Pastoral

This book draws together contributors' experiences of working with safeguarding children on a broad range of issues, including neglect, trafficked children, parents with learning difficulties and child protection supervision. The contributors discuss current dilemmas in safeguarding children work and provide models of good practice.

This charming giftbook includes relevant prayers, quotations and bible verses all accompanied by delicate watercolour illustrations.

What if your children don't choose faith in Christ?

Rachel Gardner tackles head-on the issues facing teenage girls: self-image, the pull of the in-crowd, puberty, boys, sex, regrets and godly ambition. Credible yet shot through with biblical wisdom, parents and youthworkers can give this book to those they care for with confidence.

When life becomes difficult- when we face deep disappointment, agonizing loss or ongoing pain - we set out on a search to find answers to significant questions: Why would God allow this to happen? What good could come out of this? What will it look like to trust God?

Statistically, life has never been safer. Yet worry has reached epidemic proportions. So what has gone wrong? Many Christians are suffering in silence, unsure if psychological solutions are appropriate for them, or if biblical teaching can lead them to freedom.

A practical read that will help those caring for their elderly relative or friend Professional carer - it's almost a contradiction in terms.

Applying Biblical correction in your church.

This is a book to keep at hand in a crisis, and it would also make a timely gift from a compassionate friend. What we all need most when we’re hurting badly is for someone to look as if they are trying to understand us. Help is to be found within these pages whether grief is acute, or you’re someone afraid of making a blunder and you just want to find the right things to say.

Would you say you are a 'born worrier'? Do you ever feel worried without knowing why? Do you ever wish you were more relaxed?

Priests reflect on personal experiences of serious and terminal illness.

A timeless, powerful and beautiful reflection on vocation and priestly life from one of today's most accomplished spiritual writers. This dazzling account of how to live with one foot on earth and one in heaven, and with the double vision that is the gift of faith, is rooted in the notion that the promises we make at baptism, like ordination vows, call us all to make known the good news of God's

Call the Chaplain is a passionate, first-hand account of accompanying people of all ages and backgrounds as they experience some of the most intense moments of their lives.

Until relatively recently a Church of England funeral was the default option of the majority of the British population. This is no longer the case. Today, in some urban areas, secular or humanist funerals now account for 40% of funerals.

In this long awaited follow-up to the best-selling An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor explores 'the treasures of darkness' that the Bible speaks about. What can we learn about the ways of God when we cannot see the way ahead, are lost, alone, frightened, not in control or when the world around us seems to have descended into darkness?

This essential new companion from the author of the much-praised Spiritual Direction will help anyone in pastoral care master an essential skill: hearing and speaking from a spiritual perspective. A comprehensive and practical handbook, it includes:

'Addiction and pastoral care' offers practical advice from Nicolas Roberts, who has worked as a parish priest, university chaplain, hospital and mental health chaplain, and as a consultant in psychological counselling for St Luke's Healthcare for the Clergy. His PhD thesis was on the psychology of addiction and was supervised by Alister McGrath.

To live well requires us to die well. We cannot run away from death, but we can influence the spirit in which we approach it.

David Schofield was diagnosed in June 2008 with myeloma and since then has sought to try to make sense of his illness and bring something positive from it.

The challenge of living with dementia is one that more and more of us are facing - whether from having been diagnosed with the condition or from the persepective of a partner or carer. see also public prayer & intercessions