This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society.

A lively and often hilarious compilation of sayings, stories and one-liners from the famous, the infamous and the completely anonymous. The material is arranged alphabetically by theme, and embellished with Darren Harvey-Regan's wonderful and wacky cartoons.

Contains prayers, carols and hymns celebrating the festive period.

Presents the endearing and wise sentiments to his sons by a popular TV personality, Bear Grylls addressed to his two sons. In a range of pithy sentences, he brings together all the heartfelt advice and key moral precepts and guidance by which he wants them to live their lives.

Captain Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter's adage, ' Never leave your partner behind'. Inside burning buildings, it's his natural instinct. In the cooling embers of his marriage, it's another story.

Join Ratty and Mole on a journey of faith: Forty Meditations based on Kenneth Grahame’s ' The Wind in the Willows'

Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, a

What am I here for? How should I behave? Most Christians, faced with those questions, think in terms either of ‘rules’ or of ‘living authentically’. Both lead to problems.

Prior to writing his great classic, The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen suffered an enormous personal loss and breakdown that took him away from his home in the L’Arche Daybreak community for a period of seven months.

Continuing his successful series of portraits of the many characterful individuals who have helped make the Church of England the institution that it is, Trevor Beeson turns his attention to the outstanding musicians who have definitively influenced its worship over the centuries.