 Spirituality or Religion? Do we have to choose?
Gethin Abraham-Williams
Spirituality and religion have fallen out with each other long enough! Spirituality or Religion? shows not only that they need to make up, but why and how. As religion has become progressively self absorbed and spirituality increasingly other worldly, they have failed a generation searching for a vision of a better way. From Buchenwald to Darfur, from inner city violence to the threat of environmental catastrophe the problems facing human kind are undoubtedly immense. With Jesus of Nazareth and his extraordinary band of messengers for guides, and enlisting Celtic myth, the poetry of the ages, the insights of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and the other great religions, the story that unfolds in Spirituality or Religion? is a defiantly positive and liberating one. It’s less a matter of choice, more of seeing why and how those searching for God need both.
ISBN: 978-1-84694-149-8 Published by O Books, Priced £11.99
About the Author
Gethin Abraham-Williams is a Baptist minister now working as a freelance ecumenical consultant. Onetime ecumenical officer to the Bishop of Oxford and to the Church in Wales, he has served as an adviser to the World Council of Churches and on various inter-faith bodies. He is former General Secretary of Churches Together in Wales and of the (Anglican/Free Church) Welsh Covenant, and was awarded the Cross of St Augustine by the Archbishop of Canterbury 2006 for ‘making an enormous contribution to ecumenical relations’.
 Planning Blended Worship
Robert E. Webber
Planning Blended Worship: The Creative Mixture of Old and New is a guide to planning creative worship for congregations that follow the traditional fourfold pattern of worship (gathering, word, table, and dismissal), or those who prefer a free-church, evangelical style, but who are also interested in the core practices (space, texts, and so forth) that have characterized Christian worship throughout the centuries.
Robert Webber designed this volume to show pastors, music directors, and other worship leaders the practical, structural, and theological steps for designing worship services characterized by biblical depth, historical awareness, and contemporary relevance. The author includes charts and forms at the end of each chapter that clearly show how music and other arts can be integrated with liturgical texts.
ISBN: 0687-0322-37
 Heaven in Ordinary - George Herbert and his Writings
Edited by Philip Sheldrake
This book is a carefully structured, almost academic, celebration of the 17th century poet and cleric, George Herbert. Short explorations of his life and spirituality are followed by readings that illuminate, or are illuminated by, their context. Many of these are from Herbert’s best known works, poems from The Temple and prose extracts from The Country Parson. Heaven in Ordinary is a fascinating single volume companion to this great and rightly loved poet, whose life and writings together constitute one of the most beautiful strands in the evolution of a distinctively Anglican spirituality. and prose extracts from . is a fascinating single volume companion to this great and rightly loved poet, whose life and writings together constitute one of the most beautiful strands in the evolution of a distinctively Anglican spirituality.
Review by Linda Currin.
ISBN:978-1-853-11948-4
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