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09.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This Friday! Chester Cathedral! It's FREE! See you there??
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Continuing the Irish Book tour… Miriam’s Daughters. Deborah’s Sisters having a wee blether with St Brigid. I was reading ‘Never Underestimate a Woman’ @canterburypress.bsky.social
16.09.2025 10:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Our Summer Sale is back! Save up to 85% on hundreds of titles across theology, spirituality, ministry and more on our website until 29th August: canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/features/sum...
16.07.2025 10:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
St Swithun Dreams of Rain Though famously housed in a shrine in Winchester Cathedral, St Swithun left instructions for his body to be buried outside the church, “ubi et pedibus praetereuntium et stillicidiis ex alto rorantibus esset obnoxius” trans: “where it might be subject to the feet of passers-by and to the raindrops pouring from on high” I desired a humble ending: entrusted to the earth, with the sky as a canopy, and drops of rain to wash away my pride. My successors thought otherwise. A Saint requires a marble tomb, central shrine, gold in abundance, they thought. No rain reaches me here. No water from above. When the floods tried to drown the foundations, I prayed they would let them, that the waters would scatter my bones amidst the collapse, that the cathedral would wash away in a swell of rain and I, fragmented as I am, would rest again as I wished, beneath vast and sodden skies.
It's St Swithun's Day, have a poem where he's grumpy about the way he was buried, and was actually really happy when Winchester Cathedral started to sink because it was built without foundations.
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We are delighted to announce that we're bringing Malcolm Guite's reimagining of the King Arthur story to the UK! A lifetime in the making, Merlin's Isle is Malcolm's masterwork - an epic ballad cycle in four volumes. Volume 1 is available to pre-order: canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/.../galahad-....
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Holy Trinity Bradford on Avon are delighted to host the launch of +Robert Atwell’s new book, Bewilderment, on Sunday 27th July at 11am, following the 9.30am Parish Eucharist. All welcome!
Holy Trinity Bradford on Avon are delighted to be hosting the launch of +Robert Atwell’s new book, Bewilderment, on Sunday July 27th at 11am after the 9.30am Parish Eucharist.
All welcome! @churchtimes.bsky.social @canterburypress.bsky.social @salisbury.anglican.org
A copy of Kingdom Buildings: Your Church and Churchyard as Assets for Mission, by Kenneth Padley
What if, and hear me out here, you saw your church building as a gift rather than a massive inconvenience?
Here Padley explores how small, practical changes to our church buildings and grounds can unlock their potential as assets for mission.
In stock now via bookshops or canterburypress.co.uk
2026! Robots! Flying cars! And another superb Canterbury Preacher's Companion.
22.05.2025 12:52 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
A poster depicting a book cover, with a woman and the words Miriam’s Sisters, Deborah’s daughters advertising an author event. Thurs 15 May at Iona Community bookshop
This is happening this week in Iona #miriamssistersdeborahsdaughters
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A display island in a bookshop with books propped up four sides around a cube. You can see '100 Ways To Get Your Church Noticed' and 'The Exiled Church' from Canterbury Press, and New Churches: A Theology' from SCM Press, among others. In the background there are tall bookcases lining the walls, and an open glass door with a chair in the distance.
A bookshop photographed from above - a white man stands looking at a display island of books and there are bookshelves lining the walls, spinning card racks near the open glass doors, another book island on the left and at the back on the left, a white countertop with rows of icons behind it on shelves. It looks light and airy.
Delighted to see our pals at Church House Bookshop (not yet on Bluesky but we're working on it) are set up and once again open in Westminster after its move back round the corner! I spy an SCM Press book and some from @canterburypress.bsky.social...
13.05.2025 13:51 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Resources for the whole church this month with Canterbury Press 🙌
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A screenshot of Amazon sales rankings 'Hot New Releases in Anglicanism' showing the edited book 'Catholic Life in the Church of England' at number 2 between the 2026 lectionary and the 2026 church diary.
All the essentials for 2026...
16.04.2025 09:33 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Here is mission and outreach through music. Everybody is welcome, people of faith or not."
Ronald Corp reviews the book of St Martin-in-the-Field's initiative
So touched by this review and not just because he describes my writing as genius 😊. He really gets what I was trying to do in writing the book, and that is incredibly gratifying. #cofe #narthex @canterburypress.bsky.social
11.03.2025 18:37 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Have been meaning to do '5 books that shaped me ' for ages, and having just finished Jessica Martin's astonishing _The Eucharist in Four Dimensions_ in floods of tears (read it! It is SO GOOD!) now feels like the time. Might not be 5. Will definitely not be the only possible answers. 🧵
24.02.2025 14:16 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 6 📌 0As the publisher, this was so lovely to hear, thank you!
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Lyle Dennen reviews Perfectly Ordinary: In search of healthy church leadership by Marcus Throup, which "brings warmth, deep concern, insight, and vision to what the clergy ought to be like"
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It's quite daunting that more people are reading the proofs of 'Waiting on the Lord' and this will be in print soon.
I've had some extraordinarily kind feedback, from those who have discerned lay callings, and from those ordained decades ago.
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It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Messiah. Luke 2.26 If you won't see Death before you see the Messiah Keep Your Eyes Shut. Don't enter the temple to God's call, you've gained immortality after all - why listen to the songs they're singing? Why hasten towards your ending? Don't hold death in your arms and proclaim it Life. But you're stood in the temple already, praising this child you've seen. Oh Simeon - God-receiver - enraptured in an instant, answer this one question, please: What does it mean to hold God in your arms and know that you're dying? My friend, you misunderstand - as I held The Christ to my chest I saw Death fleeing away.
"What does it mean to hold God in your arms
and know that you're dying?"
A little poem for Candlemas.
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A screenshot of the title page of the manuscript for 'A Season of Silence: Deep Listening in a Noisy World' by Joshua Rey
I can't wait for you to see and use this one.
Over 40 days, you'll learn to build a short period of silent prayerful listening into your day, in a really accessible, non-threatening and realistic way, a bit like a Couch to 5K but for silence.
Coming August 2025 to @canterburypress.bsky.social
It’s #JaneAusten’s 250th of birth so what better year to use my book ‘A Truth Universally Acknowledged’ as your #Lent study guide? Indeed the Jane Austen Society review indicated it is worthy of attention at any time of year … buy it via the link:
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If you enjoyed this talk, you can pick up a copy of Jennie's memoir of chronic illness and faith for just £3 in our winter sale.
22.01.2025 14:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of 'Generous Faith'
This came before I started my current role, and I confess I didn't read it at the time, focused as I was on SCM-shaped things. So catching up with it now, and oh my word is it exquisite so far.
Moving, beautiful, challenging, radiant. Hard to describe. Just read it.
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Save up to 80% in our Winter Sale on books covering prayer, spirituality, history, liturgy, ministry, poetry, theology and more!
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Of all preaching gigs, the All Age Talk is by far the most terrifying (I speak as one with very fresh memories). This, by Ally Barrett, offers a helpful and practical guide for the panicking preacher. Again, in the @canterburypress.bsky.social sale. canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978178...
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Patron Saint of Violets // I Want From 'The Vanishing Song' By Jay Hulme They say I died a virgin, but then they say every martyred woman was a virgin. I want to tell them how wrong the hagiographies have me - to call up the Vatican and list every woman I loved. I want to tell them how, one night, we went out into the desert; how mouth touched skin in the cooling air, and we cried, Oh, God! like saints at prayer.
"They say I died a virgin, but
then they say every martyred
woman was a virgin. I want"
From 'The Vanishing Song'
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Great to have two of the books I reviewed for Premier Christianity magazine make it into their best books of the year! www.premierchristianity.com/reviews/the-...
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