Todd: 767 books

It ain’t dinner theater. “TRIVIAL PURSUITS” is a 3-act, 4-character, 1-set play that asks: “How much can an audience learn about a bunch of guys who are sitting around a table playing a board game?” Because that’s about the only action taking place on stage. Unless you count...

We all want to be happy, although ‘happiness’ can mean very different things to different people. But what if I don't feel happy? Is my life less worthwhile? And is there such a thing as lasting happiness anyway? Western society places great emphasis on the pursuit of health, wealth...

Are you intimidated by the daunting task of building a website on your own? Are frustrated with trying to find the right information? Are you confused by the jargon that most guides use?If so, then this simple guide is for you.It starts from the very beginning, and carefully walks you...

The most “inconvenient truth” of all – and the most important: our moral responsibility for climate change. Despite scientific evidence and pressure from grassroots movements, the threat of an ecological crisis has for a long time failed to achieve prominence in ecclesiastical or political...

Confessions is perhaps the most important spiritual autobiography of all: it chronicles Saint Augustine’s wild, dissonant youth and subsequent conversion to Christianity, as well as providing significant divine and philosophical insight. Bestselling author, Fr Benignus O’Rourke OSA, provides a...

Through the teachings of Jesus, and Christianmystics such as St Augustine and MeisterEckhart, Stefan Gillow Reynolds demonstratesthat the practice of Mindfulness leading tosilent meditation, recommended by manytherapists, is not a modern fad but has alwayshad a place within contemplative Christianity.

Another Story Must Begin is an original Lent course based on the film, the novel and the stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. Through discussion of some of the themes and principal characters of this epic narrative, the course explores the grace of God and our own fallen state and...

Theologygrams is a brilliant introduction to theology presented in the form of easy-to-understand diagrams. Rich Wyld’s runs the popular Theologygrams blog, and here presents 100 original diagrams – in full colour – for the non-specialist reader. Some diagrams come with a small piece of descriptive...

Towards a New Day – part-memoir, part-journal – is the story of Ralph Martin, a Canadian priest who travelled to England as a young man to become a member of the Society of the Sacred Mission, an Anglican religious community. He has now been a member of SSM for close on sixty years. For nearly...

Much has been said and written about trans people by theologians and Church leaders, while little has been heard from trans Christians themselves. As a step towards redressing the balance, This Is My Body offers a grounded reflection on people’s experience of gender dissonance that involves negotiating...

A resource for ministers and congregations who want to begin to understand and/or welcome transgender people into their congregations. The book has the following aims: to give the results of the first research based project into the experiences of trans Christians in the UK; to provide a theological...

Touch, scent, taste. Three of the five senses that cannot be transmitted through technology. Three-fifths of reality, sixty percent. This book is an invitation to notice that other sixty per cent.' In The Scent of Lemons Jonah Lynch considers if technology is stealing something essential from...

After his uncle is murdered for not paying the ‘war tax’ imposed by a local street gang, Raul decides to leave Honduras and embark on a journey across Mexico and into the US. He knows it will be dangerous, but what choice does he have? He can’t stay in Honduras and wait for the gangsters...

Too often we hear only one side of the story. Here both sides of a story are presented side by side, the story being the true shape of the Earth. Is it a globe as we have been taught? Or does the resurgent flat Earth movement have validity. Joseph examines both sides of the argument, from the...