Religion

- What is the significance of holly at Christmas?- When should you make your figgy pudding?- Why was the Old Lad's Passing Bell rung on Christmas Eve? - And who was Good King Wenceslas?Did you know that, long before turkey arrived on our shores, it was...

Thoughts of heaven can be unsettling. Life with no end? Space with no bounds? Are we supposed to feel good about these things? Bestselling author Max Lucado assures us that we can. There is much about heaven that we don't yet understand. And while...

Liberal Christian theology is a big topic in today's churches and seminaries. But what does liberal theology really mean and why is it so controversial? What does it actually believe about truth, Scripture, and Jesus Christ? And where does it lead?The...

The long awaited sequel to the beloved and bestselling 'The Liars' Club' and 'Cherry' - a memoir about a self-professed 'blackbelt sinner's' descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection. 'If you'd told...

Writing with his usual grace and fluency, Jonathan Sacks moves beyond the tired arguments of militant atheists such as Dawkins' The God Delusion and Hitchens' God is Not Great, to explore how religion has always played a valuable part in human culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526208767Author Geoff DannFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Anthropozoic BooksPublisher Anthropozoic Books

Beginning with a 'Street Nativity Play' that didn't end as planned, and finishing with an open-ended conversation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, "Being Interrupted" locates an institutionally-anxious Church of England within the wider contexts of...

In The Uses of Idolatry, William T. Cavanaugh offers a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not waned in our supposedly "secular" world. Rather, the target of worship has changed, migrating from the explicit worship of God to the...

'Love has its speed. It is a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed. It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour. It is the speed we walk and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060630041Author Richard FreidmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 364gDimensions(mm)...

Scholars have long been intrigued by the Buddha's defining action (karma) as intention. This book explores systematically how intention and agency were interpreted in all genres of early Theravada thought. It offers a philosophical exploration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936533077Author Joseph B. LumpkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Fifth Estate, IncPublisher Fifth Estate, IncWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784985851Author Alistair BeggFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint The Good Book CompanyPublisher The Good Book CompanyWeight(grams) 724gDimensions(mm)...

In the style of her bestselling Phoebe, Paula Gooder uses her extensive biblical expertise to retell the events of the Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension through the eyes of nine female characters she imagines accompanying Jesus during these...

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Have you ever wondered what God truly expects of women? Is there really a prescription for biblical womanhood? Does the Bible's idea of womanhood have a place in modern Christianity? New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a...

A practical approach to creating wealth-based on the established principles of ancient Jewish wisdom-made accessible to people of all backgrounds The ups and downs of the economy prove Rabbi Daniel Lapin's famous principle that the more things change,...

A practical resource for those leading Collective Worship in primary schools Collective Worship for Primary Schools contains 50 assembly outlines, each based on a key theme and including an interactive game, a thought for the day, a Bible story,...

Everyone knows disciplemaking in churches is important - vital, even. But how do we move from good intentions to real transformation? Drawing on LICC's engagement with thousands of UK churches and his decades of experience as a church leader, Ken...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310489818Author T.Atton BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 499g

Bestselling illustrated introduction to the New Testament which enables readers to find their way around and come back for more.Book InformationISBN 9780334020561Author Etienne CharpentierFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint SCM PressPublisher SCM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616380045Author John EckhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Charisma HousePublisher Charisma House

A pragmatic mind may deem flowers unworthy of notice-devoid as they are of the nourishment and utility of fruit, leaf, bark and root. Yet these fragile and ephemeral blooms dare to flaunt the wonders of Nature. From heady fragrance to miraculous colours...

Offering a convenient size and a large print, this Bible also provides over 43,000 cross-references to help you study anywhere.You don't have to sacrifice readability for portability. With the NKJV Large Print Personal Size Reference Bible, you get the...

Today, the issue of Muslim women is held hostage between two extreme perceptions: that of a rigid and conservative Islamic approach and that of a Western ethnocentric and Islamophobic approach. These two perceptions lead to an impasse in which it is...

David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in divine powers...

Deep down, inside our bodies, lives the soul. No one has ever seen it, but we all know it's there. There is a "soul bird" who lives inside us all. This special bird opens and closes the drawers of our soul, in which we keep all our feelings...

On shadowed wings and in raven's call, meet the ancient Irish goddess of war, battle, prophecy, death, sovereignty, and magic. This book is an introduction to the Morrigan and several related goddesses who share the title, including Badb and Macha. It...

Ranging from the nineteenth-century to the present, this book explores several central aspects of the ways in which the English-language poetry and fiction of Wales has responded to what was, for a crucial period of a century or so, the dominant culture...

Christianity Today Book Award Winner Martin Institute and Dallas Willard Center Book Award You are what you love. But you might not love what you think. In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship...

An informative, clarifying, and unifying book on the Holy Spirit Who is the Holy Spirit and what does he do? The world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham offers a sensitive and comprehensive portrait of the much discussed but often-misunderstood member of...

Just in time for the release of Amazing Grace, the movie about the life of William Wilberforce. This edition of his classic book from 1797, Real Christianity, is paraphrased in modern language and made more accessible to contemporary readers. This is the...

In this uplifting and practical book, written in collaboration with his biographer, Austen Ivereigh, the preeminent spiritual leader explains why we must-and how we can-make the world safer, fairer, and healthier for all people now. In the COVID...

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent, and is a major text of Hinduism. Its discussion of human goals (artha or 'purpose', kama or 'pleasure', dharma...

Get to know the beliefs and practices inspired by Jesus ChristDiscover what it means to be a Christian and follow the gospelCurious about Christianity? This friendly guide helps you understand the basic teachings of the Christian faith, exploring the...

Attention is given to the way in which Methodist scholars and ministers, ranging from A.S. Peake to Leslie Weatherhead and Donald Soper to Kenneth Greet, have sought to relate questions of war and peace to broader considerations of Christian faith and...

A radical vision for a society transformed by the teachings and spirit of Jesus. Do you feel powerless to change the injustice at every level of society? Are you tired of answers that ignore the root causes of human suffering? This selection of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692991077Author Jerry and Denise BaselFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint J & D PublicationsPublisher J & D PublicationsWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830815401Author Walter C. KaiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 811Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 1062gDimensions(mm)...