate of the present age to the primacy of God, and to stand as a sign that his Kingdom is at hand? Dom Jean Leclercq's reflections in the title essay are an unwitting commentary on the story of two particular communities described in this pamphlet. Their origins and daily life may be said to exemplify also the prophetic element in monasticism discussed in the final essay. From the striking witness of four different traditions (Roman Catholic, Coptic Orthodox, Presbyterian and Anglican) we come to see that monastic...